[A2k] REMINDER: "The Reform of WIPO: Implementing the Development Agenda" Sept 17 Geneva

[Julian Knott]

TACD Conference "The Reform of WIPO: Implementing the Development Agenda"

=09=09International Conference Centre Geneva (CICG)

 17 September 2007


8h30 - 9h00: Registration

9h00 - 9h15: Welcome and opening Remarks

Ed Mierzwinski - USPIRG and member of TACD Steering Committee

H.E. Alberto Dumont - Ambassador and Permanent Representative, Permanent Mi=
ssion of Argentina to the United Nations and Other International Organizati=
ons

9h15 - 10h50: Panel I: WIPO in the 21st Century: Looking back and looking f=
orward

Chair: TBC

Speakers:

Ahmed Abdel Latif - Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Egypt
WIPO Representative (TBC)
Guilherme Patriota - Permanent Mission of Brazil in Geneva
Group B country representative (TBC)
Tim Hubbard-Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Frederick Abbott - Florida State University
Sisule F. Musungu - University of Berne & Yale Law School

10h50 - 11h15: Coffee Break

11h15 - 13h00 Panel II: Implementing the AGENDA - The Framework for Norm-Se=
tting, Evaluation and Impact Assessment

 Chair: Charles Clift - DFID

Speakers:

Tony Taubman -WIPO
Graham Dutfield - University of Leeds
Carolyn Deere - Oxford University
Tilman Lueder - European Commission


13h00 - 14h30: Lunch Break

14h30 - 16h05 Panel III: Implementing the AGENDA - The Reform of Technical =
Assistance and Capacity Building

Chair: KEI

Speakers:

Pedro Roffe - International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development
Sangeeta Shashikant - Third World Network
Representative of WIPO (TBC)
Tenu Avafia - United Nations Development Programme, South Africa
Ron Marchant  - Former Chief Executive of the UK Patent Office
Pascale Boulet - M=E9decins Sans Fronti=E8res

16h05 - 16h30 Coffee Break

16h30 - 18h00: Panel IV: Implementing the AGENDA - Access to Knowledge and =
Alternative Models

Chair: Robin Gross - IP Justice

Speakers:
James Love - Knowledge Ecology International and TACD IP Working Group Co-C=
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WIPO (TBC)
Gwen Hinze - Electronic Frontier Foundation
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh - UNU-MERIT
Cornelia Kutterer - BEUC

18h00 - 18h15: Closing Remarks

Alwin Sixma - Consumentenbond and TACD IP Working Group Co-Chair

18h15: Cocktail

Julian Knott
TACD Coordinator
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