David Rikkers
President, Expedited Climb Capital and Founder, datarights.law  

Craig Cummings
General Partner, Moonshot Capital  

Woody Glier
CEO, Gallatin

Justin Antonipillai
Former Founder & CEO, Wirewheel

Ben Fitzgerald
CEO, Rebellion Defense

Richard Gustafson
CEO and Director, PowerLight Technologies

Moderator:
David Rikkers
President, Expedited Climb Capital and Founder, datarights.law

Business leaders discussing the challenges of deploying private capital to successfully develop products for defense markets.  

Patrick Kelleher
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Materiel Readiness, DoD

Moderator:
Moshe Schwartz
President, Etherton & Associates

After weapons systems are procured, Department of Defense (DoD) is responsible for maintaining and repairing the systems to ensure readiness and operational availability. The challenges of maintaining and repairing systems will be an increased challenge in a conflict in the Pacific with a contested logistics environment. This fireside chat will explore how the Office of the Secretary of Defense is thinking about readiness and sustainment in a contested environment, and the potential implications.  

This panel will discuss the challenges of balancing the Government’s requested IP rights in a commercial company (with a minority of Government sales) and the drive to protect company owned Independent Research & Development IP investments for non-Government products.  

Nick Saacks
Deputy PEO - Intelligence, Electronic Warfare and Sensors (PEO-IEWS)

COL Jeffrey Poquette
Program Manager, Future Long Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA)

Moderator:
Alexis Ross
President, Apex Defense Strategies

When the DoD sets out to acquire new weapons systems, the program manager (PM) is responsible for balancing cost, schedule and performance to deliver capabilities the warfighter needs. This fireside chat will explore how PMs think about intellectual property when working with industry on the design, production, and sustainment of weapons systems. It will also examine how PMs approach the health of the industrial base and incentivizing companies to work with DoD.  

Norman Eng
Vice President US Defense Digital Strategy, Siemens

Tamara Hambrick
Deputy Functional Chief Engineer of Digital and Systems Engineering, The Boeing Company

Yvonne Bijan
Fellow, Lockheed Martin Corporation

Moderator:
Troy Prince
Vice President, Chief Intellectual Property & Licensing Counsel, RTX

Experience has shown that the greatest benefits of digital transformation accrue when technology is used to change processes. This panel will present industry examples and benefits of using digital technical data to enable new ways of sharing data with suppliers and customers while protecting intellectual property. The panel will also discuss opportunities for future changes in Government contracting for digital data delivery/access and associated IP rights.  

Chris Brouady
Senior Vice President for Contracts, Aptima, Inc.

Rich Carroll
Chairman of Innovative Defense and Founder of Digital System Resources Kristina Botelho, Contracting Officer, USAF

Moderator:
ML Mackey
Chief Executive Officer, Beacon Interactive Systems  

Alexis Ross
President, Apex Defense Strategies  

Location to be announced.  

Alexis Ross
President, Apex Defense Strategies  

Tony R. Jimenez
President and COO, JRC Integrated Systems

Mark Felix
Director of Contracts, Charles River Analytics

Moderator:
Moshe Schwartz
President, Etherton & Associates

Subcontractors and small businesses play a critical role in the Defense Industrial Base, a role that is different than large prime contractors. This panel will discuss the challenges of balancing the Government’s requested IP rights and the business interests of small businesses and subcontractors in protecting their IP investments.  

Bruce Hatton
VP, Open Architecture, Global Engineering, RTX

Matt Sipe
VP, Strategy & Open Systems, Parry Labs

Web Beary
Legal Counsel, Palantir Technologies

Moderator:
Lynn Williams
Senior Director, Acquisition & Sustainment Policy, The Boeing Company

The panel will discuss technical opportunities and challenges with implementing MOSA in software-intensive systems, as well as recent regulatory developments, including proposed Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) rulemaking that introduced new terms such as “form, fit and function software” and proposed new requirements applicable to commercial software.  

Katie Thompson
Deputy Executive Director, Army Contracting Command – APG

Moderator:
Alexis Ross
President, Apex Defense Strategies

The DoD contracting community is responsible for defining and negotiating the terms of its arrangements with industry for the delivery of goods and services. While law and regulation define the fundamental framework for the parties’ rights to IP, contracts dictate the terms of delivery of IP for each procurement. This fireside chat will discuss IP considerations in contracting and hear how the contracting officer approaches IP.  

Michael Pellegrino
President, Pellegrino and Associates, LLC

Julia Klaren
Senior Manager Intellectual Capital Management, Collins Aerospace

Michael Anderson
Sr. Corp. Counsel (IP & Tech Law), Northrop Grumman Corporation

Jonathan Engler
IP Specialist, ODASD (Strategy and Acquisition Reform)

Moderator:
Will Cottrell
Executive Director for Licensing, RTX Corporation

This panel will discuss how to align Government and Industry on IP valuation principles. The discussion will include working business models incorporating IP valuation.  

Justin A. Hendrix
Assistant General Counsel, Collins Aerospace

Scot Hewitt
Corporate Counsel (IP & Tech Law), Northrop Grumman Corporation

Moderator:
Jim McEwen
Assistant General Counsel, IP, Lockheed Martin Corporation

This panel will explore the compliance issues for first tier suppliers who receive conflicting H-clause language from multiple prime contractors and the perspective of the Government agencies on the decision-making process for including subcontract flowdown requirements in IP H-clauses on multiple tiers of subcontractors below the prime contractor. The panel will also explore perspectives on enforceability issues from supplier and Government perspective, including issues relative to DFARS deviations, Contract Dispute Act issues, and whether the Loper decision has any impact on IP H-clauses which attempt to interpret DFARS language.  

David Rikkers
President, Expedited Climb Capital and Founder, datarights.law