For General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officers, complexity isn’t just a challenge – it’s the board on which strategy is played and reshaped. The pace of change across 2025 and into 2026 has created an environment where every move matters. It isn’t just about knowing the law anymore – it’s about understanding how these changes ripple across operations, supply chains, contracts, and risk management frameworks, and what the legal team can do to turn these into strategic advantages. This keynote, led by a leading geopolitical expert, will aim to reframe volatility as a chance to strengthen influence, and explore the opportunities in other jurisdictions that you have not yet considered.
- Gain insight from a geopolitical expert on navigating diverse regional environments, and how power dynamics, local norms, and regional alliances show unexpected opportunities
- Learn methods to efficiently track and prioritize political and regulatory shifts across multiple regions in order to focus on the developments that actually move markets and shape risk

- Explore strategic frameworks for turning fast-moving geopolitical and regulatory signals into clear guidance internally and operational strategy
- Understand how to evaluate the strategic and financial impact of new policies and economic measures, including tariffs, so you can brief leadership and make high-stakes decisions with confidence

Legal and compliance teams rely heavily on technology partners, but many under-leverage the support, expertise, and training their vendors can offer. This panel will unpack how to build high-value vendor relationships, from knowing what you can reasonably ask for to accessing and operationalizing vendor-provided educational resources. The session will explore how to systemize the flow of knowledge from vendor to internal teams, including models such as AI “champions,” structured onboarding programs, and scalable training pathways. Attendees will leave with practical strategies to ensure their vendors are true partners in adoption and long-term success.

- Learn what legal teams should expect (and request) from vendors, including training, documentation, integration guidance, success metrics, and ongoing education
- Home in on how to build repeatable processes that move vendor expertise into workflows and team-wide competence
- Determine the benefits of appointing internal champions and creating clear escalation paths for questions and continued learning

We’re living through a stretch of history where uncertainty isn’t a phase – it’s the operating system. Economic volatility, geopolitical shocks, regulatory acceleration, AI disruption, cyber risk, and reputational exposure are colliding in ways organizations can’t predict or pause. This session reframes Information Governance not as a dusty compliance function, but as a strategic capability that gives companies clarity when everything else is noisy. From retention and defensible disposal to litigation readiness, we’ll explore how resilient organizations don’t just “store more,” but know what they have, where it lives, who owns it, and what to do with it when the stakes rise.

- Learn practical approaches for turning information governance into a decision-making accelerator, not just an administrative task
- Delve into building governance structures that support defensible disposal, litigation readiness, and stronger privacy posture
- Discover tools and frameworks General Counsel can use to increase organisational preparedness when risk, regulation and information demands shift weekly

In-house lawyers are navigating increasing pressure to move faster, manage growing complexity, and deliver clearer guidance across the business, all while maintaining accuracy and control. This fast-paced, hands-on plenary is for in-house lawyers who are ready to use legal AI to build safe workflows they can trust in real matters. With practical patterns and adaptable examples, it highlights how thoughtful prompt design can reduce risk, boost reliability, and create scalable, high-quality legal workflows. Walk away with concrete prompting tips to use with your team right away:

- Learn how to design prompts that improve accuracy, reduce risk, and support consistent legal outputs
- Delve into prompting patterns for common in-house tasks such as contract review, issue spotting, policy drafting, and communication refinement
- Understand different techniques for building reusable legal workflows your team can trust across matters and business partners