Angela Dunning is a partner at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP based in its Silicon Valley office. Angela has over 23 years of experience litigating copyright, trademark, trade secrets, right of publicity, and unfair competition/false advertising cases, as well as other complex commercial disputes, for major global companies. She has tried numerous cases to a jury verdict and has substantial experience in the federal appellate courts, including successful arguments before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in precedent-setting IP cases such as Elliott v. Google, Naruto v. Slater (the “Monkey Selfie” copyright case), and Close v. Sotheby’s. Angela is also a leader in the bar with respect to generative artificial intelligence. She regularly speaks on issues of AI and copyright and is currently defending leading developers of AI art and large language models against putative copyright class actions challenging the development, training, and output of those models. In 2008, Angela served as an assistant district attorney for the City and County of San Francisco under then-District Attorney Kamala Harris. She teaches IP courses at UC Berkeley School of Law.

Cathy Lee is Director, Associate General Counsel at Stability AI (a generative AI start-up best known for its text-to-image model Stable Diffusion), working on product/privacy, litigation, IP, and regulatory matters. She previously worked as Head of Privacy Legal Americas at Stripe, and Associate General Counsel at Facebook (now known as Meta).

Charlin Lu is Senior Director of Intellectual Property & Product Legal at Rubrik. In addition to leading the IP and Product Legal teams at Rubrik, Charlin spearheads Rubrik's efforts to mitigate risks around AI while enabling innovation with velocity. Prior to joining Rubrik, Charlin was Director of IP Legal at Salesforce, where she advised the AI research team on a variety of issues ranging from patents to data collection and research collaboration. Charlin's interest in and experience with AI began as a computer science major at Yale University. After graduating from Stanford Law School, she began her legal career as a law clerk for Judge Ronald M. Whyte in the Northern District of California and discovered her interest in patent law. A second clerkship with Chief Judge Randall R. Rader at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit cemented her interest in IP, and post-clerkship, Charlin joined Covington & Burling, where she litigated complex, high-stakes IP cases for a number of years before transitioning to an in-house role.

Ms. Hinojosa-Smith joined Dolby Laboratories as Director of IP Business Development. In her role, she is responsible for developing strategies to grow and diversify Dolby’s Patent Licensing business, driving the formation of new joint licensing programs and identifying investment opportunities, including acquisition of SEP portfolios across audio and video technologies. Prior to joining Dolby, Brianna served as Chief Legal Officer, Digital & Technology for Yum! Brands. In her role at Yum!, Brianna oversaw a broad range of domestic and international commercial and technology-related legal matters, including commercial contracts, mergers and acquisitions, data privacy and procurement. Additionally, Brianna managed Yum!’s global patent portfolio and created & implemented the company’s AI policy across Yum!s four (4) restaurant brands. Prior to joining Yum!, Brianna was a Senior Patent Attorney at Microsoft where she supported the Devices business’ (including Xbox / Gaming and Surface) in the areas of patent prosecution, conflict matters and licensing, as well as product legal support for the Devices Team. As a seasoned patent attorney, Brianna’s experience includes patent prosecution, acquisition due diligence, patent licensing and litigation, patent monetization, validity and infringement analysis, and trademark and copyright protection. Brianna has worked in both the private and public sector including Gardere & Wynne, BlackBerry, Nortel, Uniden & Huawei. Brianna earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Trinity University in San Antonio, a J.D. from St. Mary’s University School of Law in San Antonio, and an MBA from the University of Texas at Arlington. When Brianna is not working, she enjoys serving her community as an elected official & public servant, spending time with her family, working out and writing.