| SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18 |
| 4:00 p.m. - 7:00
p.m. |
Registration Opens |
| SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19 |
| 7:00 a.m. - 8:30
a.m. |
Continental Breakfast for
Add-On Attendees |
| 7:00 a.m. - 7:00
p.m. |
LES Power Networking Lounge |
| 7:00 a.m. - 7:00
p.m. |
Registration & Internet Café |
| 8:30 a.m. - 5:00
p.m. |
Add-On Seminar 1
Anatomy of Deals in the News: 3rd Annual Practical Tutorial for Licensing Road Warriors |
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Add-on Seminar 2
Marketing Inventions: Leveraging Resources in a Small Office - Cancelled |
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Add-on Seminar 3
Ask the Experts: Valuation, Taxation and Pricing Issues with Intellectual Property |
| 10:00 a.m. - 10:30
a.m. |
Networking Coffee Break for
Add-on Attendees |
| 12:00 p.m. - 1:00
p.m. |
Luncheon for Add-on Attendees |
| 12:30 p.m. - 3:30
p.m. |
Concurrent Committee Meetings |
1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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Add-on Seminar 4
Silicon Valley Strategies for Successful Licensing – What the Experts in Silicon Valley are Doing |
| 3:30 p.m. - 4:30
p.m. |
New Chapter Chair Workshop |
| 3:30 p.m. - 4:30
p.m. |
New Committee/Sector Chair Workshop |
| 4:30 p.m. - 5:15
p.m. |
New Member Orientation
Workshop |
| 5:15 p.m. - 6:00
p.m. |
New Member Reception |
| 6:00 p.m. - 8:00
p.m. |
Welcome Reception |
| MONDAY,
OCTOBER 20 |
| 7:00 a.m. - 8:00
a.m. |
Continental Breakfast |
| 7:00 a.m. - 6:00
p.m. |
Registration & Internet Café |
| 7:00 a.m. - 6:00
p.m. |
LES Power Networking Lounge |
| 8:00 a.m. - 10:30
a.m. |
Opening Plenary Session |
| 8:00 a.m. |
Welcome and Opening Remarks |
| 8:30
a.m. |
Uwe Reinhardt, James Madison Professor of Political Economy, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University |
| 9:30
a.m. |
Elaine Paul, Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Business Development, The Walt Disney Company |
| 10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. |
Networking Coffee Break |
| 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. |
Industry Sector
Meetings |
| 12:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. |
Awards Luncheon and Keynote Speaker
Rich Karlgaard,
Columnist & Publisher, Forbes,and Author, Life 2.0 |
| 2:00 p.m. - 3:15
p.m. |
Workshop Session 1 |
| 2:00 p.m. - 5:00
p.m. |
Leadership Forum 1 - Motivation, Goal Setting & Accountability |
| 2:00 p.m. - 5:00
p.m. |
PDS Workshop 202
(STRATEGY) |
| 3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. |
Networking Coffee Break |
| 3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. |
Mentoring Coffee Break |
| 3:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. |
Workshop Session 2 |
| 5:30 p.m. - 7:30
p.m. |
Brazilian Steakhouse Reception & Dinner |
| 7:30 p.m. - 9:00
p.m. |
Gold Sponsors' Receptions |
| TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21 |
| 6:00 a.m. |
LES 5K Fun Run |
| 7:00 a.m. - 8:15
a.m. |
Continental Breakfast |
| 7:00 a.m. - 6:00
p.m. |
Registration & Internet Café |
| 7:00 a.m. - 6:00
p.m. |
LES Power Networking Lounge |
| 7:00 a.m. - 6:00
p.m. |
LES Tech Fair and Technology Poster Session |
| 8:15 a.m. - 12:30
p.m. |
Plenary Session |
| 8:15 a.m. |
Global Titans of Licensing
Jose Luis Solleiro Rebolledo, Director of Technology Sector, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Krishnan "Nandu" Nandabalan, President & Chief Executive Officer, BioXcel Corporation
Marshall Phelps, Corporate Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, Microsoft Corporation
Jonathan Klein-Evans, Vice President, Intellectual Property, MedImmune, LLC |
| 9:45
a.m. |
Winfred Phillips, Vice President, Research, University of Florida |
| 10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. |
Networking Coffee Break |
| 11:00
a.m. |
Tracey Thomas, Chief IP Strategist and License Negotiator, American Express |
| 11:45
a.m. |
Amory Lovins, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Rocky Mountain Institute |
| 12:00
p.m. - 6:00 p.m. |
Tennis Tournament |
| 12:00
p.m. - 6:00 p.m. |
Golf Outing |
| 12:30
p.m. - 2:00 p.m. |
Luncheon in the Exhibit Hall |
| 2:00 p.m. - 3:15
p.m. |
Workshop Session 3 |
| 2:00 p.m. - 5:00
p.m. |
Leadership Forum 2 - Neurolinguistic Programming |
| 2:00 p.m. - 5:00
p.m. |
PDS Workshop 201 (LEGAL) |
2:00 p.m. - 5:00
p.m.
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Special Biomedical Device
Symposium - Commercialization
and Growth by Acquisition in
the Biomedical Device Industry |
| 3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. |
Networking Coffee Break |
| 3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. |
Mentoring Coffee Break |
| 3:45 p.m. - 5:00
p.m. |
Workshop Session 4 |
| 4:00 p.m. - 6:00
p.m. |
Wine & Cheese Reception in the Tech Fair |
| 6:00 p.m. - 7:00
p.m. |
Industry Sector Receptions |
| 7:30 p.m. |
Dutch Treat Sector Dinners
at local restaurants |
| WEDNESDAY,
OCTOBER 22 |
| 7:30 a.m. - 8:30
a.m. |
Continental Breakfast |
| 7:30 a.m. - 5:00
p.m. |
Registration & Internet Café |
| 7:00 a.m. - 5:00
p.m. |
LES Power Networking Lounge |
| 8:30 a.m. - 12:00
p.m. |
Mini-Plenary
Sessions |
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HealthCare Sector Mini-Plenary
Session #1: Feeding the Pipeline, Part IX
Session #2: Pharma's New Follow-On Strategy |
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High Technology Sector Mini-Plenary
Global Patenting and IP Transaction Trends |
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Consumer Products Sector Mini-Plenary
Protecting Brand Equity in a Global Economy |
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Chemicals, Energy & Materials Sector Mini-Plenary
Open Innovation: Insight into Models, Process and Issues in Collaborative Research & Development in the Global World |
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Industry-University-Government Interface Mini-Plenary
Sponsored & Collaborative Research: IP Demands in Deals between Universities, Research Institutes and Industry |
| 10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. |
Networking Coffee Break |
| 12:00 p.m. - 1:45
p.m. |
Luncheon and Annual Business Meeting |
| 2:00 p.m. - 3:15
p.m. |
Workshop Session 5 |
| 2:00 p.m. - 5:00
p.m. |
Leadership Forum 3 - The Porsche Story |
| 2:00 p.m. - 5:00
p.m. |
PDS Workshop 202 (STRATEGY) |
| 3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. |
Networking Coffee Break |
| 3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. |
Mentoring Coffee Break |
| 3:45 p.m. - 5:00
p.m. |
Workshop Session 6 |
| 3:45 p.m. |
The State of the Licensing Industry - Report on the LES Foundation's Annual Survey and Related Metrics |
| 6:30 p.m. - 11:00
p.m. |
Havana Supper Club Reception and Dinner |
| 6:30 p.m. |
Wednesday Night Gala for Kids! |
| THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23 |
| 8:00 a.m. - 6:00
p.m. |
Add-on Seminar 6
Exploring NASA:
Licensing Opportunities with
the U.S. Government
*This Add-on is also open as an Accompanying Persons' tour option |
| 8:30 a.m. - 5:00
p.m. |
LES USA/Canada Trustees' Meeting |
| 8:30 a.m. - 5:00
p.m. |
Add-on Seminar 7
One-Day Introductory Workshop on the Commercialization of Intellectual Property through Licensing |
| FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23 |
| 8:00 a.m. - 5:00
p.m. |
LES International – Train-the-Trainer Program
LES Professional Development Series Fundamentals Course & IP Commercialization Course
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