Blank Rome partner Daniel R. Saeedi will serve as a presenter for two sessions at CenterForce USA’s Trade Secret Strategy Summit: New York, being held Wednesday, June 3, 2026, in New York, New York. Blank Rome is pleased to be a sponsor of the Summit.

About the Program

Most trade secret strategies look solid until they’re tested. The JDA that doesn’t hold once the deal moves forward. The employee exit handled outside legal. The cloud environment that can’t be reconstructed in discovery. The AEO breach that shifts leverage. By the time a claim is filed, the record is already working against you.

The Trade Secret Strategy Summit: New York examines where that breakdown occurs in 2026—and what determines whether companies can recover. From the first 72 hours of a potential misappropriation to how evidence is preserved, how forum and protective order decisions shape leverage, and where damages models hold or collapse under scrutiny.

Daniel’s first session, “Post-Non-Compete Mobility: Hiring & Firing Without Trade Secret Risk,” will take place from 11:10 to 11:55 a.m.

About the Sessions

As non-compete restrictions continue to erode, companies are hiring more aggressively while trade secret litigation risk rises in parallel particularly during onboarding and employee exits. The challenge is no longer whether talent can move, but how organizations onboard, integrate, and separate employees without importing or exposing confidential information. This session focuses on practical strategies legal and HR teams use to manage workforce mobility across the full employee lifecycle in a post–non-compete, litigation-heavy environment.

Panelists:

  • Dennis Jung, Head of Intellectual Property, Ascensia and Epredia, PHC Holdings
  • Diane Fiddle, General Counsel, Qloo
  • Daniel P. Moylan, Partner, Zuckerman Spaeder LLP
  • Daniel R. Saeedi, Partner, Litigation, Blank Rome
  • Laura D. Smolowe, Partner, Akin

During the Cocktail Roundtables at 4:45 p.m., Daniel will be at Table 2, “Setting the Deck to Actually Win Injunctive Relief.”

Other sessions include:

  • AI, SaaS & the Cloud: Proving and Protecting “Invisible” Assets
  • Vendor, JDA, M&A & Deal Risk: When Partners Become Adversaries
  • “No More Hope-and-Pray”: Inside the First 72 Hours of a Trade Secret Crisis
  • Fireside Chat: Ten Years of the Defend Trade Secrets Act
  • Damages That Stick: Translating Trade Secret Value for Courts and the C-Suite
  • The Silent Collapse: Ethics, Sanctions & AEO Failures During Litigation
  • Restrictive Covenants Are Dead. Long Live Restrictive Conduct.

For more information, please visit the event webpage.