The Power of Corporate Pledges (RECORDING)

Brett Alten is Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. 

Dr. Bowman Heiden is currently the Executive Director of the Tusher Center for the Management of Intellectual Capital at UC-Berkeley. He is also the Co-Director of the Center for Intellectual Property (CIP), which is a joint center for knowledge-based business development between the University of Gothenburg, Chalmers University of Technology, and the Norwegian University for Science and Technology, and co-chair of the Technology, Innovation, and Intellectual Property program at the Classical Liberal Institute at the NYU School of Law. Dr. Heiden holds degrees in engineering, technology management, and economics, and his research is at the interdisciplinary interface of economics, law, and innovation, in particular, intellectual property and open innovation in knowledge-intensive sectors. Before turning his focus to the field of knowledge-based business, Dr. Heiden played professional basketball in a number of European countries. 

Allen M. Lo is Deputy General Counsel and VP for Product, IP, and Legal Operations at Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook), where he leads a team of 400 legal professionals responsible for managing legal risk for Meta’s products globally, protecting and enforcing Meta’s IP rights, and providing operational support for Meta’s legal department. To demonstrate its commitment to open innovation and diversity in innovation, over the past two years, Meta has launched or joined the Open COVID Pledge, the Low Carbon Patent Pledge, and the Diversity Pledge while continuing to grow its patent portfolio at a rapid pace. Before joining Meta in 2017, he served as Deputy General Counsel for Patents and IP Litigation at Google for six years, during which time he led Google’s efforts to build a world-class patent portfolio and defend against patent threats. Before Google, he served as Vice President of IP at Juniper Networks for 12 years as well as worked in private practice and government. Throughout his career, Allen has dedicated himself to improving diversity, equity, and inclusion in the legal profession. He serves as co-chair of the D&I Committee for the US IP Alliance, a non-profit organization founded to improve the IP ecosystem for the benefit of US citizens. He has received numerous awards for his diversity work, including the Top 50 General Counsels award from the National Diversity Council in 2021, the Top 50 Diverse Leaders award from the California Diversity Council in 2020, and the Business Impact Award from the Asian Law Alliance in 2020. 

Corey Salsberg is Vice President and Global Head of IP Affairs for Novartis, one of the world’s leading biopharmaceutical innovators. He is a globally recognized attorney, strategist and thought leader in the fields of intellectual property (IP) and innovation law and policy. An experienced practitioner and advocate, Corey is a frequent speaker and contributor around the world. His recent engagements include testifying before the United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on IP regarding AI and intellectual property (June 2023); public remarks at the USPTO Listening Sessions on AI and Inventorship (April 2023) and USPTO-FDA Collaboration Initiatives (January 2023); testifying before the United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on IP on the state of patent eligibility law in the US; public appearances before WIPO, the WHO, and other government and multilateral bodies; and a variety of keynotes and public podcasts. Corey is also proud to be an Officer and Member of the Board of Directors of the Federal Circuit Bar Association, a Member of the Board of Directors of IPO, a Member the Board of Directors of California Lawyers for the Arts, and a founder and member of the Steering Committee of the WIPO-World Economic Forum Inventors Assistance Program. He is featured in the 2021 and 2022 IAM 300, a list of the world's leading IP strategists, and has been named as an IP Corporate Star in Managing IP for each of the last three years.