Drive Leadership, Power Collaboration and Discover Innovative Solutions for Critical Legal
and Business Challenges
📅 1 - 2 April 2025
📍 Hilton Syon Park, London
Agenda Day 2
7:00 am - 7:45 am
Morning 5k Jog
8:00 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast, Registration & Coffee
8:30 am - 8:40 am
Opening Remarks From the Chairperson
8:40 am - 9:10 am
Breakfast, Screening and Workshop - "The Testing Point" Part 3
Join to see the third part of “The Testing Point”. Continue the conversation to get you rethinking about the culture in your own company. What steps could have been taken to ensure this doesn’t happen?
9:10 am - 9:15 am
Live Polling
9:15 am - 10:00 am
Cyber Security Risks in Your Software Supply Chain - Mitigation strategies for Partnership agreements to Ensure Operational Resilience
Your software supply chain has always been a cybersecurity risk but is now becoming a compliance issue with increased reporting necessary. 3CX and MOVEit attacks of 2023 are just the beginning of a dramatic rise in supply chain attacks targeting software development processes and third-party vendors, attacking vulnerabilities in software supply chain. Since then, the UK and EU’s cybersecurity regulatory landscape has evolved with the implementation of the NIS2 directive and EU’s DORA frameworks. From contractual safeguards required with vendors and clear liability and indemnification clauses for security breaches to comprehensive incident response plans and clear communication protocols with relevant stakeholders, legal and compliance leaders must now be able to prove to regulators effective protections and response plans in the case of cybersecurity exposures.
- Explore the legal and compliance aspects of cybersecurity protections such as adhering to NIS2 and DORA
- Discuss how advanced organisations are going above and beyond contractual and partnership obligations with force majeure clause to truly protect their organisation against cyber threats and ensure operational resilience in the case of attacks.
- Evaluate to what extent those in charge of onboarding suppliers understand the importance of such obligations in protecting the wider company
10:05 am - 10:35 am
Lawyers Are Taught To Be Individualistic, Not Leaders - Become The Leaders Your Lawyers Deserve
As a lawyer, throughout your education and whole career, you have been taught and praised for being individualistic. Oftentimes, becoming a General Counsel or Chief Compliance Officer is the first time in-house lawyers have had to become leaders, not only of their own team but of the whole organisations legal or compliance program. From emotional intelligence and strategic thinking to innovation fostering and change management this Think Tank will challenge conventional thinking, encouraging General Counsels to step beyond their traditional advisory roles and embrace a more proactive, visionary approach to leadership.
- Redefine leadership in the legal context. Explore the unique challenges and opportunities of leading a legal team within a corporate environment
- Discuss the crucial soft skills to enhance team communication, motivation and conflict resolution
- Collaboratively develop a comprehensive understanding of how to leverage your legal expertise to become influential leaders fostering a culture of excellence within your team
10:40 am - 11:10 am
Niche Natter - DE&I
Grab a coffee and snack and join this focused conversation in an informal setting to delve into DE&I. First find out what your collective biggest challenge regarding DE&I is and explore together how you may overcome these.
11:15 am - 11:45 am
Think Tank
10:05 am - 10:35 am
1:1 Business Meetings
10:40 am - 11:10 am
1:1 Business Meetings
11:15 am - 11:45 am
1:1 Business Meetings
11:50 am - 12:35 pm
ROUNDTABLE 1: What is Holding you Bank From Automating? - How to Draft, Sign and Manage Contracts Seamlessly, Without Losing Control
11:50 am - 12:35 pm
ROUNDTABLE 2: Automate Corporate Governance - Unleash the Cheat Code to Free you From Operational Drudgery
11:50 am - 12:35 pm
ROUNDTABLE 3: Risk Mitigation Strategies for Legal and Operational Challenges in Complex Global Supply Chains
12:40 pm - 1:10 pm
Niche Natter - DSA/ DMA
Grab a coffee and snack and join this focused conversation in an informal setting to delve into DSA and DMA. First find out what your collective biggest challenge regarding DSA and DMA is and explore together how you may overcome these.
1:10 pm - 2:10 pm
NETWORKING LUNCH: Legal Metrics (Optional)
Join this informal networking lunch to get to know your peers further. Grab your lunch and join the conversation of implementing legal and compliance metrics in your organisation. Share how you are or wish to display the success of your legal and compliance strategies and explore how you can quantify these to display to the business.
2:10 pm - 2:40 pm
Harmonising Automation and Human Oversight for Legal and Compliance Technology
In 2025, compliance officers face the dual challenge of leveraging advanced technologies while ensuring robust human oversight in compliance processes. It is essential to equip yourself with the knowledge and tools necessary to strike the right balance between automation in streamlining tasks, such as due diligence, transaction monitoring, and regulatory reporting while also addressing the inherent risks such as algorithmic bias and cybersecurity weaknesses.
- Redefine compliance goals to incorporate the efficacy of compliance tools ensuring they align with your company’s compliance strategy
- Establishing a balanced scorecard to constantly review if current control measures are proving efficient
- Explore how to implement analytics and real time reporting through quantitative evaluations removing the subjective nature of questionnaires
2:10 pm - 2:40 pm
1:1 Business Meetings
2:45 pm - 3:15 pm
Re-Engineering Organisational Processes - Be Prepared For All Future Regulatory Changes
Ingrid Cope -
International Transformation General Counsel,
Coca-Cola
In the ever-evolving regulatory landscape, compliance and legal leaders must often go beyond incremental improvements and embrace radical change. Recent new legislations have meant compliance and legal leaders need to overhaul processes such as data collection, due diligence and reporting in order to stay compliant and avoid hefty fines. From redesigning core compliance processes, rethinking workflows, to managing the implementation and measurement of success of these strategies, legal and compliance leaders must now review their own reaction to all-encompassing regulations.
- Hear how you can streamline regulatory impact assessments in order to have a standardised process to be able to efficiently identify discrepancies between your current practices and new regulatory requirements
- Discuss how to identify process gaps and personnel gaps and understand which are immediately necessary depending on the specific legislation and requirements
- Explore when is best to focus on your current team’s capabilities and how to identify new roles or develop targeted training programs to build the necessary expertise
3:15 pm - 3:45 pm
Screening and Workshop: "The Testing Point" Part 4
Join to see the final part of “The Testing Point”. Would you speak up?
