Anoek Baars is the Legal Director Product, Regulatory Compliance, and Legal Operations at Staffbase, a SaaS company that delivers an AI-native employee experience platform, enabling HR, IT, and internal communications teams to reach and engage all employees. Anoek is based in the Netherlands and has worked for various global tech scale-ups. She likes to get things done and drive efficiencies across the organization. A perk of leading Staffbase’s legal operations strategy is the need to improve her data analytics skills. You can connect with Anoek via LinkedIn.
Anoek Baars
Head of Legal, Staffbase
Sessions
10 June 2026
12:00
The Great Debate: Rethinking CLM
As AI reshapes enterprise platforms and build-your-own tools become more capable, legal teams are reconsidering whether to build contract workflows internally or continue to buy dedicated CLM solutions.
The Great Debate: Rethinking CLM
As AI reshapes enterprise platforms and build-your-own tools become more capable, legal teams are reconsidering whether to build contract workflows internally or continue to buy dedicated CLM solutions.
The boundaries between enterprise tech, automation and specialist platforms are shifting and so is the role of CLM.
We’ll open with two contrasting perspectives on build vs buy, before inviting leading CLM vendors to offer a right of reply and join a wider discussion on how the technology is evolving.
Expect a fast-paced debate that cuts through features and functions to ask: what does effective contract management look like now and how should legal teams future-proof their approach in an AI-driven world?
