2024 Program, Sessions & Speakers
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM | Registration and Continental Breakfast (Main Courtyard)
9:30 AM – 9:40 AM | Opening Remarks & Welcome from ASU Law Dean & Regents Professor Stacy Leeds & USPTO General Counsel David L. Berdan
9:40 AM – 10:15 AM | Fireside Chat Featuring Derrick Brent, Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO and Arizona State University Women’s Beach Volleyball Player, Kate Fitzgerald
10:15 AM – 10:30 AM | Break
10:30 AM – 11:15 AM | Session 1: NIL Basics with Professor Don Gibson, Sports Law & Business, Professor David Franklyn, Executive Director of the McCarthy Institute, and ASU Professor of IP Law Jon Kappes
11:15 AM – 11:20 AM | Break
11:20 AM – 12:00 PM | Session 2: NIL Testimonies with 2024 Paris Olympian (110 Hurdles) Freddie Crittenden III, Rachael Bacchus, ASU General Manager, NIL (Altius Sports Partners), Jeff Kunowski, Assoc. Director, Innovation Programs – J. Orin Edson Entrepreneurship + Innovation Institute at ASU, and Sam Green, CEO & Founder of AthleteCon
12:00 PM – 1:15 PM | Lunch (Breakout room 544 for law students and student athletes; patio for all other guests)
1:15 PM – 2:00 PM | Session 3: Legal Protection of NIL Rights and Negotiating NIL Agreements with NIL attorney George Finn, Esq., Senior Counsel at the Rose Law Group, NIL Agent Luke Fedlam, Founder and Managing Partner of Advance NIL, and John Van Dyk, Esq., ASU Alumni and VP of Athlete Marketing at The Society LLC
2:00 PM – 2:15 PM | Break
2:15 PM – 3:00 PM | Session 4: Trademark Protection with the USPTO that Enhances NIL with Jason Lott, USPTO Managing Attorney and Trademarks Customer Outreach
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM | Networking Reception (Fifth Floor Patio, with complementary food and beverages)
