Women in Licensing Alliance (WILA)

Upcoming WILA Events

Touch-Point: Celebrating International Women's Day

Date: Wednesday, 8 March 2023
Time: 9am ET / 8am CT / 3pm CET / 11pm JT

Join us as we gather the LESI Women in Licensing Alliance (WILA) network to acknowledge International Women's Day 2023 (March 8), network with fellow WILA members and discuss our next two events and WILA events at LESI2023 in Montreal, www.lesi2023.org.  Be the first to hear about what's coming up!

The theme for International Women’s Day, 8 March 2023 (IWD 2023) is, “DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality”. The event recognizes and celebrates the women and girls who are championing the advancement of transformative technology and digital education.

This event is free to participants.

Register here!

Previous WILA Events

• 2022-23 Speaker Series Session #3: LESI Women in Licensing Alliance (WILA) "Insights from WILA’s Global Mentoring Program"
  
• 2022-23 Speaker Series Session #2: LESI Women in Licensing Alliance (WILA) "How To Become A Leader"
• 2022-23 Speaker Series Session #1: LESI Women in  Licensing Alliance (WILA) "Developing Your Own Personal Brand"
• 2021 Speaker Series Session #4: LESI Women in Licensing Alliance (WILA) "Women on Boards and Key Leadership"
  Virtual | Dates: 5 – 5 Apr, 2022
• 2021 Speaker Series Session #3: LESI Women in Licensing Alliance (WILA) & LESI Young Members Congress (YMC) "Imposter syndrome – is it getting in the way?"
  Virtual | Dates: 24 – 24 Feb, 2022
• 2021 Speaker Series Session #2: LESI Women in Licensing Alliance (WILA) "Practical Lessons for those at an Early Stage in Their Career"
  Virtual | Dates: 08 – 08 Dec, 2021
• 2021 Speaker Series Session #1: LESI Women in Licensing Alliance (WILA) "Achieving A Healthy Work-Life Balance: Can it be done or is it just a myth?"
  Virtual | Dates: 12 – 12 Oct, 2021
• LESI WILA Committee "Bridging the IP Gender Gap - making IP more accessible to women inventors, practitioners and deal makers"
  Virtual | Dates: 10 – 10 Mar, 2021

WILA Resource Documents

• Key Takeaways from the Happy Hour & WILA Pilot Mentoring Program (Sept. 2020)
• Committee Updates (April 2021)
  Committee Updates (June 2020)
• Regional Ambassadors
• 2022-2023 WILA Mentorship Program
  

Inaugural Event

We met in Yokahama for the first WILA gathering.

Committee Leadership

Chair:

• Pamela Cox (LES USA/Canada) [Chair of IP Transactions at Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP]

Vice-Chair:

• Eszter Szakács (LES Hungary) 

Speaker Series Lead:

• Fiona Nicolson (LES Britain & Ireland) 

Mentor Program Lead:

• Candida Caffe (LES Brazil) 

Board Liaison:

• Junko Sugimura (LESI Vice President) 

Interested in joining this committee?  Fill out our Committee Application Form

LES Philippines
Celebrating International Women's Day 2019