Intellectual Property
A Quarterly Program Provided for Business People
Womble Carlyle's WOMBLETECH LUNCH & LEARN is hosted by Ted Claypoole, a member of the Firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group. The program series, initiated in 2001, features engaging speakers from a variety of industries, all focused on the evolving and fast-paced intersection between law and technology.

Attend the next WombleTech
Previous programs have included presentations by industry leaders on such hot-button issues as Outsourcing, Social Networks, E-Discovery, Data Protection, Voice over Internet Protocol and Risk Management. (See complete list below.)
For information on attending a future WOMBLETECH LUNCH & LEARN contact Natalie Newell Arreguin via email or telephone (704-444-2905).
WombleTech Events
- Cloud Computing
March 4, 2009
Speakers:
Pete Murphy, Chief Technology Officer of TIAA-CREF & Ted Claypoole - Tech Lessons Learned
November 20, 2008
Speakers:
Theresa Payton, CIO of the White House & Lee Zeichner, President, Zeichner Risk Analytics - High Tech Building Development
August 28, 2008
Speaker:
Tom Shircliff, Co-Founder of Intelligent Buildings - Next-Generation Outsourcing
June 4, 2008
Speakers:
Kris Ruckman, Advisory Services Partner with Grant Thornton, and Kumar Narayanan, Global Relationship Manager of Tata Consultancy Services. Kris Ruckman Presentation | Kumar Narayanan - Presentation - Business Marketing in Online Social Networks
March 19, 2008
Speakers:
Brandon Uttley, carbonhouse, inc.; Kyle Bumgardner, WebSiteBiz; and, Ted Claypoole - Electronic Documents - New Rules
November 15, 2007
Speakers: Join David McClellan, Vice President and General Manager of Financial Services for ProofSpace, Inc., and Mark Henriques, Senior Litigating Member, Womble Carlyle - Enterprise Web 2.0
Speakers: Andy Williams, Principal of Enablus and Greeley Koch, Vice President of Corporate Solutions for TRX
- Business Collaboration Strategies
Speakers: David Thompson, Corporate VP of Information Worker Business Services, Microsoft Corporation Headquarters, Redmond, Washington and Pete Fields, Director of Enterprise Web Services for Wachovia Corporation E-Commerce
- Institutionalizing Innovation
Speakers: Timothy Wilson, Senior Corporate Counsel for SAS Institute Inc. and Mark Moorman, Advisor to the CTO of SAS Institute Inc.
- Next Generation Mobility
Speakers: Eileen Bridges, Senior Vice President for Bank of America's Mobility Services and Thomas Kern, Senior Data Solutions Engineer with Alltel
- Plugging Data Leaks
Speakers: Richard Baich, Managing Director with PriceWaterhouseCoopers, formerly CISO of ChoicePoint and Theodore F. Claypoole of Womble Carlyle
- Technology Change and Process
Speakers: Lawrence Baxter, recently retired Chief eCommerce Officer of Wachovia and Chris Smith, Principal in charge of process excellence group at Acentron
- Technology Risks in Asia
Speakers: Ashlesha A. Gowariker, Desai & Diwanji, Mumbai, India and Mike Jolly, Senior Vice President of Wood Manufacturing and Supply Chain for Thomasville Furniture
- Technology Risk Management
Speakers: Doug Sappenfield, Operational Risk Manager-Technology for Wachovia and Chris Parker, CEO of 4FrontSecurity, Inc.
- Open Source Software
Speakers: Michael Cunningham, General Counsel of Red Hat, Inc. and Bruce Anderson, Vice President, IT Architecture and Standards for TIAA-CREF
- VoIP Views
Speakers: John Garrett, Co-Owner of CNP Technologies and Ross Buntrock, Telecommunications Attorney for Womble Carlyle
- Eye On SpyWare
Speakers: Sam Phillips, Sr. VP of Security Architecture at Bank of America; and Theodore F. Claypoole, Senior Technology Attorney for Womble Carlyle
- Advances in Streaming Media
Speakers: Grant S. Nearings, President of LearnBytes; and Peter Ryce, Breeze Evangelist of Macromedia
- BioMetrics in Business
Speakers: Peter Tapling, Chief Executive Officer of Authentify; and Theodore F. Claypoole, Senior Technology Attorney for Womble Carlyle
- Integrating Mobile Technology
Speakers: Jenkins Ravenel, Sr. VP of Bank of America responsible for mobility services and access technologies; and Bret Appel, Senior Enterprise Data Solutions Engineer for Nextel
- Surviving An IT
Outsourcing
Speakers: Peter Browning, Dean of McColl Graduate School at Queens University, Non-Executive Chairman of Nucor, former CEO of Sonoco and National Gypsum; and Cynthia Carlson, Principal of Campbell\Carlson LLC
- IT Portfolio Management
Speakers: Michael Horne, Managing Director for S.E. Region of The Revere Group; and Ashe Lockhart, Corporate and Technology Attorney for Womble Carlyle
- Protecting Your Wireless Network
Speakers: Jerry Tompkins, Systems Engineering Manager of Cisco Systems; and Theodore F. Claypoole, Senior Technology Attorney for Womble Carlyle
- Database Marketing: Strategies and Limitations
Speakers: Bob Shaw, President of Concentric Marketing; and Campbell Tucker, Director of Privacy Office of Wachovia Corporation
- The XML Revolution and the Next Generation Internet
Speakers: Marley Gray, Senior .NET Architect for Microsoft
- 21st Century Technology Workforce
Speakers: Governor James B. Hunt, Jr. and Dr. Tony Zeiss, President of Central Piedmont Community College
- Creative Compensation for Tech Employees
Speakers: Dale Tweedy, Vice President of Pomeroy Consulting Group and founder and former CEO of System 5 Technologies; and Jane Jefferies Jones, Corporate Attorney for Womble Carlyle
- Protecting Email and Documents from Electronic Discovery
Speakers: Steve Maynor, Record and Information Specialist at Duke Energy; and Clark Goodman, Business Litigator for Womble Carlyle
- Information Security: Protecting Your Brand Online
Speakers: Peter Murphy, Sr. VP for Security Services at Bank of America; and Theodore F. Clapyoole, Senior Technology Attorney for Womble Carlyle

Womble Tech Host
Ted Claypoole
Ted Claypoole
As a senior member of the Firm's Intellectual Property Practice Group, Ted negotiates and prepares distribution, branding, software development, hosted application and electronic commerce agreements for all types of companies. His work for current firm clients includes major financial institutions, manufacturers and distributors, hardware and microchip manufacturers, software companies, governments and government contractors.
