Bio

•Lyz is a qualified Colombian lawyer from the Universidad Externado de Colombia, with a Master’s Degree in Law and Business from Bucerius Law School. She is experienced in supporting and preparing EU based corporate groups in different industries such as food and beverages, pharmaceuticals, startups and clean energy, with data protection related matters in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and their corresponding national laws. Furthermore, she advises companies in the interaction between the GDPR and other applicable national regulations such as the LATAM region. 

During the development of the current pandemic, she has further developed her research into the data protection implications of devices within the realm of the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) advocating for the integration of standardized requirements from data privacy by design and by default, in order to ensure their compliance with the principles of data protection. This research is now currently being applied into the design stages of devices used within the medical industry.

Contribution to Legal Tech

Regarding the field of legal technology, Lyz has found that currently there is a lot of uncertainty in regards to the use of technology in an ethical and compliant manner. Therefore, one of the greatest challenges is to communicate legal requirements from a privacy perspective to engineering teams to integrate privacy concerns into the design stages of IoMT products. She has thus designed strategies to create awareness on the need to implement privacy by design and by default throughout different industries. The above in order to facilitate communication channels between IT and designer teams and legal teams, to achieve the effective consolidation of ethically privacy compliant products. She is able to adapt tools, devices, applications and processing operations, and mold them to function in an ethical privacy compliant manner.  The above considering that the current world pandemic scenario has called upon the exponential development of IoMT devices due to the technological acceleration of the medical profession, in order to address the challenges of the “new normal”.

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Andrea is the newly appointed Europe Innovation Director at Dentons, the world’s largest law firm.  In her role, she leads the discussions on the Firm’s European innovation strategy and manages innovation and transformation activities to strengthen today’s business and create tomorrow’s revenue channels. Andrea brings more than 20 years of relevant experience to her new role. She was previously Chief Innovation and Business Development Officer at Wolf Theiss, where she also served in other senior marketing and business development roles. Prior to that, she worked for 11 years as a capital markets and corporate lawyer at various international law firms. She has significant experience in driving strategic innovation and legal tech initiatives to enhance client service delivery, develop disruptive new services, manage organizational change and support closer collaboration.

Contribution to Legal Tech

For Andrea (legal) technology is an enabler to achieve strategic goals. She likes to start with client’s or lawyer’s processes (issues, pains, JobsToBeDone) and works backwards towards technology. In terms of user adoption, she takes a focused approach and enthusiastically uses gamification to make the change relevant and less painful. Recently, she has pioneered in deploying and rolling -out HighQ, a project management and collaboration platform and achieved a remarkable 50% penetration within 12 months. Furthermore, she has developed contract management systems and other client-facing solutions on the basis of a low-code platform and its integrations. A frequent speaker on innovation, legal tech, leadership, and collaboration, a member of the Advisory Board of Lexpo – The Legal Innovation Event, and a former jury member of the Legaltech Hub Vienna, Andrea is passionate about the digital. transformation of the legal industry.

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Since 2013, Lucia has experienced the rise and consolidation of entrepreneurship in Valencia (Spain) by creating synergies with the different agents of the Valencian entrepreneurial ecosystem. She is passionate about entrepreneurship. Her beginnings in the entrepreneurial world started in 2013, when some clients affected by the crisis bet and began to develop technological projects, with clear methodologies and scalability making a difference from the traditional enterprise.

She was the promoter of the creation of the TIC, Entrepreneurship and Startups Area in her first lawyers firm and actually the legal tech specialist at Bonet firm.

Contribution to Legal Tech

Through her current law firm, Lucia has developed and launched the Project www.reiniciandoempresas.com. Through this project, 6 companies from key fields (finance, legal, communications, technology, impact) provide solutions to companies affected by the COVID-19 crisis. The objective is to help them cope with the new challenges and become more resilient to the future. They are committed to implement Legaltech solutions to make companies more agile and competitive in the digital era.

Lucia has been mentoring startups in Innsomnia, open innovation hub based in Valencia and Madrid, where entrepreneurs develop Fintech, Insurtech and Legaltech projects of the Ships of the Valencia City Council and the Polytechnic University of Valencia. She provides legal advice on the processes to establish the society – according to the needs of each project-, partner agreements in the seed phase and partner agreements in the investment round phase, advice on the different types of contracts and loans for startups, intellectual property and industrial and data protection. She also acts as a connector with accelerators and incubators for the development of entrepreneurial projects.

Lucia is a regular speaker at conferences and seminars on Legaltech and how to advocate digital transformation in law firms organized by the Valencia Bar Association.

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Eleanor White is the Legal Technology Advisor at Shearman & Sterling LLP. Having over ten years of experience as an information professional, she started in data management within the energy sector before gaining her MA in Library and Information Studies from UCL. After transitioning into Legal Knowledge Management she found her interest in legal technology and currently drives Shearman & Sterling’s innovation efforts as part of the Client Value Team.

Contribution to Legal Tech

Eleanor works closely alongside legal teams to match legal technology solutions to lawyer requirements, overseeing product evaluation and implementation and advising clients on the uses of legal technology within the current landscape. 

She co-led the project to define and centralise Shearman & Sterling’s legal technology governance framework and continues to lead adoption efforts through internal projects focused on increasing efficiency and productivity using legal technology. 

Recently collaborating as part of the Barclays Innovation Consortium, she also contributed to the forthcoming edition of BIALL’s Legal Information Management journal sharing her experiences of running successful proofs of value based on projects resulting in the meaningful implementation of legal technology solutions.

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Carolin Monsees is a senior associate at Taylor Wessing’s Technology, Media & Telecoms group in Germany and advises clients in the tech industry in data protection and IT law. She focuses on the contractual aspects of international digitalization projects as well as European and international data protection requirements. Being an expert in the field of privacy litigation, she represents clients in court and conducts negotiations with the competent supervisory authorities.

Contribution to Legal Tech

From the implementation of new KI algorithms to the design of legally compliant consumer platforms: Carolin’s advisory and consulting service is to enable digitalization. This work is indispensable without appropriate legal tech tools. Therefore, Carolin uses and further develops Taylor Wessing’s legal tech tools for managing complex contract structures and modules.

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Priya is a corporate finance lawyer by background. She moved into knowledge management in 2009-10 when the legal industry began to grapple with the ‘more for less’ challenge. Inspired by the disruption in other industries, Priya started to focus on (Legal Operations) process design and use of technology to disrupt and innovate the practice of law and future proof the profession.

As a woman charting her own path, Priya believes we need to break down silos between disciplines, increase collaboration and improve diversity and inclusion to accelerate the pace of change in legal. She co-founded She Breaks the Law on International Woman’s Day 2019 – bringing together a community of 1000s of women from across the globe. She Breaks the Law supports and empowers women (#lawbreakers) of all backgrounds and disciplines in their strive for change and a more progressive, collaborative and inclusive legal ecosystem and gives them a safe space to come together and connect, develop, share and create.

Contribution to Legal Tech

A long-standing champion of human-centred design and legal technology, Priya has streamlined hundreds of legal processes and led transformational projects in private practice and corporations (including a Fortune50 and several FTSE100 clients). She is dedicated to helping legal teams adopt new ways of working that are supported by the effective use of technology and automated solutions to enhance the efficiency of legal service delivery and improve user experience. 

In addition to her day job and her work at She Breaks the Law, Priya mentors and advises legal-tech start-ups and entrepreneurs as well as students and young professionals, sharing her industry knowledge to inspire the next generation.

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Lawyer by day and a (future) self-taught programmer by night, Barbora is passionate about the ongoing transformation of the legal profession. She graduated summa cum laude from Charles University, where she set herself up for a big law path, thinking she would spend her professional career drafting, analysing, and pleading. Upon joining Dentons, however, she was quickly swept off her feet by the challenge of bringing innovative approaches to client work, and by the endless possibilities that the legal tech universe has to offer. She hasn’t stopped being excited about it ever since.

Contribution to Legal Tech

Barbora usually acts as a bridge between legal and tech within the broader Dentons innovation strategy. Her goal is to streamline and make implementation easier and innovation more accessible for everyone. Aware of the importance of excitement and positive change management and excitement, Barbora acts as an Innovation Ambassador, which is an internal innovation advocacy group that reaches minds at Dentons all around Europe. In particular, she likes to spark collaboration on client-facing solutions, educate her peers, and facilitate discussion among lawyers, IT and business services professionals. She is honoured and humbled to be recognised among so many inspiring women.

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Maria has 5+ years in consulting IT and digital companies in the spheres of Data Protection, Intellectual Property, Marketing Compliance. She is a 2020 TEDx speaker with a topic on cybersecurity. She studied law at the National Ukrainian University and she is now heading a leading position in AVITAR law firm.

Contribution to Legal Tech

Maria is an ambassador of the Women in Tech (W.Tech) community on legal matters. She regularly consults rising startups free of charge and guides them in their legal path. Also, she is an official consultant in the Governmental organization that is responsible for the digital transformation of Ukraine. (diia.business)

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With a strong history spanning over two decades as a thought leader and doer in the ALSP market, Sinead continues to successfully push the role of technology in innovation and transformation of large highly regulated corporate legal functions. Her leadership on advisory projects at some of the largest and most complex European financial institutions has seen her introduce technology-enabled managed services initiatives, technology-enabled legal spend transformation initiatives, technology-enabled self-service models, and more. Sinead is an achiever that any team would fight tooth and nail to have access to.

Contribution to Legal Tech

Sinéad is an Industry Expert at Morae, providing consulting services around the strategic planning, implementation and delivery of large-scale transformational projects. Sinead also provides coaching/mentoring services to leaders of the legal sector.  
 
Prior to joining Morae, Sinéad was a key player in initiating and developing Herbert Smith Freehills’ Alternative Legal Services Group. In her role as Director of the APAC region, Sinéad was responsible for teams in Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth, Shanghai and Sydney, and for the delivery of these services to the firm’s clients globally. This included services around commercial litigation, class actions, arbitrations and regulatory investigations across a range of highly regulated sectors. Sinéad also provided non-contentious services to the financial and corporate sectors, utilising a range of applied legal technologies and resourcing models for the delivery of large projects within M&A, Capital Markets and Contract Review. In 2017, Sinéad was honoured to accept, a FT Innovative Lawyers Award for Innovation in New Business and Delivery Models in the Innovation in the Business of Law category on behalf of Herbert Smith Freehills for the opening of the Shanghai and Melbourne hubs in 2016.
 
Sinéad was Associate Director at Janders Dean International. During this time, Sinéad worked with a range of clients in private practice as well as in-house legal teams on a number of strategic projects from designing a new fee-earning practice group for litigation services within a global law firm to advising a global bank’s inhouse team on strategic transformation (including structural, technology and cost-management initiatives). 
 
Sinéad holds Bachelors and Masters degrees from University College Dublin (French & German). She was called to the Bar of England & Wales in 2005 and is a member of the Honourable Society of Gray’s Inn. Sinéad was admitted to practice in Australia by the Supreme Court of New South Wales and held an Australian practicing certificate for 7 years. Most recently Sinéad completed a Diploma in Personal & Business Coaching at the Irish Lifecoach Institute. She is currently based in Ireland.

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Uzunma leads data privacy projects at several multinational clients, providing advise on European and cross-border data privacy compliance and on wider regulatory matters governing the use of personal information. Uzunma is admitted to the bar in three jurisdictions; New York, Nigeria and is on the Roll of solicitors in the United Kingdom. She advises clients on behavioral advertising, digital analytics, and cookie preference management. Her experience includes leading international data privacy compliance reviews and audits; developing and coordinating rolling privacy compliance programs. 

Uzunma partners with product development and business divisions to craft and implement the privacy design and policies of AI mobile applications in the health, fitness and gaming industry; 

Prior to her work in data privacy, Uzunma worked as an IP attorney, providing advise in the US and Germany with a focus on information technology, e-commerce, licensing and distribution transactions. In her role at a fast-paced tech startup, she created and negotiated software development and licensing agreements for company transactions in the United States and Asia. 

Contribution to Legal Tech

Uzunma is fascinated by mobile app technology and works extensively with businesses in assessing their apps for data protection compliance. She leads data privacy design, implementation and audit projects for several mobile apps in the gaming, nutrition and entertainment industry. 

While she has supported established mobile app providers, Uzunma believes that personal data privacy in technology should not be limited to large scale operations but considered at all levels of the ecosystem. Through her work with small, innovative tech startups and SMEs, she delivers scalable privacy solutions and supports in ongoing compliance of several AI apps, some dealing with children’s data and other special categories of personal data. 

Uzunma spearheaded the European privacy compliance program for a leading data analytics nutrition insights platform. She also supports privacy by design with apps implementing advanced augmented reality, machine learning and Internet of Things. She is currently guiding several mobile app clients through appropriate design and transparency changes in light of the UK Age Appropriate Design Code. 

Uzunma is working on a series of guidelines and workshops targeted at providing women app developers and other typically disadvantaged business owners within the app development landscape with free, practical and easily implementable support required to design and deliver privacy compliant mobile applications to the market. Her vision includes matching these developers and businesses with privacy advisors equipped to provide the needed support in terms of practice experience, language and an understanding of their unique business challenges.