Lexpo'24 - the 6th edition
Lexpo is the premier event dedicated to reshaping the future of the legal industry through innovation and (legal) technology. Hosted in Amsterdam, Lexpo'24 is designed for forward-thinking law firms and in-house corporate legal departments ready to embrace the next wave of legal transformation.
Join us for an unparalleled gathering of legal professionals, tech innovators, and thought leaders as we explore cutting-edge developments in legal technology, innovative strategies, and the latest trends driving legal services forward. Whether you're looking to optimize your firm’s operations, enhance your department's efficiency, or simply stay ahead of the curve in a rapidly evolving industry, Lexpo'24 promises a wealth of knowledge, networking opportunities, and actionable insights.
A stage for your innovations
Lexpo is not just about discussing trends; it's about creating them. That's why we are inviting you to submit your innovative projects for consideration to be featured in an exclusive session. Whether it’s a novel approach to legal processes, a pioneering use of technology, or a unique strategy that sets your firm apart, we want to hear about it! Do you want to know more? Continue reading here.
Why visit Lexpo?
With a focus on practical solutions and real-world (proven) applications, our curated sessions, interactive workshops, and expert panels are tailored to empower legal innovators across Continental Europe with the tools and strategies needed to thrive in today’s digital era. From artificial intelligence and machine learning to knowledge- and change management, discover how legal technology innovative strategies can revolutionize your practice and deliver unparalleled value to your clients.
Don’t miss this unique opportunity to connect with peers, learn from industry pioneers, and chart your path to legal innovation excellence. Join us as we pave the way for a more efficient, dynamic, and technologically advanced legal landscape.
Dutch Bar Association
Dutch lawyers have the opportunity to earn points at Lexpo, contributing to the professional development requirements set by the Dutch Bar Association (Nederlandse Orde van Advocaten, NOvA). It's important to note that lawyers can earn 1 PO-point for every hour spent attending sessions at Lexpo, excluding any breaks. To ensure points are properly accredited, all participants must sign in upon arrival and sign out when leaving. Following the event, a Certificate of Attendance will be issued to all attendees.
The NOvA recognizes that lawyers are best positioned to determine which sessions at Lexpo enhance their professional competence. Thus, they have the autonomy to select sessions that align with their ongoing professional development needs.
These law firms and legal departments attended Lexpo'24:
Lexpo'25 themes
Document Management
In today's rapidly evolving legal environment, efficient Document Management (DM) is not just an option – it's a strategic necessity. For law firms, DM is the backbone that ensures seamless operations, enhances compliance, safeguards sensitive information, and optimizes productivity and collaboration. More than that, it is the foundation for leveraging advanced technologies to gain deeper insights and intelligence from your documents.
At Lexpo'25, we spotlight the transformative potential of advanced DM systems. In an age where digitalization drives efficiency, effective DM is critical. Discover how modern DM solutions streamline workflows, secure client data, and revolutionize case management, enabling firms to deliver excellence and stay ahead in the competitive legal landscape. Beyond that, with the power of Artificial Intelligence, firms can now extract unprecedented value from their documents, from automating routine tasks to uncovering actionable insights hidden within large volumes of data.
Join us at Lexpo'25 for immersive sessions led by industry leaders, exploring the latest DM strategies and technologies. Learn how automation, cloud solutions, AI-powered tools, and genAI technologies are reshaping the way legal professionals manage, analyze, and retrieve documents – unlocking unparalleled operational agility and client service.
Don't miss this opportunity to transform your firm’s document management operations. Optimize your processes, protect your data, and empower your lawyers and legal teams to work smarter. Attend Lexpo'25 and embrace the future of legal document management innovation, where the next frontier is not just efficiency but intelligence.
To be announced...
The second Lexpo'25 theme will be announced in October.
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The Lexpo'24 speakers
Reena SenGupta
Executive Director
RSGI Limited
Reena SenGupta
Reena SenGupta is a long-time analyst, writer, consultant and thought leader in the global legal industry. With a background in the City, and as an entrepreneur and journalist, she has been responsible for creating market-leading rankings, awards and assessment programmes for lawyers such as the Chambers & Partners Guides in the mid-nineties and the FT Innovative Lawyers programme in 2006 along with many other ground-breaking initiatives in the legal sector.
For nearly thirty years, she has consulted to law firms, law companies, the Big four accounting firms and general counsel on strategy, innovation and how to be relevant in a rapidly changing world.
Reena now leads RSGi, a global think-tank dedicated to helping the legal industry create a sustainable future. She is also a unique creator of events and content, a seasoned public speaker and regular contributor to the Financial Times.
Reena ais a graduate of the Meyler Campbell Elements coaching programme and an Asian Woman of Achievement.
We asked Reena three questions, including insights into her upcoming keynote at Lexpo'24.
Marco Imperiale
Founder and Managing Director
Better Ipsum
Marco Imperiale
Marco Imperiale is the visionary founder and managing director of Better Ipsum, a cutting-edge consultancy specializing in legal design, innovation, and wellbeing. With a wealth of experience in developing innovative services and products for law firms, institutions, and corporations, Marco is a distinguished leader in the legal innovation landscape.
Previously, he served as the head of innovation at the leading Italian firm LCA Studio Legale, where he played a pivotal role in shaping the firm's innovative strategies. Marco is widely recognized as a legal design trailblazer, co-authoring the first Italian book on legal design alongside Barbara de Muro. His expertise has garnered international recognition; he delivered lectures on legal design at the esteemed Harvard Graduate School of Designa nd served as a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School, concentrating on the intersection of legal design and legal innovation.
In addition to his professional achievements, Marco possesses an eclectic set of interests. He has attended over 1000 concerts, completed multiple marathons, and walked El Camino de Santiago nine times. Amidst his busy schedule, he also lends his expertise as a negotiation consultant and mindfulness trainer, showcasing his dedication to holistic personal and professional development.
We asked Marco three questions regarding his career, vision, and perspectives on his upcoming session at Lexpo'24.
Jaap Bosman
Strategy Consultant & Founding Partner
TGO Consulting
Jaap Bosman
Jaap Bosman is an award-winning strategy consultant. After having spent 15 years in legal practice, he founded TGO Consulting 10 years ago. Among his clients are the elite law firms in Europe, the US, Latina America, and China.
Jaap’s achievements have been recognized by the Financial Times with the first ever Innovative Lawyers Award for International Strategy. He is also a winner of the Thomson Reuters Excellence in Legal Marketing Award.
Jaap is widely considered one of the great thought leaders in the legal profession, he has contributed numerous articles and has published several books among which ‘Death of a Law Firm’ which has even been translated in Chinese and has become a global bestseller.
Few people have so much knowledge and experience as it comes to law firms and the dynamics of a partnership. Over the years Jaap has always emphasized the importance of the human element in an age of increasingly advanced technology.
Klára Talabér-Ritz
Legal Adviser, KM & AI Team Leader
Legal Service of the European Commission
Dr. Klára Talabér-Ritz
Dr. Klára Talabér-Ritz is a Legal Adviser in the Legal Service of the European Commission.
Since Dr. Talabér-Ritz joined the Legal Service in 2003, she has worked in the State Aid and Antidumping team and in the Internal Market team where she was responsible for the coordination of the European Green Deal and the ‘Fit for 55’ legislative package.
Dr. Talabér-Ritz has represented the European Commission in more than 200 cases before the European Court of Justice and international courts, including several seminal institutional, economic and environmental law cases.
Since 2020, Dr. Talabér-Ritz leads the digital transformation of the Legal Service. As a Team Leader in charge of Knowledge Management and Artificial Intelligence, she was responsible for the elaboration of the Legal Service’s Strategy on Artificial Intelligence and for the development of performant, state-of-the-art LegalTech solutions to enhance in-house efficiency, quality of work and knowledge sharing.
Dr. Talabér-Ritz holds a law degree from Eötvös Loránd University and a Master’s degree in European Law and Economics from Corvinus University of Budapest. From 2019-2020, Dr. Talabér-Ritz was an EU Research Fellow for Artificial Intelligence and the Legal Profession at Harvard University. From 1998-2003, she practiced law at various Hungarian and American law firms in Budapest. She is fluent in Hungarian, English, French and Italian.
Akshay Verma
COO
Spotdraft
Akshay Verma
Akshay Verma is the current COO of Spotdraft. As a recovering lawyer, Akshay spent 7 years practicing in the environmental field before transitioning into a legal consulting and business development role at Axiom Global. He spent another 7 years at Axiom helping large legal departments strategize on a variety of issues around resourcing, spend, technology implementation and process improvement. Akshay also spent the last 5 years heading up the legal operations functions at tech giants Meta (fka Facebook) and Coinbase, where much of his work involved leveraging process improvement and technology implementation to create efficiencies within the legal department. Akshay is a graduate of Santa Clara University School of Law, where he is currently an Adjunct Professor, and a proud California Golden Bear.
We posed three questions to Akshay about his career, vision, and insights into his Lexpo'24 session.
Tjeu Cox
Co-founder & IT Consultant
IT Factor
Tjeu Cox
Tjeu has a keen interest in technology, artificial intelligence and data-driven decision-making applicable to the legal profession. He is in charge of partnerships and likes to think along with day-to-day boards when it comes to professionalization. With IT Factor, Tjeu tries to get as much as possible out of Microsoft 365 and therefore regularly publishes on digital trends, legal tech and AI-developments within the legal market. In early 2024, Tjeu completed the "Oxford Artificial Intelligence Program.
Ari Kaplan
Principal
Ari Kaplan Advisors
Ari Kaplan
Ari, the undisputed star of Lexpo, is back to captivate us all at Lexpo'24! Celebrating his fifth dazzling appearance, he's ready to mesmerize the stage, enchant the speakers, and thrill the audience as our charismatic Emcee for the fourth unforgettable time!
Ari Kaplan, an attorney and legal industry analyst, is an inaugural Fastcase 50 honoree, a fellow of the College of Law Practice Management, and a finalist for ILTA’s Thought Leader of the Year award. He is the author of Reinventing Professional Services: Building Your Business in the Digital Marketplace (Wiley, 2011) and The Opportunity Maker: Strategies for Inspiring Your Legal Career Through Creative Networking and Business Development (West Academic, 2nd Ed. 2016).
Kaplan serves as the principal researcher for a variety of widely distributed benchmarking reports, hosts the Virtual Lunch daily on Zoom, has been the keynote speaker for events worldwide, and is the founder of the Lawcountability® business development software platform and iPhone app. He is a two-time Ironman triathlon finisher and a struggling guitar player.
Rich Dibbins
Founder
Staxton Digital
Rich Dibbins: The Digital Marketing Dynamo Transforming Legal Firms
Rich Dibbins is a dynamic and insightful speaker specialising in demystifying digital marketing to empower law firms across the world. With over a decade of experience, his presentations are charged with actionable insights, reflecting a "no-nonsense" philosophy that resonates deeply in the sometimes-arcane world of legal marketing.
Navigating the complex intersection of technology and law, Rich is on a mission to prove that behind every effective marketing strategy, there's substance, not just style. Renowned for his engaging style and captivating workshops, he has been a keynote speaker at prestigious legal conferences such as Legal Market Day and conferred with numerous testimonials for his consultancy approach on marketing challenges unique to the legal sector.
Rich doesn’t just talk the talk; he walks the walk. His belief in marketing for all law firms, regardless of size or budget, has led him to create and share free tools and strategies with his audiences, ensuring that they have the practical resources to implement immediately.
Rich setup Staxton Digital with the only purpose to help law firms who were struggling or tired of being bamboozled with marketing terminology.
Beyond his professional endeavours, Rich finds joy spending time with Molly, his beloved labradoodle, and Noah, his energetic son. An unexpected aficionado of boxing lore, Rich often brings the fighting spirit into the marketing arena, inspiring his listeners to fearlessly tackle their marketing hurdles head-on.
Prepare to be energised, enlightened, and equipped with the knowledge to transform your legal marketing efforts, courtesy of Rich's engaging and transformative delivery.
Jan Willamo
Chief Digital Officer
Roschier
Jan Willamo
Jan Willamo is the Chief Digital Officer at Roschier. In this role he is responsible for driving and implementing the firm’s technical development and digitalization in all offices by monitoring new technical trends and focusing on testing and piloting new ideas. Jan has worked 20 years with technology related matters in the law firm industry and as an entrepreneur.
Jan originally joined the firm in 1999 and has worked as both Head of Roschier’s ICS team and Knowledge & Tools team. He returned to Roschier in 2016 from a position as Business Development Director at Salomaa Group.
Andrei Salajan
Head of Digitalisation
Schoenherr
Andrei Salajan
Andrei Salajan is Head of Digitalisation at Schoenherr. With his deep understanding of both legal and technological landscapes, Andrei is involved in the firm's strategic initiatives to leverage legal technology and optimise processes with the focus on improving efficiency and enhancing client services. His expertise in legal tech and passion for innovation make him a key stakeholder in adopting new technology and navigating the evolving landscape of the legal industry.
Thor Alden
Associate Director, Innovation
Dechert LLP
Thor Alden
Thor Alden, Associate Director of Innovation at Dechert LLP assists with improving the delivery of legal services to enhance client experiences, optimize attorney work product, and improve operations. Thor currently focuses on matters related to generative AI and robotic process automation. A graduate of Princeton University (A.B.) and the Georgetown University Law Center (J.D.), he was formerly a senior associate within Dechert’s financial services group.
Nicola Shaver
CEO & Co-Founder
Legaltech Hub
Nicola Shaver
Nikki Shaver is the CEO and co-founder of Legaltech Hub, providing the most comprehensive directory of legal technology tools together with educational tools and resources for orgaizations seeking to evaluate and procure relevant solutions. She is an industry-recognized legal professional with over 20 years of experience. After practicing law for a decade, Nikki transitioned into the field of legaltech and legal innovation, leading global teams at top tier law firms in Canada and the United States through major change initiatives and digital transformation. As a trailblazer in the industry, she has been acknowledged by Modern Law Magazine, Fastcase 50, ILTA, the College of Law Practice Management and the ABA for her outstanding contributions. As a result of her contributions to intellectual discourse on advanced AI, Relativity has named her one of the AI Visionaries for 2024. Nikki is the author of the book “The Handbook for Legal Innovation” (released in 2023), and is a trusted advisor to law firms and corporate legal departments, providing expertise in legal business transformation, AI strategy, and enterprise-wide change management. Additionally, she advises and invests in various legaltech companies. Legaltech Hub, under Nikki's leadership, tracks the evolution of legal AI and become the go-to platform for education, insights, and analysis on legaltech.
Gereon Abendroth
Partner, Head of Innovation
Osborne Clarke, Germany
Gereon Abendroth
Gereon Abendroth is a German Partner and Member of the Management Board of Osborne Clarke Germany, where he leads the transformation of the firm's service delivery and has overall responsibility for the digitalisation of internal processes and the adoption of technology. He is Managing Director of Osborne Clarke Solutions, a cross-disciplinary unit focused on developing and deploying legal technology solutions for Osborne Clarke as well as its clients to ensure they derive greater value from the legal practice’s services. Within Osborne Clarke International, he leads the global AI strategy and promotes a culture of innovation and technological advancement across the firm, e.g., Osborne Clarke is one of only a handful of law firms that already established its own implementation of GPT in 2023.
Dimitri Duwaerts
Senior ICT Officer
Lydian
Dimitri Duwaerts
Dimitri Duwaerts serves as the Head of ICT at Lydian, a full-service Belgian top 5 law firm. He brings a wealth of experience in the legal sector coupled with expertise as a seasoned ICT professional.
With a deep understanding of the landscape of modern workplaces and legal technology, Dimitri has played a pivotal role in guiding Lydian through a comprehensive multi-year roadmap aimed at optimizing and modernizing the firm. The successful implementation of the modern workplace framework paved the way for Dimitri to delve into legal tech and artificial intelligence. As part of Lydian’s Innovation Team, Dimitri is dedicated to driving innovation and efficiency within Lydian's legal practices.
As a speaker at Lexpo, Dimitri will share insights gleaned from Lydian's digital transition journey, offering valuable perspectives on navigating the intersection of technology and the legal sector.
Pim Betist
Entrepreneur and Digital Innovator
Pim Betist
Pim Betist is an experienced innovator and speaker in the realm of technology and innovation. He holds a Master's degree in Business Administration from Rijksuniversiteit Groningen and has an extensive background in launching and nurturing online ventures. Beyond founding his own companies, Pim has played a role in assisting startups to obtain funding for their initiatives and making legal documents more accessible and affordable for small businesses.
Presently, his focus is on providing practical training to law firms and legal departments, guiding them on how to effectively use artificial intelligence in their day-to-day operations. This endeavor aims to improve operational efficiency and help legal professionals understand the practical benefits of AI tools in their work.
Remco Visser
Co-founder & Data Analyst
IT Factor
Remco Visser
Remco is the founder of IT Factor Consulting and supports law firms with digital transformation and innovation. Focussing only the legal industry, Remco has completed projects for over 50 distinguished law firms on the topics of legal tech consulting, intranets, financial dashboards, Generative AI and Microsoft Copilot. With a background in Finance and Econometrics from the VU Amsterdam, Remco knows the technical details as well as the workings of a law firm. Just this year, he also completed the Artificial Intelligence Programme from Oxford University.
Kyle Gribben
Head of Digital Services
Matheson LLP
Kyle Gribben
Kyle Gribben is the Head of Digital Services at Matheson LLP in Dublin, where he is responsible for the firm's legal technology and innovation strategy. He has worked at Matheson since 2018, delivering both internal and client facing projects with a focus on utilising a broad range of technologies to deliver the best possible client experiences. He leads a multi-disciplinary team of lawyers, project managers, legal technologists, automation specialists, software developers and specialist IT trainers. He has lectured on legal innovation and technology and prior to his time working in legal technology practised as a barrister based in Belfast specialising in civil litigation, criminal defence and judicial review.
Idoya Fernández
Partner, Head of Knowledge and Innovation
Cuatrecasas
Idoya Fernández
Idoya Fernández is a partner at Cuatrecasas, member of its board of directors and head of Knowledge and Innovation.
She leads a multidisciplinary team of lawyers, academics and specialists working in R&D&I (Knowledge and Innovation Group) to ensure top-quality legal advice; manage collective knowledge efficiently; and promote innovation, digitalization and added value services for clients.
She is an expert in mergers and acquisitions, company reorganizations, joint venture agreements and domestic and international commercial contracts.
She lectures on company law in the Master in Business Law at Universidad de Navarra and the Master for Admission to the Practice of Law at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, and teaches the Expert Course on Corporate Governance and M&A Transactions at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.
She is a regular speaker at courses and training seminars at business schools and universities.
We posed three questions to Idoya about her career, vision, and insights into her Lexpo'24 session.
Moritz Krause
Legal Operations Senior Specialist
Gleiss Lutz
Moritz Krause
Moritz is a Legal Operations Senior Specialist at Gleiss Lutz, where he focusses on the firm’s Legal Tech portfolio and Legal Operations matters. At Gleiss Lutz, Moritz and the team have put together a selection of various market-leading Legal Tech tools including the specially developed and award-winning platforms “FactTracker” and “Client Collaboration Platform”.
Currently, Moritz is closely involved in implementing the AI strategy of Gleiss Lutz which includes a firm-wide roll-out of generative AI platforms. Moritz has joined Gleiss Lutz in 2019, initially in the antitrust team of the firm before moving to Legal Tech and Legal Operations.
Margarida Saragoça
Business & Knowledge Director
Vieira de Almeida & Associados
Margarida Saragoça
Margarida Saragoca, MPS, serves as the Business & Knowledge Director at Vieira de Almeida & Associados (VdA), an international firm with presence in 7 jurisdictions and that has been recognized multiple times by the Financial Times as the Most Innovative Law Firm in continental Europe. She brings over 30 years of experience to the legal market. After graduating in law from the Faculty of Law of the Portuguese Catholic University in Lisbon, Portugal, she earned an LLM degree at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, and went on to obtain her Master’s degree in Law Firm Management from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., USA.
At VdA, Margarida oversees six major business units: Client Value, New Frontier Business, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Integration, Practice & Business Analytics, and Quality & Innovation. She is a member of both the Executive Committee and the Innovation Forum at the firm. Over the past few years, she has been a speaker on pricing and innovation topics at international events. Notably, she was invited to participate in the Law Firm Marketing Summit, to deliver a masterclass at Harvard Law School, and to lead a training session for the Association of Legal Administrators (ALA), as well as speak at the 11th Annual European & Global Pricing Conference hosted by the Professional Pricing Society (PPS).
Malin Männikkö
Legal Tech Associate
DLA Piper
Malin Männikkö
Malin is a Legal Tech Associate at DLA Piper in Sweden and divides her time between driving various legal tech initiatives at DLA Piper and doing legal work in the Intellectual Property and Technology team. In addition to being a legal tech enthusiast and advocate, Malin is a legal design facilitator and an active legal tech and legal design community member. In 2023 she was awarded the Legal Innovator of the year award in Sweden.
Andy Ramos
Partner
Pérez-Llorca
Andy Ramos
Profile
Andy Ramos Gil de la Haza joined Pérez-Llorca as Counsel in 2019 and became a partner in 2022. Prior to joining the firm, Andy worked 15 years at a boutique firm in Madrid, an intellectual property rights management agency and a film studio in Los Angeles (California).
Experience
As expert in technology and digital right, Andy advises on the identification, protection, transfer and acquisition of intangible assets, including software, video games and audiovisual works. Andy is actively involved in intangible asset transactions, advising media and technology companies on complex issues related to copyright, artificial intelligence, consumer rights, etc., as well as litigation, mostly related to software and collective management organizations.
Academic and Publishing Collaborations
Andy is a frequent speaker at conferences and lectures for specialized seminars and courses on intellectual property, the Internet, technology, AI, and entertainment, and has been invited by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to speak at conferences in Brazil, Switzerland, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Andy has also been invited to speak at the "More Than Just a Game" conference (Queen Mary University of London) and the "Games Industry Law Summit" (Vilnius, Lithuania).
Jeremy Burdge
COO Americas
ELTEMATE
Jeremy Burdge
Jeremy Burdge is COO Americas at ELTEMATE. With over a decade of experience with operating at the intersection of technology, the practice of law, and the business of law, he has a unique understanding of risks and opportunities that emerging technologies pose for clients. Jeremy specializes in a hybrid consultancy approach to advising clients and legal teams on how to best leverage cutting-edge technologies to accelerate legal outcomes, reduce risks, and drive better business value.
Jeremy was instrumental in transforming our Investigations, White Collar, and Fraud practice by introducing technology-driven approaches to service delivery. Bringing advanced technology and data driven expertise to the team, Jeremy creates unexpected solutions that enable the client to rapidly respond during times of crisis and disruption.
Previously, Jeremy provided legal technology support for narcotics and organized crime investigations at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New York, FCPA and Fraud investigations at the Enforcement Division of the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C. and ran a legal technology department for the U.S. Department of Justice.
Additionally, Jeremy’s consultancy focus includes a diverse selection of areas including risk management, data governance, and data analysis. He guides clients through the tech enablement of processes, optimizing legal operations, and improving litigation support capabilities. Jeremy’s expertise in legal solutions equips clients with the necessary tools and strategies to navigate the complexities of the modern legal landscape.
Maged Helmy
CEO | Generative AI Developer
Newcode.ai
Maged Helmy
Maged Helmy is an academic and industry expert in artificial intelligence. He holds a PhD in AI from the University of Oslo (UiO) and serves as an Associate Professor of Software Architecture at the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN). Over the past eight years, Dr. Helmy has designed and implemented more than 15 AI systems and deployed over eight large language models (LLMs) for enterprise applications. He has also provided consultancy services to notable organizations, including the Norwegian Digitalisation Agency (Digdir), the Norwegian Board of Health Supervision (Helsetilsynet), and the Norwegian Bar Association. Currently, he is the CEO of Newcode.ai, a company that specializes in delivering advanced enterprise-grade LLM products.
Fabian Otto
Legal Tech & Operations Officer
Erste Bank
Fabian Otto
Fabian Otto serves as Erste Bank's Legal Tech & Operations Officer. After studying political science and law at the university of Vienna he joined Erste Bank in 2018 where he started to initialize first digitalisation, workflow optimisation and data Literacy projects in the local legal department. As a consistent advocate towards the increased use of Legal Tech & Operations in banking, he currently oversees a comprehensive digitalisation program where 46 austrian savings banks participate. Fabian is a self-learned tech enhusiast who is always motivated to exchange ideas, learn new things and deepen his understanding of tech.
Mark Zijlstra
Head of Legal Technology
ICTRecht
Mark Zijlstra
Mark Zijlstra is Head of Legal Technology at ICTRecht. In this role, Mark advises on the intersection of legal, technology and operations. His activities consist of optimizing legal departments to increase efficiency and throughput and reduce costs.
Mark studied business administration and law and has been active as a corporate lawyer since 2006. In that capacity, he has advised many (large) companies, among other things, on reorganizations, M&A and the establishment of legal departments. In recent years, Mark has fulfilled several roles as (interim) General Counsel. During this period, he further immersed himself in Legal Operations and made various legal departments more efficient and effective, thus creating added value for the organization. Within ICTRecht, he uses this experience to make legal departments better and more efficient by advising on the use of technology.
Gerard van der Linden
Partner
vanOlde
Gerard van der Linden
Gerard is one of the founding partners of vanOlde. He specialises in corporate tax and international tax law, with a strong emphasis on real estate transactions, M&A, fund structuring, REITs, management incentives, financial transactions, private equity, and asset finance. Beyond his legal expertise, Gerard is deeply passionate about artificial intelligence, spearheading advanced AI and IT initiatives within his firm to enhance data analytics, automate legal processes, and drive innovation in legal services. Previously, Gerard worked at Allen & Overy LLP, Houthoff, and PwC, where he gained diverse experience, including a two-year stint in the London office of Houthoff and in-house secondments at a London-based hedge fund manager and a Dutch real estate developer.
Irina Seniut
Head of Knowledge Management and Innovation
Sorainen
Irina Seniut
Irina Seniut, a former associate at Sorainen and now a long-time head of the Knowledge Management and Innovation team at the same firm, is in charge of driving the change management toward the technology-savvy, efficient law firm.
Since 2018, the Knowledge Management and Innovation team has carried out numerous impactful projects, including document automation, AI integration, legal technology development, and training the new generation of lawyers capable of efficient technology adoption.
Irina’s goal is to methodically refine the technology landscape within the firm, ensuring efficiency and alignment with strategic objectives, eliminating unnecessary costs, and monitoring performance and industry advancements.
Over the last six years, Irina has been working on developing confident, broadly skilled professionals firm-wide, ensuring they are adaptable to diverse challenges and possess a wide range of competencies, both legal and technological.
Irina continues to work on scaling emerging technologies and new service development, as well as promoting the gradual integration of technology adoption into the firm's values and performance metrics.
Laszlo V. Szabo
Senior Legaltech Advisor
Lakatos, Köves and Partners Legaltech Lab
Laszlo V. Szabo
Laszlo V. Szabo is a senior legaltech advisor, has been working at Lakatos, Köves and Partners Law Office in Budapest for 5 years, and is the founder of the firm's Legaltech Lab. Initially, he was involved in the promotion of Timemind, the group's legal practice management system. After the establishment of the Legaltech Lab, he became its senior legaltech consultant. Laszlo previously worked in finance for more than 30 years, leading the structured lending area in Citibank and finance areas in the largest Hungarian companies (MOL, MVM). He has been involved in the delivery of many financing and technology innovations. He regularly collaborated with lawyers, engineers and IT specialists to implement structuring innovations. He has been a Gestalt coach for 20 years and has been involved in alternative medicine for 10 years. Laszlo is a committed advocate and supporter of the Silver Economy. His wife is an acclaimed fairy-tale and family therapist and they have three adult children.
Joy Heath Rush
Chief Executive Officer
ILTA
Joy Heath Rush
Joy Heath Rush is the Chief Executive Officer of The International Legal Technology Association (ILTA), an organization that provides educational and networking opportunities for thousands of lawyers and legal technology professionals around the world. As CEO, Joy oversees ILTA’s operations, a global network of volunteer leaders, and a professional staff of 30 employees.
Joy has spent virtually her entire career supporting lawyers and technologists in the practice of law, beginning in the sector in 1981. She spent 28 years at the global law firm Sidley Austin LLP in a variety of technology and leadership roles and was an executive with Litera for nearly five years.
Joy was recognized as the American Lawyer Media Champion of Legal Technology for 2008. In February of 2019, Joy was named one of 2019’s Women in Legal Technology by the ABA’s Legal Technology Resource Center. Joy was named the recipient of the 5th annual Monica Bay Women in STEM award for 2019.
Joy’s professional philosophy is to do everything in her power to serve her constituents with kindness, intelligence, dedication, and passion, while providing a positive and motivational environment for staff.
Jorn Vanysacker
co-Founder & co-CEO
Henchman
Jorn Vanysacker
Jorn is Co-CEO & Founder of Henchman - the fastest contract drafting experience ever made. Henchman enables a sharing mindset among hundreds of organizations across 30+ countries, turning their collective knowledge into a superpower. Using state-of-the-art technology, Henchman intelligently gives instant access to legal teams' previously written clauses, definitions, and metadata in Microsoft Word and Outlook. Former experience: CMO at Intuo (acquired by Unit4 in 2019), and Co-founder Rendeevoo (2013).
Sarah Murphy
General Manager, EMEA
Clio
Sarah Murphy
Sarah Murphy serves as the General Manager of EMEA at Clio, the global leader in legal technology. With a strong emphasis on innovation, she guides and motivates her teams, ensuring Clio remains at the forefront of transforming the legal experience across the UK, Ireland, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
Sarah's extensive career spans diverse industries, including finance, insurance, telecommunications, and legal technology. This broad expertise allows her to empower legal professionals of all backgrounds to navigate the challenges of running a successful law firm. She is driven by her passion for building and scaling teams that thrive in a high growth environment. Sarah's commitment to innovation is matched by her focus on customer success, and determination to explore new markets where Clio can have a significant impact.
Sarah leads Clio's expansion across EMEA, unlocking untapped opportunities and driving the company's success. Under her leadership, Clio continues to redefine the legal experience, setting new standards of excellence and driving innovation across the region.
Eva Peeters
Co-Founder & Partner
L-IME
Eva Peeters
Eva has over 20 years of experience in the legal sector. She started as a lawyer and was COO at a niche firm for 10 years. Since 2017 she is an independent legal tech consultant who gives direction to people and organisations. Eva assists law firms, takes the lead when necessary or, on the contrary, silently ensures acceptance of changes within the firm in the background. Eva ensures that changes, large and small, are implemented with calmness and focus. Eva is co-author of 'The legal profession as a business'.
Justin Borja
Head of Partnerships
Henchman
Justin Borja
Justin Borja, Head of Partnerships at Henchman, the fastest contract drafting experience ever made. Henchman enables a sharing mindset among hundreds of organizations across 30+ countries. Using state-of-the-art technology, Henchman intelligently gives instant access to legal teams' previously written clauses, definitions, and metadata in Microsoft Word, Outlook, and Copilot.
Christine Kaiser
Client Advisor Europe
LexisNexis InterAction
Chrisitine Kaiser
During more than 25 years of professional experience in international law firms, Christine has gained substantial user experience with InterAction. From being a user assisting partners and their legal team, later a power user dealing with Marketing and Business Development work, she finally had the chance as interim CRM manager to roll out the CRM solution in a German major law firm with more than 400 users. Thus prepared, she started in June 2022 as Client Advisor Europe at LexisNexis InterAction and contributes her broad expertise in supporting continental European and South African clients in the strategic use of the system, working closely with Marketing and Business Development teams developing strategies to support the entire client lifecycle, leveraging the capabilities of InterAction to streamline processes and increase efficiency. She also provides guidance and support to ensure that users can effectively utilise the technology and make informed, data-driven decisions.
Martijn Tekelenburg
co-Managing Director
IRIS Nederland
Martijn Tekelenburg
Martijn Tekelenburg is co-Managing Director at IRIS Nederland and part of the Canon Benelux IM Management team. In this role, Martijn manages a great team of professionals and advises a large set of clients in EMEA on the daily challenges around the new digital world. Focusing on Law firms, Corporate legal departments and Accountancy firms with digital transformation and innovation challenges makes him a knowledgeable person for future success.
Lexpo'24 Sponsors & Partners
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Developed by the best legal minds in the industry, Litera's comprehensive suite of integrated legal tools is both powerful and user-friendly and simplifies the way modern firms manage core legal workflows, secure collaboration, and organize firm knowledge and experience. Every day, Litera helps more than 2.3 million legal professionals focus on their craft.
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PSA delivers proven SaaS solutions and experts services to help law firms and other professional services firms with intelligent digital transformation. In addition to offering our own cloud-based integration platform Custodian and purpose-built productivity apps, we are an official reseller and systems integrator partner of leading legal tech and PSO tech solution providers such as iManage, Deltek Maconomy, Henchman, LawVu, Litera, Sysero and TIQ Time.
We are passionate about helping Professional Services Organisations (PSOs) gain and retain competitive advantage. Our cutting-edge applications, solutions and technologies help aspirational and ambitious Law Firms and other PSOs with intelligent digital transformation. We help digitise processes and integrate data and workflows across (and beyond) the organisation, empowering employees to maximise their productivity and deliver outstanding quality work to clients.
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No other cloud-based document management solution is more secure than NetDocuments. Data security and strict digital asset protection are key differentiators of the service that allow law firms and other industries with strict compliance and security guidelines to confidently store and collaborate on their documents and email. Additionally, our powerful integrations with Microsoft Office allow for smart editing, drafting, searching, and version control. Extranets, secure links, and client portals provide collaboration and security to outside parties who need real time access to their documents.
The pillars of our service include mobility, secure collaboration, disaster recovery, and compliance, and our SaaS (subscription-as-a-service) model requires us to proactively engage with our customers, ensuring we are meeting stringent requirements on a day-to-day basis. This includes managing a robust network for technical support and communities to share knowledge and insight regarding best practices.
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Clio enables law firms to deliver better client experiences through cloud-based practice management, payments, and client intake software. Clio was the first to bring cloud-based legal practice management software to market, and has been leading the industry since 2008 with the first client-centered suite of cloud-based law firm solutions, the Legal Trends Report, and the Clio Cloud Conference, which is now the most widely attended legal tech conference in the industry.
Clio is more than software. Clio is the only provider truly invested in the success of you and your clients. Clio’s team of client and firm success specialists combine their expertise on the Legal Trends Report, with their knowledge of Clio’s legal technology platform to help lawyers run results-driven law firms using real time insights.
Founded in Vancouver, Canada, Clio employs over 900 employee globally and has been named one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies, a Deloitte Fast 50 company, and one of Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures.
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Henchman experienced 750% growth this past year and has hundreds of customers across 4 continents. Founded by Gilles Mattelin (former Founder Intuo, acquired by Unit4 in 2019, Co-Founder Tout Bien Pils), Jorn Vanysacker (former CMO Intuo, former co-founder Rendeevoo) and Wouter Van Respaille (former PWC), Henchman employs a team of experienced SaaS professionals dedicated to bringing its clients a great customer experience. The company is venture-backed by Adjacent, Acton Capital, and Conviction VC.
Your legal knowledge base, right at your fingertips
Legal professionals rarely start from scratch when drafting contracts or negotiating details. They spend at least 60 minutes searching through old contracts or consulting colleagues for relevant precedents.
Henchman centralizes past clauses and definitions from any legal team's contract database and delivers them intelligently in lawyers' familiar Microsoft Word or Outlook environments. This eliminates time-consuming tasks and allows lawyers to focus on adding value and expertise.
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• Client transfers
• Retention and disposition
• Overall compliance of both physical and electronic assets
Our cost-effective solution not only helps firms to manage their digital governance policies across multiple information repositories (including iManage, NetDocuments, Aderant, SharePoint, Intapp, MS 365 and file shares). But, it also delivers the most comprehensive physical records tracking database available on the market today. Firms have the option of using iCompli’s barcode tracking or RFID capabilities for managing physical records in conjunction with the system’s Information Governance features, all within a single simple user interface.
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We are a premier consultancy dedicated to transforming, innovating, and developing law firms and legal departments. Our name refers to the breadth and diversity of our expertise, offering consulting services on, inter alia, strategy, AI, innovation, legaltech, business development, and training within the legal industry.
Our mission? To guide, empower, and ensure that our clients not only navigate today's complexities but also pioneer tomorrow's legal landscape. Our approach? Combining strategic foresight with practical, actionable solutions, long-term visionary goals with tangible, short-term impacts. Our uniquely broad network enables us to team up with the best additional specialists, forming ad-hoc expert teams tailored to our clients' needs. We are passionate about fostering insightful, inspiring conversations and smart collaborations that drive businesses forward.
L-IME consultants and project managers help law firms to get a better view on the opportunities offered by legal technology and pragmatically guide law firms from a digital transformation strategy to effective execution, operating at the intersection of people, processes, and technology. Over the years this has led to a distinct track record in increasing technology related user adoption and sustaining change at many knowledge driven organizations.
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Curious, collaborative, and dedicated, our team includes experts from across the markets we serve.
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Designed as a fully integrated, enterprise software, FileTrail provides a modern data governance solution to help organizations automate compliance with internal policies, governmental regulations, and outside counsel guidelines (OCG), create custom policies and taxonomies per industry, and reduce risk through retention and disposition management to dramatically reduce costs.
There’s a reason FileTrail has been leading the Information Governance market for 20+ years, and it all comes down to experience, customer service, and excellence. Stay on track with FileTrail — we’ll help you get there.
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We help our customers to manage the ever-growing amount of documents, emails, data and information. The combination of our specialist knowledge, years of experience and the ability to deliver innovative technology makes us the partner for organizations that want to streamline their workforce.
The technology that we provide contains rich functionalities and features which meets the wishes and requirements of our customers. However, sometimes very specific functionality is required which isn’t standard available. That’s where our own developed IRIS technology comes in, providing specific tools and integrations to ensure a solution works for your specific situation.
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Since every office has its own processes, it is our task as legal engineers to find and develop customised best practices. Lawcloud’s high-performance software is only the beginning.
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Since 2023 IT Factor and Venturis Consulting Group collaborate on data analysis and IT landscape auditing for law firms. Venturis and IT Factor increasingly assist European law firms with optimizing management reporting and data-structuring focusing on practice area performance, client portfolio analysis, profitability and margin. IT Factor designs and implements several types of dashboards that provide distinguished law firms with data-driven decision-making capabilities mainly by using Business Intelligence tools like Power BI.
IT Factor leads the legal market in the integration of Microsoft Copilot within law firms. Both Remco and Tjeu have completed the Oxford Artificial Intelligence Program, equipping them with the expertise needed to effectively incorporate the AI-generated app from the Microsoft 365-suite into the daily operations of a firm.
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The platform consists of three products: (1) Juristic Structure, a digital whiteboard; (2) Juristic Timeline, an automated timeline; and (3) Juristic Flow, a collaborative and visual project management tool. Designed in close collaboration with law and advisory firms, the products are uniquely applicable whether the goal is higher coverage or lower legal risk – or simply to make work life better for their employees.
In short, Juristic can transform the data and input in the tools into real client deliverables (document automation), e.g. an illustration for a 100-page legal report – or 500 emails into an interactive timeline that can be exported as a legal supporting appendix to the court. Or imagine legal structures automatically converting themselves into full PowerPoint slide decks with content.
Juristic has taken some of the legal methods that are already in use today and added an intelligent engine to these processes – and it even works across jurisdictions. In this way, the platform works across practice groups, which has been possible due to the team’s special composition with several trained lawyers with backgrounds from some of the top Danish law firms.
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Through API integrations with CRM and ERP systems, Zylinc Passive Time Capture can automatically match calls with contact details from existing databases associating the call with the specific client name and matter and log call-related time and billing information directly in your cloud-based billing system. Users also benefit from powerful privacy controls and options, including robust data encryption.
Removing tedious, manual and imprecise time building not only increases billable hours per associate – it also increases job satisfaction.
- 50,000 Zylinc licenses in use across the Nordics and Germany - Market leader in customer communications solutions in the financial services sector
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With over 800,000 users across 80 countries, sa.global's expertise is trusted worldwide. We bring over 30+ years of consulting and implementation experience and have been recognized as a Microsoft Dynamics Partner of the Year 11 times. Additionally, we have been part of Microsoft’s elite Inner Circle for 11 years. Our global team comprises 1,000 professionals across 25 countries. For more information, visit www.saglobal.com.
AEVELON Microsoft Solutions is your reliable partner for Microsoft-based solutions crafted specifically for law firms. With over twenty years of dedicated experience implementing Practice and Financial management systems, empowering law firms to excel. At Aevelon, we're at the forefront of optimizing processes, transforming billing methods, and ensuring compliance with industry norms. Our deep insight into law firm performance reporting and business intelligence ensures informed decision-making at every step.
AEVELON Consulting provides comprehensive assistance in aligning your core systems with your overall business strategy. We'll walk you through assessing the effectiveness of your current systems to keep them strong and future ready. Our expertise helps pinpoint systems that boost efficiency and those holding you back, facilitating a smooth transition to cloud solutions. Count on AEVELON to guide you towards dependable vendors and optimal business strategies. For more information visit www.aevelon.com.
Unlike legacy tools, with Avvoka, you can rapidly build automated versions of your most complex documents using our intuitive automation builder. This means no more tricky coding within Word documents. Our customers reach agreements quickly by collaborating on documents with colleagues in real-time and negotiating with counterparties via the Avvoka online platform.
Avvoka also offers a range of sophisticated reporting tools that allow businesses to monitor pushback against their standard contract clauses, track key commercial terms, and compare individual negotiator performance.
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Advisory board
Andrea Miskolczi
Founder and Director
InterAlia Consulting
Andrea Miskolczi
Andrea Miskolczi is the Founder and Director of InterAlia Consulting, a strategy and transformation advisory boutique for legal leaders. Over her 25-year career in the legal industry, Andrea has held leadership roles in, inter alia, legaltech, innovation, knowledge management, business development, marketing, and talent development with top-tier regional and global law firms. Before her foray into management, she worked as a transactional lawyer at Magic Circle law firms. Widely recognized in her field, Andrea frequently speaks and writes on topics such as applying AI technologies to legal workflows, change management, technology adoption, and the strategic challenges presented by a rapidly evolving multi-trend landscape. In 2022, she was shortlisted for the esteemed 'Innovative Lawyers' award in the Intrapreneur category by the Financial Times.
Frans Post
Chief Financial Officer
De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
Frans Post
Frans is an experienced CFO and law firm expert who spent most of his career in boards of international professional service firms.
He worked for Clifford Chance for seventeen years, first in their Amsterdam office and later as Regional CFO for the Americas. From New York he moved to London where he held three C-suite roles at international firms. Frans then ran the finance function of offshore law firm Mourant in the Channel Islands. He returned to Amsterdam in 2021 to join De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek as their CFO.
Frans has led finance strategy and operations, change projects, and several practice management system implementations. He is passionate about the use of data and business intelligence dashboards.
Frans has an International Master’s degree in Finance and Control. He is a Registered Controller (RC) and the Chairman of the Dutch Association of RC’s.
Francesc Muñoz
Chief Information Officer
Cuatrecasas
Francesc Muñoz
Francesc Muñoz is CIO at Cuatrecasas, a 105 years old Iberian leading law firm, since 1998. He joined the firm after being European Project Manager and Senior Consultant at the Catalonian Institute of Technology. In his tenure, the firm has grown 300% and is currently employing around 1.100 lawyers. Managing the growth and evolving from a local small firm to a full-service leading European and LatAm law firm has been the continuous challenge.
Francesc currently leads a team of more than 80 IT professionals going beyond IT (LPM, Open Innovation, Digital dexterity, etc.). He has managed, among others, the implementation of a new SAP system that supports all major business processes (recruiting, talent management, payroll, time entry, billing, opportunity management, client & contact management, business intelligence, etc.).
Francesc's main education includes:
- Telecommunications & Computer Engineer by the Polytechnic University of Catalonia
- Master in Business Administration (MBA) by ESADE
Knut-Magnar Aanestad
Founding Partner
Concide
Knut-Magnar Aanestad
Knut-Magnar is an international thought leader in legaltech and legal innovation. With a law degree with an IT-law major as foundation, he has collected vast experience through leading digital development and innovation in three top tier Norwegian Law firms. in the search of more impact on change in the sector he has founded a series of four different legaltech companies, all complementing eachother. He is currently driving frontline technological development through the state-of-the-art AI contract review comapany Maigon whiile simultaniously consulting and delivering legaltech projects to all types of legal organizations through the legaltech one-stop-shop, Concide. To spread the message further, Knut-Magnar is also active spreading the word about the future of law through extensive public speaking and through numerous articles and posts on LinkedIn.
Hans Albers
Director Legal Management Consulting
Deloitte Legal
Hans Albers
Hans Albers is Director Legal Management Consulting at Deloitte Legal where he is responsible for expanding Deloitte’s Legal Management Consulting practice by developing new capabilities, skills and building on Deloitte Legal’s existing technology, change and operations teams. Hans has extensive experience in legal process improvement, legal technology, legal operations, contract life cycle management and outside counsel and spend management.
Until October 2020 Hans was Chief of Staff and Head of Worldwide Legal Operations at US Technology company Juniper Networks Inc. Before that he was EMEA General Counsel for Juniper as well as for Cisco EMEA and North America. He also served five years on the European Board of ACC (Association of Corporate Counsel), of which the last 2 years as President.
Hans is also a non-executive Director at Currencycloud, a fintech company that is part of the Visa group of companies.
The Venue
Hotel Schiphol A4
Rijksweg A4 nr. 3
2132 MA Hoofddorp-Schiphol
the Netherlands
Experience the blend of modern luxury and convenience at Hotel Schiphol A4, the chosen venue for Lexpo'24. The venue offers:
- Elegantly Modern Conference Facilities: State-of-the-art conference and board rooms, renovated with your attendance in mind.
- Luxurious Accommodations: Indulge in the sumptuous hotel rooms, or unwind in the chic hotel bar.
- Wellness and Recreation: A serene wellness center, a refreshing swimming pool, and a fully-equipped fitness center – everything you need for relaxation and rejuvenation.
- Complimentary Airport Shuttle: Enjoy hassle-free travel with the free shuttle service to and from Schiphol Airport (available from 5:00 to 23:40).
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Getting to Lexpo'24
If you travel by public transport, you can use the complimentary shuttle service between the hotel and Schiphol Airport train station. Click here to view the shuttle timetable.
Traveling by car
- From Amsterdam (A4): Take the "P Ruygen Den Hoek" exit, adjacent to the bridge restaurant and Shell gas station. Follow the signs leading to the hotel.
- From The Hague/Rotterdam (A4): On the A4 towards The Hague, take exit 4 "Nieuw Vennep / Alphen a / d Rijn". At the first traffic lights, turn left, and at the next, turn left again onto the A4 towards Amsterdam. Take the "P Ruygen Den Hoek" exit, just past the bridge restaurant and Shell gas station.
Parking
Complimentary parking is available for Lexpo'24 visitors, including 8 electric charging points.
Lexpo is organized by Asfour, in cooperation with Legal IT Professionals.
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