2026 Annual Meeting Committee The Annual Meeting Planning Committee works with the Executive Director and the President to plan the Society’s flagship national event. The Committee determines panel and lecture topics, recruits speakers, and serves as a liaison between speakers and staff. COMMITTEES LIST Committee Members Chair Joseph Petersen Partner | Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP READ BIO + Member Janet N. Chong Copyright Fundamentals Subcommittee Co-Chair, The Copyright Society | Senior Legal Counsel, SOCAN READ BIO + Member Eric J. Schwartz Partner | Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP READ BIO + Member Phil Sherrell Partner | Bird & Bird READ BIO + Member Lauren Simmonds Director & Senior Counsel, Intellectual Property | Netflix READ BIO + Member Xiyin Tang Assistant Professor of Law | University of California Los Angeles School of Law READ BIO +
