Intellectual Property and Frontier Technologies
The last two decades have seen an explosion of technologies that are transforming how we work and live in an increasingly interconnected digital world. The emergence and merging of frontier technologies is at the heart of what is sometimes termed Fourth Industrial Revolution or Industry 4.0. Frontier technologies are changing how we do business, how we innovate and create and the rate of change is increasing exponentially.
The WIPO Conversation on IP and Frontier Technologies
The WIPO Conversation on IP and Frontier Technologies provides an open, inclusive forum to engage with and facilitate discussion and knowledge building among the widest possible set of stakeholders on the impact on IP of frontier technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI).
WIPO generally holds two sessions of the Conversation each year in a format that allows the widest possible global audience to participate. Topics of the Conversation include the uses and applications of frontier technologies to assist IP Offices and IP owners as well as more conceptual policy based discussions.
Past sessions of the WIPO Conversation focused on the Metaverse, AI, data and frontier technologies in IP administration. The agenda is available.
The eighth session of the WIPO Conversation will take place on September 20-21, 2023. The topic of the session is Generative AI and IP.
