Nordic Legal Tech Day 2020
Online
This year, due to the current pandemic, AltNordic have decided to host the first ever Nordic Legal Tech Day in an online format. On October 8, during an afternoon, we will have a program with the latest information within legal tech, keynote speakers and the results of this year's General Counsel Report.
Agenda
13:00 - 13:05
Welcome to Nordic Legal Tech Day 2020
Welcome to Nordic Legal Tech Day 2020
Alexandra Waldersten, LegalWorks Nordic, opens the day.
13:05 - 13:30
How to manage legal teams in the times of a pandemic - Keynote by Ritva Sotamaa, GC at Unilever
How to manage legal teams in the times of a pandemic - Keynote by Ritva Sotamaa, GC at Unilever
How to manage legal teams in the times of a pandemic - keynote by Ritva Sotamaa, GC at Unilever.
Ritva Sotamaa is the Chief Legal Officer of Unilever based in London. Ritva has pursued a unique global in-house career with leadership positions in companies like Instrumentarium, GE, Siemens and Unilever.
13:30 - 13:45
Nordic GC Survey – managing the uncertain
Nordic GC Survey – managing the uncertain
What’s top of mind of our Nordic General Counsels? Presentation of the Nordic GC Report 2020, by Henrik Duedahl Høyer, Experticon.
13:45 - 14:15
Nordic GC Survey – panel discussion
Nordic GC Survey – panel discussion
Panel discussion following the GC 2020 results. Panel consists of Victoria Sörving (Funnel), John Martin Einvik (Svea Finans Norway), Sami Takila (Basware) and Nichlas Brødegaard Resch (Karnov). Panel is moderated by Henrik Duedahl Høyer (Experticon).
14:15 - 14:25
Break
Break
Break
14:25 - 14:45
Legaltech – why bother? With Richard Tromans from Artificial Lawyer
Legaltech – why bother? With Richard Tromans from Artificial Lawyer
Richard Tromans from Artifical Lawyer gives an update on the latest developments in the world of legal automation and legal AI.
14:45 - 15:15
Legal Ops Session with Leo Murgel, SalesForce, and Leif Frykman, LegalWorks
Legal Ops Session with Leo Murgel, SalesForce, and Leif Frykman, LegalWorks
How has the world's largest CRM platform implemented the legal operations concept into its legal department to work with on a daily basis? And what differences are to be seen between the US market and the Nordics market?
Legal Murgel is the VP Legal and Corporate Affairs from SalesForce. Leo and Leif will discuss on how to run a legal ops program in a global business.
15:15 - 15:50
Panel discussion: Legal Market Session – current trends in the legal market
Panel discussion: Legal Market Session – current trends in the legal market
Lisa Göransson and Ryan Turner from Allen & Overy, Reino Hyvärinen and Rutger Lambriex from EY and Sandy Devine from Factor discuss legal market developments. How does new technology, new players and new customer needs and behaviors impact on the legal market? Panel moderator is Ulf Lindén, LegalWorks.
Speakers
Ritva Sotamaa
Ritva Sotamaa joined Unilever in 2013 as Chief Legal Officer. As member of Unilever’s Leadership Executive, she is responsible for Unilever’s Legal, Intellectual Property and Business Integrity functions. In 2018 she was appointed as Group Secretary, in addition to her Chief Legal Officer role.
Ritva has spent most of her career in the healthcare industry. She joined Unilever in 2013 from Siemens AG, where she was General Counsel for the global Healthcare business since 2009, based in Germany.
Between 2003 and 2009 Ritva held several global General Counsel roles at General Electric Company - GE Healthcare, mostly based in Wisconsin, USA.
Ritva started her career in Finland in 1989 at Instrumentarium Corporation, a Finnish publicly listed healthcare company, as legal counsel for international business. Between 1996 and 1998 Ritva was legal counsel for Partek Corporation and returned to Instrumentarium in 1998 as General Counsel, in which position she served until 2003.
Ritva holds a Master of Laws degree from University of Turku, Finland. Since 2015 she serves as a non-executive director in Finnish branded consumer goods company Fiskars Corporation.
Ritva has spent most of her career in the healthcare industry. She joined Unilever in 2013 from Siemens AG, where she was General Counsel for the global Healthcare business since 2009, based in Germany.
Between 2003 and 2009 Ritva held several global General Counsel roles at General Electric Company - GE Healthcare, mostly based in Wisconsin, USA.
Ritva started her career in Finland in 1989 at Instrumentarium Corporation, a Finnish publicly listed healthcare company, as legal counsel for international business. Between 1996 and 1998 Ritva was legal counsel for Partek Corporation and returned to Instrumentarium in 1998 as General Counsel, in which position she served until 2003.
Ritva holds a Master of Laws degree from University of Turku, Finland. Since 2015 she serves as a non-executive director in Finnish branded consumer goods company Fiskars Corporation.
Chief Legal Officer, Unilever
Richard Tromans
Richard Tromans has worked in the legal sector for over 20 years. He is the founder of Artificial Lawyer, the leading news and information platform for legal technology.
He is also the founder of Tromans Consulting, which advises businesses in the legal sector on business strategy and innovation.
Richard is a strong believer in the power of legal technology to improve the lives of lawyers and their clients.
He is also the founder of Tromans Consulting, which advises businesses in the legal sector on business strategy and innovation.
Richard is a strong believer in the power of legal technology to improve the lives of lawyers and their clients.
Founder, Artificial Lawyer
Léo Murgel
Léo Murgel is Salesforce’s Legal and Corporate Affairs Chief Operations Officer. In this role, Léo is
accountable for enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of the division leveraging strategies including,
Outside Counsel Management, eDiscovery, Legal Shared Services, Knowledge Management, Innovation
Delivery, Data Science, and Organization Change Management in support of Salesforce’s 600+ strong
Global Salesforce Legal and Corporate Affairs team. Prior to his role, Léo was a VP in IT Mergers &
Acquisitions, where he was responsible for due diligence and complete IT integration of 20+ Salesforce
acquisitions. Léo has also led Salesforce's IT Program Management office and held other related
leadership roles across global retailers, technology consultancies, and engineering firms. He holds a
bachelor’s degree from UC Davis and further Executive Education from UC Berkeley.
VP, Legal and Corporate Affairs COO, SalesForce
Lisa Göransson
Lisa is the head of Allen and Overy’s Nordic desk and a partner in the Corporate department in London. Lisa has more than 20 years’ experience in corporate finance and general corporate work, both from working in private practice in Sweden and England and as the General Counsel of a Swedish large cap company listed on Nasdaq Stockholm. Lisa has extensive corporate and M&A experience, as well as capital markets transactions, including IPOs, rights issues and private placements. She has particular expertise advising on cross-border transactions.
Partner, Allen & Overy
Ryan Turner
Ryan is a corporate and commercial lawyer who provides strategic and commercial legal advice to corporations and financial institutions. He has experience in a wide range of corporate and commercial transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, takeovers, securities, joint ventures and a broad range of commercial contracts. Ryan acts as the legal tech representative for A&O's London Corporate group and advises on the use of legaltech on deals, as well as exploring new use-cases of legal tech. Prior to joining Allen & Overy, Ryan was a Senior Solicitor at Russell McVeagh, one of New Zealand's leading law firms.
Associate, Allen & Overy
Sami Takila
Sami works as the Group General Counsel and Board Secretary for Basware Corporation, a global leader in providing networked purchase-to-pay solutions, e-invoicing and innovative financing services. He has currently responsibility over Basware’s global legal matters and is additionally in charge of global facilities and sourcing operations.
Before joining Basware Sami spent 7 years as Senior Legal Counsel at Nokia, based in Finland, Russia and Hungary, supporting wide area of legal matters for several Nokia sales offices across Eurasia and South East Europe. Prior to joining Nokia, Sami was an associate at the Technology team of Hannes Snellman attorneys in Helsinki.
Sami has 20 years of broad international experience in technology related legal matters. Sami has legal qualification degree from University of Turku and an MBA from Henley Business School.
Before joining Basware Sami spent 7 years as Senior Legal Counsel at Nokia, based in Finland, Russia and Hungary, supporting wide area of legal matters for several Nokia sales offices across Eurasia and South East Europe. Prior to joining Nokia, Sami was an associate at the Technology team of Hannes Snellman attorneys in Helsinki.
Sami has 20 years of broad international experience in technology related legal matters. Sami has legal qualification degree from University of Turku and an MBA from Henley Business School.
Group General Counsel, Basware Corporation
Nichlas Resch
Head of Digital Innovation in Karnov Group
Role consists of customer co-development on legal tech solutions, trying and prototyping emerging technologies.
Have spent over 5 years working with customers within the legal field.
Role consists of customer co-development on legal tech solutions, trying and prototyping emerging technologies.
Have spent over 5 years working with customers within the legal field.
Head of Digital Innovation, Karnov Group
Reino Hyvärinen
Reino has over 20 years in business management and he is experienced in negotiating and executing private M&A, JVs, distributorship agreements and IPR strategy and management (especially patent portfolio) as well as various kind of demanding corporate and contract law engagements.
Reino is a proven global executive who has developed a customer centric approach to business with an uncompromising and entrepreneurial drive for customer satisfaction.
Reino has an excellent command of key legal, industrial, corporate and commercial practices which have been rudimentary in transforming customers’ strategies and needs into actionable projects. His practical experience and understanding of how large companies operate and how market challenges are turned into opportunities has been tested and proven in real competitive environments.
Reino is a proven global executive who has developed a customer centric approach to business with an uncompromising and entrepreneurial drive for customer satisfaction.
Reino has an excellent command of key legal, industrial, corporate and commercial practices which have been rudimentary in transforming customers’ strategies and needs into actionable projects. His practical experience and understanding of how large companies operate and how market challenges are turned into opportunities has been tested and proven in real competitive environments.
Partner and Head of Law, EY
Victoria Sörving
General Counsel at Funnel, with a background as the General Counsel at Tink, RaySearch Laboratories and from having worked as a lawyer at business law firms.
Head of Legal, Funnel
Rutger Lambriex
Rutger Lambriex is the head of EY Law’s Legal Managed Services practice across EMEIA. He is a partner with EY’s associated law firm in the Netherlands, HVG Law LLP, with more than 20 years’ experience in advising global clients on international corporate and contract law matters in a multi-disciplinary and multi-jurisdictional context. Rutger's specific area of expertise is the legal design, implementation and coordination of restructuring projects for multinational clients with the objective of enhancing operating model effectiveness and supply chain reorganization. Rutger holds a doctoral degree in Law from the University of Amsterdam and a Masters in International Economic Law from the University of Warwick (UK).
He is a Dutch Attorney-at-law, admitted to the Bar in the Netherlands and also registered as a foreign legal consultant in the State of New York.
He is a Dutch Attorney-at-law, admitted to the Bar in the Netherlands and also registered as a foreign legal consultant in the State of New York.
EMEIA Legal Managed Services Leader, EY
Leif Frykman
Founder and Chairman of the Board at LegalWorks Nordic.
Former General Counsel and legal tech pioneer with 20+ years in the IT-industry, whereof a majority of those years were spent in the heart of Silicon Valley.
Former General Counsel and legal tech pioneer with 20+ years in the IT-industry, whereof a majority of those years were spent in the heart of Silicon Valley.
Co-founder, LegalWorks Nordic
Ulf Lindén
Ulf Lindén is one of the founders LegalWorks, one of the leading new law initiatives in the Nordics offering a legal talent platform, legal services and legal ops consulting. Ulf is also a co-founder of Legalbuddy.com, Swedens first online lawfirm for start-ups and entrepreneurs, and Capchap, a blockchain-based corporate records tool. Ulf has law firm background and spent 14 years as an inhouse counsel with Pharmacia and General Electric.
Co-founder, LegalWorks Nordic
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