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.
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.
Confirmed Lexpo'26 Sponsors & Partners
Saga is a legal AI company whose mission is to help legal professionals embrace the potential of artificial intelligence without sacrificing legal rigor, privacy, or transparency. It combines deep legal expertise with a state-of-the-art AI-platform to speed up routine processes and raise the overall quality of legal output.
Saga rests on three core pillars:
Saga AI Platform — A secure, GDPR-compliant environment built for legal workflows in all practice areas. It offers custom prompt libraries, prompt improvers, smart drafting, agentic workflows, simulated role-based scenarios, legal research, and (mass) document review capabilities, within the Saga web application or the Word Add-in.
Saga Amplify — Structured training & adoption programs designed to help legal professionals gradually build familiarity and trust with AI in practice.
Saga Lab — A research & innovation arm that explores new legal AI use cases and helps law firms stay ahead of emerging trends.
Saga combines Scandinavian innovation with pragmatic Dutch business culture. Its leadership includes people with strong legal, tech, strategy, and operations backgrounds. Saga works with firms in Europe/UK, Latin America, and South Africa.
As legal AI becomes ever more integral to the profession, Saga positions itself as a trusted partner helping firms adopt these technologies safely, intelligently, and in a way that enhances legal practice.
Visit the Saga website
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.
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.
Visit the Andri.ai website
Visit the CEE Legal Matters website
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.
t + 31 (0)6 - 8148 7677 / rob@lexpo.com