
Welcome Delegates to the Global Legal ConfEx

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Maha Abboud
Territory Manager – Legal Professionals,
Thomson Reuters MENA,
UAE
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Maggie Ledbetter
Director of Client Services,
Exterro,
USA
Ahmad Saleh
Partner & Head of Patents,
Al Tamimi & Company,
Dubai, UAE
Mohamad AlDarwish
Legal Director - Middle East,
Carrier,
UAE
Yasser Abo Ismail
General Counsel and Compliance Officer, MENA
Schindler Group,
UAE
Frederic Paquay
GCC Regional Manager,
Cedar Rose International Services Ltd,
UAE
Key Speakers
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Offering Manager,
OneTrust,
UK
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Rosalie Tordoir
Head of Client Services – HighQ
Thomson Reuters,
Australia
Kris Klinkerman
Senior Technology Consultant,
Exterro, USA
Rawd Al-Sayed
Group Head of Legal,
Obegi Chemicals Group,
Dubai, UAE
Manoj K Singh
Founding Partner,
Singh & Associates,
India
Neeraj Dubey
Partner- Corporate
Singh & Associates,
India

Zubair Islam
Business Information Services,
Canon Emirates,
UAE
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Stephen Murphy
Digital Transformation Director,
iManage,
Spain
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Raj S.Kuppusamy
Head Of Compliance - Group Compliance Officer,
Sapura Energy Berhad,
Malaysia
Sandeep Sangwan
Associate Director - Counsel, CIPP-Asia
CBRE,
India
Feras El Hajjar
Founder & CEO,
App4Legal
Andrii Nikolaienko
Head Of Legal,
AAL Group Ltd,
UAE
Alizeh Iqbal Haider
Chief Legal and Compliance Officer,
Fine Hygienic Holding,
UAE
Mahmoud Shaarawy
Group Legal Director,
Elsewedy Electric,
Egypt
Ahmed Kandil
Regional Head Ethics and Compliance- TMEA,
Bausch Health Companies Inc.,
Dubai, UAE
Richard Milchior
Partner,
Herald LLP,
France
Peter Paroczi
Compliance Officer,
QAFCO (Qatar Fertiliser Company),
Qatar
Phil Farrelly
Co-Founder and Executive Director APAC
LegalCraft Solutions Pte. Ltd., Australia
Smitha Chandrashekar
Legal Director,
HARMAN International,
India
Peter Vrzal
IT Director,
Al Tamimi & Company,
UAE
Dinchu Oommen
Senior Legal Counsel, MEA
Johnson Controls,
UAE
Srinivas Kotni
Founder & Managing Partner,
LEXport,
India
aGENDA
08:28 AM – 08:30 AM (Dubai Time)
Opening Remarks
08:48 AM – 09:11 AM (Dubai Time)
Keynote Address 2
Tech and Innovation: Shaping the UAE & Middle East Legal Ecosystem
In an increasingly competitive market, practitioners are turning to legal technology (Legal Tech) and innovation to deal with the commoditisation of legal services and the emergence of alternative legal service providers. To what extent are Arab law firms embracing legal technology and what lessons can be learned from other jurisdictions?
Sponsored By
Hussain Hadi
Head of Middle East Publishing,
LexisNexis,
UAE
09:11 AM – 09:34 AM (Dubai Time)
Keynote Address 3
Building a Global Privacy Program CCPA, GDPR, LGPD and the World's Privacy Laws
The GDPR changed the way people and businesses think about privacy. With its extraterritorial scope and high noncompliance fines, it forced companies to implement ongoing, operational and privacy-focused initiatives by design into their businesses, changing the way companies interact with customers, employees and vendors. Since its enforcement date, the regulation has been a catalyst for new data protection laws across the globe: including ground-breaking new regulations in California, Brazil, India and others, meaning global businesses will need to reassess their privacy compliance across a growing matrix of regulatory requirements. In this session, we will discuss the current state of the global privacy environment and how companies can build programs that address the overarching requirements of various data protection laws.
Key issues to discuss:
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Gain an understanding of the current regulatory environment Learn the strategies and tactics for managing a global privacy program
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Take away a roadmap and action plan for compliance across the globe’s privacy regulations
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Understand the implications of the GDPR, CCPA and other global privacy laws
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Build a privacy program that addresses the overarching requirements of various data protection laws
Sponsored By
David Longford
Offering Manager,
OneTrust,
UK
09:34 AM – 09:48 AM (Dubai Time)
Keynote Address 4
Enabling Corporate Legal Departments – Tackling Change and Paving the Way to the Future with Legal Tech
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How changes in the current work environment have driven change within Lawyers and the way they work
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What are the key changes in companies approach to technology architecture, processes, and tools for legal departments?
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What are the processes and technologies Legal Departments have and can implement to deliver efficiency, productivity, security and collaboration working remotely or in the office?
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Best Practices for how to make that transition from just managing and storing documents and other information to getting creating greater value from using modern technology
Sponsored By
Stephen Murphy
Digital Transformation Director,
iManage,
Spain
09:48 AM – 10:00 AM (Dubai Time)
Keynote Address 5
Risk, Security, Compliance & Privacy: Evaluation and Strategies for Mitigation
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Reforming the Dubai approach to Data Protection and Privacy
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How do you get started with your compliance program?
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Does ensuring compliance ensure your cyber security defenses are robust?
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From Spreadsheets to Streamlined: Automating the Third-Party Vendor Risk Lifecycle
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Realities of Internal Risk Management & Fraud Awareness
Raj S.Kuppusamy
Head Of Compliance - Group Compliance Officer,
Sapura Energy Berhad,
Malaysia
10:00 AM – 10:25 AM (Dubai Time)
Exclusive Case Study Presentation
Scaling Access to Justice through Technology: Making justice easier, cheaper and scalable to the law-seekers, law practitioners and legal institutions alike:
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Role of internet
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Internet opens possibilities to end to end provision from diagnosis to resolution
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Integration with emerging Court technologies
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ODR is the new ADR
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Future is interactive and mobile
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Post Covid
Sponsored By
Phil Farrelly
Co-Founder and Executive Director APAC
LegalCraft Solutions Pte. Ltd., Australia
10:45 AM – 11:03 PM (Dubai Time)
Experiential Learning Session
(Individual Knowledge Sharing Session: Each speaker shares insights for about 07-10 mins.)
Data Breach & Data Protection in International Arbitration
Key issues to discuss:
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Why is International Arbitration prone to data breaches?
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Challenges in seeking to raise the level of cybersecurity and address data breach risks
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Who should take the lead in seeking to address data breach risks?
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Role of different stakeholders – parties, arbitrators, institutions
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Use of joint task force on data protection in International Arbitration proceedings
Lily Tsen
General Counsel,
Amcor Flexibles Asia Pacific,
Singapore
Sandeep Sangwan
Associate Director - Counsel, CIPP-Asia,
CBRE,
India