In this FICPI Focus 45 webinar, Caitlin Kraft Buchman, Founder and CEO of Women at the Table, will discuss bias and inequality in technology which permeates every decision we make as individuals and organisations, and highlight how biases in algorithms play out in every facet of contemporary life and exacerbate the potential of permanently wiring in bias and inequality at scale.  Moderated by Louis-Pierre Gravelle of IP firm Bereskin & Parr in Canada.

Caitlin Kraft Buchman is the Founder and CEO of Women at the Table

Caitlin, from New York and permanently based in Geneva, is the CEO/Founder of Women at the Table.  A serial coalition builder, she is also the co-founder of the International Gender Champions (2015), the architect of the World Trade Organization's Buenos Aires Declaration for Trade and Women's Economic Empowerment (2017), and the Gender Responsive Standards Declaration joined by 50+ standards making bodies (2019), and co-founder / leader of the <A+> Alliance for Inclusive Algorithms (2019)

Women at the Table also works to increase representation of women at the leadership level and throughout organisations. She will discuss why initiatives such as the International Gender Champions, the Gender Responsive Assemblies Toolkit, and the G-app Gender Gap Tool are essential types of innovation hacks that can help redress imbalances in organisations at all levels.

Louis-Pierre Gravelle is Partner at Bereskin & Parr in Canada and Vice President of FICPI's Professional Excellence Committee (PEC). 

Louis-Pierre specialises in the drafting and prosecution of patent applications and providing patentability, validity, infringement and right to manufacture opinions in the fields of electricity, telecommunications, mechanical and information technology. He is a registered patent agent in Canada and in the United States (1998).

Louis-Pierre is involved in due diligence matters and managing patent portfolios. He is also involved in strategic counselling for start-ups, small, medium and large-sized businesses.

A member of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC) and the Canadian Bar Association (CBA), Louis-Pierre was called to the Québec Bar in 1995. He is also a member of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec (OIQ). Louis-Pierre Gravelle is past-chair of the Intellectual Property Section of the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) and past co-president of the Joint Liaison Committee – Patents between the Patent office and IPIC. He is a Councillor for FICPI Canada.

He is listed in the IAM Patents 1000, and has been since 2012. Louis-Pierre is often called upon to speak on a variety of IP-related topics, at local and international conferences and events.