Our kick-off, anchor event of the festival is a one-day Conference on 16 April focused on examining the impact and implications of legaltech for the law, legal industry and wider society and economy. We’ve called it ‘Right around the corner: how – and how fast – will legaltech change the legal world’. The day’s programme will appeal to anyone with a passion for and interest in how the legal world is changing as a result of technological advances and the whole spectrum of implications we need to face up to as a result; law firm leaders, partners and senior lawyers, in-house lawyers, technologists and legal innovators in firms, entrepreneurs and legaltech start-ups, established tech companies, academics and more. We believe that, amidst a slew of other legal technology events and posts, our programme’s focus and intent is unique. Which is exactly how we like it!

Programme Headlines

+ The future relationship between technology and the law

+ How do you build an internationally significant regional Cluster in LegalTech?

+ The rise of Legal Ops – a career fit for the future

+ The emerging future – to what extent is our future legal model already somebody else’s reality: perspectives from a futurist

+ Do we really think the billable hour and law firm business model can survive AI

+ LegalTech 4 Good – the upside view

+ Innovation Showcases throughout the day

Our exceptional line-up includes:

Professor Sarah Green, British Legal Technology Awards 2023 Lifetime Achievement winner and Law Commissioner

Eric Hunter, global tech futurist with a legal industry background all the way from San Diego

Shaun Jardine, legal strategy consultant, former Managing Partner & author of ‘Ditch the Billable Hour’

Joanna Goodman, doyenne of legal technology journalism and columnist for The Law Gazette

Dagmar Steffens, Head of Innovation for the West of England Combined Authority

Chris Bull, legal strategy consultant and author of ‘The Agile Law Firm’

Dan Wright, Partner and Head of Osborne Clarke Solutions

Marc May, editor of The Legal Technologist, doc automation expert and innovator

Nick Sturge, Non-Executive Chair of TechSPARK and former Director at EngineShed Bristol

Becky Huffee, SpaceWest Cluster Manager

Mercy Chirau, Legal Technology Manager, Womble Bond Dickinson

Laura Marinello, Legal Engineer and Scrum Master, Simmons & Simmons

Ben Cooper, Solutions Director, Osborne Clarke

+ more to be announced