About this session:

Future FITT™ Leaders are shifting the question from “What will AI do?” to “Where will we create value now and next?” The legal profession has long created value through knowledge, expertise and judgement. Now AI is changing how knowledge is accessed, how work gets done and what clients and organisations value - challenging the profession to rethink value, trust, risk, capability and delivery.

The future isn't coming. It's being built now.

Drawing on an outside-in perspective across professions and industries, Kellie reveals what other sectors navigating major disruption can teach us about The Great Value Shift™ . At the heart of her BE IRREPLACEABLE™ body of work is a critical idea: as technology becomes more capable, human value doesn't disappear - what makes us valuable changes.

You'll takeaway:

Through the Future FITT™ Framework, Kellie challenges us to consider where we are choosing to thrive, where we are simply surviving, and what we may need to stop as we lead through uncertainty without waiting for certainty.

Attendees will leave with greater confidence about their role in an AI-enabled profession and identify their highest-impact action to build, change or lead now - creating greater relevance, value and impact today while building what comes next.

Because the future of law won't simply be determined by what technology can do. It will be shaped by what we individually and collectively choose to build now.

The future is being built now. What are you creating?

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Technology's greatest benefit is not to lower cost or increase efficiency. It’s not even to improve accuracy. The best opportunity that technology offers us is to restore the trust between a professional and client.

Historically, the most sacred professions lived with an untested level of trust. Over time, that trust has been eroded by the administration of burdens, competing interests and systems designed not for the human. We are now seeing a shift globally as a result of what society expects.

You'll takeaway:

Some real-life lessons learned by a lawyer, doctor, and a person with a spinal cord injury about how to regain that trust and to put the human being back at the centre of what we do in a technologically-driven world.

About this session:

Legal is not the first profession to face technology-driven change. [Finance, medicine, engineering and aviation] have all worked through automation, accountability, safety and human oversight.

This session explores how they shifted from individual expertise to technology-enabled systems without losing professional judgement.

You'll takeaway:

The future of law will be built faster and more responsibly if the profession looks outside itself for tested lessons on change, governance, capability and trust. Build on lessons learnt from other high-trust sectors.

About this session:

Be among the first to hear the findings from the new Future of Law Report, drawing on the views of more than 300 respondents across the legal profession.

The research reveals a profession adopting AI faster than it is preparing for it. While 86% of respondents to the relevant questions are already using or piloting AI, 53% believe the profession remains underprepared or not prepared for what comes next.

You'll takeaway:

This session will unpack what the data tells us about capability, professional responsibility, governance, workforce development and the changing skills needed for the future of legal practice. It will also explore where sectors agree, where priorities diverge, and what the profession needs to do now to turn AI adoption into sustainable capability.

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The previous afternoon, Pre-Summit Workshop participants will work through a shared future-focused case study from four critical perspectives: value, the human edge, moving from pilot to practice, and governance. In small groups, they will test options, confront trade-offs and develop practical, defensible recommendations.

This short showcase brings selected delegates to the Summit stage to share the strongest ideas, challenges and insights that emerged from that work. Rather than simply reporting back, they will highlight what changed through discussion, where tensions remain and which recommendations deserve wider attention.

You'll takeaway:

Hear practical thinking developed in the room, see how different perspectives shaped the proposed solutions, and discover the questions the profession must address to turn future-focused ideas into responsible action.

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Change is accelerating, and legal teams are being asked to protect the business while still moving forward. Yet people do not respond to change in the same way. Some drive quickly toward results, some build energy and support, some protect stability and trust, and others focus on accuracy, risk and defensibility.

In this fast-paced, interactive session, participants will use a series of DISC-inspired pulse questions to identify their likely default response to change. They will explore the strengths that response brings, the friction it can create and the practical stretch that can help them adapt more effectively.

You'll takeaway:

Recognise your instinctive response when change arrives, understand how it influences the way you act and connect with others, and choose one practical adjustment for the next change challenge you face. You will leave able to name your reflex, use its strengths deliberately and avoid letting it become a constraint.

Your default is data, not destiny.

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What does it really mean to be practice-ready when AI, technology, changing client expectations and new delivery models are reshaping legal work? This session brings together perspectives from education, employment and the next generation to explore the capabilities modern practice demands — from legal reasoning and commercial judgement to communication, technology literacy, resilience and professional judgement.

The panel will examine the capability gap as a shared challenge. It will consider what educators can provide, what employers must develop, and what students and early-career professionals need to bring. The discussion will also explore how supervision, mentoring and development must evolve as AI changes the tasks through which lawyers have traditionally learned, before identifying practical actions each part of the system can take over the next 12 months.

You'll takeaway:

A clearer picture of what practice-ready capability now requires, where responsibility sits across educators, employers and emerging professionals, and how supervision and development must adapt in an AI-enabled workplace. You will leave with practical actions for helping close the gap between legal education and modern practice.

About this session:

We call it resistance. A skills gap. A generational problem.

What if we're all wrong?

In this impact intervention session, Sam Shosanya challenges one of the most common assumptions leaders make about people and change: that hesitation means unwillingness or lack of capability.

Often, the real issue is threat. When people feel their status, competence or professional identity is at risk, they become more cautious, less curious and less willing to experiment. And no amount of telling them to "just embrace change” fixes that.

The leadership task is different. Before asking people to swim, help them find the floor: what is still true, what still matters, where it is safe to try, and what the next move is.

You'll takeaway:

Expect a sharp challenge to how we diagnose resistance, how we think about generational differences, and how we create the conditions for people to move - and thrive.

If change is too slow, the first question may not be “what do they need to learn?” It may be “what do they believe they are about to lose?”

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A legal practice under pressure to find efficiencies rolls out an AI transcription tool that passed due diligence, earned five-star reviews and works flawlessly for months, until client data turns up somewhere it should never have been. In this interactive session, the audience will step into the response as the incident unfolds. Throughout the session the audience will confront the risks that are easily overlooked when AI is adopted at pace. Led by Atmos, a legal and advisory firm focused solely on cyber, privacy and digital risk, the session draws on frontline experience of what really happens when governance is tested.

You'll takeaway

Attendees will leave with a clear view of the pitfalls to watch for and practical steps to strengthen AI governance in their own organisations.

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As AI gives clients more power to research, draft, review and triage legal work themselves, will they need law firms less—or will growing legal and regulatory complexity make trusted advisers more valuable than ever?

In this lively, old-school debate, opposing teams will test the motion: “This house believes clients will need law firms less, not more, in the AI-enabled future.” They will explore which work may move in-house, become automated or shift to alternative providers, and where independent judgement, specialist expertise, advocacy and accountability will continue to command a premium.

Expect a provocative, and entertaining, examination of value, pricing, leverage and junior lawyer development - and the choices clients will make about what to keep, automate, outsource or send to a law firm.

You'll takeaway:

A sharper view of which legal work AI may move away from firms, where trusted legal expertise will become more valuable, and how in-house teams may rethink what they keep, automate, outsource or send externally. You will leave with fresh perspectives on law-firm value, pricing and leverage - and what these shifts could mean for junior lawyer development and the future delivery of legal services.

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What does the future of law look like to the people who will inherit it - and help build it? This candid fireside conversation shifts the focus from what senior leaders think emerging professionals need to what the next generation hopes for, expects and is already experiencing.

A law student, a post-admission graduate and an early-career lawyer will share honest perspectives on the journey from education to practice: what they feel prepared for, where the gaps remain, how AI is shaping their view of a legal career, and what they need from today’s leaders.

They will explore professional identity, supervision, learning through real work, career progression and the assumptions others make about their generation.

You'll takeaway:

A clearer understanding of what emerging legal professionals value, what concerns them and what they need to thrive.

You will leave with a next-generation perspective on education, supervision, AI, career development and professional identity - and practical insight into what legal leaders should start, stop or take more seriously now to help build and protect the future of law.

About this session:

This session will draw out the common thread: the future of law will be shaped by the choices the profession makes now.

Crowd source with the community your priority to do list for the future of law for you as an individual, your team, the business, and the profession.

The session ends with an invitation to keep building together- continuing the conversation, testing ideas and turning insight into action - before the Summit moves into its networking celebration.

You'll takeaway:

A clear sense of the ideas that connect the Summit - from human value, capability and responsible AI to changing client expectations and the voices of emerging professionals - and the choices the profession must make now.

You will leave not simply as an attendee, but as part of a community invited to stay engaged, challenge assumptions, test ideas and turn insight into practical action.

The future of law will not be built by one organisation, event or technology; the only way to predict the future is to build it together.