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Exclusive conference to discuss disruptive trends, developments, and utilities in European corporate legal departments

15-16 May 2023

Paris, France

In co-operation with

Legal Disruption is back in Paris! In-house counsel from all industries are welcome to join our discussions on modern and disruptive challenges for legal departments. From technological advancements in AI and the legal implications thereof, to environmental regulatory requirements that companies must follow, to ever-increasing political challenges that companies must routinely now address, Legal Disruption brings together industry leaders and legal experts for a warm pre-evening reception and a captivating full-day session.

Agenda

Detailed agenda to be announced soon! For past agendas, please click hereor here.

Monday, 15 May 2023
18:00 Welcome reception

 

18:45 Keynote speaker

 

19:30 Get-together and dinner

 

Tuesday, 16 May 2023
09:00 Welcome reception

 

09:15 Major corporate headaches for European lawyers in 2023-2024

 

10:00 Session 1 – Legal technology and their permanence for legal departments
  • Prioritising the right tools in a saturated market and convincing the business of their utility and value
  • How Automation and AI are transforming the legal industry
  • Increasing collaboration and efficiency with outside counsel and other business units

 

11:45 Coffee Break

 

12:15 Session 2 – The evolving role of corporate lawyers
  • European corporate lawyers in 2010, 2023, and 2035 – where is the profession heading?
  • Cross-border collaboration becoming a norm: best practices for addressing distance, cultural differences, and technological requirements

 

14:00 Lunch break

 

15:00 Session 3 – Law and ethics in ESG and AI
  • Setting net-zero goals – pitfalls and consequences
  • The potential impact of AI regulation on the competitiveness of the EU’s tech industry.
  • Assessing the EU AI-regulation risk-based approach and the European AI Board – potential pitfalls and challenges

 

16:45 Coffee Break

 

17:15 – Reforming GDPR for cross-border enforcements – how can the EU ensure that GPDR reaches its full potential?

SPEAKERS

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Jonathan Marsh
International General Counsel, TotalEnergies
President, ECLA

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Colm O'Connor
Director of Legal Affairs, SCOR Ireland

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Anca Plovie
Global Lead ESG Counsel, Nokia Corporation

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Head of Legal – Legal Tech and Digital Innovation, Sky Italia

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Jean-Philippe Doho
Head of Legal Operations, PPRO

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Sarah Irwin
Head of Legal and Company Secretary, Tines

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Ruud van Herpen
Chief Legal Officer, Xebia Group

SUPPORTERS

REGISTRATION

Pricing*:

  • EUR 249,00 for in-house counsel**
  • EUR 990,00 for others

*Excluding VAT
** Registrants must be members of an ECLA Member Association. For list of organisations, please click here.

Registration conditions: After your online registration you will receive a booking confirmation and an invoice by ECLA Association Services SPRL to your given email address. If you are unable to attend, you can transfer your registration to another person. Such a transfer must be notified and approved by the event organiser ECLA Association Services SPRL. A possible cost difference depending on the membership status will be charged accordingly. If you are unable to find a substitute participant, you can cancel your registration in written form with the organiser (event@ecla.eu). For written cancellation until 30 days prior to the event, a handling fee of EUR 150,00 will be charged. For cancellation less than 30 days prior to the event, the registration fee will be payable in the full amount. The date on which written notice of cancellation is received by the organiser shall be decisive.
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VENUE

36 38 Rue du Moulin
92170 Vanves, France

Colm O’Connor
Director of Legal Affairs, SCOR Ireland

Prior to his present position at SCOR, Colm was a lawyer in the City of London with international law firm Clyde & Co. Whilst at Clyde & Co., Colm gained considerable experience advising on corporate and commerical matters as part of a team ranked Tier 1 in the UK by the Legal 500 and Band 1 by Chambers. In addition, he completed a nine month secondment into the Lloyd’s of London market with Sompo Canopius and a three month secondment with Markel. Colm has also worked in Malta where he was a corporate lawyer with Ganado Advocates’ market leading corporate team (ranked Legal 500 Tier 1 and Chambers Band 1).

Anca Plovie 

Global Lead ESG Counsel, Nokia Corporation

Anca Plovie is the Global Lead ESG Counsel of Nokia.  She has multi-jurisdictional expertise in telecommunications and technology law, privacy law, cybersecurity law and employment law, having provided specialized guidance to the Nokia group and leading dedicated multi-disciplinary taskforces during the most significant regulatory changes and events of the past 8 years, including the implementation of GDPR, Brexit and the COVID crisis. Previously, she worked as a regional legal counsel for Alcatel-Lucent and a tax lawyer for two Big Four companies. Her diverse experience provided her with a solid background for her current function where she is focusing on sustainability and responsible artificial intelligence, supporting Nokia’s global efforts to meet ambitious ESG goals. Anca is also involved in policy and standardization efforts in AI and AI ethics. She holds legal degrees from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the University of Sibiu and she is a member of the Belgian Institute for Company Lawyers.

Gianluca Campus

Head of Legal – Legal Tech and Digital Innovation, Sky Italia 

Gianluca Campus is a head counsel and qualified lawyer specialized in intellectual property, tech and telecommunications laws. He has a PhD in Law and is Fellow of the University of Milan. During his academic course, he has been post-doc researcher in the University of Foggia and winner of a scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Programme. He is co-editor of the Media Blog Medialaws.eu and contributor of the international IP blogs Kluwer Copyright Blog and of the European Intellectual Property Review. He currently holds the position Head of Legal Tech and Digital Innovation in the Sky Italia Legal Team.

Sarah Irwin
Head of Legal
Tines

Sarah is Head of Legal at Tines, the Irish cybersecurity no-code automation start up helping companies deal with fast-evolving security challenges in a scalable way. Tines’s no-code automation platform allows anyone, regardless of technical ability, to automate repetitive, monotonous, manual work, enabling them to stay ahead of the curve and freeing up their time to spend on higher value work.

Sarah is Founder and Chair of Irish Tech General Counsel, a new, independent community which she set up in 2022 to enable innovative legal professionals working at tech companies in Ireland to connect and share knowledge and expertise within an inclusive, empowering and supportive environment, and to prevent members from becoming isolated in their working lives.

Sarah has 13 years’ experience as a lawyer across two jurisdictions, having first trained and worked as a barrister in London, then later cross-qualifying as a corporate/technology solicitor in Ireland, and ultimately pivoting into in-house practice at Tines. In 2022, Sarah was included in the Legal500 GC Powerlist: Ireland. She is a huge advocate of legal operations and legal tech and leverages both as part of her strategy in effectively building out an in-house function from scratch at a rapidly scaling start up, including in particular Ironclad (CLM software) and Johnson Hana (legal operations).

Sarah is passionate about diversity, inclusion, equity and belonging and co-founded the DIEB group at Tines, on a mission to increase the number of women and underrepresented minorities in tech, and in particular, cybersecurity.

Ruud van Herpen
Chief Legal Officer, Xebia Group

Ruud is a seasoned legal management executive with close to 30 years of experience in various legal roles and is currently CLO at Xebia International Group. Xebia is a worldwide, innovative IT Consultancy Company, operating on a global scale with a team over 5,000 consultants helping the world’s top 250 companies and category leaders overcome digital challenges, embrace innovation, adopt new technology and implement new business models. Ruud has laid out a challenging digital transformation path for the legal department to become a fully digitalized and AI driven department by the start of 2025.