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Agenda

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Wednesday  |  4 February

5:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Pre-Event Happy Hour

Location to be announced

Thursday  |  5 February

8:00 AM – 6:00 PM

Registration

Grab your badge and get ready for the day ahead!

8:30 AM – 9:30 AM

Coffee and Pastries

Coffee and pastries are available as you explore the exhibits and chat with our partners.

8:30 AM – 6:00 PM

Exhibits

Explore our exhibits, meet solution providers and discover tools that support smarter legal operations.

9:15 AM – 10:00 AM

Opening Keynote: AI, XR, Synthetic Biology, and the Other Emerging Trends Impacting Your Industry

AI, extended reality, and synthetic biology are no longer future concepts. Christina von Messling breaks down the emerging trends already impacting industries today and challenges leaders to rethink how they adapt, invest, and build for a rapidly changing landscape.

10:00 AM – 10:15 AM

Break

Refresh your cup, say hello to an exhibitor and head into the next session feeling ready.

10:15 AM – 11:00 AM

Community Conversations

10:15 AM – 11:00 AM

Tools and Techniques for Decision-Making Under Uncertainty

This facilitated discussion brings participants together to share practical tools and approaches for making informed decisions in uncertain conditions. The session is designed to spark open conversation, encourage peer learning, and create connections that continue beyond the room.

Sheila Dusseau, Ferring Pharmaceuticals  | Lance Bartholemuez, UNHCR | Speaker Information

10:15 AM – 11:00 AM

The Human Side of Legal: Leading Legal Teams Through Change and Uncertainty

This roundtable explores how leaders are supporting their teams through ongoing change. The discussion invites honest dialogue, shared experiences, and collaborative problem solving focused on people, culture, and resilience.

Kate Newbound, HSBC | Huma Allana van-Reesch, Starbucks | Speaker Information

10:15 AM – 11:00 AM

How to Communicate The Value of Legal to The Business

This interactive session focuses on how legal teams can clearly articulate their impact and value within the wider organisation. Through facilitated conversation, participants will exchange ideas, learn from one another, and build relationships that support continued discussion after the Summit.

Sean Houston, Heineken | Anand Pandya, Accenture | Speaker Information

11:00 AM – 11:25 AM

Break

Get ready for what is next, take a moment to visit an exhibitor and grab a quick refresh.

11:25 AM – 12:00 PM

Laying the Foundations for Effective Legal Operations

In this practical session, we’ll explore how to establish the core processes, data, and technology needed to understand where your legal department stands today, gain greater control over spend, and clearly communicate the value legal ops delivers to the wider organization.

We’ll cover:

  • Laying the foundations: The processes and technology that give you visibility into legal operations and help identify the highest-impact legal ops initiatives
  • Practical early wins: how improving control over outside counsel spend helps build momentum and confidence
  • Demonstrating ROI: How to communicate results effectively and use early successes to elevate the influence of legal ops across the organization

You’ll leave with a clear, step-by-step framework for putting the right foundations in place and setting your legal operations function up for long-term success.

Presented by:

Sinead Kenny, Brightflag | Speaker Information

12:00 PM – 12:45 PM

Lunch

Grab a bite, visit peers & exhibitors

12:45 PM – 1:30 PM

AI Legal Hacks

12:45 PM – 1:30 PM

The End of Control+F: How AI is changing the way we review contractual commitments

What happens when you combine hundreds of signed agreements and document types with the power of AI? Learn that hack that saves you from spending hours reading contracts. Instead, turn your entire data stack into an AI-native grid and get the answers you need in minutes.

It’s not a one-off, time-consuming, materiality qualified review anymore; it’s switching on x‑ray vision for your whole suite of documents and treating contracts like the data asset they should have been all along.

Presented by: 

Ben Martin, Wordsmith AI | Speaker Information

12:45 PM – 1:30 PM

How I Solved the Board’s AI Obsession Without Losing Control

Explore a pragmatic approach to AI governance – how to harness executive momentum, align innovation with accountability, and lead digital transformation without compromise.

Presented by:

Michal Tik Genin, MineOS  | Speaker Information

12:45 PM – 1:30 PM

How Repsol Scaled GenAI to 96% Adoption

Repsol’s legal team has become a benchmark for in-house innovation in Spain, achieving 96% adoption of generative AI through its Protea transformation. Two years in, lawyers are saving 3–5 hours per week, with sustained change driven by embedding engagement, collaboration, and an innovation mindset across the function.

Tune into this session to learn how to move from pilot to scale, the practical tactics for driving adoption at pace, and how to measure and demonstrate real business impact from generative AI

Presented by:

Javi Diez Tomillo, Respol | Kelsey Ippolito, Harvey | Speaker Information

1:30 PM – 1:45 PM

Break

Before the next session begins, top up your drink and stop by an exhibitor table.

1:45 PM – 2:20 PM

Interactive Presentation & Discussion: Measuring the ROI of AI

An interactive discussion around what works when measuring the ROI of AI. Should legal teams be looking at hard time and cost savings or taking a more holistic approach to measuring value? Is time and cost too simplistic? Is AI use in legal teams mature enough for these measurements to be useful? Where are teams seeing gains and benefits today and how are they measuring and reporting these? Hear from experts and have your say!

Aine Lyons, Workday | Rob Clark, Dentsu | Christopher De Waas, Rio Tinto | Sarah Rosser, Lenovo | Speaker Information

2:20 PM – 2:40 PM

Break

Refill your cup, explore an exhibitor or two and make your way to the next session.

2:40 PM – 3:15 PM

Panel Discussion: Driving Cultural Transformation at Scale

How do you drive cultural transformation in a legal department? One of the biggest challenges legal teams currently face is how to make sure AI is adopted and used consistently across the team. How are leaders tackling this challenge? Hear from teams on how they are navigating AI and other cultural transformations in their legal departments. How do you get behaviour change at scale?

Maria Pedrosa, Repsol | Mark Dean, BASIL | Will Sach, DLA Piper | Isabel Waida, Unilever | Emma Kadri Bergstrom, Legora | Tom Saunders, RSGI | Speaker Information

3:20 PM – 3:35 PM

Break

Take a moment to recharge, meet an exhibitor along the way and join us for the next session.

3:45 PM – 4:30 PM

Legal Operations Meets Business Operations

Is AI accelerating the integration of legal operations with business operations? With AI being on every executive’s agenda, legal operations has risen in prominence at a lot of organisations and the goals of the legal ops team are more closely tied than ever to the goals of the business. How can legal operations professionals seize on this moment? What changes do they need to make and how can they elevate their role within their organisations?

Antonello Gargano, ASML | Andreas Vosskamp, Adecco | Amir Mehdi, Deutsche Bank  | Tom Saunders, RSGI | Speaker Information

4:30 PM – 6:00 PM

Closing Social

Unwind at the closing social reception, a chance to meet new people, revisit ideas from the day and enjoy a comfortable end to the programme.

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