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Head of Legal (Product)
SeedLegals
What I really learned when I learned how to code. This talk will cover the challenges and frustrations that will ring true to any lawyer, and some recipes for overcoming them and ultimately thriving at work, be it as a sole counsel of a brick-and-mortar business or as the head of legal of a scaleup spearheading legal innovation.
Valeria spent the first 8 years of her career bouncing between private practice and in-house tenures and specialising in corporate governance and intellectual property. She was able to make sense of this unlikely combination of specialisms when she started and led a venture deals desk at a City law firm, featuring yearly in the Legal 500 Rising Star and Next Generation Lawyer rankings.
In 2020, feeling inspired by her newly acquired interest in technology, Valeria joined SeedLegals where her team builds exciting legal tech products.
Head of Project Management
Dentons Europe / Charles University / Attorney-at-Code
In well-done legal projects, excellence in law goes hand-in-hand with great service design and intentional project management. To achieve fabulous client experience, we need a diversity of skills, backgrounds, and proclivities, specialists as well as generalists. A variety of ideas, approaches, and abilities will be necessary as we navigate the transformation toward an AI-powered legal sphere. So let’s dive into what skills are essential and how we can create a culture where we all thrive.
Barbora is a lawyer and legal designer. She is the Head of Project Management at the Europe Corporate / M&A Practice Group at Dentons and a teacher of a disruptive legal design class “Modern Lawyers: Innovation, Tech, and Design in practice” at the Faculty of Law, Charles University in Prague. Barbora authors a legal innovation blog Attorney-at-Code and supports a community of innovative lawyers in the Czech Republic.
Founder and CEO
Sirius
Anastasia will discuss how AI can empower legal officers by automating ESG compliance and monitoring, enhancing accuracy, and reducing the time required to analyse regulatory data and reporting requirements.
Anastasia Kuskova, CEO and Co-Founder of Sirius, is the former Chief Sustainability Officer at the multi-billion-dollar metal producer ERG and a member of the Net Zero Committee at the World Economic Forum. She previously built the Re|Source battery materials traceability platform in collaboration with Tesla and other industry leaders. Sirius developed a unique AI-driven ‘sustainability twin’ designed to simplify and reduce the time spent on sustainability data management in the metal supply chain by 80%. Anastasia has also won several awards, including the Impact Award from Women in AI Netherlands, and was named one of the top 50 talents in the Netherlands in 2024 by Het Financieele Dagblad. Sirius has also earned the World AI Award and the DPW Award (Digital Procurement World) for its technology.
Brewer
Flocsam
All legal & compliance improvement projects have a high chance of failure, delay and mission creep. This is whether the improvement is to the organisation, personnel, technology, system, policy, or training. One under-worked foundation for success is baseline clarity on the risks that the project is trying to solve. Using innovative models proven in his Global legal in-house roles, Tom Fleuriot demonstrates how to move risk from dry paperwork into a key enabler. These techniques have applications beyond new projects. Applied well, they improve decision speed, client alignment, focus and ultimate delivery.
Tom is currently working up a consultancy offering, called “Flocsam”. Built from his experience and successes across several industries, roles and domains, Flocsam will coach three thought models. Those thought models are designed to quickly lock stable foundations for delivering legal & compliance support solutions that flow with the business. Tom believes that bringing upfront clarity and alignment on “why”, “what” and “how” will result in a step change in the quality of delivery.
Counsel and Head of Innovation & Design
legaleap.law
Legal Designer
Dr. Ann-Cathrin Brock, an experienced lawyer and innovative thinker in design, strategy & change, is passionately committed to driving legal transformation within law firms and legal departments. After having practiced in law firms for several years, she currently works as a lawyer and Head of Innovation & Design at legaleap.law. In addition, she consults law firms and legal departments with a focus on innovation and digital transformation on a freelance basis.
Franziska Jensen is Lawyer, Legal Designer and Strategist. At the intersection between law, design and future topics she’s on a mission to drive innovation for the common good. She works with the central digitalization unit of the Federal Government in Germany that creates citizen-centered digital state applications, with various law firms, legal departments and agencies.
Her main focus is on public purpose-driven legal design and she sees her mandate in empowering people within legal systems.
Head of Legal and
Wellness Founder
Crowdcube / Elevate
Being a lawyer is stressful. We all know that. But our body’s stress response has been designed for a very different world, and a very different kind of stressor to those we now face as modern day lawyers (and humans). There’s only one way to address this – to understand our stress response cycle and to make sure we complete it. Natalie will show us how…
Natalie is a (recovering) barrister-turned tech GC, venture scout, board advisor and wellness founder.
After suffering from myriad health issues and dancing with burnout too many times for comfort, she discovered the power of functional health and longevity science and was able to completely transform her personal wellbeing trajectory.
Alongside her work as an in-house lawyer and technology exec, Natalie now runs sold-out holistic wellness events and retreats in the UK and Ibiza, where busy professionals can connect, re-set and learn from world-leading practitioners how to live better for longer.
Founder and Innovator
Creative ID™
‘Lawyer’ and ‘Creative’ are not two words you usually see in the same sentence. Yet they should be! According to the Future of Jobs report issued in 2023 by The World Economic Forum, ‘Creative Thinking’ is the #1 skill needed for future job success. Unfortunately, most lawyers don’t believe they are creative and struggle to integrate creativity into their legal practice. This action-packed session seeks to solve this dilemma by exploring what creativity looks like the world of law; and importantly, how you can leverage your (often overlooked) creative intelligence to future-proof your firm, your clients and your professional self.
For 25+ years, Hanne has fuelled individuals, teams and organisations with the power of people-led creativity. She spent the first half of her career working in innovation for Diageo, McVitie’s and latterly Kellogg’s where she was Head of European Innovation. Since 2007, Hanne has dedicated her time to developing Creative ID™, a psychometric framework leveraging proprietary research conducted in partnership with the University of Sheffield. Hanne is driven by the mission to put creative intelligence within reach of everyone (not just the lucky few!) so the world of work becomes a more human, agile and inclusive place to be.
Chief Legal Officer
Nurture Landscapes
Richard will share key strategies for speaking up and setting boundaries, emphasising the importance of health and fitness with practical specifics. Discover alternative methods to stay positive, build resilience, and influence your environment effectively.
In addition to these strategies, Richard will cover essential tactics such as building an effective support network, the significance of mindfulness and meditation, and achieving work-life balance in challenging environments. Learn how and when to seek professional help, understanding its sources and benefits.
“Recognising vulnerabilities is a superpower, not a weakness.”
Richard Reade has extensive experience of managing international legal teams and operating at Exco level. As CLO of Nurture he overseas all risk across the group. At Coats he led teams from the UK, India, Indonesia, Bangladesh and Pakistan. Prior to joining Coats, Richard led legal operations outside of North America for Weight Watchers International and prior to that he established the UK legal team for the largest company you’ve never heard of, ISS A/S. He trained in leadership at Henley and Warwick business schools and whilst in the British Army. His interests include psychometric testing, psychology and mental health, coping with adversity and preventing burn out.
Senior Legal Counsel,
Global Legal Strategic Operations
Sitecore
In this session, Emma Vango-Brown will discuss the practical challenges and successes of implementing AI governance at Sitecore. She will explore how their team addresses the complexities of utilising AI in their operations, governing AI in vendor tools, and responsibly integrating generative AI into software products. Drawing from her experience in establishing Sitecore’s AI governance board, Emma will provide candid insights and actionable strategies for effective AI management.
I’m an English-qualified lawyer living and working in Copenhagen. Previously, I was General Counsel at the software company Configit and prior to that worked at the Jamie Oliver Group. Now, I focus on Global Strategic Legal Operations at Sitecore, using my experiences to help make our legal team more efficient and drive forward AI governance. Passionate about AI and technology, I eagerly helped form and shape the AI governance board at Sitecore to help focus our responsible AI initiatives. I’m looking forward to speaking about this in October at the Legal Geek conference!
A workshop intended to dive into the mechanics of a good prompt, the key concepts behind ‘prompt engineering’ and some practical tips to help get the most out of LLMs. We will be sharing insights learned across 2 years of hands-on testing and evaluation across a number of tools and LLMs about how a better understanding of the inputs can support in leveraging GenAI for better outputs.
Kerry Westland, Partner, Head of Innovation Group, Addleshaw Goddard
Sophie Jackson, Senior Manager, Innovation & Legal Technology, Addleshaw Goddard
Mike Kennedy, Senior Manager, Innovation & Legal Technology, Addleshaw Goddard
Elliot White, Director, Innovation & Legal Technology, Addleshaw Goddard