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Registration for the 2024 VGBA Summit Northwest is now open.
Non-VGBA Member Tickets: $800
VGBA Members, please apply your $200 discount code from our NW Summit email dated September 18th.
Early bird discount of $100 off ends October 15th, 2024. Use code EARLY-NWS-VGBA at checkout.
A pre-summit reception will be held on the evening of Wednesday, November 13th at Wizards of the Coast. Please RSVP and find more details HERE
VGBA SUMMIT NORTHWEST SCHEDULE (Thursday, November 14th)
- 8:00 - 9:00 AM Breakfast & Registration
- 9:00 - 12:15 PM Sessions
- 12:15 – 1:15 PM Lunch & Session
- 1:15 – 5:30 PM Sessions
- 5:30 - 7:00 PM Reception
AGENDA and SPEAKERS:
- 9:00 – 9:30 am – IP Deep Dive #1 – Emulators - Nate Sabri, Partner, Perkins Coie, Eugene Marder, Associate General Counsel, Twitch, and Mark Humphries, Partner, MSK
- 9:30 – 10:00 am – IP and Game-Related Enforcement - Scammers, Phishing, 800#S, Social Media Profiles, Cheats, Etc. - Christian Marcelo, Counsel, Perkins Coie and James Barker, Deputy General Counsel, Sony Interactive Entertainment (tentative)
- 10:00 – 10:30 am - IP Deep Dive #3 - General Consumer expectations - Ryan Black, Partner, DLA Piper (Moderator), Amelia Champion, Senior Manager, Senior Corporate Counsel, Pokémon, Joel Emans, VP of Legal, Wizards of the Coast, and Alex Hecker, Associate General Counsel, Director of Legal and Compliance, NCSoft/ArenaNet,
- 10:45 - 11:30 am – Leveraging Ai for Good - Felix Hilgert, Partner, Osborne Clarke (Moderator), Angelo Alcid, Senior Corporate Counsel for Xbox Game Studios, Nick Mitchell, Senior Vice President of Legal & Business Affairs, Games, Wizards of the Coast, Hasbro, and Lisa Oratz, Senior Counsel, Perkins Coie
- 11:30 am – 12:15 pm - IP Collaboration Licensing #1 - Video games Ron Koo, Partner, Perkins Coie (Moderator), Brandon Huffman, Founding Attorney, Odin Law, Mona Ibrahim, Senior Legal Counsel, Epic, and Elizabeth Weeks, Managing Attorney, Wizards of the Coast
- 12:30 - 1:15 pm - Leveling Up: Boosting the Economic Power of Video Games in Washington State - Shannon Halberstadt, Creative Economy Director, Washington State Department of Commerce
- 1:15 – 2:00 pm - Emerging Issues at the Intersection of Film, TV and Videogames - Chrissie Scelsi, Games, immersive entertainment, and tech attorney, President, VGBA(Moderator), Brandon Huffman, Founding Attorney, Odin Law, and Nick Mitchell, Senior Vice President of Legal & Business Affairs, Games, Wizards of the Coast, Hasbro
- 2:00 – 3:00pm – AdTech - Meredith Halama, Partner Perkins Coie (Moderator), Sara Hawkins, Assistant General Counsel, Consumer Affairs, Aristocrat Technologies, Amy Lawrence, Chief Privacy Officer, Head of Legal, SuperAwesome, and Ana Tobkin, Director, Legal - Product & Privacy, Niantic
- 3:15 – 4:00 pm - Lessons from the Past: Reflecting on the Sony PlayStation Network Breach and the Evolution of Cybersecurity - Andrew Pak, Senior Counsel, Perkins Coie (Moderator), Riley Russell, Retired - Sony Interactive Entertainment, Luke Tenery, Partner, StoneTurn
4:00 – 4:45 pm - Indie Developers and Studios - Andrew Thomas. Associate, Premack Rogers Downs P.C. (Moderator), Josh Ayala, CEO, Perfect Day Games, and Ed Fries, General Partner, 1Up Ventures - 4:45 – 5:15 pm - The Rise of Mass Arbitration: Insights, Examples, and Strategies - Eric Weiss, Partner, Perkins Coie
- 5:15 – 5: 45 pm - EU Consumer Law Enforcement - Konni Ewald, Partner, Osborne Clark
WHERE IS THE SUMMIT HELD?
The Perkins Coie offices in downtown Seattle are in the middle of a number of fine hotels. The Fairmont Olympic, Kimpton Monaco and W are literally a few minutes walk.
For inquiries or sponsorship, please email amya@vgba.org.
If you are unable to pay the full ticket amount and believe you may qualify for a reduced cost or free admission, please email amya@vgba.org.
Perkins Coie is proud to co-host this event with the VGBA and sponsor the CLE credit. Please note that this program is pending approval for general CLE credits in AZ, CA, CO, ID, IL, OR, TX, VA, WA and WI; which would include professional practice NY CLE credits for both newly admitted and experienced attorneys; and law & legal procedure WA CLE credits.