23 speakers including some of the leading voices on IP and AI gathered recently as part of IPAS 2026 at the Center of Science and Industry in Columbus. The focus was how AI and IP rights can live together productively.
Individual panels and featured speakers for this year’s IP Awareness Summit are now available to view on CIPU’s YouTube Channel. Chapter headings and transcripts are available for streamlined viewing.
Panelists included senior professionals and creators from Dolby Labs, Boston Consulting Group, the Association of American Publishers, Novartis, Intel, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, Kellogg School of Management, Penn State Dickinson School of Law, Global IP Alliance, Owens Corning, the Global Innovation Policy Center, a multiple Grammy winning producer and inventor, a former House Judiciary Advisor, and the Cornell University Entrepreneur of the Year.
The full Summit agenda and speaker list can be found here.
Keynote Allison Gaul of Boston Consulting Group, who advises clients on combining AI and IP strategy, talked about the role of IP rights in AI and the what AI means to IP.
“When we think about that and we think about redesigning our workflows, redesigning our R&D, our innovation, our tech functions,” Gaul explains, “it has to be a feedback loop that is informed by our IP strategy.
“What is the kind of IP that we want to collect or obtain on the types of products we offer and then build that into the process because we have to think about that end before we can think about how we integrate human creative contribution in a process that we’re redesigning.”
Trade secrets for capturing how businesses and their employees do the “special things” that achieve efficiency and value will be enormously important as we move forward because the technology to readily codify and track them under trade secrets is now available. I
PAS 2026 Panels:
- AI + IP = ROI – The Role of IP Rights in AI Success
- Copyrights and AI – Learning to Work Together
- AI Adoption at the Crossroads: Transparency, Trust and (some) a Regulation
- Patents, Copyright and Trade Secrets – Too Strong or Too Weak for Today’s Innovatio
- Fighting Negative IP Stereotypes: From Classroom to Congress
COSI CEO, Dr. Frederic Bertley, an immunologist and leading science and technology educator with 13 Emmy Awards, delivered a featured presentation focusing on the need for better and broader IP understanding in a faster, more highly technological world.
Select the Videos tab on the CIPU YouTube channel to access the panels and featured speakers, here. If you find them useful, please let us know in the comments.
Lead image: IP RIghts – Too Strong or Too Weak?” – Wayne Stacey, Berkeley Center of Law and Technology; James Conley, Kellogg School of Management and inventor; Diane Gabl Kratz, Dolby Labs Director, IP Strategy and Operations.
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