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Speakers
Prof. Michele DeStefano
PROFESSOR OF LAW, UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI
Impact of Legal Innovation
Professor Michele DeStefano is a highly innovative and accomplished legal professional with a passion for creative problem-solving, collaboration, culture change, and innovation in law. She is the founder of LawWithoutWalls, a community of over 2,000 lawyers, business professionals, entrepreneurs, and students who collaborate to create innovations in the business of law and develop new mindsets and skillsets.
Pascal Bürgin
Head of Law & Compliance Bayer Switzerland
Impact of Legal Innovation
Pascal Bürgin is an attorney and Head of Law and Compliance at Bayer Switzerland. He's Member of Counrty Leadership Team Switzerland, Member of the Board at Bayer CropScience Schweiz AG and Board Bayer Consumer Care AG. Furthermore Pascal Bürgin is predsident of the Bayer Pension Fund Switzerland and Head of Law of the Patents and Compliance. He is Member of the Vorstand Arbeitgeberverband Basel.
Ioannis Martinis
Head of Legal Tech at Coop Rechtsschutz. Vice President SLTA.
Better Access to Justice
Ioannis Martinis is a lawyer and Head of Legal Tech at Coop Rechtsschutz AG. He lectures at the University of St. Gallen (HSG) on law in the digital age and furthermore he is the dean of studies in legal tech at the University of Applied Sciences Zurich (HWZ). Ioannis is a Legal Tech Expert and founder of the Legal Tech Think Tank Ethorial. He is the President of the Digital Minds Society and Vice President of the Swiss LegalTech Association (SLTA). Ioannis is Ambassador for Switzerland of the European Legal Technology Association.
Aku Sorainen
Fouder & Partner
Change Management
Aku Sorainen arrived in Estonia shortly after the country regained its independence in 1991, after which he established a law firm, which soon grew to become the largest in the Baltics. This firm has grown organically to 44 partners and in total over 250 lawyers with integrated legal practice and sector groups, firm-wide leadership, quality management processes and business support services.
Maurus Schreyvogel
Legal Innovation & Operations Leader, Partner at EY Law
Legal Innovation
Maurus is a visionary leader who has dedicated his career to legal innovation and operations. He believes that legal activities can be smarter designed and better integrated with the needs and goals of companies and individuals, resulting in simpler, more transparent, and cost-effective outcomes. Maurus applies his expertise and vision to design smart and innovative solutions that leverage cutting-edge technologies. He joined EY as a partner at the end of 2022 after spending nearly two decades working for legal functions, most recently as Chief Legal Innovation Officer at Novartis.
Barbara Müry
CEO & CO-FOUNDER OF HERLOCK
Co-Founder
Barbara Müry Erni is the Co-Founder and CEO of Herlock. Since her interdisciplinary studies of Science and Law Barbara has engaged with digitalization in various organizations in the banking and consulting sectors and took the leap into entrepreneurship in September 2022. Since then, she has been developing Herlock with her team in close cooperation with law firms. Herlock is a legaltech startup providing lawyers with an AI-powered SaaS that reads, organizes and understands case data to provide a comprehensive and dynamic knowledge map. Herlock.ai is a spin-off from D ONE, a leading Swiss consulting company for data, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, and was developed to handle one of the largest economic crime cases in Swiss history.
Dr. Felix Ehrat
Board Member, University Lecturer, Investor
Board Member, University Lecturer, Investor
Professional with broad and deep business, operational and legal experience and a focus on pragmatic and sustainable solutions. Enjoyed experience as member of the Executive Committee of Novartis during almost seven years. Extensive experience and record of accomplishment in leading a global legal function for almost seven years and in compliance (led the Novartis Compliance function for two years) and broad exposure to communication, government affairs, investor relations, audit, M&A, multi-jurisdictional litigation/arbitration, corporate governance and restructurings.
Daniel Brugger
Clerk at the Swiss Federal Supreme Court
Clerk at the Swiss Federal Supreme Court
Daniel Brugger serves as a Law Clerk at the Swiss Federal Supreme Court and is the founder of several legal tech projects, such as Onlinekommentar.ch, FragdenOK.ch, Repositorium.ch, and iusbubble.com. His expertise extends to the application of artificial intelligence in the legal field. He notably co-developed the first official AI chatbot for a Swiss government agency (www.fragesi.ch for the Swiss Federal Supervisory Authority for Foundations).
Fatih Aslantas
Rechtsanwalt, Fachanwalt SAV Strafrecht
Lawyer
Lawyer with focus on business law and criminal law, especially white collar crime.
Andreas Blattmann
Dr.iur., LL.M., Attorney at Law, Partner at Quadra Attorneys at Law Ltd.
Lawyer
Areas of practice: Litigation/arbitration/mediation, contract law (including tenancy and labor law as well as the law governing agency, brokerage and distribution contracts and contracts for work and services), competition law (including unfair competition), intellectual property law, media and advertising law and inheritance law.
Katja Böttcher
Partner Beyondlegal | Legal Innovation, Strategy & Design | Lecturer at Lucerne University of Applied Science and Arts
Lawyer
Specialised in organisational and strategic consulting and project management services for legal and compliance departments and law firms.
Two decades of leadership experience, during which time I have built a deep knowledge of legal process analysis, digitization, and implementing new technologies to manage and mitigate legal & compliance risks. Successfully managed large-scale international legal projects across various industries in a leading law firm, including internal investigations, civil and criminal litigations, commercial arbitrations, compliance and eDiscovery projects.
Tiphanie Bent
Strategic Projects at SIX Group
Strategic Projects at SIX Group
Not every jurist is allergic to maths. Tiphanie represents a new generation of lawyers who are deeply trained in technology. Thanks to her bachelor studies in Artificial Intelligence she builds bridges across both disciplines.
At SIX Group, she is implementing AI Governance and business development strategies placing ethics and excellence at the heart of one of Switzerland's most critical infrastructure. She is a strong believer of cross disciplinary collaboration to generate innovation; creating a positive & sustainable impact on society.
Paula Reichenberg
CEO & Founder of Neur.on AI Solutions
CEO & Founder of Neur.on AI Solutions
Paula Reichenberg is a lawyer, entrepreneur, and lifelong tech learner. She studied law in Fribourg, passed her bar in Zurich, and worked in the M&A and Capital Markets Team of Bär & Karrer, before completing an MBA at INSEAD. Upon graduating, she founded her first company, Hieronymus – Translations by Lawyers for Lawyers, a high-end legal language service provider.
In 2020, she created LexMachina, the first Neural Machine Translation engine for Swiss lawyers; two years later, with the support of a select panel of investors from the international LegalTech and legal publishing industries, she founded Neur.on, a SaaS empowering lawyers in their translation tasks.