Dr Eliza Filby

If AI is moving from augmentation to substitution, will organisations confront the consequences or sleepwalk into profound structural change?

In this opening keynote, we examine how AI is already reshaping professional work, narrowing career pathways, concentrating power and challenging long held assumptions about expertise and progression. Drawing on first-hand experience of working with law firms, we explore what this means for the sector: who gains, who loses, and whether efficiency alone is a sufficient organising principle for the future. A deliberately challenging session for leaders who must decide not just what AI can do but what it should do.

Following the keynote, the conversation continues with Managing Partners and law firm IT leaders, bringing the AI reckoning firmly into law firm reality.

This conversation moves beyond what AI can do to the harder question of who benefits, who bears the cost and who is accountable for the consequences.