Justin Rerko
IP Transformation Leader
KPMG
Justin is an IP & patent attorney who thinks like a corporate strategist. As co-founder of the KPMG IP Consulting practice, he applies 20 years of strategic and legal experience to help organizations maximize enterprise value via IP.
Justin formerly served as in-house IP counsel for KPMG where he helped the firm embrace the strategic value of IP. Under his direction, KPMG grew its patent portfolio by 300 percent, operationalized a global trade secret management program, and monetized intellectual assets to generate revenue.
Named an IAM Strategy 300: The World’s Leading IP Strategists in 2022.
Suguru Iwaya
Director, Policy and Planning
Headquarters for Digital Market Competition, Cabinet Secretariat, Japan
Suguru Iwaya is a director for policy planning at the Headquarters for Digital Market Competition, Cabinet Secretariat of Japan, where he works on a market investigation into mobile ecosystem as well as an initiative that promotes the use of decentralised identity. Suguru was a policy analyst in the Science, Technology and Innovation Directorate at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris from 2017 to June 2022, where he worked on projects on data governance and risk management in digital economy. From 2008 to 2015, he worked for the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan. Suguru received a Master’s Degree in Management and Strategy from London School of Economics and Political Science in 2017, a Master’s Degree in Urban Regeneration from University College London in 2016, and a Master of Physics from Tokyo University in 2008.
Vijay Thekkemakkadath
Senior Director, Data Science
Visa
Suguru Iwaya
Director
Japan's Headquarters for Digital Market Competition
Christian Reimsbach-Kounatze
Information Economist and Policy Analyst
OECD
Christian Reimsbach-Kounatze is an Information Economist/Policy Analyst at the OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI), where he has been working on topics related to the digital economy since 2008 and more specifically on data governance since 2010.
Since 2010, Christian has been leading OECD projects on data governance including: the OECD project on Data-driven Innovation, Enhancing Access to and Sharing of Data, and Data Portability. He is currently co-ordinating Phase III of the OECD Going Digital Project that focusses on Data Governance for Growth and Well-being, and is leading OECD work on “Emerging Privacy Enhancing Technology: Maturity, opportunities and challenges”.
Before joining the OECD, Christian worked as a researcher at the Institute for Information and Market Engineering of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and at SAP Research (Germany). Christian holds a Diploma in Information Science, Engineering and Management and in Economics, both granted by the KIT.