Geneva Centre on Knowledge Governance

In this next installment of the Knowledge Bites Series, Law Professor Valmaine Toki, discusses the challenges with the “flawed process” of Indigenous people’s participation in WIPO processes that govern the knowledge they steward.

Watch the full Bite on the Centre's website: tinyurl.com/yhy86p47

"We need to make the system more human."

Brazilian Ambassador to the WTO, Guilherme Patriota, discusses how individuals should have the right to remuneration for their individual work.

Watch the full Knowledge Bite on the Centre’s website: tinyurl.com/46ahxt53

Last week Centre Director @profseanflynn.bsky.social attended the launch of the "EU's Public AI" policy brief at the EU Parliament. He reflects on the event and its implications for Public AI in his latest blog.

Read the full blog on the Geneva Centre’s website: tinyurl.com/4596bpxe

The Centre on Knowledge Governance is pleased to announce a new short course on IP and AI to take place in Geneva from September 7-8, 2026.

If you are interested in learning more about the course and/or would like to participate you can learn more on our website: loom.ly/4YRw1vc

The Centre is pleased to announce the appointment of distinguished international scholars and leading experts to its advisory bodies.

Click here to view and learn about the Centre's advising body : https://loom.ly/xzHltz4

On December 3, 2025, the Centre on Knowledge Governance officially hosted the Centre's Launch at the Geneva Graduate Institute.

Watch all the discussions on the Centre’s YouTube channel: https://loom.ly/ZoOPfw0

Welcome Professor Nancy Weiss to PIJIP! Nancy joins as a Senior Policy Fellow and Adjunct Supervisor and will teach Cultural Heritage Law this spring. A leader in major int'l copyright and cultural heritage agreements, her current work advances Indigenous cultural expression and community heritage.

Join us tomorrow in-person | 18:00 - 21:00 CET at @gvagrad.bsky.social for our official Centre launch.

Join us for a live panel discussion + Wend Wendland's book launch. To learn more and register: loom.ly/xJvHN_k

We invite you this 3 December | 6:00 pm - 9:30 pm UTC+1 for the official Geneva Centre on Knowledge Governance Launch + Wend Wendland's book launch for, "The Journey to the WIPO Treaty on Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge."

To learn more and register click here: loom.ly/TsX4TlM

Join PIJIP next Monday, December 1, 2025 | 5:00–6:00 PM ET for the next installment of our Intellectual Property at the Supreme Court Series, moderated by Professor Michael Carroll.

Registration is required, reception will follow: loom.ly/YkYDGp0

We invite you to the Centre on Knowledge Governance Launch on 3 December 2025 | 18:00–21:30 CET

Join us for a live panel discussion + book launch of "The Journey to the WIPO Treaty on Genetic Resources & Associated Traditional Knowledge". Learn more: https://loom.ly/xJvHN_k

Join us on 25 November, 4:00–5:30 PM UTC for an online briefing on WIPO’s 47th SCCR.

We’ll discuss research and analysis related to the agenda, hosted by the Centre on Knowledge Governance with members of the Access to Knowledge Coalition.

Register here: https://loom.ly/8aMOZxc

#WIPC #SCCR47

What's the future of Traditional Knowledge, given resistance to the WIPO TK Treaty?

Join Wend Wendland at American University & online on 25 Sept and hear more about the Centre on Knowledge Governance.

Registration: t.ly/DnrRK

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