About IIPLA

IIPLA was built to serve the full intellectual property ecosystem, not just one narrow practice category or one geography. It brings together patent, trademark, copyright, trade secret, licensing, enforcement, and policy professionals on a single platform designed for practical collaboration and long-term professional growth.

The association serves law firms, in-house counsel, founders, academics, service providers, innovators, and institutions that need a credible global network for IP knowledge, relationships, and opportunity.

IIPLA began in 2014 after its founder, Azam Ghani, recognized a clear gap in the market: leading intellectual property conferences were either heavily jurisdiction-specific or too narrowly focused on one branch of IP. The opportunity was to create a truly international platform where the wider IP profession could meet, learn, and do business together.

That idea moved from vision to execution through a demanding early launch period, including the incorporation of IIPLA, the setup of its first operating infrastructure in the United States, and the effort required to attract a real cross-border audience from day one.

The first major conference launched in Dubai in January 2015. It proved there was real global demand for an international IP platform, while also revealing that the highest-value experience came from focused networking, stronger conversations, and meaningful access to decision-makers rather than scale for its own sake.

Since that first launch, IIPLA has evolved from an events-led initiative into a broader professional ecosystem. Today the platform combines conferences, webinars, curated memberships, courses, editorial content, committees, marketplace services, and business-development pathways under one brand.

That evolution matters because IP professionals increasingly need more than isolated events. They need continuing visibility, year-round access to expertise, practical education, vetted connections, and trusted environments where opportunities can move from introduction to execution.

• International conferences and strategic roundtables
• Courses and applied learning for changing IP practice needs
• Membership programs for individuals, students, VIP members, and organizations
• Professional visibility through the directory, profiles, speaking, and publishing
• Practical services, marketplace opportunities, and monetization channels

IIPLA is designed to be useful before, during, and after an event. Members can discover conferences, access specialized content, build public professional presence, explore courses, connect through the directory, and engage with services and partnership opportunities in one place.

Organizations and ecosystem partners can also use the platform to reach an international IP audience through exhibitions, sponsorships, collaborative programs, marketplace participation, and targeted visibility inside the IIPLA network.

• Join member-only and public programs
• Access current and upcoming event opportunities
• Build a stronger public professional profile
• Explore courses and practical learning pathways
• Engage through partnerships, sponsorships, and ecosystem programs

The value of IIPLA is not just in hosting events. It is in creating continuity across the professional journey: discovery, learning, visibility, relationships, and execution. That makes the platform more useful to professionals who want an enduring network instead of a one-time conference touchpoint.

The association’s model also reflects how modern IP work actually happens: cross-border, interdisciplinary, commercially driven, and shaped by fast-moving innovation. A strong IP platform needs to connect people, ideas, and opportunities in that same way.

IIPLA continues to expand as a global IP platform with stronger digital experiences, broader event programming, richer course offerings, more visible member profiles, and a more connected ecosystem for services, partnerships, and knowledge exchange.

The goal is straightforward: to become the most useful professional home for the international intellectual property community by combining credibility, access, and practical value in one trusted network.