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February 28, 2025 Issue

2025 Webinar Series

All sessions are moderated by Rob Sterne, Founder of Sterne Kessler, with industry perspectives from David Stout, Co-Founder of GAMIC. Each program will run for 90 minutes including Q&A.

CLICK TO Register for 1 or all 4    Webinar Sessions  

SESSION 1: MARCH 4, 2025, 11:00 AM EST


Utility and Design Patents: Considerations When Building an Enforceable, Defensible, and Monetizable Patent Portfolio


SPEAKERS: Sal Bezos and Ivy Estoesta, Sterne Kessler


This session provides the fundamentals of patent protection needed to inform medium and early stage enterprise business planning.

SESSION 2: APRIL 2, 2025, 11:00 AM EDT


Offshoring, Nearshoring, and Onshoring: IP Protection Considerations in Canada, Mexico, Brazil, and Other Automotive Market Jurisdictions


SPEAKERS: Sal Bezos, Sterne Kessler (with invited foreign counsel)


This session provides timely IP insights to enterprises rapidly and proactively adapting their offshoring, nearshoring, and onshoring development in view of shifting government mandates. It will also address the IP challenges of

confronting competitors from China and elsewhere skirting tariffs by shifting their own supply chain, manufacture, and assembly to other jurisdictions.

SESSION 3: APRIL 22, 2025, 11:00 AM EDT


Mobility Industry Litigation: Optimizing Your IP Portfolio, Procuring Possible Litigation Financing, and

Enforcing Your IP Rights Globally


SPEAKERS: Michael Joffre, Deirdre Wells, and Sal Bezos Sterne Kessler


This session provides strategies and considerations to proactively prepare for both offensive and defensive IP litigation in U.S. district courts and the ITC. We will cover topics such as defending your brand and position in the market, leveraging your IP portfolio, litigation financing, and minimizing both the risk of litigation against you and the risk of supply chain constraints from litigation against your suppliers.

SESSION 4: MAY 15, 2025, 11:00 AM EDT


Software-Defined Vehicles: IP Considerations for Automotive Software and Hardware Development in India


SPEAKERS: Nirav Desai and Sal Bezos, Sterne Kessler


This session provides IP considerations in view of the shifting global landscape when sourcing automotive hardware and software expertise from India. The presentation will provide timely insights into IP safeguards enterprises should follow to protect the outsourced development model from shifting government mandates, potentially leading to rapid rehoming of R&D, and the IP implications that follow from rapid pivots.

SAE WCX - April 8, 2025, 8:00-9:30 AM EDT


SPECIAL FIRESIDE CHAT - ROOM 356

Huntington Place, Detroit, Michigan


Building a Mobility Company: IP Valuation and Raising Capital


SPEAKERS:

Rob Sterne, Founder of Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox with

Edgar Baum, Avasta Incorporated

GAMIC FINALS

In-Person & Online from 2025 SAE WCX at Huntington Place (Portside Ballroom # 260), 1 Washington Blvd., Detroit, Michigan, 48226. on Monday April 7, 2025.



 IN-PERSON REGISTRATION 


 ONLINE REGISTRATION  

GAMIC GOLD SPONSOR

GAMIC FINALISTS - 5 COUNTRIES

CANADA - GERMANY - LUXEMBOURG - SPAIN - USA

17th ANNUAL GAMIC FINALISTS


Advanced Algorithums 4 Radar - Murcia, Spain

A4Radar is a Deep Tech Company that creates innovative solutions, using the newest generation of Radar System on Chip (SoC) ICs for addressing Ultra-Wide Band (UWB) and mmWave applications in automotive markets.

https://a4radar.com/


Cerebrum Sensor - Van Nuys, California, USA

Cerebrum is the world's first IoT-enabled, vehicle agnostic solution for real-time monitoring and proactive management of tires.

https://cerebrumsensor.com/


Cyberworks Robotics - Markham, Ontario, Canada

Cyberworks Robotics has developed a novel "Human-Scale General Intelligence" AI software stack which allows OEMs of manual equipment like forklifts and AGVs to incorporate self-driving technology into their product lines in weeks rather than taking years. Our breakthrough is that our AI solution is free from so-called "hallucinations" and edge-cases that cause such technology to fail periodically. We are currently working with some of the world's largest brands such as Bosch, Sumitomo, Yamaha and Linamar to allow them to integrate our technology into their Autonomous Mobile Robotic products. https://www.cyberworksrobotics.com/


Electric Fish - San Carlos, California, USA

Electric Fish provides flexible microgrid solutions to quickly enable fast EV charging and backup energy resources at grid-constrained sites.

https://electricfish.co/


Fermi Energy - Blacksburg, Virginia, USA

Fermi Energy, Inc. is developing fundamentally disruptive cathode technologies to help create the U.S. supply chain of battery manufacturing. They focus on developing and scaling up low-cost and sustainable cathodes for high-energy automobile batteries. https://www.fermienergy.com/


Nascit - Kiel, Germany

Nascit has developed nanosculpturing for metallic surfaces to bind metallic and plastic surfaces together. A special chemical treatment creates barbed surfaces to connect automotive materials. https://nascit.de


Volektra - El Dorado Hills, California, USA

Volektra provides powertrain conversion kits to transform micro-vehicles to electric. http://www.volektra.com


Voltcore Technology - Luxembourg

Voltcore is a Luxembourg-based smart materials and climate-tech start-up that developed, implemented, and proved the technology of heating polymer filament and various derived products.

https://www.voltcore.tech/


GAMIC Champions have raised $665,000,000+ USD


GAMIC Alumni have raised $1,265,000,000+ USD


GAMIC PROVIDES:


  • 70+ industry experts to help accelerate startups businesses and make it grow
  • Valuable Professional services and cash to accelerate (4) Automotive and Mobility technology start-ups to network, meet new partners; showcase their technologies; and compete for rapid investment and commercialization assistance
  • Private Introductions to: GM Ventures, Private Equity, Angel Groups and Angel Investors as well as Key OEM and TIER 1 Leaders
  • LIVE INTERVIEWS with SAE DETROIT SECTION
  • LIVE INTERVIEWS with John McElroy journalist, lecturer, commentator and the creator of the "Autoline Daily,” and the host of the television program “Autoline This Week,” an Emmy Award-winning program featuring top automotive executives


Semi-Finalists and Finals Companies receive individual mentorship, coaching and networking opportunities with automotive industry executives and investors.


The GAMIC FINALS are held at the SAE International WCX in Detroit, Michigan which draws up to 10,000 automotive and mobility industry executives from around the globe each year.

GAMIC 2024 - 2025 SCHEDULE

FINALS ONLINE & IN-PERSON:

  • Monday April 7, 2025
  • SAE WCX World Congress - Huntington Place
  • 1 Washington Blvd., Detroit, Michigan, 48226 USA

SUPPORT & SPONSOR

GAMIC 2025

 You and your organization are invited to actively support GAMIC and the applicant companies. GAMIC is a non-profit organization run by an all volunteer board with all financial and service support going directly to improve the attendee and competitor experience.


Please contact GAMIC EXECUTIVES at:


GAMICEXECS@miinnovationalliance.org


Besides sponsoring you can also help the GAMIC Start-up Companies to accelerate? Let’s talk about it. Each year we recruit key automotive executives that are also interested in applying to be a INDUSTRY JUDGE in our quarter finals, semi-finals or our Final event held during the SAE World Congress.

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