Sorin Mierlea , President of InfoCons Consumer Protection for Intellectual Property , attends the second day of the Global Forum on IP and AI , organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization – WIPO
Sorin Mierlea , President of InfoCons Consumer Protection for Intellectual Property , attends the second day of the Global Forum on IP and AI , organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization – WIPO
Sorin Mierlea, President of InfoCons, attends the second day of the Global Forum on IP and AI, organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization – WIPO, on November 10, 2026.
The Forum is held in a hybrid format at WIPO Headquarters in Geneva and online. It brings together representatives of WIPO Member States and Observers, government officials, intellectual property experts, researchers, innovators, creators and private-sector representatives.
The second day focuses on the use of artificial intelligence by intellectual property offices, the relationship between human and AI contributions, authorship and inventorship, the protection and training of AI models, and the integration of intellectual property considerations into public policies on emerging technologies.
Agenda of the second day – November 10, 2026
10:00–10:05 – Opening Remarks
10:05–10:20 – Showcase 3: “AI in Action – From Ideas to Real-World Impact”
A live demonstration of how a creator uses artificial intelligence in the artistic process, highlighting the role of human choice, experimentation and imagination.
Speaker:
- Inch Chua, Multidisciplinary Artist, Singapore.
10:20–11:20 – Super Session: “At the Helm – Navigating IP Offices in the Age of AI”
The session examines how intellectual property offices are using artificial intelligence in search, examination, classification and service delivery.
Moderator:
- Anna Jardfelt, Director General, Swedish Intellectual Property Office, Sweden.
Speakers:
- Lilyclaire Bellamy, Executive Director, Jamaica Intellectual Property Office, Jamaica;
- Maria-Daphne Papadopoulou, Acting Director, Hellenic Copyright Organization, Greece;
- Ewa Skrzydło-Tefelska, President, Patent Office of the Republic of Poland;
- Mordechay Sorek, Executive Director, Israel Patent Office;
- Tan Kong Hwee, Chief Executive, Intellectual Property Office of Singapore;
- Zhang Zhicheng, Deputy Commissioner, China National Intellectual Property Administration.
11:20–11:30 – Coffee Break
11:30–11:50 – Insight: “Efficiency in Action – Deploying AI in IP Administration”
The session presents practical experience in designing and implementing AI tools for search, examination, classification and intellectual property service delivery.
Moderator:
- Ken-Ichiro Natsume, Assistant Director General, WIPO.
Speakers:
- Samuel Anum, Intellectual Property Consultant, Ghana Industrial Property Office, Ghana;
- Rahul Bhartiya, AI Coordinator, European Union Intellectual Property Office – EUIPO, Spain;
- Mario Magued Mina, Machine Learning Developer, Advanced Technology Applications Center, WIPO;
- Bruno Pouliquen, IP Data Machine Learning Development Manager, Advanced Technology Applications Center, WIPO;
- Kelly Sims, Acting Deputy Director General, IP Australia.
11:50–12:50 – “The Human in the Center – Authorship and Inventorship in the Age of AI”
The panel examines how the intellectual property system should treat outputs resulting from collaboration between humans and artificial intelligence, from the perspectives of authorship and inventorship.
Moderator:
- Mohammad Elzend, Appellate Judge, High Court of Appeals, and Senior Advisor within the Ministry of Justice of Egypt.
Speakers:
- Claudia Catelin, Director of Policy, The Publishers Association, United Kingdom;
- Eva Janečková, Lecturer in Law, University of Bristol Law School, Slovakia;
- James Malackowski, Senior Managing Director, Ocean Tomo, United States of America;
- Ekene Som Mekwunye, Filmmaker, Founder and Creative Director, Riverside Productions, Nigeria;
- Anna Tumadóttir, Chief Executive Officer, Creative Commons, Iceland;
- Christian Wichard, Deputy Director General, Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection, Germany.
12:50–13:00 – Showcase 4: “AI in Action – From Ideas to Real-World Impact”
The session presents the perspective of a new generation of innovators using artificial intelligence for exploration, experimentation and entrepreneurship.
Speaker:
- Alain Ephraïm Goumou, Founder and Chief Technology Officer, TínaanTech, and Technical Director, Kôlèpòno-AI, Guinea.
13:00–15:00 – Lunch Break
13:00–13:30 – Optional Side Event: Launch of the Global Innovation Index AI Assistant
The session introduces the beta version of the new Global Innovation Index – GII AI Assistant, developed to make innovation data and insights easier to access and explore.
Speakers:
- Marco M. Alemán, Assistant Director General, IP and Innovation Ecosystems Sector, WIPO;
- Maria de Icaza, Head of Web Communications, Customer Experience, Marketing and Digital Engagement Division, WIPO;
- Kim Miles, Director, Customer Experience, Marketing and Digital Engagement Division, WIPO;
- Lorena Rivera Leon, Senior Economist and co-editor of the Global Innovation Index, WIPO;
- Jeff Slee, Data Scientist, Department for Economics and Data Analytics, WIPO;
- Roger Zamora Matute, Department for Economics and Data Analytics, WIPO.
15:00–16:00 – “The IP in the Machine – Untangling IP Issues Behind the Models”
The panel addresses the relationship between data used to train AI models, copyright, patent protection, open-source and open-weight models, closed systems and the effects of these choices across the intellectual property ecosystem.
Moderator:
- Michelle Azuaje-Pirela, Associate Professor of Law and New Technologies, Metropolitan University of Technology, Chile.
Speakers:
- Ahmed Elgammal, Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Art and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Rutgers University, United States of America/Egypt;
- Kim Jordahl, Associate General Patent Counsel, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, United States of America;
- Daeho Lee, Managing Partner, PI IP LAW, Republic of Korea;
- Burcu G. Özcan Büyüktanır, Professor of Civil Law and Director of the Health Law Research Center, Hacettepe University, Türkiye.
16:00–16:10 – Insight: “IP at the Table – Making IP Part of the Wider AI Policy Landscape”
The presentation examines how intellectual property can be integrated into the broader AI policy dialogue and made more understandable and accessible to policymakers and other stakeholders.
Speaker:
- Paolo Benanti, Professor of Moral Philosophy and Ethics of Technology, Pontifical Gregorian University, Italy.
16:10–16:25 – Coffee Break
16:25–17:15 – “Horizon Scan: What’s Next for IP and AI?”
The session explores the developments that could reshape the relationship between intellectual property and artificial intelligence, looking back at WIPO’s first AI and IP Symposium in 1991 and considering the issues that may define future debates.
Moderator:
- Inbar Preiss, Senior Intellectual Property Correspondent, MLex, Netherlands.
Speakers:
- Danielle Boyer, Founder, The STEAM Connection, United States of America;
- Paul Goldstein, Stella W. and Ira S. Lillick Professor of Law, Emeritus, Stanford University, United States of America;
- Aishwarya Karnataki, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Glovatrix, India;
- Qoane Mothibeli, Founder and Managing Director, JuliGerm, Lesotho;
- Terry Winograd, Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, Stanford University, United States of America.
17:15–17:50 – Floor Interventions from Member States and Observers
17:50–18:00 – Closing Remarks
18:00–19:30 – WIPO-hosted Reception
Performance by:
- Noemi Beza, Singer-Songwriter, Switzerland.
19:30 – Close of Day
The participation of the President of InfoCons in the Global Forum on IP and AI highlights the importance of representing consumer interests in the international dialogue on artificial intelligence, intellectual property rights, the transparency of digital systems and the protection of human creativity and identity.
InfoCons holds observer status at WIPO and is the only consumer protection organization in Romania accredited to this international organization.
Signature: InfoCons Consumer Protection for Intellectual Property Department