Sune is Director General of the Danish Patent and Trademark Office under the Danish Ministry of Industry, Business and Financial Affairs. He is a board member of Nordic Patent Institute, member of the board at the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences, board member of the Danish-Chinese Business Forum, member of the Management Board at the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), and member of the Board of the Administrative Council in the European Patent Office (EPO).

Sune has held various executive positions at the Ministry of Environment and Food of Denmark, and at the Danish Ministry of Finance. He has also  been Private Secretary to the Danish Prime Minister. Sune holds an M.A. in Political Science from University of Copenhagen and Certificat d’Etudes Politiques from Sciences Po in France.

Victoria Baines is Senior Research Associate at the Intellectual Forum, Jesus College, Cambridge, and Professor of Information Technology at Gresham College, where she is responsible for delivering public lectures that demystify world-changing technologies for ‘ordinary’ people. Her current series of lectures puts citizens back at the heart of decision-making on the future direction of IT, tackling questions such as how the Internet should be governed, how to best fight fake news and what life in the Metaverse might be like.

Victoria is a graduate of Trinity College, Oxford and holds a doctorate from the University of Nottingham. She is a Visiting Fellow at Bournemouth University’s School of Computing, a former Visiting Research Fellow at Oxford University, and has been  a guest lecturer at Stanford University in 2019 and 2020.

Erling Vestergaard has been a Danish lawyer for almost 35 years. For more than 20 years he served as a Danish State prosecutor specialized in economic crime and has since 2006 specialized in intellectual property and internet crime.

In 2014 Erling joined the European Union Intellectual Property Office in Alicante as IP Enforcement expert. He has taken special interest in internet related issues and the impact of new disruptive and transformative to IP protection and enforcement.

Mikael Francke Ravn, Chief Legal Adviser, has been employed at the Danish Patent and Trademark Office (DKPTO) since 1999. In his time at the DKPTO, Mr. Ravn has been engaged in various functions. He is highly specialized in trademark and design law and has experience in preparing and implementing legislation at both national and international level.

Mikael represents the office in various international forums and has chaired the Working Groups under the Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks held at WIPO as well as the Madrid Working Group and the Hague Working Group. He also has practical experience from private practice, where he has worked as a Community Trademark and Design Attorney.

Jean-Marc is Senior Researcher at the Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI, University of Strasbourg). At CEIPI, Jean-Marc's research focuses on the interplay between IP and emerging technologies. He is co-director of CEIPI's "AI & IP" Diploma. Prior to joining CEIPI, Jean-Marc has spent 15 years at the European Patent Office (EPO) where he was in charge of the prosecution of AI applications and he contributed to drafting the Guidelines for examination on the sections dedicated to mathematical methods and AI.

He is a member of the “Impact of Technology Expert Group” of the European Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights.

Therkel Sand Therkelsen is the founder of Realitet and an expert on immersive technologies. Over the past seven years, Therkel has worked to explore the opportunities and challenges associated with an increased use of immersive technologies such as Virtual and Augmented Reality.

In 2022, Therkel founded Realitet, which aims to uncover what happens when digital and physical worlds merge and the next phase of the Internet becomes spatial.

Jesper Knudsen is CEO and founder of BRANDIT. He has been in the online industry since 1999 and is widely recognized as a thought leader within the intellectual property community as well as a trailblazer in domain name strategy. Jesper is renowned for his industry expertise, he is frequently invited to speak at prestigious events and conferences, he serves on committees such as INTA UnReal Campaign and the MARQUES Cyberspace Team, and he shares his i insights with industry associations such as the EUIPO.

Jesper also actively engages in mentoring and investing in a handful of carefully selected startups, leveraging his entrepreneurial drive and knowledge. He also serves as a mentor and speaker at Denmark's premier startup conference, Seedster.

Constantin Rehaag is a lawyer and partner at Dentons Frankfurt and Europe Co-Head of the Intellectual Property, Data and Technology Group. He is also Co-Head of the IP/T practice group in Germany. Constantin has more than 15 years experience in law of intellectual property, unfair competition and trade secrets. He focuses on unfair competition, IP litigation, anti-counterfeiting and related criminal law matters as well as trademark and design prosecution.

Constantin is a frequent speaker on IP-litigation and trade secret issues at patent and IP conferences. He is also a member of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) Observatory Legal Expert Group.

Jan Østergaard has worked at the Danish State Prosecution Office for 25 years, mostly on cases related to economic crime. Between 2012 and 2018 he served as a Chief Prosecutor in Southeast Jutland and was a member of the Board of Directors.

Since February 2022, he has been Lead Prosecutor on IP which includes trials at District Courts and High Court. Jan is a member of the Legal Expert Group at the EUIPO Observatory and the Danish Ministerial Network against IPR Infringements. 

Jakob Plesner Mathiasen is Attorney at Gorrissen Federspiel, one of Denmark's largest law firms, where he heads the Media and Entertainment law department.

Jakob specializes in IP law and has a deep interest in technological advancements, particularly the Metaverse and Extended Reality (XR), and their implications on IP rights. Jakob has an active focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI), exploring the legal challenges and opportunities that come with this rapidly advancing technology.