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Carolyn Pepper, Reed Smith

Carolyn Pepper is a partner at Reed Smith and the co-chair of Reed Smith’s award winning Business Inclusion Group for people with disabilities. She is a member of the IP Ability Committee and the Chair of the Law Society’s Intellectual Property Law Committee.

Caelia Bryn-Jacobsen, Kilburn & Strode

Caelia is recognised as one of the patent profession’s leading experts in contentious proceedings. IAM Patent 1000 describes her as “one of the finest European attorneys, a true credit to the profession”. Bringing 30 years’ experience in IP, Caelia specialises in complex, high-stakes contentious proceedings, including multi-jurisdictional cases, before the EPO and UP. Caelia’s physics degree and an award-winning doctorate from Oxford University provide a strong foundation for her passion, and expertise in a range of technical fields, particularly MedTech and healthcare. She works closely with CEOs, IP leaders, and investors, and is trusted for her strategic, commercially astute approach.

Caelia plays an active role in the wider profession. She is an elected Council Member of CIPA, a Chair of CIPA’s UPC Committee, Chair of its Professional Development Working Group, and is an Advisory Board Member for IP Inclusive. One of the founding members of the IP Ability Committee, Caelia champions inclusion with focus on neurodiversity, strengthened from both family, and profession contexts. She chairs Kilburn & Strode’s charity fund. In between IP, bringing up her family, and as much cycling as possible, she has run a small vineyard in Kent for several years.

Stephen Driver, IPO

Stephen Driver is a patent examiner at the Intellectual Property Office, and previously worked in scientific research at Warwick and Cambridge Universities. He was diagnosed with dyspraxia when he was 39. He is active in iThink, the IPO’s support network for neurodiversity, promoting awareness and understanding of dyslexia and dyspraxia within the IPO and beyond.