Sonia Cooper

Assistant General Counsel, Open Innovation Team
Microsoft

Open data for climate action: How collaboration between the public and private sectors can tackle the climate crisis

Open Data
Wednesday, February 8 • 4:00pm – 4:30pm GMT
St. James, 4th Floor

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Open data for climate action: How collaboration between the public and private sectors can tackle the climate crisis

In this session we will explore teh role of public-private sector collaboration in open data for addressing the challenges posed by climate change. We will discuss how by working together, governments and the private sector can leverage the power of open data to support climate change.

Bio

Sonia Cooper is an assistant general counsel in Microsoft’s intellectual property group and leads IP policy globally for the open innovation team, working with Microsoft Research in Cambridge. She has represented Microsoft on the Council of the IP Federation since 2017 and chairs the IP Federation data & copyright committee. 
Sonia is a UK Chartered Patent Attorney and European patent attorney. She specialises in the fields of software, artificial intelligence and telecommunications and has degrees from the University of Bristol, Queen Mary University of London and a graduate diploma in law from the University of Law.