Mark your calendars and prepare to have a good time the visionaries shaping the way forward for expertise on the twenty first Annual IP3 Awards!
Date: September twenty sixth, 2024
Location: Ronald Reagan Constructing and Worldwide Commerce Middle, Washington D.C.
Time: 6.30 pm
Public Data hosts the Annual IP3 Awards to have a good time the work of those that have made important contributions within the three areas of IP: Mental Property, Data Coverage, and Web Protocol. The awards assist champion the advocates working diligently on behalf of the general public curiosity to assist everybody join and talk.
We’re excited to announce our esteemed 2024 IP3 Award recipients:
- Our President’s Award goes to Commissioner Geoffrey Starks, who believes that communications expertise has the potential to be probably the most highly effective forces on Earth for selling equality and alternative. To unlock that potential, nevertheless, all Individuals should have entry. From combatting web inequality to advocating for range in employment, entrepreneurship, and media possession, Commissioner Starks fights for insurance policies designed to make sure that fashionable communications expertise empowers each American. As a result of high-quality broadband is crucial to collaborating in our financial system and society, Commissioner Starks has been a champion for the tens of millions of Individuals who lack entry to or can not afford a house web connection. As a local Kansan, he understands the communications wants of rural America. He has persistently advocated for broadband deployment that helps rural communities faucet into financial and academic alternatives that will not be near residence, which each encourages younger individuals to remain and attracts new residents and employers.
- Our Data Coverage Award goes to Caitriona Fitzgerald who’s the Deputy Director on the Digital Privateness Data Middle (EPIC). Caitriona leads the event of EPIC’s coverage agenda, offering experience to advance robust privateness and AI governance legal guidelines at each the state and federal degree. She has testified earlier than Congress and state legislatures. In 2023, Caitriona was named a Wasserstein Fellow at Harvard Legislation Faculty. A member of the Massachusetts Bar, Caitriona graduated from Northeastern College Faculty of Legislation (J.D.) and the State College of New York at Geneseo (B.A., Pc Science).
- Our Mental Property Award goes to Jonathan Band, who has helped form the legal guidelines governing mental property and the Web by way of a mix of legislative and appellate advocacy. He has represented shoppers with respect to the drafting of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), the Cease On-line Piracy Act (SOPA), and different federal and state statutes regarding mental property and the Web. He has testified earlier than Congress ten occasions. He has complemented this legislative advocacy by submitting amicus briefs in important instances associated to those provisions. Mr. Band has additionally represented shoppers in connection to the Marrakesh Treaty, the Anti-Counterfeiting Commerce Settlement, the Trans-Pacific Partnership Settlement, and different worldwide agreements.
- Our Web Protocol Award goes to Angela Siefer, because the Government Director of the Nationwide Digital Inclusion Alliance, Angela leads the digital fairness motion. Since incomes her grasp’s in sociology from the College of Toledo in 1997, she has labored within the discipline we now name “digital inclusion.” Beginning with establishing pc labs in underserved areas and managing native digital inclusion packages, Angela’s first-hand data led her to seek the advice of for the US Division of Commerce and testify earlier than Congress. In 2015, Angela noticed that the rising discipline wanted its personal place to construct finest practices and group, so she turned the founding government director of the Nationwide Digital Inclusion Alliance, which advances digital fairness by supporting group packages and equipping policymakers to behave.
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Amplify Innovation: Sponsorship Alternatives
Public Data is proud to supply sponsorship alternatives for the twenty first Annual IP3 Awards. By turning into a sponsor, you may showcase your dedication to technological development and join with a distinguished viewers of trade leaders.
We provide numerous sponsorship ranges to go well with totally different contributions:
- Platinum Sponsorship: $50,000+
- Gold Sponsorship: $25,000+
- Silver Sponsorship: $10,000+
- Bronze Sponsorship: $5,000+
- Pal Sponsorship: $250+
For extra details about sponsorship alternatives, please contact Stephen Bennett at Stephen@publicknowledge.org.
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