Marco Richter is Managing Director EMEA & South Asia, Global Consulting & Solutions, and Senior Director IP Analytics & Strategy for LexisNexis Intellectual Property. Marco has more than 15 years of expertise in the intellectual property space, initially working in the IP consulting business, running projects for DAX 30 and Fortune 500 companies. He built the Data Harmonization Team and created the Consulting & Customer Success Team for PatentSight. He also actively drove the transformation of the German-based PatentSight start-up into a global software provider and played a key role in migrating the PatentSight application into the LexisNexis Intellectual Property Solution’s SaaS and DaaS offering. He has strong ties to academia and international patent offices and is actively engaging with IP leaders and practitioners. Marco is known for his extraordinary customer focus, embracing continuous change and development to find new opportunities to deliver better outcomes for the innovation community.

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Xiaowu (Emil) Zhang is Huawei’s head of Strategic Planning and Key Projects Department, responsible for planning the company’s IP strategies and leading critical IP related projects. Before this role, Emil was leading one IP Department of Huawei responsible for end-to-end IP matters relating to Huawei’s important portfolios such as Wi-Fi, multimedia, semiconductor, etc., as well as provides legal supports to Huawei’s R&D teams. With his 20 years with Huawei, Emil leads Huawei’s various IP practices, including complicated overseas IP disputes resolution, standard essential patent licensing, technology licensing, business cooperation, as well as portfolio planning.