About this Event

IP Inclusive is the UK IP sector's pan-professional initiative for improving diversity, inclusion and wellbeing. Established in 2015 with the help of IP membership bodies including FICPI-UK and the UK's Intellectual Property Office, its support base and influence have gone from strength to strength and it is now key to the UK IP professions' efforts to improve diversity.

So how does IP Inclusive work and why has it done so well? Could something similar have value in other countries? What can we learn from one another's individual efforts to improve diversity? And how can we work together to improve diversity and inclusion across continents, to the benefit of all our clients?

In this meeting you'll hear from IP Inclusive itself as well as from the organisations that support it - membership bodies, the UK IPO, the IP Regulation Board, and IP Inclusive Charter signatories from both private practice and industry.

Breakout sessions will then give you a chance to meet with the speakers, ask questions, exchange ideas and discuss in more depth the topics that particularly interest you.

We'll be running the event at two different times to accommodate international time zones:

• Register on this page for the 9 - 10.30 am (UK time) event
• To register for the 5 - 6.30 pm (UK time) event, please visit this page

A full itinerary is given below. You will have a choice of which breakout sessions to attend. 

We do hope you can join us!

IP Inclusive

(in association with CIPA, CITMA, FICPI-UK and IP Federation)

Venue:              Zoom
Timing:             9 – 10.30 am (UK time)*
Chair:               Andrea Brewster OBE, Lead Executive Officer, IP Inclusive

*The timings shown are for the 9 - 10.30 am session (UK time).  The 5 - 6.30 pm session (UK time) will follow the same format.

Agenda

0900-0905       Introduction
                        FICPI-UK

0905-0910       A word from the UK Intellectual Property Office
Tim Moss CBE, Chief Executive Officer and Comptroller General 

0910-0930      An introduction to IP Inclusive and its work
Andrea Brewster

                       IP Inclusive’s “communities”
Darren Smyth, EIP

                       The Careers in Ideas outreach campaign
Chris Burnett, Birkett Long

0930-0950      Breakout sessions (i)
Join one of our breakout hosts for an informal chat on your first chosen theme (options below)

0950-1005      IP Inclusive and the membership bodies
Lee Davies, Chief Executive, CIPA
CITMA

                        IP Inclusive and industrial IP departments
IP Federation

1005-1025     Breakout sessions (ii)
A chance to discuss your second chosen theme with another breakout host

1025-1030     Summing up and closing remarks

Please note: the plenary parts of this meeting will be recorded and the recording made available via the IP Inclusive website.  The breakout sessions will not be recorded.

Breakout session themes

The breakout sessions will explore the roles of the following in promoting diversity and inclusion in IP:

1. IP Inclusive generally: strategy and management
2. The IP Inclusive Charter: private practice perspectives
3. The IP Inclusive Charter: in-house perspectives
4. IP & ME (our community for BAME professionals and their allies)
5. IP Ability (our community for disabled people, carers and their allies)
6. IP Futures (our community for early career professionals)
7. IP Out (our community for LGBT+ professionals and their allies)
8. Women in IP (our community for female professionals and their allies)
9. Careers in Ideas (our careers outreach campaign)
10. Membership and representative bodies
11. The national IP Office
12. The IP regulator
13. IP solicitors and barristers
14. Mental health charities