Navigating Complexity with Clarity: Empowering Legal & Compliance Leaders to Shape Strategy, Trust & Growth in an Age of Change
22-23 April 2026 | Hilton Syon Park, London
Agenda Day 2
8:30 am - 8:40 am
CHAIRPERSON’S OPENING REMARKS
Mitzi Berberi [Chairperson] -
Chief Business Development Officer,
Kiwi.com
8:40 am - 8:45 am
LIVE POLLS
Join to see the third part of “The Testing Point”. Continue the conversation to get you rethinking about the culture in your own company. What steps could have been taken to ensure this doesn’t happen?
8:45 am - 9:30 am
PANEL DISCUSSION & ROUNDTABLES: ENGINES OF GROWTH – HOW TO IDENTIFY AND CAPITALISE ON BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES TO SHOWCASE COMMERCIAL VALUE
David Morgan -
General Counsel & Company Secretary,
Warburtons Ltd.
Nick Havers - General Counsel (Europe) & Managing Principal, Lockton, Inc.
Julien Malraison - General Counsel, Danone UK & Ireland, Danone
Daniel Winterfeldt MBE - Managing Director & General Counsel, EMEA & Asia, Jefferies
If your CEO asked you today, “How do we grow?” - what would your answer be? As General Counsel increasingly shape the strategic direction of their organisations, your perspective is vital to fuelling global ambition. In today’s climate of uncertainty, challenges abound, but so do opportunities for those agile enough to seize them.
This session begins with a focused panel discussion, where experts will share insights on what, in their opinion, defines a viable growth opportunity, considering regulatory landscapes, customer dynamics, and economic indicators. Following the panel, you’ll break into small groups to collaborate on building a practical framework for territory mapping, designed to help your organisation identify, assess, and act on global growth potential.
9:30 am - 10:00 am
PARTNER PRESENTATION
The UK is currently in the process of updating its GDPR with the Data Use and Access Act (DUAA), but that is, of course, just one data regulation in a sea of global guidelines, many of which aren’t even applicable to entire countries but govern only specific regions or sectors. At the same time data sharing and monetisation is becoming a key commercial strategy for many organisations, offering new revenue streams and competitive advantages. Join a discussion with peers on how to balance the need to make maximum use of data with the increasingly fragmented world of data protection regulation.
An educational series of sessions to offer you insights into the culture, regulatory environment and business opportunities into some of the world’s most interesting growth markets.
11:50 am - 12:20 pm
PARTNER PRESENTATION
12:20 pm - 12:50 pm
FIRESIDE CHAT: A BLUEPRINT FOR UNIFIED GOVERNANCE – STRENGTHENING COLLABORATION BETWEEN LEGAL AND COMPLIANCE
General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officers share overlapping mandates, both charged with protecting the organisation’s integrity, mitigating risk, and shaping ethical business conduct. Yet, too often teams operate in silos, duplicating processes or competing for ownership of risk domains. As regulatory scrutiny intensifies, the need for seamless coordination between legal and compliance has never been greater.
What comes after being General Counsel or Chief Compliance Officer? Where do those go, whose ambition has not been satisfied? This candid session explores career trajectories for senior legal and compliance leaders looking to expand their influence. whether by stepping into more commercial roles, pursuing executive leadership, earning a seat at the boardroom table or joining a board of directors.
1:25 pm - 2:25 pm
LUNCH
Join this informal networking lunch to get to know your peers further. Grab your lunch and join the conversation of implementing legal and compliance metrics in your organisation. Share how you are or wish to display the success of your legal and compliance strategies and explore how you can quantify these to display to the business.
Legal departments are sitting on a wealth of unstructured data—from contracts and emails to regulatory documents and internal communications. But without the right tools, this data remains untapped. This roundtable will explore how corporate counsel can harness AI to extract intelligence from unstructured data, transforming it into actionable insights that drive business strategy. By moving beyond contract management and risk mitigation, legal teams can unlock new revenue opportunities, optimize costs, and deliver real-time intelligence that informs critical decision-making.
Key Takeaways:
· Leverage AI to turn unstructured legal data into proactive insights that drive revenue growth and cost optimization.
· Develop strategies to align legal operations with broader business objectives through data-driven intelligence.
· Extract actionable intelligence from contracts, emails, and regulatory documents to support smarter, faster decision-making.
3:00 pm - 3:45 pm
PANEL DISCUSSION: FROM AI POLICY TO GOVERNANCE – GUIDING THE EVERYDAY USE OF A FAST-EVOLVING TECHNOLOGY
Noeleen McHenry -
Chief Legal Officer,
Uisce Éireann Irish Water
Rajeev Bhatnagar - Chief Risk & Compliance Officer, International & Treasury Services, BNY Mellon
Most companies now have AI policies in place. Often, they took many months to write and agree, in which time AI has evolved further in leaps and bounds. Keeping policies up-to-date and ensuring consistent implementation across teams, especially as employees begin to adopt AI tools in their personal lives, can feel like a Sisyphean task.
• Discover initiatives that help engage staff with AI guidelines and explore whether usage can be effectively tracked
• Unpack the concept of Agentic AI and its alignment with the EU AI Act, including practical guardrails to ensure compliance and accuracy
• Learn how leading organisations are keeping their AI policies agile, responsive, and relevant in a fast-changing landscape
Rajeev Bhatnagar
Chief Risk & Compliance Officer, International & Treasury ServicesBNY Mellon
