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IPBC Europe 2021

October 2021

Event date: 4th October 2021

IPBC Europe: Leadership Summit will be held in-person on 4-5 October in Dublin.

The conference is the top European gathering of senior corporate IP professionals. It will be covering the key topics affecting the IP Industry in 2021.

HGF’s Partners Craig Thomson, Dr Chris Benson, European Patent Attorney Sarah McCrann and Patent Attorney Cassandra Smith will be attending the event.

Craig Thomson will also be joining and moderating a panel ‘IP in the boardroom: improving for tomorrow‘ on Monday 4th October:

If IP is the valuable asset so many believe it to be, why do so few C-suite executives engage with it in that way and do the events of the last 18 months offer an opportunity to reframe the narrative at boardroom level? Has the pandemic changed views?

  • Effective internal communication of IP value
  • Managing IP as a value centre, not a cost centre
  • The pandemic’s IP value creation lessons

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