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Founder & CEO, Shanghai Firstbrave Information Technology Co., Ltd.
Expertise: Digital Copyright Protection, Intellectual Property Services, Artificial Intelligence. A pioneer in AI-driven copyright infrastructure with 10+ years of R&D leadership, specializing in:
Multi-modal AI recognition (text/audio/video)
Digital fingerprint algorithms
Automated copyright monitoring systems
Key achievements:
✓High accuracy in detecting infringements for short drama, short videos,web novels, and music
✓Protects over 1 million digital works annually
✓Holds multiple granted patents, including global PCT patents

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Ambassador and Permanent Representative of The Gambia to the UN Office at Geneva, World Trade Organization (WTO), and other offices in Geneva.

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Solange Cesarovna is a celebrated Cabo Verdean artist and cultural icon, known as the “Queen of Morna of the 21st Century.” A passionate advocate for creators' rights, she serves as Vice President of the African Music Academy (AMA) and the International Council of Music Creators (CIAM), and was named the first-ever CLIP Champion by WIPO for Creators.

From 2013 to 2023, she served as President of the Cabo Verdean Music Society, where she led a transformative overhaul of the country’s copyright system. Through her voice, leadership, and global advocacy, Solange continues to champion the protection of intellectual property and the advancement of African music, empowering creators worldwide to safeguard and value their work.

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Sonia has over 20 years of experience advising on intellectual property and innovation in the tech sector, specialising in Artificial Intelligence.

A Chartered and European Patent Attorney, Sonia was previously Head of Patents at Skype. Sonia was patent counsel for Microsoft Research in Cambridge and now leads IP policy in the Open Innovation Team at Microsoft

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Dr Ola is an Associate Professor Kunle Ola is the Interim Dean of the Thomas More Law School and the Lead Consultant, Lordrock Firm, a Migration Agency. He is a lawyer with an academic, legal, regulatory, enforcement and administrative background.

He researches in the areas of Intellectual Property, Trade and investment, Copyright Collective Administration, Open Access to knowledge, Company Law and Migration law. His works challenge institutional imbalance, develops, informs, and guides law reform, public policy and international norm setting. His research projects include collaborations with agencies such as, World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), Ford Foundation, United Nations Conference on Trade & Development (UNCTAD), Australian Research Council (ARC) and Canada's International Development Research Council (IDRC).

He publishes with reputable international publishers and journals and is a motivating and captivating speaker who has presented at international conferences in different parts of the world. Kunle holds a Law degree (LL. B) from the University of Benin, LL.M from the University of South Africa, a PhD from the Australian Catholic University, a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education and a Graduate Diploma in Australian Migration Law and Practice. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA) and has over twenty-three years of private, public, and international experience.

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Hyung Ji Kim is an attorney at Kim & Chang. She has provided legal advice and has been in charge of litigations in the field of intellectual property such as copyrights, trademarks, patents, and trade secrets.

Her major clients include domestic and foreign content-related companies, film companies, game companies, entertainment companies, OTT companies, and broadcasting/telecommunication companies. In particular, Ms. Kim has extensive experience in providing advice to international clients.

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Doctor of Law, Universidad de Chile. Associate professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of Chile, where he supervises undergraduate and postgraduate theses and teaches intellectual property law. Professor, University Heidelberg – Heidelberg Center for Latin America, master’s in international law. Former Director for Latin America & Caribbean Affairs at CISAC (2009-2018).

Founder and former Director General of the Chilean Musical Copyright Society (SCD. He has extensive experience in collective management in various works and productions, coordinating in his country the development projects of the collective management in the field of dramatic, audiovisual, and visual and reprographic rights. In such a way, he has taken part in the foundation and organization of Society of Creators of Visual Arts (Creaimagen), Society of National Authors of Theater, Cinema and Audiovisuals (ATN), Society of Literary Rights (SADEL), Society of Chilean Audiovisual Performers (Chileactores) and the Chilean Society of Musical Performers (SCI).

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Ausrine is the CEO of Voice-Swap, an AI voice technology and rights management company that specialises in creating studio-quality voice models and equitable technological solutions to creative industries, while enhancing rights ownership and empowering stakeholders

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Dr. Céline Castets-Renard is the Canada Research Chair in International and Comparative Law of Artificial Intelligence, a Faculty member at the Centre for Law, Technology and Society, and a Full Professor in the Faculty of Law, Civil Law Section at the University of Ottawa. Dr. Céline Castets-Renard also holds the Research Chair AI Law and Governance in a Global Economy at ANITI - Artificial and Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute (ANR AI Cluster).

She is an Honorary Junior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) (2015-2019) and an affiliate of the Yale Internet Society Project. Dr. Céline Castets-Renard is as Vice-Chair (Copyright) of the Working Group on transparency and copyright-related rules to lead the development of the European Union AI Office’s first General-Purpose AI Code of Practice. She was an expert member of the European Commission's Observatory on the Economics of Online Platforms (2021-2023).

Dr. Castets-Renard's research focuses on the regulation and governance of digital technology and artificial intelligence (AI) from an international and comparative law perspective - mainly the European Union, Canada and the United States. She is an expert in AI law, personal data law, digital copyright law and platform regulation. She is also more broadly interested in the impact of technologies on human rights, equity and social justice, and studies gender issues in technologies. She has written over a hundred articles and contributions to conference proceedings, 2 monographs, 3 textbooks and edited or co-edited 4 books. Before joining the University of Ottawa in 2019, Dr. Castets-Renard was a senior lecturer and then a professor at the Université Toulouse Capitole (2002-2019).

She was a visiting senior lecturer at the Université de Nouvelles Calédonie (2010-2011), where she conducted research on the protection of indigenous traditional knowledge and intellectual property. She was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar and Adjunct Professor at Fordham Law School (2017-2019), as well as a Visiting Scholar at the Yale Internet Society Project (ISP) at Yale Law School (2018-2019). She has been a visiting professor and lecturer at several universities around the world, including Fordham Law School University, Washington University in Saint Louis, China University of Political Science and Law, Osaka University, University of Rikkyo, Hanoi University, Université Gaston Berger in Saint-Louis, Senegal, University TEC Monterrey in Mexico, Université Carlos III de Madrid, Université Laval in Quebec.

She holds a PhD in copyright law from Université Paris Saclay (2001), a DEA from Université de Montpellier (1998) and a master's degree in business law from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (1996). She is an alumnus of the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan (1994-1998) and “agrégée du secondaire” in law, economics and management (1997).

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