Day 1, July 22, 2025

8:00 am - 8:30 am REGISTRATION & COFFEE

8:30 am - 8:35 am OPENING REMARKS FROM IQPC

6:35 am - 6:45 am OPENING REMARKS FROM THE CHAIRPERSON

8:45 am - 8:50 am LIVE POLLING

The pace of change throughout 2025 is exponential. A change in administration and state legislatures resulting in an overturn in legislation and geopolitical relations means legal teams have to adapt internal policies and in-house counsels are working overtime to ensure compliance with regulatory change. There are two approaches to change, small steps which add up over time or ripping the band-aid off. Whichever approach you take requires careful consideration whilst involving all stakeholders to justify your decisions. Hear from organizations from differing industries going through significant change due to new regulations.

  • Plot your course of change as you hear about the successes, failures and general approaches of other global corporations 
  • Rethink how you manage your stakeholder relations to minimize reputational risks associated with large-scale change
  • Explore how you can enhance your role as a strategic business partner providing proactive legal advice to support business objectives through periods of large-scale change


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Al Lambert

Vice President & General Counsel
Boeing

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Erika Schenk

General Counsel & EVP Corporate Compliance
World Wide Technology

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Geoffrey Mullen

General Counsel, Productivity Solutions and Services
Honeywell

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Karen Higgins

Senior Vice President and General Counsel
HID Global GmbH

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Cheryl Crumpton

Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, Chief Compliance and Ethics Officer
Exelon

9:35 am - 10:05 am PRESENTATION: WHEN 80% OF DATA BREACHES INVOLVE THIRD PARTIES, TPRM & LEGAL COLLABORATION IS CRITICAL

Liz Lugones - VP, Professional Services, Mitratech
Ryan Fox - Director, GRC Solutions, Mitratech

With 80% of data breaches involving third parties, organizations need a strong, connected approach to vendor risk management. However, many struggle with siloed processes between risk, compliance, legal teams, and the broader organization – leaving gaps in contract governance, regulatory compliance, and incident response. In this session, you’ll learn how to shorten the gaps between third-party risk management and enterprise legal management solutions, as well as improve vendor onboarding, review, and oversight, streamline compliance workflows, and strengthen their ability to respond to third-party incidents.

• Delve into the reasons why third parties are a leading source of breaches, paying particular attention to the evolving risk landscape and regulatory scrutiny

• Explore legal’s critical role in TPRM, from contract enforcement to breach response, and how legal teams share vendor risk mitigation

• Home in on real-life success stories, facilitated by improved visibility into vendor disputes, strengthened incident response, and enhanced regulatory readiness

• Discover technology’s role in better risk and legal collaboration, and how automation and AI-driven insights improve third-party risk governance

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Liz Lugones

VP, Professional Services
Mitratech

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Ryan Fox

Director, GRC Solutions
Mitratech

10:10 am - 10:40 am THINK TANK: AI-POWERED LAW – ENHANCING EFFICIENCY, ACCURACY, AND STRATEGIC INSIGHTS
Scott Erskine - Managing Partner, Erskine Law
Ken Miller - Founding Partner & Chief AI Engineer, Erskine Law

Legal professionals are all aware how important delivering greater efficiency, precision, and strategic value is. By automating time-intensive tasks, AI can allow lawyers to focus on higher-value advisory work, leveraging machine learning to flag potential risks, inconsistencies, and critical clauses and reducing the margin for error in even the most complex documents. Tools can also be used to anticipate outcomes and craft smarter legal strategies with confidence. Nevertheless, it remains clear that while AI is a powerful tool, in the legal field, it must be used with care to respect the boundaries of professional responsibility.

• Learn to streamline workflows through intelligent automation of contract review, compliance screening, and document generation

• Discover the importance of identifying risk factors, missing terms, and legal inconsistencies early on to mitigate negative outcomes

• Explore what predictive analytics and trend forecasting can offer you to improve your accuracy and efficiency over the long term

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Scott Erskine

Managing Partner
Erskine Law

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Ken Miller

Founding Partner & Chief AI Engineer
Erskine Law

10:10 am - 10:40 am 1:1 BUSINESS MEETINGS

10:45 am - 11:15 am ROUNDTABLE: DOING BUSINESS IN CHINA

10:45 am - 11:15 am 1:1 BUSINESS MEETINGS

8:00 am - 8:30 am THINK TANK: BEYOND THE BUZZWORD – PRACTICAL LESSONS IN DELIVERING VALUE FROM AI
Patrick Hayton - Commercial Director, Luminance

Struggling to cut through the AI noise? It’s time to explore the real-life applications of AI within legal and beyond. Against a backdrop of regulatory change and pressures on efficiency, hear practical lessons on how to implement and maximise value from AI to drive business growth.

• Distinguish AI hype from reality, determining how to cut through the noise and decide which technology to use, when and how

• Explore the ROI of AI for legal, ensuring compliance, saving time, reducing cost, and redeploying staff to higher value tasks

• Delve into how specialist technologies are driving productivity businesswide, whilst reducing legal’s workload

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Patrick Hayton

Commercial Director
Luminance

11:20 am - 11:50 am 1:1 BUSINESS MEETINGS

Resource constraints and cost pressures continue to inhibit in-house counsel. Legal and compliance teams must find a new balance between internal legal work and outside counsel reliance, without impacting the quality of work delivered. Legal technology, streamlined processes, and enforcing outside counsel guidelines could help reduce spend externally. However, with limited resources, is it best to invest heavily upfront in your team’s headcount and legal technology or continue to pay the rising costs of outside counsel? 

  • Explore how bringing more work in-house could enable your legal and compliance team to be more agile and able to pivot to manage your changing regulatory obligations
  • Hear how some legal teams are utilizing an effective blend of alternate legal services and legal technology to reduce reliance on outside counsel
  • Discuss the converse, and hear how one legal team has flourished using outside counsel, improving their relationship and innovating their fee structure


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Shelly Shaw

General Counsel and Assistant Secretary
Analog Devices

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Dmitry Lukovsky

Chief Risk and Compliance Officer
Qualcomm

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Michael Hubbard

Associate General Counsel
Cognizant Technology Solutions

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Suzanna O'Donohue

VP of Sales
LexisNexis

12:40 pm - 1:40 pm LUNCH

1:40 pm - 2:10 pm THINK TANK: THIRD-PARTY ESG DUE DILIGENCE – SECURING YOUR BUSINESS AGAINST VIOLATIONS IN YOUR UPSTREAM AND DOWNSTREAM PARTNERS

Effective third-party due diligence is crucial for mitigating risks and ensuring regulatory compliance. This matter is made ever more complex with evolving compliance standards and regulations both nationally and internationally. This collaborative session is a platform to share and ask for best practices in conducting third-party due diligence audits. Leave this session with practical tools and strategies to ensure your due diligence process is agile and effective in mitigating regulatory risk. 

  • Share strategies for identifying and mitigating third-party risks in conducting these audits
  • Explore techniques for improving communication between you and your vendors and service providers to report audit findings 
  • Discuss insights as to how to ensure these insights are actioned promptly to avoid heavy penalties


1:40 pm - 2:10 pm 1:1 BUSINESS MEETINGS

2:15 pm - 3:00 pm PANEL DISCUSSION: FACILITATING BUSINESS GROWTH ON A GLOBAL SCALE – NAVIGATING AMBITION, INTERNATIONAL POLITICS AND REGIONAL CHALLENGES

Michael Reilly - General Counsel, FMC Corporation
Jamie Newell - Legal Director, Americas & UK, BT Americas

In today's rapidly evolving global marketplace, in-house counsel faces unprecedented challenges when guiding their organizations through international business ventures. From setting up trade hubs in overseas territories to keeping up with local regulatory and litigation trends, teams need the tools and insights to navigate the complex landscape of cross-border operations whilst supporting organizational growth and success.

  • Explore how teams can keep up with local regulations and litigation trends from abroad when entering new markets
  • Discuss the risks associated and how to mitigate compliance challenges in high growth markets 
  • Hear how successful teams have been able to overcome the added layer of sanctions compliance and heightened geopolitical risks whilst continuing to deliver growth opportunities to the business 


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Michael Reilly

General Counsel
FMC Corporation

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Jamie Newell

Legal Director, Americas & UK
BT Americas

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm PRESENTATION: WHY EDISCOVERY IS THE NEXT BIG BET FOR LEGAL INNOVATION

Chad Riley - Strategic Account Executive, Everlaw

Attorney fees, document review, and expert witnesses are some of the biggest and least predictable cost drivers in litigation—yet many in-house teams remain dependent on outside providers and outdated processes that keep them in the dark. It’s time for a reset. Today’s AI-powered, cloud-native eDiscovery platforms are shifting control back to in-house teams—providing real-time visibility into outside counsel billing, simpler workflows, and more predictable budgets. Join our panel of discovery experts as they unpack what’s changed, why traditional approaches are breaking down, and how modern eDiscovery solutions are driving a measurable impact on legal budgets and business strategy.

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Chad Riley

Strategic Account Executive
Everlaw

3:35 pm - 4:05 pm THINK TANK (PRE-REGISTRATION): THE LEAN LEGAL TEAM – STRATEGIC RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FOR YOUR DEPARTMENT
CJ Saretto - Chief Technology Officer, Axiom

In an increasingly complex legal and regulatory landscape, legal departments face mounting pressure to deliver high-quality outcomes with limited resources. This session focuses on strategies for legal departments to maximize value and efficiency while working within tight budgets. It will explore practical approaches to reallocating resources, prioritizing high-value tasks, AI and technology adoption and leveraging external providers like ALSPs and law firms for scalable expertise. Participants will gain actionable insights into balancing cost-efficiency with risk management, selecting the right mix of external partners, and optimizing workflows to meet growing demands without compromising quality or compliance.

  • Discuss strategies to manage workloads effectively with fewer resources.
  • Assess when to leverage external resources such as ALSPs and law firms to scale expertise as well as AI and Technology adoption to manage workload fluctuations.
  • Learn how to ensure compliance and mitigate risks when operating with limited budgets.


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CJ Saretto

Chief Technology Officer
Axiom

3:35 pm - 4:05 pm 1:1 BUSINESS MEETINGS

4:10 pm - 4:40 pm ROUNDTABLE: DOING BUSINESS IN THE LATAM REGION

4:10 pm - 4:40 pm 1:1 BUSINESS MEETINGS

4:45 pm - 5:15 pm THINK TANK (PRE-REGISTRATION): DEALING WITH M&A IN 2025 – HOW TO ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN POST-CLOSING INTEGRATION

After a down period of mergers and acquisitions on the market, they are once again on the rise with 2025 suspected to continue this trend. In-house counsel plays a vital role in these transactions and managing the aftermath, leveraging your unique position to drive business success while managing the legal risks. Managing the smooth integration of these organizations, specifically the legal and compliance functions can be challenged by opposing cultures to the make-up of the team. 

  • Explore where the in-house counsel role must go above legal and compliance technicalities, providing strategic insights and risk management to ensure transactions align with long-term goals
  • Share your experiences of managing company and team integrations to collaboratively discuss how you have overcome challenges and where improvements can be made
  • Discuss how you and other teams have aligned corporate cultures to create a cohesive work environment leading to successful organizational goals 


4:45 pm - 5:15 pm 1:1 BUSINESS MEETINGS

7:20 pm - 7:50 pm PRESENTATION: LEGAL SPEND IS LEAKING – HOW DO YOU STOP THE BLEED?

Matt DenOuden - SVP, Chief Evangelist, Onit

Managing legal spend is more than just reviewing invoices—it’s about visibility, efficiency, and strategic decision-making. Yet, many corporate legal teams still struggle with uncontrolled costs, manual processes, and proving ROI. The solution? AI-powered eBilling and spend management.

  • Find the right partner with a full set of demographic, performance and rate data about a selection of potential choices for a matter
  • Learn wow to free your team from reactive to proactive spend management by using intelligent agents and AI assistants.
  • Explore Data-driven strategies to forecast budgets, analyze law firm performance, and reduce case aging and costs
  • Hear real-world examples of how legal teams have optimized AI in their eBilling, improve firm relationships, and reduce costs
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Matt DenOuden

SVP, Chief Evangelist
Onit

5:50 pm - 6:20 pm PRESENTATION: NAVIGATING THE SOCIAL SPHERE – WHY ESG COULD MAKE OR BREAK YOUR BUSINESS

Jennifer Schatzman - General Counsel, Omnicom Health Group

In an era of heightened scrutiny and evolving expectations, the social component of ESG has become a critical focus for many large organizations in the USA. Despite some organizations noting they are peeling back their DE&I policies, some organizations have been faced with lawsuits from grassroots causes. The country is seeing a shift from DE&I to “belonging” and current workplace practices need careful consideration of fair pay and labor issues, especially within your supply chain. 

  • Explore the impact of labor laws and modern slavery legislation on your organization and how you can defend against the risks within your supply chains
  • Discuss the impact of the evolving legal and regulatory landscape on businesses across the US and how this impacts your internal policies 
  • Hear how in-house counsels must continue to ensure that all social impact statements are up to date and correct to avoid potential consumer protection litigation


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Jennifer Schatzman

General Counsel
Omnicom Health Group

6:20 pm - 6:30 pm CLOSING REMARKS FROM THE CHAIRPERSON

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm DRINKS RECEPTION