Ms. Roberts is Senior Director for Government Affairs at the National Venture Capital Associations. She has experience working alongside the Department of Commerce and Small Business Administration identifying collaborative opportunities at the intersection of private, philanthropic, and public capital. Previously, as the Director of Government and Public Affairs at Prism Group, she developed and expanded a coalition of 500+ early-stage life science venture capitalists and innovators. Ashlyn also previously advised the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation on matters related to entrepreneurship, economic development, and workforce policy.

Mr. Watts is the Vice President for Patents and Innovation Policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Global Innovation Policy Center (GIPC). He previously served for four and a half years as the Republican Chief Counsel on the Senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Intellectual Property. As Republican Chief Counsel, he was responsible for planning and implementing Senator Thom Tillis and the Republican party's legislative portfolio on all aspects of intellectual property law. He previously served as Chief Counsel in Senator Thom Tillis' personal office.

Mr. Crain is the Vice President of Domestic Policy at the National Association of Manufacturers. In this role, he leads the association’s policy development and advocacy work on economic policy issues critical to the success of manufacturing in the United States, including tax, corporate governance, technology, health care, regulatory reform, and immigration. He previously worked on Capitol Hill for members of the Senate Finance and House Financial Services Committees and was the Director of Tax and Financial Services Policy at the Biotechnology Innovation Organization.

Judge Michel was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in March of 1988 by President Ronald Reagan. On December 25, 2004, he assumed the duties of Chief Judge. Judge Michel retired from the court in 2010 after having judged thousands of appeals and written over 800 opinions, approximately one-third of which were in patent cases. Prior to his judicial appointment, Judge Michel served the public as a prosecutor, Associate Deputy U.S. Attorney General, and as a counsel in the U.S. Senate. He serves on the Intellectual Property Advisory Council at the University of Akron School of Law and as an Advisory Board Member to the Antonin Scalia School of Law's Center for Intellectual Property x Innovation Policy.

Judge Braden was appointed in 2003 to the U.S. Court of Federal Claims and was designated as the court’s Chief Judge in 2017. Since her retirement, Judge Braden has been appointed as a Public Member of the Administrative Conference of the United States, a Fellow of the American Bar Association, and to the Board of Directors of several privately-held companies. She is an Adjunct Professor in the Antonin Scalia School of Law’s Center for Intellectual Property x Innovation Policy. Judge Braden is also a member of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Public Advisory Committee, and sits on WLF’s Legal Policy Advisory Board.