2024 Programme

2024 Programme

Last updated 22 October 2024

WEDNEsday 13 November   (all times in GMT)
 
8.30 – 9.15 ILTACON Europe Registration Open and Breakfast
 
9.15 - 9.30

Opening Remarks

Karen Jacks, Chief Technology Officer at Bird & Bird and Andrew Powell, Chief Information Officer at Macfarlanes LLP





 
9:30 - 10:30

Game Theory - Hannah Fry

Only an idiot would choose to play chicken. No sane person, surely, has ever chosen to drive directly towards their opponent at speed, knowing that choosing to swerve away from an inevitable collision will result in a loss.

And yet, the game of chicken does have a winning strategy. Any mathematician will tell you - the best way to force your rival to blink is to unscrew your own steering wheel, wind down your window and visibly throw it into the road.

Welcome to the world of game theory; the mathematics of winning. In this interactive talk, I want to give you a flavour of what game theory has to offer for legal professionals. How strategic decision-making can be used to navigate negotiations & litigation, and the surprising and counter intuitive strategies it sometimes suggests. To be a good negotiator, do you have to anticipate your opponents next move? And – perhaps more importantly - is there always a way to get what you want?

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10:30 - 11:00 Networking Break
 
11:00 12:00

Keeping Pace with Change – Creating an Environment of Open Mindness to Drive Performance.

Jamil Qureshi is a trailblazer in performance psychology, best known for transforming the dynamics of high-performing teams across both business and sports. His expertise has guided six athletes to the pinnacle of their fields and reach World Number 1 statuses.

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12.00 - 12.10

Welcome and Intro to 2024 ILTACON Europe Charity Partner

Tony McKenna, ILTA President



 
12.10 - 13:10
Lunch
13:10 - 14:10

Professor Kevin Fong

Professor Kevin Fong is a Consultant in Anaesthesia at University College Hospital in London, part of their Emergency Response and Major Incident Planning Teams, and serves with the Helicopter Emergency Medical Service. During the pandemic he was seconded to NHS England as National Clinical Advisor in Emergency Preparedness Resilience and Response for Covid-19. Kevin specialises in risk, decision-making and innovation, holds degrees in Astrophysics, Medicine and Engineering, and is also a science broadcaster and writer.

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14:10 - 15:10

Forward-Looking Tech and Tech Trends — Matt Watts

I’m an ambivert and an engineer, it’s taken a lot of different experiences in order for me to realise that this is the most appropriate description for who I am though. I’ve always had a lot to say, I think being an engineer means I’m constantly looking for solutions to problems or analysing things to see how they could be done better, or sometimes just wondering why someone made a particular decision on how to build something. Then I want to chat about it. As Chief Technology Evangelist (CTE), I provide guidance on NetApp’s strategy & technology to a diverse range of companies and our Partner Community. My role as the CTE is not so much talking about how technology works but rather to get people interested enough so that they want to know how technology works.

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15:10 - 15:40 Networking Break
 15:40 - 16:40

Mountains of the Mind - Bonita Norris

What does it take to go beyond your limits? To have an impossible dream and turn it into a reality? 

For beginner mountaineer Bonita Norris, it was to reach the summit of Everest, but as she came to learn- the most difficult challenge wasn’t Everest itself. 

This talk explores how we can conquer the biggest mountain of all: the mountain of the mind.

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16:40 - 17:00 Closing Remarks
 
17.00 - 19.00
Welcome Reception

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Thursday 14 November   (all times in GMT)
 
8.30 - 9.15 Registration and Networking with Continental Breakfast
 
9.15 - 9.20 Day 2 Overview and Spotlight on ILTA Volunteerism
9:20 - 10:50

Microsoft Co-Pilot- One Year On: Our Insights of AI Transformation in Law

  • Welcome to the new AI Economy: Jed Griffiths
  • Transforming the way you work – showcasing industry learnings: Miriam Lloyd, and Pooja Patel
  • Microsoft Legal Team: our AI adoption journey and reinventing our legal services, Patricia Christias

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10:50 - 11:15 Networking Break
11:15 - 12:45

Microsoft Co-Pilot- Building the Foundations for Success for All

  • Copilot Foundations Update: Richard Barrett, Paul Barlow
  • Data as your key strategic asset for transformation: Matt Quinn
  • Enabling Inclusive Success for All through Technology : Hector Minto

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12.45 - 13.45 Lunch
 
13.45 - 14.45

Introduction to AI Fundamentals — Uwais Iqbal

I've been working as an AI practitioner in the legal tech space for 5+ years now. I have experience designing and delivering AI, ML and NLP solutions across leading legal tech startups and a corporate innovation lab. I'm really passionate about Legal AI. In particular, how ML and NLP can be used to reduce manual grunt work for legal professionals, create efficiencies and allow legal professionals to focus on the work they actually enjoy. I recently launched simplexico. We're an AI company offering white-glove Legal AI education, design and development services.

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14:45 - 15:15 Networking Break
15:15 - 16:15

Fake cheques, death threats and law firms – inside the cyber underground with investigative journalist Geoff White

Author & investigative journalist Geoff White (author of The Lazarus Heist) delves into the murky world of the cybercriminals and fraudsters targeting the legal sector, and explores the network of enablers and money movers who keep the crooks in business. His new book, Rinsed, reveals technology’s impact on the world of money laundering. It springs from his work on the hit podcast and book The Lazarus Heist, which explored North Korea’s computer hacking campaign.

16:15 - 16:30 2024 ILTACON Europe Wrap Up