Free Livestream: ‘Living with Covid-19’ to explore work-life solutions and investments

Some coronavirus management tools will be complex, others relatively low-tech. Most will come from diverse sources and a few will be highly valuable.

Developing and managing risk-containment products and processes, and the rights to them, are creating new industries and controversies. Intellectual property awareness and use are at the forefront in meeting the challenge.

A timely two-panel livestream webinar, Living with Covid-19: Identifying, Solving and Sharing Work-Life Solutions, will draw upon experts in a range of fields, such as engineering, public health, architecture and design, economics, intellectual property and venture capital to address these and other questions, including:

Preventing/curing the Covid-19 vs. identifying/developing ways to live with it
Prioritizing virus-related innovation and entrepreneurship
The role or government and private investment
Sharing, collaboration and intellectual property rights
Ways businesses and investors can profit fairly from managing the virus

Living with Covid-19: Identifying, Solving, and Sharing Work-Life Solutions is being presented jointly by the Institute for Business Innovation (IBI) at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and the Center for Intellectual Property Understanding (CIPU).

The forum will take place on Wednesday, September 30th, 1:30-4:00pm ET/ 10:30-1:00pm PT/ 7:30-10:00pm CEST. It will raise questions, share information and pose challenges. Audience questions are encouraged.

Panel 1: Identifying Daily Covid-19 Obstacles

Speakers:
– Daniel Marti, Vice-Chair, Global Innovation Policy Center; ex-Director of U.S. IP Enforcement, Office of the White House; Head of Global Public Policy & Government, RELX Group
– Daniel M. Gerstein, U.S. Undersecretary, Science & Technology for Homeland Security; biodefense expert
– Charles Cicchetti, Managing Director, Berkeley Research Group; ex-Deputy Director of the Energy and Environmental Policy Center at the John F. Kennedy School at Harvard University
– Randy Howder, Managing Director, Gensler, Architectural Design

What industries and activities are most affected by Covid-19?
Activities that need to be re-thought
Comprehending the financial impact of Covid-19 risk-management
Preventing Covid-19 monitoring from becoming surveillance
Who is responsible for identifying the greatest challenges?
The role of intellectual property rights in facilitating solutions

Panel 2: Developing & Sharing Risk-Management Solutions

Speakers:
– Adam Mossoff, Professor of Law & George Mason, Chairman, IP Forum, Hudson Institute; Board of Directors, CIPU
– Gary Lauder, VC and Technology Investor, Lauder Partners
– Rhonda Shrader, Executive Director, Berkeley Haas Entrepreneurship Program
– Dan Brown, award-winning inventor with 40+ patents; Professor of Engineering Design, Northwestern