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Simon is chair of the CIPA computer technology committee and a director of Altair IP.  He has many years of experience working across the full spectrum of computing and has also performed research in electrical engineering and high energy astrophysics.  He started his career as a patent attorney with IBM and was a partner for many years at D Young & Co LLP.

Jonathan Godwin is CEO and founder at Orbital Materials. Within its first 15 months of operating, Orbital has raised $21m to use AI to design and commercialise materials for the energy transition. Before that, Jonathan was a senior researcher at DeepMind, where he led work on materials science and AI for mammography – leading to publications in Nature and coverage in the world wide press.

Michael Piper served as President of Conley Rose, P.C., an intellectual property centered law firm with offices in Plano and Houston, Texas and Alexandria, Virginia. His practice involves a significant amount of work representing a wide range of companies, from start-ups to Fortune 100 entities, as well as universities and individuals. In addition to direct representation, he work’s with patent, trademark, and other attorneys based all over the world to represent their clients before the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) and elsewhere on U.S. intellectual property (IP) issues. Michael, has also served as an outsourced, in-house IP counsel on retainer for listed and publicly held clients as well as for emerging company clients.

Matt is a UK partner in the IP team of Gowling WLG and an expert in SEP-FRAND, life sciences and trade secrets disputes. Matt is also head of Artificial Intelligence Law at Gowling WLG, General Editor The Law of Artificial Intelligence (Sweet & Maxwell) and co-chair of AIPLA’s AI subcommittee. Matt is included in Chambers & Partners as a Global Market Leader for AI, in IAM Strategy 300 (the World’s Leading IP Strategists), IAM Strategy 300 Global Leaders and in IAM 1000 as “a recognised authority on AI and all SEP/FRAND issues” and for trade secrets. Matt has been described by Legal 500 as “stand out” and “absolutely superb” for patent disputes and by JUVE Patent as a “leading individual” for patent litigation. He has been recognized as “one of the leading global experts in AI and IP” by WIPO and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2022 for leadership in the field of AI.

Adeline-Fleur Fleming is a Senior Managing Counsel at Mastercard heading the IP team in Europe and a member of the Mastercard European Legal Leadership team. As part of her practice, Adeline handles a mixture of patent, trademark, litigation, M&A and soft IP matters. Prior to joining the Mastercard group, Adeline was a Senior Patent Attorney at Arm. Adeline qualified as a European Patent Attorney at Page, White and Farrer a specialist Patent and Trademark law firm based in London, she has a Master’s Degree in Engineering Science from the University of Oxford.

Dr Rachel Free is a partner in the patent team at International Law Firm CMS where she helps clients to protect their technology through patents. She has an MSc in Artificial Intelligence and a DPhil in Vision Science. She qualified as a European and UK patent attorney in the last century and has worked on AI patent drafting and prosecution through her career. Rachel is a member of the All Party Parliamentary Group on AI (APPG AI) which advises parliamentarians regarding AI. Rachel Free is a gold ranked individual – IAM Patent 1000, United Kingdom: England and Wales 2025, and is individually ranked as a next generation partner in Legal 500 2025. Rachel is recognized in the IAM global leaders 2026.

Simon is chair of the CIPA computer technology committee and a director of Altair IP.  He has many years of experience working across the full spectrum of computing and has also performed research in electrical engineering and high energy astrophysics.  He started his career as a patent attorney with IBM and was a partner for many years at D Young & Co LLP.