On Thursday, April 7th from 10:30am – 11:20am, Foley will present “How to Motivate Your Innovators?” This panel will explore how companies find innovators and continue to incentivize them as well as examine the benefits and limits of open innovation.
Moderator: David Luettgen, Partner and member Electronics Practice Team, Foley & Lardner LLP
Speakers:
- Arien Ferrell, Senior Counsel, Intuit
- B.V. Jagadeesh, President & CEO, Virtela Technology Services
- Loren McRoss, Senior IP Counsel, Sony
- Douglas Luftman, Vice President & Chief Patent Counsel, CBS Interactive
- George Simion, Senior Patent Counsel, Oracle
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