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
