SPLiCE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2024

April 18 & April 19 | ONSITE ONLY at NBCUniversal UK Corporate Offices 

1 St Giles High St, London WC2H 8NU, United Kingdom

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PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

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Join us in London as we network and share international brand licensing best practices.

• Our focus is to discuss benchmarking and trends on global topics related to licensing and brand enhancement.

• Open to SPLiCE Members & Global Affiliates, along with invited licensing industry stakeholders including Licensors, Brand Owners, Government Officials, Retailers, Manufacturers, and Licensees.

 

Building the Future of Licensing with Innovation & Creativity

• Global Trends to Raise the Scope of the Licensing Industry

• Market trends, insights, and international case studies will showcase business learnings.

• Identify resources, tools, and training by region and product categories, regulatory compliance.

• Best practices to source & onboard licensees, product development, and program management due diligence.

• Expose risks for licensing such as tariffs, IP issues, counterfeit goods, and international.

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PLUS an open share of best practices

• Retail Environment 2024 & Beyond

• Help Us Help You: Open dialog of pressing issues affecting business​​

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Thank you to our global experts who will join us for our SPLiCE International Conference!

April 18th & 19th NBCUniversal Corporate Offices 1 St Giles High St, London WC2H 8NU, UK

 

• Welcome to NBCUniversal! Massimo Zanoni, EMEA Director, Global Brand Standards presso NBCUniversal Media, LLC | Auditing and Social Responsibility Compliance

• SPLiCE State of The Union | Kimberly Kociencki, CEO, SPLiCE

• Green Claims and Greenwashing in the EU and UK| Anna Halford McGhee, Principal Counsel, Environment and Sustainability, The Walt Disney Company EMEA

• Michelin Licensing: A Better Way Forward | Shivam Saxena, Managing Director of Michelin Lifestyle & Vice President for Brand Licensing, Michelin

• H2uhO! Water Crisis Business Case Study | Denise Penn, Director, EMEA, Octane5

• Licensing 360 | Jean-Michel Donner, Management of International Business, MONSTER

• Building Your Licensing Business with Efficiencies | Todd Handy, Chief Revenue Officer, SEBPO

• Innovative Approaches with Licensees & Audits | Scott Stern, President, Norscot

• Threats to Licensing | Laura Colca, SPLiCE Corporate Counsel, Partner, Goldberg Segalla LLP

• P&G Corporate Brand Licensing, Strategies for Success with Beanstalk - UK and EU edition|                      Scott Goodfellow, Director of Trademark Licensing, Global Business Development, The Procter & Gamble Company, and Sheelagh Li, Vice President, Beanstalk

• Brand Resources in the European Union | Rachel Bae, Director, USPTO Brussels, US Mission to the European Union

• Legal Trends to Protect Your Brand | Jamie Humphreys, International Products Lawyer and Corrine Robinson, Associate, Cooley LLP

• Navigating the Future: Staying Ahead with AI and Emerging Technologies | Josh Heller, Chief Digital Officer, SoolisAI

• Philips and LMCA Licensed Product Case Study | Jake Brocklehurst, Global Director of Licensing and Remco Rutte, Senior Manager Licensed Products, at Philips, and Ciarán Coyle, President & CEO at LMCA

• Global Trends: A View to 2025 & Help Me Help You

• PLUS Welcome Tea & Coffee, Lunch & Receptions!

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Society of Product Licensors Committed to Excellence (SPLiCE), founded on April 26, 2004, maintains a vision to continuously improve brand licensing. We are a licensors community who share best practices to protect, promote, and enhance brand integrity through licensing. 

 

On April 18 & 19, SPLiCE will celebrate global licensing and World IP Day! The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations. SPLiCE has supported WIPO initiatives since 2004. WIPO is the global forum for intellectual property policy, services, information and cooperation. About World IP Day In 2000, WIPO's member states designated April 26 – the day on which the WIPO Convention came into force in 1970 – as World Intellectual Property Day with the aim of increasing general understanding of intellectual property (IP).

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If you are not SPLiCE Member please request attendance. Contact publicist@SPLiCElicensing.com.

Qualified attendees will receive a response within 24 hours. Acceptance, based upon current by‐laws  and SPLiCE Global Affiliate Program requirements, is at the discretion of SPLiCE management.

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On April 26, SPLiCE will celebrate our 20th Anniversary, global licensing, and World IP Day!​