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As Orrick’s Head of US Venture and Bay Area Technology Companies practice, Ellen leads the firm’s commitment to the venture fund community, bringing the best of Orrick’s talent and resources to support the firm’s fund clients, and works closely with Orrick teams across verticals to build and grow the firm’s market-leading platform for investors and emerging companies in the Bay Area. Prior to Orrick, Ellen was a member of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and a co-founder of Edgewood Law Partners LLP. Click to register.

Amanda Teo is the Executive Director of the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy. A career public servant, she previously served as Counsel to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, advising the leadership team on strategic planning and cross-functional policy initiatives. She also practiced as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Civil Rights Unit. Amanda was aslo Chief of Staff at the Suffolk County D.A.’s Office Click to register.

Afia Asamoah served as Google’s first healthcare lawyer, advising medical software and AI, negotiating a Novartis licensing deal, and helping to launch Verily, Alphabet’s first company. She later led Google Health’s legal team and co-founded Waymark to improve Medicaid care. Earlier at the FDA (2009–2011), she helped create the tobacco-products center and advance health-tech innovation. Click to register.