1. YMC Report IMDM Philadelphia 2013 Karin Hofmann, Vienna University of Technology LES Austria, IUGT Vice-chair for Young Members Activities karin.hofmann@tuwien.ac.at

2. 4 Main Goals of the YMC 1.Increase number of YMC members 2.Provide more YMC activities & content 3.Push & support national chapters to have YMC activities 4.Install LESI YMC mentoring program

3. Increase number of YMC members Dedicated YMC website Sub-page of lesi.org Online since March 2013 Comprises: Member database Online sign-up functionality Info about YMC (soon: also about mentoring program) Reports, pictures, quotes, stories about LESI & YMC meetings Blog Already more than 150 Young Members joined! 3

4. Provide more YMC activities & content Davos meeting: (responsible: Federica Brotto & Philipp Rüfenacht) June 23: YMC dinner at restaurant Extrablatt; sponsored by Bardehle Pagenberg June 24: YMC tables at conference Gala dinner June 25: YMC Executive Forum Breakfast with Arian Duijvestijn, Intellectual Property Standards General Manager Lighting of Philips

5. Provide more YMC activities & content Moscow meeting 2014: organisation of YMC activities in progress Executive Forum Speaker: Sergey Zhukov, one of the astronauts in the Mir Orbital Station YMC evening event: Rockstar a club close to the conference venue where a floor is reserved for YMC YMC survey: Survey to find out needs and interests of Young Members Sent out by LESI secretariat on September 4

6. Push & support national chapters to have YMC activities First Pan-European YMC Event: Challenges in Licensing Vienna, November 15, 2013 Organised by LESI YMC, National YMC Austria and IUGT Some topics: Aspects of IP contracting in the pharmaceutical industry Licensing Strategies for Dealing with the Changing U.S. Patent Landscape Licensing and technology transfer management of a global player in electronics – focus, strategies, trends Three takes on licensing in the automotive industry

7. Install LESI YMC mentoring program See separate presentation

8. Thank you Contact info Chair YMC: Dr. Tilman Müller-Stoy, Bardehle Pagenberg, mueller-stoy@bardehle.de