Asia’s Premier Legal Technology Conference Goes Virtual In 2020
TechLawFest is a signature law & technology event that brings together the international community to debate, deliberate, act and innovate in both the law of technology (policies, regulations, legislation, case law and governance) and the technology of law (infrastructure, business transformation and people development).
TechLawFest 2020 Virtual Conference Program
- Legal Operations – 28 September 2020
- Technology Law – 29 September 2020
- Future Law – 30 September 2020
- Access To Justice – 1 October 2020
- Legal Innovation – 2 October 2020
Featured Sessions
Skills at Scale and the Legal Function
As modern businesses scale in size and complexity at an unprecedented pace, the legal function must align its response with the needs of the business. The site of that alignment in the legal function is increasingly to be found in legal operations. While there is sophisticated global discussion of the roles of process improvement and technology tools in optimising the legal function through legal operations, the people element has tended towards a flat discourse on upskilling and re-skilling as a response to technology. Join the leaders in this session as they re-frame the people challenge in legal operations and business alignment by examining skills development as a response to the scale (volume and complexity) of business.
Speakers:
Mary Shen O’Carroll, Director of Legal Operations, Google LLC and President, CLOC
Bill Deckelman, Executive Vice President, General Counsel, DXC Technology
J. Stephen Poor, Chairman Emeritus, Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Moderator:
Michele DeStefano, Professor of Law and Founder, LawWithoutWalls, University of Miami (& Guest Faculty Harvard Law School Exec Ed) and Lead Faculty Advisor, Digital Legal Exchange
Global Challenges at the Intersection of Business, Law and Technology
The COVID19 pandemic has highlighted how business, law and technology are part of a complex system. In this fireside chat, our leaders share their insights into how businesses and individuals can better prepare themselves to manage such complexity effectively.
Speaker:
Tim Steinert, Secretary and Senior Advisor, Alibaba
Moderator:
Prof Mari Sako, Professor of Management Studies, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Re-imagining the Legal Paradigm
Speakers:
Prof Richard Susskind, OBE, Chair of the Advisory Board of the Oxford Internet Institute, and Technology Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales
Mark A. Cohen, CEO and Founder of Legal Mosaic and Executive Chairman, Digital Legal Exchange
Moderator:
Tan Ken Hwee, Chief Transformation and Innovation Officer (Judiciary), Supreme Court of Singapore
Technology and Talent in a Time of COVID19
COVID19 has undeniably accelerated the adoption of technology to advance learning and professional development. But deeper than this, what are some of the implications of the pandemic on how we identify, recruit, manage, develop and retain talent? How is technology providing the means to achieve desired outcomes when it comes to equipping talent with competencies to thrive under these dynamic and uncertain times? How are various industries embracing technologies in the learning and development of their talent? And what are some key strategies that the legal industry can employ to ensure that it creates conditions for its talent to thrive through this period of challenge and emerge with enhanced capabilities to meet future industry demands?
Speaker:
Frank Koo, Head of Asia – Talent and Learning Solutions, LinkedIn
Moderator:
Sriram Chakravarthi, Senior Director, Legal Development & Chief Legal Counsel, Singapore Academy of Law
Legal Innovation Opportunities in Emerging Markets
Perhaps one consequence of the pandemic has been a transcendence of physical geography. Instead, we have been presented with a geography of needs that is ripe for exploring. This discussion examines how wicked problems at the intersection of law, business, and technology have created necessities that present an opportunity for innovation in a way that challenges traditional geographical and professional silos.
Speakers:
Alice Namuli Blazevic, Partner, Katende, Ssempebwa & Company Advocates
Abheek Anand, Managing Director, Sequoia Capital India
Alison Hook, Co-founder and Director, Hook Tangaza
Zohar Fisher, Founder, Robus Consulting
Singapore’s Legal Technology Roadmap 2030
Join Mr Edwin Tong SC, Minister for Culture, Community and Youth and Second Minister for Law, for a fireside chat to mark the launch of the Ministry of Law’s Technology & Innovation Roadmap (TIR). The roadmap charts Singapore’s legal technology path to 2030, identifies technologies that will impact or change legal services, and includes an overview of current and upcoming initiatives to encourage adoption and development of such technologies. Minister Tong will discuss what’s in store for our legal industry, and how technology can improve productivity and resilience of our industry.
Speaker:
Mr Edwin Tong SC, Minister for Culture, Community and Youth and Second Minister for Law
TechLawFest 2020 – Where Law of Tech Meets Tech of Law
