Girls in Tech & KPCB “Net Effect: The Impact of Women on the Web – Start-up Edition”

Video interview with Laura Slezinger, Managing Director, San Francisco & Director of Corporate Development Girls in Tech.  Laura received her J.D. from the University of San Diego, School of Law where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Motions, the law school newspaper, where she began highlighting a lot of tech-related Intellectual Property and Antitrust cases. She was the Fundraising Chair for the Women’s Law Caucus and hosted a charity auction to benefit a local women’s domestic violence shelter. She earned certificates in areas of international law in Florence, Barcelona, and Paris. During and following law school Laura worked in-house, setting up the Intellectual Property protection program for an environmental compliance company based in Carlsbad, California. Laura received her LL.M. from the University of San Francisco, School of Law where she was a staff editor on the Intellectual Property Law Bulletin and comment author. She worked on the Intellectual Property and Internet Justice Clinic where she advocated for students being sued by the RIAA for alleged illegal downloading of music. Currently Laura is an Intellectual Property & Startup Law attorney.

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Naomi Fine: Protecting IP for Women

Video interview with Naomi Fine, author of “Positively Confidential” is president and CEO of Pro-Tec Data, which she founded in 1985 to help companies manage and protect confidential information, privacy, and intellectual property. Since Pro-Tec Data’s inception, Naomi has served as its principal consultant, incorporating legal, digital security, corporate security, human resource, and audit disciplines. Naomi’s depth of knowledge comes from working with hundreds of world-class companies to identify sensitive information, assess needs for protecting it, develop tailored information protection strategies, establish policies and procedures, and provide training and tools that secure competitive advantage.

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