PIPRA wine & cheese reception

PIPRA will be hosting a wine and cheese reception at this year's AUTM annual meeting in New Orleans on Friday, March 19 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. We are having some amazing speakers including the following:

• Roger Beachy, Director of USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
  "The National Institute of Food and Agriculture: Bringing Focus, Scope, and Impact to Extramural Research at USDA"

• Aline Flower, Associate General Counsel, Global Development, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation “Discussion of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Global Access Strategy for Grants in Agricultural Development”

• Richard Wilder, Associate General Counsel for IP Policy at Microsoft “The Role of Technology Transfer in Cost-effective Options to Address Climate Change” (Microsoft is a member of the Alliance for Clean Technology Innovation - including 3M, Air Liquide, Alstom, ExxonMobil, General Electric, Microsoft, Philips, Siemens, and Vestas)

Of course, our reception is free, we ask only that you RSVP on PIPRA's web site.