Agenda Day 1

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

Caroline Tsai

Executive Vice President, Chief Legal and Corporate Affairs Officer
FIS

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Suzanna O'Donohue

VP of Sales
LexisNexis

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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

Rupali Patel Shah

Head of Legal Solutions & Alliances for North America
DiliTrust

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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

Cecilia Ziniti

CEO & Co-Founder
GC AI

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Global and internal pressure, politics and reduced budgets are challenging the most resilient of organizations in 2026. In this sense, the role of the General Counsel has evolved far beyond simple legal interpretation and contracts. The General Counsel today is the ethical strategist, the moral compass, the one who reads the board and senses risks others may overlook or choose to ignore. They must position the company in the correct way and make decisions that maintain credibility and long-term stability. Ethical clarity is no longer a sidenote – it’s a strategic asset in high-stakes environments, and in this sense, being able to navigate this moral grey area is a skill that can no longer be cast aside.

- Hear from General Counsel about how they are proactively addressing and mitigating the reputational risks of ethical missteps
- Learn how to prioritize ethical challenges across regions, identifying where moral risks intersect with operational risks, and ensuring the company stays aligned
- Explore practical frameworks for turning principles into clear guidance, empowering teams to act consistently
- Delve into the notion of the “acceptable” in the corporate world, and how evolving societal expectations are reshaping right and wrong

Emmanuel Ayuk

EVP, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary
The Andersons

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David Kass

SVP, Deputy General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer
Verizon Communications

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Jeannie Henry

Vice President & Deputy General Counsel - Chief Compliance Officer
NiSource

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