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Schedule and agenda

Main Stage

8:00am - 9:00am

Registration and exhibition open

9:00am - 9:05am

Welcome remarks from MC

9:05am - 9:15am

Ministerial address

9:15am - 9:45am

Session to be announced

9:45am - 9:50am

Principal Partner Welcome

9:50am - 10:20am

Morning tea

Stream 1 - Legal leadership and risk

10:20am - 10:50am


Culture under counsel: Repairing trust from the inside out

As public trust in institutions falters, in-house teams are being asked to play a more active role in protecting and restoring integrity. In this session, our panellists will explore how in-house teams are becoming cultural stewards and influencing corporate behaviour from within. We'll explore how legal leaders can help rebuild trust in the wake of conduct failures and reputational fallout, as well as the proactive steps in-house teams can take to shape transparent, values-aligned businesses.

Together, we will:

  • Examine the role of legal in shaping post-crisis culture
  • Explore how psychological safety is becoming a legal risk vector
  • Share playbooks for engaging executives on structural conduct issues

Stephanie Favotto
Senior Corporate Counsel
Amazon

10:55am - 11:25am


ESG under fire: Navigating disclosure risk and defence

Once a voluntary narrative, today's ESG disclosures carry a heightened level of legal and reputational risk. From greenwashing class actions to ASIC's active enforcement posture, ESG is fast-evolving into a litigation minefield. In this session, our panellists will unpack how ESG risk is escalating, the disclosure dilemmas facing in-house counsel, and the growing legal liability around sustainability data, reporting, and stakeholder trust.

Together, we will:

  • Interrogate recent ESG enforcement and litigation activity
  • Identify high-risk ESG touchpoints across the business
  • Equip legal teams to defend and futureproof ESG disclosures

Trevor Withane
Partner
Ironbridge Legal

11:30am - 12:00pm


Fast law: Building your legal-cyber crisis response

Cyber breaches are one of the most prevalent, damaging, and legally complex crises facing businesses. Today's in-house counsel must lead with speed, clarity, and authority across legal, tech, and communications teams when data is compromised. In this session, our panellists will unpack what modern crisis response looks like, exploring how to lead from the centre without compromising privilege, pace, or cross-functional alignment.

Together, we will:

  • Navigate the intersection of legal privilege and cyber breach response
  • Share best practice for cross-functional crisis playbooks
  • Explore how legal can lead without creating friction under pressure

Ellen Howard
Lead Counsel, Privacy, Data Governance & Business Operations
Canva
Joanne Gream
Head of Legal Australia
Allianz Technology

12:00pm - 1:00pm


Lunch and networking

Stream 2 - Legal operations and innovation

10:20am - 10:50am


Scaling AI with confidence: Turning potential into practice

Legal teams have moved past experimentation with AI to implement at scale. In this session, we'll examine how leading teams are expanding AI integrations responsibly, where governance guardrails are most needed, and how legal is partnering across functions to ensure efficiency doesn't come at the cost of integrity.

Together, we will:

  • Explore how to scale AI adoption across legal workflows
  • Interrogate governance risks from AI outputs to procurement
  • Share strategies for building internal alignment and external accountability

Andrew de Celis
General Counsel, Product & Propositions
Telstra
Mitchell Scott
Principal Data Scientist
Consilio
Joanne Chenn
Strategy and Legal Operations Manager
LegalVision

10:55am - 11:25am


Rethinking resourcing: How modern legal teams are rewriting the rules

For years, efficiency has been the default answer to rising demand. In contrast, the most progressive legal teams today have moved beyond the mantra of "doing more with less" — realising that efficiency alone isn't enough. The new challenge — and opportunity — lies in reimagining how work gets done, by rethinking what legal capability really means.

In this session, we'll uncover how forward-thinking teams are moving beyond traditional resourcing and shifting from expensive support functions to business aligned partners. We'll explore how reframing constraints as opportunities can unlock smarter collaboration, stronger prioritisation, and long-term capability growth.\n\nTogether, we will:\n Redefine the new mandate for in-house legal teams\n Share practical playbooks for smarter resourcing and scaling\n* Examine how legal operations is transforming resource planning — from headcount to capability, creativity, and impact

Paul Cowling
Managing Director, Australia
Lawyers on Demand

11:30am - 12:00pm


Digital transformation: The legal risks hidden in your tech choices

Legal teams are under pressure to approve more tech, more quickly. In this session, our panellists will examine the unseen risks embedded in fast-moving digital decisions, from AI deployments to cross-border platforms. We'll explore how legal is stepping in to shape procurement governance, manage algorithmic risk, and ensure technology remains a tool, not a liability.

Together, we will:

  • Identify legal blind spots in digital transformation
  • Explore how legal can partner with procurement and tech to mitigate risk
  • Share governance frameworks to evaluate and approve emerging tech responsibly

12:00pm - 1:00pm


Lunch and networking

Main Stage

1:00pm - 1:30pm

Session to be announced

1:30pm - 2:00pm

Legal leadership insights from OpenAI

As Head of Legal, APAC for OpenAI, Deborah Im is charged with one of the most challenging remits in tech law today: translating a global AI mandate into compliant, ethical, and actionable legal frameworks across one of the world's most complex and diverse regions. In this keynote, Deborah explores how to lead a legal function that can scale with speed, absorb uncertainty, and enable innovation, without compromising on trust or accountability.

Deborah Im
Head of Legal, APAC
OpenAI
2:00pm - 2:05pm

Closing remarks from MC



If you're interested in speaking at the event, please contact Jack via email.


*Agenda subject to change