08:28 AM – 08:30 AM (Dubai Time)

Opening Remarks

08:30 AM – 08:48 AM (Dubai Time)

Keynote Address 1

The Evolution of Legal Departments: Past, Present and Future

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Maha Abboud

Territory Manager – Legal Professionals,
Thomson Reuters MENA, UAE

Rosalie Tordoir

Head of Client Services – HighQ
Thomson Reuters,
Australia

Sponsored By 

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.

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Key issues to discuss:

• Gain an understanding of the current regulatory environment Learn the strategies and tactics for managing a global privacy program

• Take away a roadmap and action plan for compliance across the globe’s privacy regulations

• Understand the implications of the GDPR, CCPA and other global privacy laws

• 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

• How changes in the current work environment have driven change within Lawyers and the way they work

• What are the key changes in companies approach to technology architecture, processes, and tools for legal departments?

• 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?

• 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

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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

• How do you get started with your compliance program?

• Does ensuring compliance ensure your cyber security defenses are robust?

• From Spreadsheets to Streamlined: Automating the Third-Party Vendor Risk Lifecycle

• 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

• Internet opens possibilities to end to end provision from diagnosis to resolution

• Integration with emerging Court technologies

• ODR is the new ADR

• Future is interactive and mobile

• ​Post Covid

Sponsored By 

Phil Farrelly

Co-Founder and Executive Director APAC
LegalCraft Solutions Pte. Ltd., Australia

10:25 AM – 10:45 AM (Dubai Time)

​​Virtual Break and Q&A Session

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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:

• Why is International Arbitration prone to data breaches?

• Challenges in seeking to raise the level of cybersecurity and address data breach risks

• Who should take the lead in seeking to address data breach risks?

• Role of different stakeholders – parties, arbitrators, institutions

• 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

Sponsored By 

11:03 AM – 11:23 AM (Dubai Time)

Exclusive Case Study Presentation

Data Retention is Critical Under Global Privacy Laws: How to Limit Exposure and Minimize Your Risk

Over-retention of data is a major data privacy risk. Global regulations from US, Europe and MENA specifically require that companies ensure their retention standards are up-to-date and enforced, and that all obsolete records containing regulated sensitive data are disposed of promptly. By implementing defensible data minimization strategies across your organization you can significantly reduce your costs and risks.

In this 20 minute product demonstration, learn:

• How to best implement data minimization strategies that protect your company's data and your organization;

• The vital role technology plays in automating and identifying the right data to delete

Maggie Ledbetter

Director of Client Services,
Exterro,
USA

Sponsored By 

Kris Klinkerman

Senior Technology Consultant,
Exterro,
USA

11:23 AM – 11:54 AM (Dubai Time)

Exclusive Case Study Presentation

International Commercial Arbitration: Facets and Challenges in India (Focus sectors: Infrastructure, Real Estate and Renewable Energy)

The Indian economy has been on a growth trajectory over the last decade with rapid strides across new age industries like Information Technology, IT enabled services, and Pharma to name a few. Today, India is the third largest economy in the Asia economics by GDP PPP (purchasing power parity), seventh largest country in the world by area and second largest by population and there is ample reason for India$B!G (Js viability as a destination for foreign investment).

Advantage India: Major Trading Relationship with UAE, Foreign Investments, Physical and Economic Infrastructure, Financial System and Legal System.

Key Takeaways-

• Business in India: The tug of war between regulations and ease

• Role of Singh & Associates (S&A) in Dispute Resolution (Focus on International Arbitration)

• FDI, FEMA, Labour Law and Company Law

• GST, Customs, International Trade and Double Tax Avoidance Agreements

• IP registration and enforcement process in India

Manoj K Singh

Founding Partner,

Singh & Associates,

India

Neeraj Dubey

Partner- Corporate,
Singh & Associates,

India

Sponsored By 

11:54 AM – 12:15 PM (Dubai Time)

Experiential Learning Session

(Individual Knowledge Sharing Session: Each speaker shares insights for about 07-10 mins.)

Automation in Litigation & Contract Management: Transforming Information, Delivering Insight

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• How is technology creating opportunities in the legal community?

• Effective Case Management: How to Control Litigation Outcomes and Costs?

• Is litigation management software hitting a tipping point?

• Enterprise Contract Management in the Cloud

• Why GC’s need CLM (Contract Lifecycle Management Solution)?

• What challenges are driving corporate legal towards matter management?

• Cloud Computing: risk & rewards for your IT and legal teams

• Protecting your documents and ensuring confidentiality

Yasser Abo Ismail

General Counsel and Compliance
Officer, MENA
Schindler Group, UAE

Mahmoud Shaarawy

Group Legal Director,
Elsewedy Electric,
Egypt

Richard Milchior

Partner,
Herald LLP,
France

Sponsored By 

12:15 PM – 12:36 PM (Dubai Time)

Exclusive Case Study Presentation

Maintaining Efficiency, Visibility & Control for Lawyers

Sponsored By 

Feras El Hajjar

Founder & CEO,
App4Legal

12:36 PM – 12:55 PM (Dubai Time)

Exclusive Case Study Presentation

Customer Success Story with Al Tamimi: How iManage Share changed the way of working with clients today

Martijn Tekelenburg

Sales Director,

IRIS Nederland

Zubair Islam

Business Information Services, Canon Emirates,

UAE

Peter Vrzal

IT Director,

Al Tamimi & Company,

UAE

Sponsored By 

12:55 PM – 01:15 PM (Dubai Time)

​​Virtual Break and Q&A Session

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01:15 PM – 01:36 PM (Dubai Time)

Exclusive Case Study Presentation

Data is the New Oil: Challenges and Solutions to Access Data in the MENA Region

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• Difficulty to access and information to data in the MENA region

• Open-Data strategy in the MENA region

• Causes and consequences of dealing with bad data in compliance processes

• How technology supports risk management and compliance teams to access data

Frederic Paquay

GCC Regional Manager,

Cedar Rose International Services Ltd, UAE

Sponsored By 

01:36 PM – 01:57 PM (Dubai Time)

Exclusive Case Study Presentation

Road Map of an Effective Compliance Program

Alizeh Iqbal Haider

Chief Legal and Compliance Officer,
Fine Hygienic Holding,
UAE

01:57 PM – 02:20 PM (Dubai Time)

Experiential Learning Session

(Individual Knowledge Sharing Session: Each speaker shares insights for about 07-10 mins.)

Managing Internal Investigations

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• Handling a regulatory investigation

• Scenario based look at the various considerations

• Focus on the overlap between regulatory issues and anti-competitive practices.

• AI and proactive AML systems

Elvis Angyiembe

Director, Ethics & Compliance,
Corporate Counsel,
Panasonic Avionics Corporation,
Dubai, UAE

Ahmed Kandil

Regional Head Ethics and
Compliance- TMEA,
Bausch Health Companies Inc.,
Dubai, UAE

Mohamad AlDarwish

Legal Director - Middle East,
Carrier,
UAE

Sponsored By 

02:20 PM – 03:22 PM (Dubai Time)

Experiential Learning Session

(Individual Knowledge Sharing Session: Each speaker shares insights for about 07-10 mins.)

Integration of Technology and Legal Function: Is It a Perfect partnership?

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• How to increase corporate legal departments/ law firm’s efficiency and productivity?

• How to Leverage machine learning to meet compliance requirements reduce or eliminate false positive compliance concerns?

• AI & Blockchain in International Arbitration: new challenges, new advocacy skills

• How technology help mitigating risks during the litigation process?

Ahmad Saleh

Partner & Head of Patents,
Al Tamimi & Company,
Dubai, UAE

Dinchu Oommen

Senior Legal Counsel, MEA
Johnson Controls,
UAE

Smitha Chandrashekar

Legal Director,
HARMAN International,
India

Srinivas Kotni

Founder & Managing Partner,
LEXport,
India

Sponsored By 

03:22 PM – 03:36 PM (Dubai Time)

Experiential Learning Session

(Individual Knowledge Sharing Session: Each speaker shares insights for about 07-10 mins.)

COVID-19: Now, Next and Beyond for Legal Industry – Governance, Risk & Compliance Considerations

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• Governance & Risk Management considerations

• Strengthening resilience during a pandemic crisis

• Regulatory compliance trends and considerations

• Managing treasury and short-term finance risks

Karim Soliman

Director Of Legal,
DAMAC Properties,
UAE

Sponsored By 

Peter Paroczi

Compliance Officer,
QAFCO (Qatar Fertiliser Company),
Qatar

03:36 PM – 04:00 PM (Dubai Time)

Experiential Learning Session

(Individual Knowledge Sharing Session: Each speaker shares insights for about 07-10 mins.)

The In-house Counsel Perspective – How Can Law Firms & Legal Service Providers Raise the Bar on Legal Services?

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• What can law firms & legal service providers do to improve the quality of their legal services?

• Are they responding quickly enough to clients?

• What kinds of value-add can lawyers bring to the table?

• With growing competition in the legal services industry, how to fulfill client’s expectation?

Andrii Nikolaienko

Head Of Legal,
AAL Group Ltd,
UAE

Rawd Al-Sayed

Group Head of Legal,
Obegi Chemicals Group,
Dubai, UAE

Sponsored By 

04:00 PM - 04:22 PM (Dubai Time)

​​Virtual Break and Q&A Session & Thank You Note

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