WIPO

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Corey\r\nSalsberg is Vice President and Global Head of IP Affairs for Novartis, a global healthcare company with a\r\npresence in over 140 countries that is one of the world’s leading\r\nbiopharmaceutical innovators. He also\r\nserves as Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Federal Circuit Bar Association, and as a Board Member of California Lawyers for the Arts, a\r\nnot-for-profit legal aid society that serves the creative arts and inventor\r\ncommunities.

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A\r\ngraduate of Stanford Law School and Yale University, Corey is a seasoned\r\nattorney with over two decades of legal, policy and advocacy experience. He is one of the founders and developers of\r\nthe Inventors Assistance Program, a\r\nWIPO-World Economic Forum initiative that provides pro bono legal services to\r\nunder-resourced inventors in developing countries; Pat-INFORMED, a global online database of medicine-related patent\r\ninformation co-sponsored and hosted by WIPO and the International Federation of\r\nPharmaceutical Manufacturers (IFPMA); and most recently, the IP PACT, a\r\ngroundbreaking set of principles and commitments that publicly sets forth the\r\npatient-centric approach to IP shared by its company signatories.

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A recognized\r\nthought leader and frequent contributor around the world, Corey enjoys being at\r\nthe leading edge of the global conversation around IP, innovation, access and\r\ntrade. He has testified as an expert\r\nbefore the United States Senate, speaks regularly to government, academic and\r\npublic audiences, and frequently appears in media.

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Julio Raffo is Head of the Innovation Economy Section at\r\nthe Department of Economics and Data Analytics of the World Intellectual\r\nProperty Organization (WIPO).

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Before joining WIPO, he had research experience in the\r\nÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland); the Institut\r\nFrançais des Relations Internationales (IFRI, France); the Pan-American Health\r\nOrganization (PAHO, USA); the Red Iberoamericana/Interamericana de Indicadores\r\nde Ciencia y Tecnología (RICYT); the Centro de Estudios en Ciencia, Desarrollo\r\ny Educación Superior (REDES/CONICET, Argentina); EUROSTAT’s Science, Technology\r\nand Innovation Statistics unit (STI, Luxembourg); and, the Instituto de Estudios\r\nSociales de la Ciencia (IEC-UNQ, Argentina).

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He holds an Economics degree from the Universidad de\r\nBuenos Aires, a Master degree in Industrial Organization, Innovations and\r\nInternational Strategy and a PhD in Economics from the Université de Paris Nord.\r\n

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His main research interests are the economics and metrics of\r\ninnovation and intellectual property, with a particular focus on their\r\nintersection with socioeconomic development.

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Rüdiger L. Urbanke obtained his Dipl. Ing. degree from the\r\nVienna University of Technology, Austria in 1990 and the M.Sc. and PhD degrees\r\nin Electrical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, MO, in 1992\r\nand 1995, respectively.

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He held a position at the Mathematics of Communications\r\nDepartment at Bell Labs from 1995 until 1999 before becoming a faculty member\r\nat the School of Computer & Communication Sciences (I&C) of EPFL. He is\r\na member of the Information Processing Group and the Dean of I&C.

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He is interested in the analysis and design of iterative\r\ncoding schemes, the application of statistical physics methods to problems in\r\ncommunications, the foundations of machine learning, as well as the\r\nimplications quantum laws on information processing.

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Afef Bohli is an assistant professor at the Higher\r\nInstitute of Computer Science in Tunisia and the cofounder of Digi smart\r\nsolutions. She obtained her engineering degree and her doctorate in\r\ncommunication systems from Tunisia's Higher School of Communication (Sup’COM),\r\nin 2005 and 2017 respectively. Her\r\nresearch focuses on the green environment for the next mobile generations,\r\nspectrum, energy efficiency, and IoT and AI tools for Smart Cities. She has\r\npublished more than ten papers and patents, and participates as a speaker and\r\nexpert in many conferences and events.

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Keerthi\r\nKodithuwakku is a visionary who dedicated his career to innovating new\r\ntechnology solutions to uplift the quality of life. His key areas of interest\r\nin biomedical engineering, artificial intelligence, and the internet of things\r\nmade the foundation to innovate many innovations such as vascular health\r\nmonitoring, brain-computer interface, retinal health monitoring, smart\r\ntransport systems, and IoT platforms, etc. Among them, a system and method to\r\nmonitor vascular system health has secured a US patent and made a breakthrough\r\nin the field of medicine to early detect cardiovascular diseases. Most importantly,\r\nit was an icebreaker to the Sri Lankan biomedical engineering industry.

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As an engineer,\r\nKeerthi is a believer in his passion. He co-founded Effective Solutions (Pvt)\r\nLtd and Jendo Innovations (Pvt) Ltd with the motto of “Let the passion be your\r\nprofession” with his batchmates who are prodigies in the engineering faculty\r\nwho believe in their passion and want to make the world a better place. From\r\nthe beginning, the team was able to make a difference in the industry and build\r\na good reputation to solve the unsolved problems in the most effective manner.\r\nEventually, the company was recognized as one of the fast-growing startup\r\ncompanies in Sri Lanka.

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Susan Njeri N.\r\nis the Innovation Lead at Hello Tractor, an agricultural technology company\r\nusing IOT technology to connect small holder farmers with farm equipment\r\nowners. She is developing the organization’s innovation pipeline with a keen\r\ninterest in product design and customer experience.

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Susan has more\r\nthan 7 years of experience driving and supporting startup growth through\r\ninnovation and has gained practical and conceptual business knowledge with a\r\nstrong understanding of the innovation ecosystem, especially in Eastern Africa.\r\nShe also sits at the Digital Agricultural Association board where she is\r\nextensively exploring the market system in agriculture and the role of system\r\nplayers in economic growth and livelihood of key stakeholders.

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In essence,\r\nSusan is passionate about driving agricultural innovation momentum and\r\nleveraging frontier innovation such as AI to drive customer-centric solutions\r\nto achieve substantial impact in food security.

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She is Co-Founder, Chief Impact and Ecosystem Development Officer at\r\nMara where she oversees token, community, developer relations alongside\r\npresiding the Mara Foundation, dedicated to accelerating blockchain education\r\nand sustainable development in Africa. Over the past 10 years, she has occupied\r\nvarious leading positions in AI and IoT at Intel, Arm and NVIDIA with a goal to\r\nbuild a truly global and inclusive tech community and make AI accessible to\r\neveryone. She spearheaded their AI4Good initiatives which resulted in many\r\ncollaborations with the UN to advance data science and AI capacity building in\r\nAfrica and other emerging markets.

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She also created OrphanDAO, an initiative which aims to build\r\ncommunity-funded, community-led, sustainable technology-driven orphanages\r\nacross Africa. Kate has won multiple accolades throughout her career, including\r\nBusiness Insider Top 100 Business Transformers 2020 and VentureBeat Women in AI\r\nRising Star 2020. She regularly advises international organizations on the\r\npower of tech to drive social impact, speaking at conferences for Gates\r\nFoundation WEF, UNECA, UNICEF and GPSDD.

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She was also the Chair of tinyML for Good Committee\r\nwhich aims to improve the way billions of people live and interact with each\r\nother and contribute to achieving the SDGs.

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Caroline Jacobson\r\nis Head of System Management at Ericsson’s Global AI Accelerator (GAIA),\r\nEricsson. GAIA is a high-end competence hub, with the aim to accelerate AI and\r\nMachine Learning offerings by boosting Ericsson’s products and services with AI\r\ncapabilities.

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Caroline has a\r\nlong experience from working in the intersection between business and\r\ntechnology in various system management organizations and roles in Ericsson.

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Her focus has\r\nbeen Radio Network Development and she has been involved in creation of\r\n 3G, 4G and 5G networks and has held a variety of management positions in\r\nthe areas of Architecture, Radio Resource Management, Active Antenna Systems\r\nand End-to-end Services. Caroline has experience from early concept\r\ndevelopment, design and verification and has been part of Agile transformation.

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She started her\r\ncareer with a PhD in Computed Tomography and created fast re-construction\r\nalgorithms based on Digital Signal Processing.

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