Agenda

AI has reached peak visibility but uneven maturity. While organisations race to deploy tools, publish principles, and announce “AI strategies,” the underlying capability to govern, scale, and sustain AI remains fragile, especially within the legal function.

In this session, Saideh Ahmadloo introduces the Legal AI Maturity Model, a strategic framework designed to cut through AI noise and replace ambition with diagnostic clarity. Drawing on real in-house experience across complex, regulated environments, the model helps legal leaders assess their true readiness, not based on how many tools they use, but on how intentionally AI is embedded, controlled, and trusted. Ultimately, this session establishes a new strategic lens: AI advantage is no longer created by speed alone, but by maturity.

Following the keynote presentation, Saideh will join the chair and panel for a moderated discussion and audience Q&A looking at how the ideas raised show up in day-to-day legal work.

The conversation will focus on practical themes including how far legal teams have really come with digitisation, the skills and mindset shifts needed to make AI work in practice, and how data, budgets and tech investment decisions affect progress. Drawing on lived experience rather than theory, the discussion will help the audience relate the keynote insights to their own organisations and identify clear, practical next steps.

AI promises to make legal work cheaper, faster, and better but what does that really mean for value and for the partnership between GCs and their panel firms?

This discussion brings together leading GCs and law firms to explore how AI is changing the foundations of pricing, performance and trust. Are firms using AI to drive genuine efficiency and are those benefits being passed on to clients? How should billing evolve, from hourly rates to outcome-based or project-driven models that reflect real value rather than time spent?

Our panellists will also consider what clients now expect: transparency about how AI is deployed, clarity on its cost implications and evidence that innovation translates into impact.

Our sponsors' lightning-fast sessions will give attendees an overview of the latest legal tech tools and services tailored specifically for corporate legal teams.

• Morae
• Thomson Reuters
• Harvey
• Co-Flo
• Fides
• SHP Legal Services
• Wordsmith AI

Everyone is somewhere along the journey towards legal AI transformation and managing the associated risks. The tools have matured. Adoption has grown.

And yet the frustrations that prompted AI conversation – time wasted, resources stretched, processes manual, risks hidden – remain largely intact. Most conversations today focus on what AI can do for specific legal tasks e.g. drafting, research, contract review. But the more important question has not yet been asked…

Europe’s legal and compliance environment is entering a new era of selective de-regulation and heightened scrutiny.

This session brings together GCs and compliance leaders to explore how businesses can harness digital tools to manage complexity, streamline oversight and turn compliance from a cost centre into a source of strategic value.

During the networking lunch, a select group of exhibitors will each provide a 15-minute fast-paced short demonstration of their products and services.

Use event app Whova to book your seat in the Exhibition Hall.

13:35 – 13:50 – Morae
Legal Spend Transformation
Legal departments face pressure to control costs & gain insights while maintaining quality. MorAI transforms these challenges into efficiency and savings. Morae offers AI-powered legal spend management solutions designed to help corporate legal departments control outside counsel costs, enhance efficiency, and gain actionable insights. By combining AI with legal industry experts, Morae provides automated invoice review, spend analytics, and compliance, often achieving 30-50% savings on legal operations. Morae’s approach to legal spend management focuses on bringing transparency and effiency to the legal function through advanced technology and human expertise.
Presented by: Ray Burch, Presales Senior Director – EMEA & Graham Haldane, Managing Director

13:55 – 14:10 – Harvey
Harvey Product Demonstration
Join Harvey, the leading domain-specific AI platform for legal and professional services, trusted by 1500+ customers, including over 500 in-house teams. They will showcase how Harvey streamlines legal workflows and integrates with Microsoft, including a brief overview of Agent Builder for customized automation.
Presented by: Gonzalo Antón Tascón, Legal Engineering Manager

Peer-to-peer Roundtables are 30-minute discussion groups, each led by a leader from a corporate legal team. These facilitated discussions will deliver insights and takeaways from across a broad range of corporate legal departments that are simply not otherwise available. Experienced professionals discuss real experiences in a confidential, intimate, and interactive setting.

Focussing on how other firms are dealing with the same challenges, these sessions are an integral part of an Alternative Event. The discussions follow the Chatham House rule – giving you the freedom to speak your mind and providing what some previous delegates have described as ‘group therapy’. Small groups allow everyone to participate and brainstorming will give insight into your peers’ challenges and provide solutions to your own.

Ask-the-Expert sessions are focused and interactive sessions where participants have the opportunity to engage directly with a seasoned professional in a specific field. The sessions are designed to provide valuable insights, practical advice, and in-depth knowledge on particular topics of interest.

1. Quick wins for small teams
Peer-led session on practical, budget-friendly solutions for small legal teams.
Rathini Stear, Legal Director, CLIMATE X

2. One team or two? Rethinking the legal–compliance relationship
Many organisations are shifting from siloed legal and compliance teams to a unified governance function but merging cultures, processes and responsibilities is easier said than done. This roundtable explores how leaders can create alignment without losing the specialised strengths each team brings.
How should modern in-house functions integrate, collaborate and co-own risk?

• What are the biggest cultural friction points between legal and compliance?
• How can shared goals, KPIs and workflows transform the relationship?
• What does good look like when designing a combined risk and compliance framework?
• Where can technology meaningfully support alignment (policy automation, risk registers, case management, dashboards)?
• What does AI change about the division of labour and the skills teams need?

Mary Bowie, Managing Regional Counsel UK/RoI, APAC,MEA, Verisk
Martin Reichetseder, Director Legal Services / Group Compliance Officer, TGW Logistics

3. Legal AI in practice: Beyond the demo
Hands-on discussion on where generative and agentic AI are actually delivering measurable value.
Kirsteen Bell, Principal Legal Counsel, Skyscanner & Ben Martin, Legal Engineer & Head of Privacy, Wordsmith AI

4. What contract management tools really do: Exploring practical wins in an AI-driven era
As AI becomes embedded across enterprise platforms and “build-your-own” solutions become easier to deploy, many teams are reassessing the role of traditional contract systems. This roundtable will explore where these tools still deliver undeniable value, where lighter alternatives may suffice and what a modern, streamlined contract environment looks like.
Helen M. Schweitz, Head Counsel – Global Contracts, SUBWAY

5. De-regulating from within: Streamlining internal processes in a shifting regulatory landscape
As Europe’s regulatory environment evolves, many organisations are discovering that some of their greatest constraints are no longer external but internal. Following the main-stage discussion on regulatory reset, this roundtable turns the lens inward to examine how companies can actively simplify governance, controls and processes following external trends.
Maximilian Zahn, Global Head Compliance Risk Areas, Boehringer Ingelheim

6. Ask-the-Expert: Prompting for impact
Bad prompts cost time. Great prompts change workflows. Join Gonzalo Antón Tascón, Legal Engineering Lead from Harvey, in an interactive session where your real prompting challenges become the curriculum. Through real-world scenarios, you’ll learn how to craft prompts that get better outputs faster, reduce rework, and unlock the full value of the AI tools already in your stack. No coding required. No prior AI experience needed. Just sharper instincts and a repeatable framework you can use on Monday morning.
Gonzalo Antón Tascón, Legal Engineering Manager, Harvey

7. What’s actually working: Legal AI use cases from the inside
Legal teams are under pressure to move beyond experimentation with AI and demonstrate real, measurable value. In this interactive roundtable, Markus Warmholz (HARTMANN Group) and Galyna Romanenko (LDC) share how they are embedding AI into day-to-day legal and legal operations workflows.
Through practical, real-world use cases – from managing cross-border contracts to streamlining specialised tasks within legal teams – this session will explore how organisations of different sizes are identifying high-impact opportunities, reducing reliance on external counsel, and turning isolated wins into repeatable processes that can then be used to demonstrate ROI & achieve scale.
Join this discussion to hear what’s actually working, where teams are seeing value today, and how to bridge the gap between potential and practical adoption.
You’ll walk away with ready-to-use frameworks you can apply immediately.
Markus Warmholz, Head of Corporate & International Legal Affairs and Legal Operations, HARTMANN GROUP, Galyna Romanenko, Global Legal Operations, LDC & Stephanie Lomax, Director Product Management, Thomson Reuters

While our delegates join the sessions in the conference room, we have created something special for our vendor community.

16:10 – 16:35
Understanding today’s event audience and how to speed up the sales process!

• An overview of today’s registration data, tech budgets, sizes of team and number of matters managed per year
• Discover why this data is crucial in aligning with the right size of legal department
• We will ask the question “how do vendors speed up the sales process”
• European Marketplace – How to build a pipeline of leads in Europe.

We’ll meet in the lobby at 19:15 for a 15-minute walk to the Pablo Picasso Museum. You’re welcome to join us for the walk as a group, or feel free to meet us directly at the museum for a welcome drink at 19:30. From there, enjoy an evening of art, a private viewing, and dinner from 20:30 -22:15, followed by free time to explore Málaga’s nightlife, with plenty of opportunity for informal networking with the group.