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Deputy Director General, Copyright \r\nand Creative Industries Sector

Deputy Director General Sylvie Forbin (France) is responsible for the Organization’s programs relating to copyright and related rights; and its work in supporting creators and the creative industries.

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In June 2023, Geoff Taylor was appointed\r\nExecutive Vice President for Artificial Intelligence at Sony Music\r\nEntertainment, with responsibility for aligning and coordinating the work of\r\nevery part of the global business that touches AI.

\r\n\r\nTaylor brings decades of music industry\r\nexperience to the business. From 2007 to 2022, he was the Chief Executive\r\nOfficer of the BPI, the UK trade body for recorded music, where he advocated\r\nfor the strategic value of the music industry, secured new Government funding\r\nfor labels through the creation of the Music Export Growth Scheme and sled the\r\nfight against music piracy and fraud. During his tenure, he also expanded the\r\nreach, size and influence of the BRIT Awards. Prior to joining the BPI, Taylor\r\nwas General Counsel and Executive Vice-President at global recorded music trade\r\nbody, the IFPI from 2005-2007.

\r\nSony Music has played a pioneering role\r\nin music history, from establishing the first-ever music label to inventing the\r\nflat disc record, nurturing some of music’s most iconic artists and producing\r\nsome of the most influential recordings of all time. Today, the company\r\noperates in more than 70 countries, supporting a diverse and distinctive roster\r\nof talented creators at every level and on every stage. Situated at the\r\nintersection of music, entertainment, and technology, Sony Music brings\r\nimagination and expertise to emerging products and platforms, embraces new\r\nbusiness models, and employs breakthrough tools—all to support the creative\r\ncommunity’s experimentation, risk-taking, and growth. Sony Music Entertainment\r\nis part of the global Sony family.

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Anna Vuopala is a Senior Ministerial Adviser and vice Head of Unit in the Art and Cultural Policy Department of the Ministry of Education and Culture in Finland.

Ms. Vuopala has a Master of Laws degree from the University of Helsinki and she has trained on the bench at the District Court of Raasepori in 2000. She worked for the EU Commission A2K unit in 2009-2010 as national expert. She has nearly 25 years of experience in developing and amending national, EU and international IP legislation, in particular copyright law, including the EU CDSM directive and the “Big 5 Data” legislations. She works for an effective and balanced IP system using new technologies in particular, interoperable and trustworthy copyright data. Since 2018 she has provided a level playing field by granting funding the creative sectors in their uptake of new technologies. She has promoted the copyright infrastructure development on EU level since 2019 and since 2022 she leads the AI & copyright use cases and awareness raising activities of the Copyright Infrastructure Task Force together with Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The network aiming for full coverage of the EU consists now of 17 European countries. The CITF promotes the development of an open data rights framework (ORDF) for new technologies as recommended by the EU Commission Study on Copyright and New Technologies in 2022. She promotes the new EUIPO Copyright Knowledge Center and other new services supporting creative sectors in relation to AI & copyright under SP2030.

She also works closely with the World Intellectual property organization WIPO in multiple different contexts, including the IP Academy, Frontier Technologies and AI Conversations. She works also to improve inclusiveness of the IP system. Currently she is chair and co-chair of the WIPO IGC Committee that undertake negotiations relating to Intellectual property and traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expressions of Indigenous Peoples and local communities.

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Yunyun DIAO
Vice President, Legal Department, Tencent Beijing Branch, China

Diao Yunyun, Vice President of Legal Affairs at Tencent Group, is a doctoral candidate in competition law at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. She serves as a part-time mentor at the China University of Political Science and Law's Graduate School of Law, a researcher at the Center for Intellectual Property Innovation and Competition Research at the same university, and a researcher at the Zhongguancun Intellectual Property Strategy Research Institute. Diao is also the director of the Internet Platform Professional Committee of the Beijing Intellectual Property Judicial Protection Research Association and the deputy director of the Performance and Brokerage Law Professional Committee of the Beijing Film and Television Entertainment Law Society. Additionally, she is an arbitrator at the Hainan International Arbitration Tribunal.

Diao has worked at the Haidian District Court of Beijing, the Intellectual Property Division of the First Intermediate People's Court of Beijing, and Baidu Company, accumulating 17 years of experience in intellectual property legal practice. She has published numerous academic articles in journals such as the \"Journal of Law,\" \"China Publishing,\" and \"Intellectual Property\".

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Mr. Tobias Bednarz, Legal Counsellor, Copyright Law \r\nDivision, Copyright and Creative Industries Sector, WIPO

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Daniel J. Gervais, PhD, is the Milton R. Underwood Chair in Law at Vanderbilt University Law School, where he serves as Director of the Vanderbilt Intellectual Property Program. He is also appointed as part-time Senior Associate Professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In 2022, he held the Distinguished Fulbright Chair at Carleton University in Ottawa. He is a Past President of the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP). Prior to joining Vanderbilt, he was the Acting Dean of the Faculty of Law (Common Law Section) of the University of Ottawa. He has been visiting professor at several major universities in Europe and Asia. He is the author of a leading treatise on the WTO TRIPS Agreement (Sweet & Maxwell, 5th edition 2023), and a “sci-fi legal trilogy” titled the Coexistence Trilogy. The first volume Forever, was published in 2023. He also published books published by Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press, among others. His research has been published in many of the world's leading law reviews, and other publications, including Science.

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Ms. Do Young KIM is Director of Cultural Trade and Cooperation Division, Copyright Bureau of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MCST). In this role, she supervises and coordinates MCST’s international affairs concerning copyright as well as overall cross-border trade issues under the authority of the Ministry.

Ms. Kim joined the Civil Service in 2000 as an Audit and Inspection Officer of the Board of Audit and Inspection (BAI). In 2006, she joined MCST as Assistant Director for Cultural Technology and Human Resource Development Division and has spent nearly two decades in government roles in culture, arts, media and tourism policy including as Director for Publication Industry Division and Director for Urban & Metropolitan Policy Division. Prior to being appointed to her current position in January 2025, Ms. Kim served as Director for Arts Policy for two years. She is the recipient of the Prime Minister’s Award for Distinguished Civilian Service of 2015.

Ms. Kim received her B.A. in Political Science from Korea University, Seoul, Korea and received her Master of Science Degree in Tourism Administration from the University of Guelph, Canada. She is native in Korean and professional in English.

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As Chair of the Caribbean Women in Leadership (CIWiL) Trinidad and Tobago Chapter, Jewel launched and hosted Meet the Candidates: Women Voters Matter, in the lead-up to Trinidad and Tobago’s 2025 general elections, a powerful platform that boosted voter awareness ahead of national polls and influenced political discourse on women’s leadership. Jewel has twice represented women in policy at the Tobago House of Assembly’s International Women’s Day Mock Plenary (2024, 2025), where she contributed to forward-looking legislative debates. She is recognized across the Tobago and beyond for championing inclusive participatory governance and for her commitment to building spaces that encourage women and youth to step into leadership roles.

As President of the Trinidad and Tobago Writers Guild, Jewel leads initiatives such as the upcoming Keeping Literary Traditions Alive series of writing workshops during the Tobago Heritage Festival, that empower creatives within the post-COVID Orange Economy, and broader economic recovery promoting literary and cultural entrepreneurship as a core national and regional component.

As She-E-O of Caribbean Book Marketing Hub TT, Jewel has launched initiatives such as Book Club Corner TT (television interview program for literary creatives) and Book Marketing for AuthorPreneurs Workshop that educates and empowers literary creatives and members of the publishing and book industry. Jewel’s advocacy and leadership continue to make a lasting impact in political education, digital media strategy, the literary arts and women’s empowerment throughout the Caribbean.

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Prior to joining Spotify, Xenia worked on various IP and international trade matters for the recorded music industry (IFPI), brand owners (INTA), and as a lawyer at Covington LLP. She holds law degrees from Oxford and Harvard, and works in English, Spanish, Polish and French.

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He first rose to prominence as a solo rapper before co-founding the acclaimed hip-hop duo A.B. Original in 2016. On stage, Briggs has supported international icons such as 50 Cent, Ice Cube, Ice-T, and KRS-One, and collaborated with Australian legends including Hilltop Hoods, Midnight Oil, Paul Kelly, and Henry Rollins. A.B. Original’s debut album Reclaim Australia earned widespread critical acclaim, winning the 2017 ARIA Awards for Best Independent Release and Best Urban Album, as well as Triple J’s J Award for Album of the Year. In 2018, the duo was named APRA Songwriters of the Year. After a four-year hiatus, they returned in 2022 with the powerful single ‘King Billy Cokebottle’, touring nationally with Hilltop Hoods.

Briggs has also carved out a prolific career beyond music. He was a writer on the Netflix animated series Disenchantment (from the creators of The Simpsons and Futurama) and wrote and performed in all three seasons of the hit sketch comedy Black Comedy. His acting credits include roles in Cleverman, The Other Guy, Get Krack!n, and recurring appearances on The Weekly and The Yearly with Charlie Pickering. More recently, he voiced Adam in season 7 of Netflix’s Big Mouth, starred as Alex Bermuda in Boy Swallows Universe, and played Chief in the film adaptation of How To Make Gravy.

A passionate advocate for First Nations representation, Briggs is the founder and chair of the Adam Briggs Foundation — a First Nations-led charity dedicated to developing skills and increasing visibility for Indigenous Australians in the creative industries. In 2020, Briggs released his debut children’s book Our Home, Our Heartbeat, a celebration of culture, identity, and resilience. Earlier, in 2017, he was named GQ Agenda Setter of the Year, recognising his influence across culture and community.

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Ms. Birgitta Sander Hjortsø serves as a Senior Legal Adviser at the Danish Ministry of Culture. In this role, she oversees legislative quality assurance to ensure alignment with national and EU legal standards across the Ministry. She is responsible for the Ministry’s policy coordination on copyright and intellectual property in WIPO. She holds a Bachelor and Master of Laws from the University of Copenhagen.

Previously, she served in various senior advisory roles in the Ministry of Industry, Business and Financial Affairs in the areas of EU and international affairs. She has coordinated Denmark’s policy positions across the EU Single Market, the digital economy, intellectual property, maritime affairs, and trade.

She has also contributed to multilateral work on industrial property, sustainability, and responsible business conduct. Ms. Sander Hjortsø has extensive experience negotiating in EU, OECD, UN, IMO, and WIPO settings. She directed several EU Presidencies (2012–2013) in the area of export credits, delivering coherent and impactful policy outcomes.

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Is the Director of Copyright Regulation at the Ministry of Culture. He served as a Delegate for intellectual property at the Mission of Brazil to the WTO, in Geneva, and was previously deputy head of the Intellectual Property Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Joined the diplomatic career in 2009.

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In 2019, she returned to the Ministry of Culture and Sport, where she held the positions of Deputy Director General for International Cooperation and Promotion of Culture and Deputy Director General for the Promotion of Cultural Industries. From October 2022, she served as Secretary General of the EOI Foundation of the Ministry of Industry, Trade, and Tourism until her appointment as Director General of Cultural Industries, Intellectual Property, and Cooperation on April 18, 2023.

She has taught various courses and given lectures on intellectual property, international relations, and administrative law at various institutions, including the National Institute of Public Administration. She was awarded the White Cross of the Order of Police Merit in 2018. On February 27, 2024, she was appointed Undersecretary of Culture.

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Dan Neely is the Co-Founder and CEO of Vermillio, an AI licensing and protection platform with the mission to empower humanity to thrive in the era of Generative AI, and one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies for 2025. Providing cutting-edge protection and control, Vermillio’s TraceID, enables studios, record labels and creators to take advantage of the benefits of Generative AI in a safe and secure environment while attributing where their valuable data is being used. In 2024, Dan and Vermillio announced a first-of-its-kind partnership with talent agency WME to protect clients from IP theft and give them the opportunity to monetize their image and likeness by securely licensing their data. Dan was also recently named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI and one of Observer's 100 Leaders Shaping the Future of AI.

A serial entrepreneur and investor, Dan has been building Artificial Intelligence software platforms for the last two decades. He previously founded and served as CEO of Networked Insights, a machine learning software company that was backed by Goldman Sachs. Dan has spent the better part of the last two decades building companies that use technology to disrupt the status quo. Additionally, Dan is on a number of technology company boards and is a member of the board of the non-profit After School Matters. Dan and his family are based in Chicago.

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A Lawyer, specialized in Information and Technology Law, Isabella Splendore is the legal adviser to the FIEG management and to the Italian press publishing companies. She coordinates publishing policies at the national and international levels, and represents Italian publishers before European Institutions and International Associations. She also manages the activities of the Repertorio Promopress, for the collection of copyright in press reviews and for the actions against online copyright infringement and digital piracy phenomena. In following, in particular, national and European trends in the regulation of the activities of the so-called Over The Top, she has managed the relationships between them and the FIEG companies by signing collaboration agreements - the first of their kind - aimed at promoting an innovative approach for the Italian press in the digital age.

In 2011 she was selected as the Italian representative to the Eisenhower Fellowships Multi Nation Program: an exclusive seven-week program for professional development and leadership, funded by the Eisenhower Fellowships (EF), a non-profit, non-partisan organization based in Philadelphia.

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Robbert Baruch is Senior Vice President Public Affairs – Europe and Multilateral Relations at Universal Music Group. He leads UMG’s government relations across Europe, including the European Union, and oversees the company’s engagement with major global organizations such as the UN, G7/G20, WEF, UNESCO and WIPO. He directs UMG’s policy strategy on competition, copyright, artificial intelligence, cultural diversity, and the role of the creative economy in sustainable development, representing the company at the highest political levels in Brussels, across European capitals, and internationally at UN institutions and global multilateral forums. Before joining UMG, Robbert held senior public-affairs roles at Buma/Stemra and the National Association of Insurers and previously served as Deputy Mayor of the Rotterdam borough of Feijenoord. He holds degrees in Political Science, also studied Public Administration and Religious Studies. He is based in The Hague. In his spare time, he travels Europe on his BMW R1200 GSA LQ.

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