PDLN Conference 2018 - London.

An Italian-qualified lawyer (avvocato) admitted to the Florence Bar (Ordine degli Avvocati di Firenze), I am a tenured associate professor in intellectual property (IP) law at the University of Southampton (UK), a guest lecturer in copyright law at EDHEC Business School (France), a door tenant at 8 New Square, and an Editor of the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice (Oxford University Press).

Previously I was a Post-Doctoral Legal Research Associate at the University of Cambridge (UK), and worked in the IP departments of Bird&Bird LLP in Milan (Italy) and London (UK).

I hold two law degrees summa cum laude from the University of Florence (Italy), an LLM from the University of Cambridge (UK), and a PhD in EU copyright law from the European University Institute (Italy).

I have researched and written extensively in the fields of IP, internet law, and fashion law. I am a regular contributor to specialist blogs The 1709 Blog and The IPKat, for which I report and comment on IP-related news from all over the world.

I have also been interviewed by leading media publications regarding copyright issues, including - recently - The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Hollywood Reporter, BBC, The Telegraph, and Metro.

Priberam

Carlos graduated in Electronics Engineering at Técnico, with a specialization in Systems and Computers and was a full time researcher at INESC. He is co-founder and CEO of Priberam, where he took several roles in R&D, Product Management and Business and Partnerships Development. Priberam combines Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence to extract actionable knowledge from multilingual unstructured data.

Amazon, Microsoft, the major Portuguese and Brazilian media publishers, law firms and the Government are some of the clients using Priberam’s language technologies in different business areas. Priberam participates in the SUMMA project that aims to provide a media monitoring platform capable of dealing with large volumes of data across many languages and different media types. Two use cases are already implemented in BBC and Deutsche Welle.

Priberam developed a prototype of an advanced Press Delivery Platform that integrates an automatic content enrichment pipeline for Visapress, the Portuguese content licensing association.

The New York Times

Alice Ting, vice president, licensing and syndication, for The New York Times, is responsible for the global financial performance of the licensing and syndication businesses. Ms. Ting oversees a portfolio of products and services ranging from local licenses of T: The New York Times Style Magazine to book development to digital archive distribution deals. She leads an international team of sales, business development, marketing and operations professionals who are focused on licensing and distributing content from both The New York Times and from select editorial brands to media companies, businesses, websites and other digital platforms.

Ms. Ting has held several positions at The Times. Previously, she was responsible for various commerce and brand extension businesses, including the School of the New York Times. Ms. Ting served as executive director, brand development, for The Times, where she identified, executed and oversaw businesses such as the online store, branded merchandise, the wine club, and Times Journeys. She was also responsible for content-related business development such as rights and permission, content licensing and sales for the North American market.

Ms. Ting joined The Times in 2000 as a director of strategy for NYTd, which was the digital arm of the company. She also served as director, strategic planning, for Times Media Group, where she identified ancillary revenue streams. She then became director, strategic initiatives and publications, for the News Services Division, where she managed some of its niche publications and rights & permissions partners.

Before joining The Times, Ms. Ting was a management consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers, advising media and publishing companies on revenue growth strategies and new product development.

Ms. Ting earned a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and an M.B.A. from the Columbia Business School at Columbia University.

IFRRO

Caroline is Chief Executive and Secretary General of the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations (IFRRO). Previous to that, she was the General Manager of Copyright Agency responsible for managing Copyright Agency’s relations with licensing clients, including education and government sectors. Caroline also managed VISCOPY, the Australian collective management organisation for visual arts. Caroline is the Past President of the Copyright Society of Australia (2006 – 2014). .

FIBEP

Johna is the CMO of BurrellesLuce and AMEC North America co-chair.

During a career spanning over 25 years, Johna has worked both as a public relations practitioner and a provider of services that are vital to the successful performance of communications professionals. Prior to joining BurrellesLuce she was the director of public and investor relations of a Fortune 500 company. In 2015 she was inducted into the PR News Measurement Hall of Fame for her work and leadership in the community.

NLA media access

Along with many other leading roles in the publishing industry has been CEO of leading ,medical publisher BMJ, Managing Director of The Guardian. He is a director of the PPA and chairs the British Library Advisory Council