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Ethical Implications of Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Research and Development

AI - The Boundaries of Use for the Latest Tool In An Inventor’s Toolbox

Speakers

• Maisami, Ceyda

  HP | Head of Patents, IP

  Ceyda Maisami is Associate General Counsel, Head of Patents at HP. She leads a team of attorneys, paralegals and analysts in building and managing patent portfolios as well as supporting pre-litigation, M&A, and transactional matters. In her previous roles at Finnegan and Chadbourne & Parke, Ceyda worked on high profile patent prosecution and litigation matters, in addition to a host of opinion work related to computer hardware, software, wireless communication devices, and financial services. Before her career in intellectual property law, she was an electrical engineer for Osram Sylvania (Siemens Holding).
• Parekh, Aakash

  SparkCognition, Inc. | General Counsel and Secretary

  Aakash Parekh is General Counsel and Secretary of SparkCognition, Inc., an industrial artificial intelligence company based in Austin, TX. In this role, he oversees global legal affairs for SparkCognition and its subsidiary companies, including commercial legal operations, corporate governance, legal compliance, IP strategy, M&A, litigation, corporate financing, public company readiness initiatives, and more. Prior to joining SparkCognition, he spent over a decade in private legal practice authoring, diligencing, licensing, and litigating IP portfolios for a wide array of clients ranging from Fortune 50 conglomerates to early-stage startups.
• Gaul, Allison

  Boston Consulting Group | Legal Counsel

  Allison Gaul is Legal Counsel at the Boston Consulting Group, where she serves as technology and product counsel. She advises and supports BCG’s data products, GenAI development, AI/ML builds, and Metaverse + Web 3.0 offerings. Allison has a background in mathematics and computer science, and recently graduated from a program at the Harvard Business School focusing her studies in business analytics and data science pipelines. She regularly advises and speaks on topics such as technology contract risk mitigation, policy development, intellectual property, and data governance.
• Collin, Sean

  Elastic NV | Vice President Legal for Innovation

  Sean Collin is Vice President Legal for Innovation (Product, IP, Marketing) at Elastic NV, the world's largest B2B and B2G search, observability, and security software company. He was educated at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand (BCom. LLB (Hons)) and at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. (LLM (Dist.)). He has been called to the Bar in New Zealand, New South Wales, Australia, and in both New York and California in the United States. He has lectured at Universities, Institutes and Global Conferences in 20 countries on international IP law and technology business.
• Khan, Sikander

  Flagship Patents | Founder

  Sikander Khan is the founder of Flagship Patents—a patenting lab in Palo Alto that specializes in building full-stack AI patent portfolios spanning software, hardware, bioinformatics, and medical devices. He believes in describing an AI invention two levels deeper than what has been the norm for patent applications. His patent applications emphasize writing that is technically meticulous, with scope aligned with the clients’ current business goals and desired market positions. His experience includes embedding with AI teams of market leaders like Salesforce and Illumina and developing their AI patent portfolios from inception. He also works with the hottest AI startups in the Valley like SambaNova, Normalyze, and SafeGraph.