Leonor Ladeira
Mo Haghighi
Dr Mo Haghighi is a director of engineering/distinguished engineer at Discover Financial Services. His current focus is hybrid and multi-cloud strategy, application modernisation and automating application/workload migration across public and private clouds. Previously, he held various leadership positions as a program director at IBM, where he led Developer Ecosystem and Cloud Engineering teams in 27 countries across Europe, Middle East and Africa. Prior to IBM, he was a research scientist at Intel and an open source advocate at Sun Microsystems/Oracle.
Mo obtained a PhD in computer science, and his primary areas of expertise are distributed and edge computing, cloud native, IoT and AI, with several publications and patents in those areas.
Mo is a regular keynote/speaker at major developer conferences including Devoxx, DevOpsCon, Java/Code One, Codemotion, DevRelCon, O’Reilly, The Next Web, DevNexus, IEEE/ACM, ODSC, AiWorld, CloudConf and Pycon.
Asim Shah
Tobias Ehlgen
Stylianos Venieris
Dimitri Metzger
Hannes Iserentant
Hannes Iserentant, Head of IP at Celyad Oncology, started his IP career in private practice Bird Goën & Co as member of the Life Sciences team. In 2008, he joined the tech transfer team of VIB, a dedicated life sciences research institute, as IP Manager. From 2013 to 2016, he was part of the Expert Group on patent law in the field of biotechnology for the European Commission. He joined Celyad Oncology in 2016, where he now is Head of IP. Hannes Iserentant holds a PhD in Biomedical Sciences from Ghent University, is a qualified European Patent Attorney and European Patent Litigator.
Charles Collins-Chase
Charles Collins-Chase focuses on district court patent litigation and appeals before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, where he served as a clerk. He uses his chemical engineering background to help clients protect innovations in pharmaceuticals and biotechnology, energy and renewables, and chemical products. He has assisted numerous clients in Hatch-Waxman (ANDA) litigation. Charles has handled district court litigations at every stage, from pre-litigation through discovery, dispositive motions, and trial. He particularly enjoys writing briefs and motions.
Charles has extensive experience at the Federal Circuit, where he has argued cases and assisted clients in over two dozen appeals from district courts and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). He has particular experience in appeals involving patent eligibility under 35 U.S.C. § 101. Charles lectures on and has published in several legal and industry media outlets on strategic IP considerations for protecting AI innovations in the pharmaceutical industry.
Before law school, Charles completed an M.Phil. in engineering for sustainable development at the University of Cambridge, where he researched the feasibility of community-scale biodiesel production using a novel reactor system. His undergraduate thesis research involved synthesizing and characterizing thermosetting polymers made from soybean oil and other renewable resources.
Charles also devotes substantial time to pro bono matters and leads the firm’s pro bono committee. He argues before the Federal Circuit on behalf of veterans seeking service-connected disability benefits. He successfully represented a client seeking Social Security disability benefits, writing the briefs and arguing at a hearing before an administrative law judge.
He holds a J.D. (cum laude) from University of Pennsylvania Law School.
