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David Tan is a Professor of Law at the National University of Singapore. He holds a PhD from Melbourne Law School (2010), a LLM from Harvard (1999), and graduated with a LLB (First Class Honours)/BCom from the University of Melbourne (1995). He has taught courses at Melbourne Law School (Intellectual Property & Popular Culture; Constitutional Law) and University of Hong Kong, Faculty of Law (Entertainment Law). He had also been a Visiting Affiliate Scholar at the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy at the NYU School of Law. David was formerly with the Singapore Administrative Service, serving as Director of Sports at Ministry of Community Development, Youth & Sports and Director of International Talent at Ministry of Manpower. He has also had work experience at McKinsey & Company and DBS Bank.
Elizabeth Townsend Gard is is the John E. Koerner Endowed Professor of Law; Founding Director of the Tulane Center for IP, Media & Culture, and Deputy Faculty Director, Masters of Jurisprudence Labor and Employment Law Program. She specializes in Intellectual Property law, including copyright, trademark, and comparative intellectual property; and entrepreneurship, including social entrepreneurship, solopreneurs, and handcraft-entrepreneurs. In 2022, after years of teaching in the Tulane Masters of Jurisprudence in Labor and Employment Law program, she became its Deputy Faculty Director. In that program, she has focused her teaching on the intersection of intellectual property and social media within the context of employment law and business practices across the country. Townsend Gard's philosophy combines theory and doctrine with immersive practice, both inside and outside of the classroom.
Emily Hudson is a Professor at The Queens College, Oxford University. Previously, she was on the Faculty of King’s College London in January 2015, having also held academic posts at the University of Melbourne, and the University of Queensland. She holds a BSc (Hons), LLB (Hons), LLM and PhD from the University of Melbourne. She is the author of Drafting Copyright Exceptions: From the Law in Books to the Law in Action, published by Cambridge University Press in 2020.
Joseph Lau is a PhD candidate at the Melbourne Law School (MLS). He also holds appointments as a Sheridan Fellow at the Faculty of Law of the National University of Singapore (NUS), as an Academic Fellow at the Centre for Technology, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and the Law (at the same institution) and as a Member of the NUS Artificial Intelligence Institute. His research interests lie in the fields of copyright and patent law and his work in these areas has been published in leading international journals like the Computer Law & Security Review, the Australian Intellectual Property Journal and Intellectual Property Quarterly. Prior to commencing his doctoral research at MLS, Joseph taught tort law at the NUS Faculty of Law for over three years. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Jurisprudence from the University of Oxford and a Master of Laws (Intellectual Property and Technology Law) from NUS.
Graeme Austin is Chair of Private Law at Victoria University of Wellington and a Professor at Melbourne University Law School. Prior to returning to Australasia, he was the J Byron McCormick Professor of Law at the University of Arizona. He has served as a Member of the New Zealand Copyright Tribunal and as an independent director of the Australian Copyright Council. He is an elected member of the American Law institute and has written extensively on copyright, trademarks, and the relationship between human rights law and intellectual property.
Sidne K Gard (they/them) is currently an MFA candidate at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. They are also Managing Editor of the award winning F Newsmagazine, where they have authored more than 70 pieces related to the current cultural condition. Elizabeth Townsend Gard (she/her) is the John E. Koerner Endowed Professor of Law at Tulane University Law School, where they teach and study copyright and trademark law. Together Sid and Elizabeth have co-authored two books, Just Wanna Trademark for Makers (2023) and Just Wanna Copyright for Makers (2024), as well as an invited law review article for the Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law and Houston Law Review entitled Fame: A Conversation About Copyright, Borrowing, and Soup, 62 Hous. L. Rev. 367 (2024). Their work at this conference builds on their prior work, looking at the self-policing mechanisms of content creators.
Joshua Yuvaraj is a senior lecturer in law at the University of Auckland, and Co-Director of the New Zealand Centre for Intellectual Property. He also teaches copyright and design courses at Melbourne Law School, the University of Melbourne, and is an Academic Fellow of the Centre for Technology, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and the Law (TRAIL) at the National University of Singapore. Joshua’s research focuses on copyright law and emerging technologies, alongside broader questions in private law.
Tan Ming Quan is the Head of Licensing and Legal Affairs at the Composers and Authors Society of Singapore (COMPASS). Ming Quan previously worked at a law firm and the Singapore Exchange. He holds a BBM and JD from the Singapore Management University. In his free time, he enjoys dancing and barre classes.
David O. Carson began practicing copyright law in 1981, first as a copyright and media law litigator in private practice in Los Angeles and then in New York. Since then, he has had over twenty-five years of government service as General Counsel of the U.S. Copyright Office, Associate Register for Policy and International Affairs at the Copyright Office, head of the Copyright Policy Team in the Office of Policy and International Affairs at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and, since 2021, as a member of the Copyright Claims Board (CCB) at the Copyright Office. He also had a two-year stint as Executive Vice President for Global Legal Policy at the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. A graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Law School, he has served as a trustee of the Copyright Society of the USA and on the board of directors of the American Intellectual Property Law Association.
Gabriel Ong is Principal Legal Counsel and Principal Assistant Registrar at IPOS’ Hearings and Mediation Department. He is also involved in policy work aimed at strengthening Singapore’s status as an IP and tech dispute hub under the Singapore IP Strategy 2030. Gabriel is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at NUS Law where he co-teaches Intellectual Property Arbitration. He frequently speaks at conferences and seminars on topics related to IP dispute resolution. Previously, he specialized in IP litigation at Drew & Napier LLC, appearing before the Court of Appeal in landmark cases.
Mark McLaughlin is an Assistant Professor of Law Singapore Management University, Yong Pung How School of Law. Singapore International Dispute Resolution Academy. He holds a Ph.D. in International Law, China University of Political Science and Law, a PgD. in International Law, University of Glasgow, and he graduated LL.B. (Honours), University of Glasgow. He has written extensively on mediation and international investment treaties, with publications in leading journals and presses.
Caleb Goh is the Representative of the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center in Singapore, where he promotes WIPO’s ADR services across the ASEAN region, administers cases, and develops tailored dispute resolution policies. Prior to joining WIPO, he was appointed a Young IP Mediator by the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore. He has spoken on WIPO ADR at events hosted by the ASEAN Secretariat, regional IP offices, and dispute resolution bodies. Caleb holds an LLB from the National University of Singapore and is admitted to the Singapore Bar.
Kristelia García is the Leo George Professor of Communications, Entertainment, and New Media, and an Anne Fleming Research Professor, at Georgetown Law. She holds a JD from Yale Law School, and a BA in Economics from Columbia University. García’s academic work focuses on intellectual property law through the lens of law and economics.
Adriana Uson, Director & Head (Americas) at the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC), oversees SIAC’s initiatives across the Americas. In 2020, she led the establishment SIAC’s first office outside Asia in New York.
With over a decade in dispute resolution, she has been a disputes lawyer at a global firm, arbitrator, and institutional representative, administering hundreds of cases and assisting in drafting multiple versions of the SIAC Rules.
Recognized by Who’s Who Legal, she has been described as “a brilliant and focused practitioner” who is “a pleasure to work with in every respect.”
Adriana represents SIAC at UNCITRAL Working Groups and is a Fellow of the Singapore Institutes of Arbitrators.
Maxence Rivoire is a Lecturer in French Law and the Deputy Director of the LLB in English Law and Master 1 in French Law at The Dickson Poon School of Law. He is also a member of the Centre for International Governance and Dispute Resolution (CIGAD), and an academic fellow of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple. Qualified and admitted to practice in France, Maxence holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, a Magister Juris from the University of Oxford, an LLM in Private International Law and International Commercial Law from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, and an LLB from the University of Grenoble. He has also studied on a year-long exchange at McGill University. Prior to becoming an academic, Maxence was an international arbitration associate at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Paris.
Fady JG Aoun BEc (Hons)/LLB (Hons) Phd (Syd), is a Senior Lecturer in Law at The University of Sydney Law School and is admitted to practice in New South Wales. His research and teaching interests are mainly in intellectual property, corporations law, and legal history. Fady's main research interests lay in the interface of race and intellectual property, particularly stigmatising trade marks. A representative publication emerging from his doctoral research is ‘WHITEWASHING AUSTRALIA’S HISTORY OF STIGMATISING TRADE MARKS AND COMMERCIAL IMAGERY’ (2009) 44(3) Melbourne University Law Review 671 for which he was awarded the best Article in the 2020 Australian Legal Research Awards (ECR).