As companies continuously face threats to trade secrets leakage, there is growing recognition that protecting these valuable assets requires a collaborative approach. By uniting a cross disciplinary teams within an organization and ensure that trade secret protection is integrated into every aspect of the business—from legal and technical to operational and strategic levels.
- Understand the key roles and responsibilities of different departments (legal, cybersecurity, HR, R&D, leadership) in trade secret protection.
- Learn how to create an effective cross-functional working group to collaborate on trade secret initiatives.
- Discover strategies for building organizational alignment and fostering cooperation between legal and technical teams.
- Learn how to integrate trade secret protection into everyday business operations and company culture.
Kelly Burke
Kelly Burke is Associate Senior Legal Counsel, IP Investigations at Adobe, where she focuses on IP investigations and protection, and leads the Trade Secret Protection Program. Prior to that, she was Senior Security Counsel at Apple, concentrating on insider threats. Before she went in-house, she was a prosecutor for more than a decade at the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, where she specialized in trying complex white collar, public corruption, and public integrity criminal cases.
Julie Lappin
Julie is a Senior IP Counsel at Nestlé S.A. She has worked for multiple business units in her 14+ year career with Nestlé, including Coffee, Nestlé Health Science, and PetCare. Julie significantly contributed to developing and deploying Nestlé's trade secret protection program. Before joining Nestle, she was a Corporate Patent Counsel at Pfizer Inc.