In an age of hyper‑transparency, reputational crises don’t just bruise brands — they expose the strength of an organization’s governance. In this candid session, Charles Paré, former Chief Legal & Integrity Officer of the World Economic Forum, shares hard‑earned lessons from navigating crises, leadership transitions, and geopolitical pressure at the highest levels. Moving beyond theory, he unpacks the real “heavy lifting” of compliance: professionalizing internal reporting, managing complex whistleblower cases, and rebuilding trust when scrutiny is at its peak. This is a rare, behind‑the‑scenes look at how integrity is restored — and how resilient governance is designed.

This panel brings together judicial leaders, innovators, and institutional experts to explore how digital courts and intelligent ADR platforms are transforming access to justice, procedural design, and institutional legitimacy across Europe and beyond.

This keynote explores the emergence of transnational legal infrastructures that operate across jurisdictions, languages, and regulatory regimes. From global dispute resolution networks to interoperable contract ecosystems, the speaker will examine how technology is enabling law to function as a borderless service - and what this means for sovereignty, compliance, and legal identity.

This panel brings together representatives from leading legal tech associations to explore how cross-border partnerships are shaping the future of legal services. From harmonizing standards to co-developing tools, participants will share insights on building trust, scaling impact, and navigating regulatory complexity across jurisdictions.

As courts digitize and legal datasets expand, predictive models can forecast case outcomes, judge behavior, settlement likelihood, and procedural bottlenecks. But with this power comes complexity: What happens when legal strategy is shaped by algorithms? How do we preserve fairness, transparency, and human judgment in a system increasingly governed by statistical inference?

As AI systems take on more legal tasks - from contract review to dispute prediction - the role of human judgment is being redefined. This session explores how lawyers, judges, and regulators remain “in the loop” to ensure accountability, nuance, and ethical oversight. It asks: what decisions should never be automated, and how do we design systems that respect human reasoning while leveraging machine efficiency?

Legal services are often built around systems - not people. This panel explores how legal teams and designers are reshaping services to meet real human needs: clarity, dignity, usability, and trust. From trauma-informed design to inclusive language and visual communication, the speakers will share how empathy and evidence-based design can transform legal experiences for clients, citizens, and professionals.

What happens when legal expertise is no longer delivered as a one-off service, but as a repeatable product? This panel explores how legal professionals and technologists are transforming bespoke advice into scalable, modular offerings. From contract automation to compliance-as-a-service, the session unpacks the mindset, design logic, and operational shifts behind productized legal delivery.

The UK’s experiment with Alternative Business Structures (ABS), fee-sharing, and liberalized ownership rules has created one of the most dynamic legal markets in the world. This session explores how regulatory innovation has enabled new entrants, investor-backed ventures, and tech-enabled platforms to compete alongside traditional firms.

This panel brings together Baltic and Nordic Bar leaders to explore how they are adapting - not just administratively, but strategically - to ensure that law remains locally grounded, professionally credible, and publicly trusted in a globalized, AI-enabled world.

Legal practice often overlooks the cognitive diversity of its professionals and clients. From rigid communication norms to inaccessible workflows, many systems unintentionally exclude neurodivergent thinkers. In this workshop, participants will identify common barriers to cognitive inclusion and redesign one legal process - such as client intake, internal collaboration, or document formatting - to make it more accessible.

Most contracts are written for lawyers — not for the people who sign them. Dense language, rigid formatting, and abstract structure often obscure meaning and erode trust. In this workshop, participants will redesign a short agreement using visual elements — such as icons, layout, flowcharts, and plain language - to make it more intuitive and user-friendly.

The law firm of 2030 won’t just be digital - it will be reimagined from the ground up. This legal hackathon invites participants to prototype the future firm: one shaped by AI, automation, new client expectations, and evolving legal roles. Working in small teams, participants will design a core process or service — such as onboarding, dispute resolution, or contract review - using AI tools and future-facing workflows.

A hands‑on exploration of how legal teams, courts, and regulators can collaborate on AI models without exchanging raw data. Participants learn how federated learning and secure computation enable: •⁠ ⁠cross‑border case law analytics, •⁠ ⁠multi‑institution compliance models, •⁠ ⁠shared risk detection, •⁠ ⁠and privacy‑safe benchmarking. The workshop demonstrates how to build trustworthy, regulation‑aligned AI systems in environments where data sovereignty, GDPR, and confidentiality rules normally block innovation.

Legal risk isn’t just about contracts - it’s embedded in systems, workflows, and decisions. This workshop introduces a technical framework for computational legal risk modeling across domains like compliance, litigation, data governance, and regulatory change. Participants will learn how to structure legal risk as data, build graph-based models, and visualize exposure paths before issues arise. The focus is on system architecture - ideal for legal engineers, technologists, and forward-looking legal teams.