Celebrating 10 Years of Legal Innovation
Lexpo’26 marks the 10-year anniversary of Europe’s leading legal innovation event. Since its launch in 2016, Lexpo has become the premier gathering for the Continental European legal community, bringing together forward-thinking law firms, in-house legal teams, and technology providers in Amsterdam.
On 8 & 9 June 2026, Lexpo celebrates a decade of shaping the future of the legal industry through innovation, legal technology, and digital transformation. This milestone edition will highlight both the promise of artificial intelligence and emerging technologies, and the central role of people in making digitalisation truly successful.
Lexpo’26 is about more than showcasing tools — it’s about building the culture, mindset, and strategic alignment needed for lasting digital transformation. Join us in Amsterdam for this milestone edition and be part of the next chapter in legal innovation.
Dutch Bar Association
Dutch lawyers can earn PO-points at Lexpo, contributing to the professional development requirements of the Dutch Bar Association (NOvA). Participants earn 1 PO-point per hour of sessions attended, excluding breaks. To ensure correct accreditation, attendees must sign in on arrival and sign out on departure. After the event, a Certificate of Attendance will be issued.
The NOvA leaves it to lawyers to determine which Lexpo sessions contribute to their professional competence, allowing them to choose sessions that best support their development.
Looking back at Lexpo’25
Who attended Lexpo’25?
Lexpo'26 themes
The Human Advantage
In a legal innovation landscape defined by relentless technological advancement, one truth stands out: successful transformation depends on people, not products. As AI, automation, and smarter tools become integral to legal work, the most significant differentiator is not the technology itself but the ability of organisations to adopt it effectively, integrate it into everyday practice, and lead their people through continual change. The Human Advantage explores how law firms and in-house teams can unlock the full potential of their people to drive meaningful, sustainable innovation.
This theme focuses sharply on the mindsets, behaviours, and change-management capabilities required for technology adoption to succeed. It examines how teams build trust in new systems, overcome resistance, reshape workflows, and collaborate across functions to embed new tools into the fabric of legal service delivery. As AI accelerates routine tasks, human skills—empathy, critical thinking, judgement, communication—become even more essential for guiding implementation, ensuring responsible use, and translating technical capability into client value.
The Human Advantage also addresses how organisations can invest in skills development, digital literacy, and leadership at every level to support continuous improvement. It explores what it takes to keep people engaged, motivated, and connected amid constant transformation and information overload. Ultimately, this theme emphasises that the future of legal work depends not just on acquiring innovative tools, but on developing smarter, more adaptable teams who can adopt them well, evolve with them, and transform them into meaningful outcomes for clients.
More themes will be announced soon.
Lexpo'26 speakers
Ari Kaplan
Principal
Ari Kaplan Advisors
Ari Kaplan
Ari, the undisputed star of Lexpo, is back to captivate us all at Lexpo'25! 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.
Daniel Pollick
Legal CIO, Business Advisor, technology Mentor
Daniel Pollick
Daniel has been in the IT industry for over 35 years. He was CIO of DLA Piper for over 20 years and held the same position at DWF Group for 4 years. He now has a portfolio of roles and interests, including board membership of a fast-growing compliance-tech company, working with a university on its legal operations research, and acting as an advisor to professional services firms. He holds an undergraduate degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford, and his post-grad is from the University of Manchester. He spent his early career in the consulting industry, with what became Accenture, and then in energy with Shell and National Power.
Cat Casey
Founder & CEO
The TechnoCat LLC
Cat Casey
Cat Casey, widely known as The TechnoCat, is a global voice in artificial intelligence and legal innovation. For nearly two decades, she has operated at the crossroads of AI, forensics, and high-stakes legal work. Her career spans leadership roles at top law firms, consulting giants, and market-defining legal technology companies, where she built and led global innovation, eDiscovery, and data strategy programs supporting complex investigations and billion-dollar matters.
Cat is the Founder and CEO of The TechnoCat LLC, where she advises law firms, legal departments, and technology companies on AI strategy, adoption, and innovation. S Cat also serves as the Chief Legal AI Futurist to the Masters AI. She serves as a keynote speaker, advisor, and educator to legal teams navigating the AI shift with clarity and confidence. She helps legal professionals level up their skills, modernize their workflows, and build a competitive advantage in a rapidly evolving landscape.
Recognized as AI Executive of the Year, ILTA’s Most Influential Woman in Legal Tech, and a Women in eDiscovery Visionary Trailblazer, Cat is one of the most influential figures shaping how law embraces intelligent technology. She has keynoted stages on five continents and her work has been featured in the National Law Journal, Inside Counsel, New York Law Journal, and The Lawyer.
Before launching her own platform, Cat served as Chief Growth Officer at AI Legal Tech Company Reveal and held C level innovation and eDiscovery leadership roles at Gibson Dunn, PwC, and KPMG. Her work has supported major investigations, high-stakes disputes, and data-driven legal strategies across the globe, giving her a rare panoramic understanding of how modern legal work actually gets done.
Through Technocat, Cat advises on legal AI strategy, upskilling, workflow modernization, and change adoption. She delivers executive education, keynotes, and private workshops for teams that want to stay sharp, move fast, and lead confidently in a tech-accelerated legal world.
Ivan Rašić
Group Head LegalTech Innovation
Kinstellar
Ivan Rašić
Ivan Rašić serves as the Group Head of Digital Transformation & LegalTech Innovation at Kinstellar, where he drives a comprehensive digital‑first strategy to support the Firm’s continued international growth.
With over thirteen years of experience in the sector - primarily on the vendor and product side - Ivan has a track record of building and scaling technology that impacts and transforms legal service delivery. In his early days, he created a Cloud-native law firm management SaaS solution with international adoption, securing funding for scaling operations and sales.
After the exit, at STP.one, Europe’s leading legaltech provider, he established the company’s Sofia R&D hub and led cross‑regional engineering and product teams across DACH, the Baltics, and the Balkans, overseeing high‑performance groups and agile delivery frameworks.
Ivan’s perspective blends Taoist thinking with modern product development principles, emphasizing clarity, iterative progress, empathy, and grounded execution. Beyond his professional work, he enjoys baking, guitar practice, and strength training as mindful disciplines - each a way to refine craft, patience, and precision.
Zaibaa Thingna
Counsel
Siemens
Zaibaa Thingna
Zaibaa co-leads the Global AI Delivery team within Siemens' Legal, Compliance, and IP department, spearheading AI innovation for the legal sector. With eight years dedicated to driving legal innovation, she has a proven track record of designing efficient legal processes and successfully implementing legal tech solutions across large international teams. Her journey in AI began at international law firms before she brought her expertise to Siemens. Prior to her focus on innovation, Zaibaa practiced as an arbitration lawyer. She holds a Master’s degree in International Business Laws from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
José Rodríguez Coching
Head of Innovation & Technology
KPMG Abogados
José Rodríguez Coching
José Rodríguez Coching is the Head of Innovation & Technology at KPMG Abogados.
Recognized by the Financial Times and RSGI as Europe’s Legal Intrapreneur of 2025, José redefines how lawyers adopt, create, and scale technology, elevating their role as co-creators of domain-specific solutions. One of the earliest pioneers of the Empowered Innovation model, his initiatives at KPMG Abogados, including practitioner-led ecosystems such as Katalyst, have been deployed across hundreds of organizations in more than 100 countries.
José played a central role in positioning KPMG Abogados as the Most Innovative Firm in Continental Europe in 2024, and in establishing it as the only firm in Europe to achieve the maximum Digital score in the FT Innovative Lawyers Index for two consecutive years (2024 & 2025). In 2025, the Spanish firm also secured the Future of Legal Services Innovation Award at the ALM Law.com European Legal Innovation & Technology Awards.
Chris Ford
CMO
Legaltech Hub
Chris Ford
Chris has held leadership roles in legal marketing with LexisNexis, Axiom, ZERO, and Baretz+Brunelle. In 2019, he and Nikki Shaver identified a gap for a reliable legal tech directory, sparking the idea for the insights & analysis platform, Legaltech Hub. As LTH's CMO, Chris leads marketing efforts and provides consulting and advisory services to legal tech vendors.
Rolf Brustad
Chief Digital Officer
Wikborg Rein
Chris Ford
Rolf is the CDO at Wikborg Rein, one of Norway's leading law firms, where he is at the forefront of driving digital transformation and the adoption of Legal AI. Being an experienced business leader and change management expert, focus is on how the company successfully can implement many incremental improvements to work processes across many legal teams at the same time. That is how we as an organisation best learn and develop and keep up the momentum.
Rolf has been a C-level leader and consultant for years across several industries. The common denominators are people centricity and value creation through digitisation and deployment of technology.
Confirmed sessions
Keynote
José Rodríguez Coching
Beyond Implementation: Making Innovation a Firm-Wide Capability
Technology does not transform organisations; people do. In this session, José Rodríguez Coching explores how law firms can move beyond tool implementation and create genuine firm-wide ownership of innovation.
Drawing on his experience overseeing innovation and technology at KPMG Abogados, José will explain how shifting from top-down technology deployment to practitioner-driven innovation changes everything – with lawyers moving from merely adopting tools to actively leading innovation and driving long-term impact. Rather than positioning lawyers as end users, this Empowered Innovation model treats them as co-creators of domain-specific solutions, embedding new systems into daily practice through trust, collaboration and shared responsibility.
The session will examine the leadership behaviours, cultural shifts and change-management strategies required to build digital confidence at scale. As AI accelerates routine work, organisations that invest in mindset, capability development and cross-functional alignment will be best positioned to convert technological potential into measurable client value.
Panel Discussion
The Human Advantage: Culture, Leadership and the Future of Legal Transformation
Technology does not transform organisations. People do.
While new tools continue to reshape legal work, sustainable transformation depends on leadership mindset, cultural alignment, and the ability to guide professionals through continuous change.
This panel explores the deeper human dimensions of innovation. How do leaders create an environment where experimentation is safe? How do organisations build trust in AI and emerging technologies? How do they develop digital literacy across generations of lawyers? And how can firms sustain engagement and resilience amid constant disruption?
Rather than focusing on tools, this discussion examines the cultural foundations that determine whether transformation becomes embedded — or stalls. It addresses the long-term capabilities required to build adaptable, forward-looking legal organisations.
Because the real competitive advantage is not access to technology, but the ability to lead people through change.
Panel Discussion
Making Adoption Work: Practical Tactics for Embedding Legal Technology
AI investment is rising. Automation is accelerating. Yet many legal organisations still struggle to move from pilot projects to consistent daily use.
This panel focuses on the practical side of transformation. What concrete steps help teams embed new tools into workflows? How do you structure rollout phases, training, incentives, and feedback loops? What role do legal ops, innovation teams, and partners play in driving usage? And how do you measure whether adoption is truly happening?
Designed to provide actionable insights, this discussion will share real-world tactics that firms and in-house teams can apply immediately to improve technology adoption and accelerate impact.
Confirmed Lexpo'26 Sponsors & Partners
Epona’s solutions help law firms and corporate legal departments maximize their data, documents, and expertise efficiently and securely.
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Our strength is built on three pillars. First, we are specialised in law firms and are the dominant Microsoft legal technology partner for larger firms in Belgium. Second, we leverage world-leading Microsoft 365 technology to create one secure, structured and AI-ready foundation within your own tenant. Third, we provide local support close to your firm, with deep knowledge of the legal market.
We offer our Law Firm solution as an integrated Microsoft platform, but firms can also engage us per solution: CRM, PMS, Finance or BI. Many firms also rely on our Microsoft 365 expertise to optimise governance, collaboration and Copilot readiness or to replace their current Microsoft 365 support partner. We excel in complex implementations, data migrations and building solutions tailored to the way law firms actually work.
If your firm is considering doing something different with its core applications, reporting or AI adoption - think NORRIQ.
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Built with data clarity and control at its core, iCompli empowers organisations to gain the insight and structure necessary to support responsible AI adoption. By enforcing consistent governance practices and ensuring data integrity, iCompli provides a reliable foundation for implementing AI strategies with confidence.
LegalRM’s commitment to innovation is reflected in iCompli’s scalable architecture and ongoing development. The platform’s Cyber Essentials, ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certifications further reinforce its role as a secure, dependable solution.
Trusted by organisations around the world, iCompli transforms information governance into a strategic advantage.
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Saga is a legal innovation company. We elevate quality and efficiency while safeguarding legal rigor, privacy, and transparency, empowering lawyers to transform their workflow into an AI-enabled ecosystem.
Our mission is to empower lawyers to think, act, and deliver differently by replacing complexity with clarity and routine with purpose. This means lawyers can focus on what truly matters: people, ethics, and meaningful impact.
Our company is built on three core pillars:
- Saga AI – A secure, GDPR-compliant platform designed for legal workflows across all practice areas.
- Saga Amplify – Structured training and adoption programs that help legal professionals build familiarity and confidence with AI.
- Saga Lab – Our research and innovation arm, dedicated to keeping law firms at the forefront of emerging trends.
Saga is built on progress. We’re redefining access to legal intelligence so that every lawyer can harness the power of technology to deliver better legal services for all.
Legaltech Hub is an insights & analysis platform. Featuring exclusive content written by industry experts, it is also where legal professionals find the right legal technology software, events, jobs, consultants and more, in any language, anywhere around the world.
Legaltech Hub maintains and builds a comprehensive library of content written by respected industry experts, including solution guides, procurement roadmaps, innovation, KM, digital transformation and Generative AI know-how, and legal tech resources to increase lawyer fluency.
Legaltech Hub experts offer bespoke consulting and advisory services to law firms, in-house legal departments and legal tech vendors.
Legaltech Hub combines the most comprehensive directory of global legal technology tools and legal software in the world with a powerful search that allows commercial legal professionals to find exactly what they're looking for to meet any use case, by applying nuanced filters that align with key data points.
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Kleos – Legal Practice Software
Kleos is an all-in-one platform for case management, time tracking, billing, and reporting. With reliable AI and seamless Microsoft integrations, it helps law firms work faster, streamline operations, and focus more on clients and growth.
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In addition to offering the cloud-based integration platform Custodian and purpose-built productivity apps, PSA is an official reseller and systems integrator partner of leading legal tech solution providers such as iManage, TIQ Time, Deltek, Cleardox, Draftable, Docusign, HYCU, LawVu, Litera, and Novaplex.
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With advanced customisation at its core, Bundledocs effortlessly handles everything from simple sets of documents to highly complex, multi-volume bundles. Engineered for agility, the platform allows legal teams to manage and adapt volumes of any scale with ease. Court-compliant templates are designed to meet global court standards, ensuring accuracy and consistency every time.
Above all, Bundledocs is incredibly reliable—robust, intuitive software that simply works, so legal teams can focus on what matters most.
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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. He is now a consultant and fractional 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 Executive Master’s degree in Finance and Control. He is a Registered Controller (RC) and the Chairman of the Dutch Association of RC’s (VRC).
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'26. 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).
Click here to book your hotel room with an exclusive Lexpo'26 discount! The required Booking Code is LEXPO.
Getting to Lexpo'26
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'26 visitors, including 8 electric charging points.
Lexpo is organized by Asfour, in cooperation with Legal IT Professionals.
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