Rod is an experienced Product Safety Lawyer, with more than 20 years’ experience working with the world's leading and most innovative companies to help them deal with their international issues. He is routinely ranked as a leader in the major legal directories, where he is described as “the outstanding go-to specialist for product liability matters”, "one of the top product liability and product regulatory experts worldwide", “the lawyer of choice for leading tech giants”, and “without a shadow of a doubt the most knowledgeable product liability lawyer in the European space”.  Rod holds multiple leadership positions in the international product law community and frequently works with policy-makers to help shape the future of product liability and product regulation.

He was appointed by the European Commission to its Expert Group on Liability and New Technologies, and currently is a member of the European Commission’s Sub-Group on Artificial Intelligence, Connected Products, and Other New Challenges in Product Safety. He is currently serving his third term on the Board of Directors of the International Consumer Products Health and Safety Organization (ICPHSO), where he is leads its International Programs.

  In that capacity he is Chair of this year’s ICPHSO International Symposium which is part of the European Commission’s International Product Safety Week. He sits as an industry representative on the OECD Working Party on Product Safety, is Vice Chair of the Consumer Policy Committee at Business@OECD, and he authored the OECD publication “Product Safety in the Internet of Things”.

Stefanie Glathe is responsible for showcasing Safety Science across P&G ´s various product categories. Her personal passion for women´s health and well-being has led her in job assignments over the last 25 years at Procter & Gamble. She is building a growing inventory of communication campaigns and assets transmitting the safety and safe use of products for different audiences. Stefanie has got more than a decade of experience in Regulatory Affairs and Product Safety for all P&G categories, and before 2018, she was in charge of Medical Devices in the EU. Previously, she also worked 5 years as Communications Leader for P&G Pharmaceuticals in Germany. Stefanie holds a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, in collaboration with the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. She did research for projects in molecular biology, cancer research and plant biology, in Germany, Austria, the UK, Israel and Portugal.

Trista Hamsmith is the founder of Reese’s Purpose, a non-profit organization whose mission is to identify, advocate and correct safety issues impacting children and their families. Trista founded Reese’s Purpose following the death of her 18-month-old daughter Reese after she accidentally swallowed a button-battery that fell out of a faulty remote control.

Trista turned her tragedy into advocacy and less than two-years after Reese’s death, Reese’s Law was passed to direct the Consumer Product Safety Commission to develop and implement new safety standards to protect children from accidental ingestion of button cell batteries. Trista continues to advocate for issues that threaten children’s safety through Reese's Purpose. She lives in Lubbock, TX with her husband Chris, daughter Blake and son Brody.