Speakers

Kingsley Daniels, sales director, new business, LexisNexis

Kingsley Daniels is a Sales Leader at LexisNexis, known for driving innovation in the legal tech space. Since joining the company in 2018, he has played a key role in launching cutting-edge solutions like Lexis+ and Lexis+ AI, helping legal teams work smarter and more efficiently. As Director of Business Development, Kingsley is passionate about understanding his clients’ challenges and delivering solutions that truly make a difference. With a keen eye for emerging trends and a talent for building strong relationships, he’s dedicated to shaping the future of legal technology.

 

Emma Dickin, head of public sector practice area group & in-house sector strategy, LexisNexis

Emma is Head of In-House Practical Guidance for LexisNexis, and is responsible for working with the wider LexisNexis business to ensure its guidance solutions for our in-house legal customers deliver the support required. Emma previously spent nine years working as a Professional Support Lawyer in the In-House, Risk & Compliance team, where her primary focus was on creating bespoke content and tools to help in-house legal teams manage their organisation’s internal risk and compliance needs. Prior to this, Emma has managed a customer training team, a sales operations department, and supported our M&A team as UK integration manager on a key acquisition, meaning she has a good grasp of both the legal and commercial workings of an organisation. Emma is also a qualified lawyer and worked as a fee earner in a specialist property law firm before joining LexisNexis, having originally started her legal career as a legal assistant in the IP department at British American Tobacco.

 

Ben White, founder, Crafty Counsel

Ben is the Founder of Crafty Counsel, a community for in-house legal professionals. Ben previously worked as a lawyer at Clifford Chance and the tech company Global Fashion Group.

 

Rob Muskett, commercial and TMT professional support lawyer, LexisNexis

Rob qualified as a solicitor in 2012 into the Commercial team at Addleshaw Goddard and has worked both in private practice and in-house (including five years as a Senior Legal Counsel in an international technology business). He has broad experience as a commercial/IT lawyer. Rob has been a Professional Support Lawyer at Lexis Nexis since 2022 and works on the Commercial and TMT modules, focusing on outsourcing, supply of services, technology contracts and reseller/distribution agreements.

 

Luis de Freitas, director & managing legal counsel, Boston Consulting Group

Luis is a Director & Managing Legal Counsel at Boston Consulting Group (BCG) with over 15 years of experience. Beyond his legal expertise, he has a strong interest in how innovation and advanced technology, particularly Generative AI, can support teams and enhance ways of working. With hands-on experience in GenAI tools, Luis has seen firsthand how they can improve workflows, boost efficiency, and create meaningful impact for its users. He looks forward to connecting with professionals who are passionate about leveraging technology to shape the future of the legal industry.

 

Tom Whittaker, director and solicitor advocate in the dispute resolution team, Burges Salmon

Tom Whittaker is a Director in the Technology and Dispute Resolution teams at independent UK law firm Burges Salmon. Tom advises and trains public and private sector organisations on anticipated and enacted AI regulation, legal risk and governance. He has written a practitioner’s text on public law, procurement law and AI. He is part of multiple working groups across different sectors and jurisdictions. He has been ranked multiple times as a global market leader in AI law.

 

Minesh Tanna, partner and global AI lead, Simmons & Simmons

Minesh Tanna is a partner in the Disputes & Investigations team at Simmons & Simmons and is also the firm’s Global AI Lead. His practice focuses on contentious commercial and regulatory issues, principally in the telecoms, media and technology (TMT) sector. He has represented numerous TMT clients on litigation, arbitration and investigation matters (including tech regulatory and data privacy investigations).

 

Peter Lee, partner, AI governance and wavelength, Simmons & Simmons

Peter Lee is a Partner and the CEO of Simmons Wavelength. His team use technology, data science and design to improve legal functions and analysis for clients. He co-founded Wavelength as an independent regulated start-up in 2016, leading its set up, rapid growth and acquisition by Simmons & Simmons in 2019 to become the firm’s global legal engineering business. Working with counterparts at the firm, Peter is responsible for leading the legal engineering offering, growth, management, and strategy of Simmons Wavelength.

 

Shanthini Satyendra, vice-chair, AI committee, Society for Computers and Law (SCL)

 

Madelin Sinclair McAusland, senior commercial lawyer, Burges Salmon

Madelin Sinclair McAusland is a senior commercial lawyer specialising in commercial contracts, data protection (including in house as a data protection officer), technology (particularly commercial and practical application of AI), transactional intellectual property and a wide range of other legal matters.

Covering a wide range of sectors including technology, media, life sciences, food and drink, transport, sport, leisure and retail, Madelin has also advised an array of organisations spanning from individuals, the Branson family office, start-up businesses and incubators to charities, public sector bodies, private and public companies.

 

Jacob Turner, barrister, Fountain Court Chambers

Jacob Turner is a barrister at Fountain Court Chambers. He is the author of ‘Robot Rules: Regulating Artificial Intelligence’. Jacob has acted in some of the most significant AI-related cases, including in the UK Supreme court in Thaler v Comptroller-General of Patents (the ‘AI Inventor’ case), in Drivers v Uber and OLA Cabs (the ‘robo-firing’ case) and defending the first company investigated by the ICO for AI bias. He has been described in Legal 500 as ‘the leading barrister in the AI space’.

Alessandro Galtieri, deputy GC, Colt Technology Services

 

Nayeem Syed, senior legal director, technology, London Stock Exchange Group

Nayeem is a Senior Legal Director, Technology & Operations Legal at London Stock Exchange Group. Nayeem’s focus is on complex, high-value transformation projects and transactions with heavy technology, third-party risk management, operational resilience and regulation components. He is a licensed attorney in both New York and England and holds an MBA from London Business School.

 

Matthew Wilson, chief legal officer, Fremantle

Matt is Chief Legal Officer at global content producer Fremantle. Fremantle produces over 12,000 hours of original programming every year across drama, entertainment, documentaries and film. He joined Fremantle in August 2021 and sits on the global board. Prior to Fremantle, Matt was based in Amsterdam as General Counsel for EMEA & APAC for Uber, leading a diverse, international team who helped Uber Rides to scale, launch Uber Eats and JUMP bikes (now Lime) and stabilise and grow the business across over 50 countries, culminating in a successful listing on the NYSE in 2019. Matt started his career with four years at Baker & McKenzie, followed by an overall six-year stint in senior roles for global telco Telefónica with a spell at Arsenal Football Club in the middle. Matt studied Economics and Politics and is a practicing Solicitor (England and Wales).

 

Daisy Godfrey, head of legal group digital and data protection, Aviva

Daisy is Head of Legal, Group – Digital and Data Protection at Aviva, an international savings, retirement and insurance business headquartered in the UK. Based in London, Daisy leads a team of privacy lawyers advising the Aviva businesses on a broad range of matters relating to privacy, the digital strategy and artificial intelligence. This includes data protection impact assessments, fair processing notice and consent wordings, marketing communications and AI initiatives.

Prior to joining Aviva in 2020, Daisy held regional and global in-house privacy roles at several other large multinational financial services companies.

 

Christopher Jeffrey, partner and co-head, international US group, Taylor Wessing

Chris co-heads Taylor Wessing’s international US Group. He specialises in advising multinational technology companies and has a strong base of fast-growing VC-backed businesses looking to expand internationally.

Simon McDougall, chief strategist, privacy and AI, ZoomInfo

 

Nicola Fulford, partner, global regulatory, Hogan Lovells

Nicola advises clients on the full range of Privacy and Cybersecurity issues from international data transfers and privacy policies to online profiling, marketing consents, impact assessments and compliance strategies.

 

Katie Chandler, head of product liability and product safety, Taylor Wessing

Katie is a litigator with broad experience in the technology, life sciences, automotive, consumer & retail, and food & drink sectors. She specialises in guiding clients through high-value contractual, shareholder/boardroom, insurance claims and technology disputes, product liability defence litigation and investigations.

 

Xuyang Zhu, partner, technology, IP and information, Taylor Wessing

Xuyang specialises in IP rights exploitation and enforcement in the technology and media sectors, covering transactions, advisory matters, disputes and litigation, digital content regulation, monetisation, and the intersection between IP and competition law.

Theresa Yurkewich Hoffmann, AI technical specialist, Microsoft

Rob McKendrick, field chief data officer, Arreoblue

Suzanne Brink, head of AI ethics and governance, Kainos

 

 

Barbara Zapisetskaya, principal counsel (Technology), European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

Barbara is a Principal Counsel (Technology) at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. She sits on the AI Committee at the British Standards Institution and is also a certified AI Governance Professional (AIGP). She has co-authored multiple publications on AI regulation and standardisation.

 

Federico Marengo, AI governance manager, Informa

Federico is an AI and privacy professional, currently serving as the AI Governance Manager at Informa, leading the efforts to ensure regulatory compliance of AI developments and deployment within the Informa Group. Previously, he was a senior consultant at White Label Consultancy, and at TNP Consultants facilitating implementation of privacy programs and as DPO. He is a lawyer, LLM (Manchester), Ph.D. in Privacy and AI, and he is author of two books: “Privacy and AI” and “GDPR in Charts”

Will Scrimshaw, general counsel and company secretary, BenevolentAI 

 

Alexandra Gartrell, VP head of legal, EMEA, Cloudera