LES Silicon Valley Event: Protecting Your Secret Sauce! Your Secret Sauce! Techniques & Technologies for “Protecting Securing Your Systems, Data, & Intellectual Assets Against
Hacking, Theft, & Industrial Espionage” was the topic for LES Silicon Valley Chapter event. Sponsored by Rambus at their Sunnyvale, California offices on October 16, almost 60 attendees learned from an all-star panel that included a Special Agent from the FBI. The panel was moderated by Stefan Tamme, VP IP Strategy & Licensing, Rambus and included Adelaida Hernandez, Special Agent, FBI; Lee Gardner, IP Counsel, Google; Elizabeth McBride, Managing Director, Global Litigation, Investigations & IP, Applied Materials; and Neeraj Paliwal, VP Security Products, Rambus. These experts discussed knowledge and data as key assets in modern companies, and highlighted the fact that protection of our IT infrastructure and the information that resides on it is becoming ever more critical. They also presented ways to protect against
external attacks and inside jobs. Hernandez explained how the FBI can help when things go wrong.
Larry Udell, LES Silicon Valley Co-Chair was impressed with each presenter’s credentials and their ability to discuss how their company or organization/FBI confronts protecting their “Secret Sauce.” He said, “They turned a critical subject that affects millions into how to create the invisible wall(s) of protection. This is an important enough subject that every chapter should be presenting and how LES is involved world-wide.” Thanks to LES Chapter Leaders Co-Chair, Lawrence J. Udell CLP, Chapter Founder; Co-Chair, Ron Laurie, InventionShare; CoChair, Membership Chair-Michael N. Zachary, Bunsow De Mory LLP; Program Chair, Stefan Tamme, Rambus, Inc.; and Martha Casey for organizing this event.
LES New Jersey: Open Innovation: How Life Sciences And Tech Companies Can Work With New Jersey Universities Innovation: How Life Sciences and Tech Companies Panelists included: Vincent Smeraglia, Executive Director, Office “ pen can work with New Jersey Universities” was the topic at of Research Commercialization at Rutgers University; Sacha Patera,
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the LES New Jersey Chapter event on September 11. It was a joint effort between LES and Bio New Jersey, with panelists representing Princeton, Rutgers and New Jersey Innovation Institute. The event was held at the Rutgers Club in Piscataway, New Jersey.
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The audience of more than 50 attendees heard real case studies and best practices from members of corporate engagement departments of Princeton, NJIT and Rutgers, as well as healthcare investors and corporate development professionals active in technology and pharma.
Associate Vice President, Rutgers Corporate Engagement Center; Judith Sheft, Associate Vice President Strategic Relationships and External Affairs at New Jersey Institute of Technology; Spencer Reynolds, Senior Associate Director at Princeton University; Alan Naidoff, Founder and President of InnovationAdventure, L.L.C.; Akan Oton, Managing Director, Sector Head - Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare at Barings; and Arturo Pizzaro of Siemens. Much appreciation goes to LES Chapter Chair Lina Lahoz of Teva Pharmaceutical for organizing this event.
Panel from far left: Akan Oton, Sacha Patera, Spencer Reynolds, Judith More than 50 attendees heard real case studies and best Sheft, Arturo Pizzaro with Vincent Smeraglia moderating at the podium. practices from members of corporate engagement departments of Princeton NJIT, and Rutgers.
