Law and technology conference 2018

David Lee is an event host, conference organiser, writer, editor and PR consultant. He worked for daily newspapers for 21 years, latterly as Senior Assistant Editor at The Scotsman before establishing his own business in 2009. 

 As Director of David Lee Media & Events Ltd, he has organised 100-plus business and public policy conferences and seminars and hosted almost 200 events for a range of public and private sector clients across the UK. He has covered legal affairs for 15 years and has been a judge in the Scottish Legal Awards since 2004.As well as law, he has a particular interest in fintech, life sciences, forestry and rural affairs, food & drink, education and general public policy. 

 Away from work, he is a father of four children (and two dogs) and is a passionate coastal rower and an enthusiastic footballer (of declining ability). He spends a lot of time on buses and trains, often leading to Twitter fury @davidleemedia.

Lord (Michael)Michael Briggs practiced at the bar in chancery and commercial litigation from 1978 until 2006, becoming a QC in 1994 .   He chaired the Bar Council Law Reform Committee and was a member of the Bar Council / Law Society working party on Civil Justice. From 2001 to 2006 he was Attorney General to the Duchy of Lancaster.

Appointed to the High Court in 2006, he served on the Civil Procedure Rules Committee, and on the Single Civil Court working party.  From 2011 until 2013 he was the northern chancery supervising judge, as Vice Chancellor of the County Palatine.  He was appointed to the Court of Appeal in 2013.

In 2013 he was the judge in charge of the Chancery Modernisation Review.  
During 2015-16 he carried out the Civil Courts Structure Review.    He became the Deputy Head of Civil Justice in January 2016, and led the civil judicial engagement with the programme for fundamental IT reform in the English courts.

In October 2017 he was appointed as a Justice of the UK Supreme Court.

Joya is an associate at Napier University's Cyber Academy, where she is involved in legal tech projects. Joya was a lawyer in The Netherlands for a number of years before she decided to switch to legal tech. She worked as a legal technologist for Kennedy Van der Laan in Amsterdam where she was managed a wide range of legal technology projects and products for clients such as Nike and Microsoft. Prior to that, she was a legal consultant to the Dean of the Business Faculty of Maastricht University, where she oversaw projects related to digitalising processes, including the possibility of a digital degree, developing the new strategy of the faculty, and implementing the project Women in Academia.

Joanna Sidhu is Head of UK at CrowdJustice. CrowdJustice (www.crowdjustice.com) is the leading funding platform for legal matters – from high profile judicial reviews to personal immigration matters, it gives more access to the law and enables lawyers to get paid for doing meaningful work. It has been featured in the Financial Times, the Guardian and the BBC as a game changer in access to justice. Before joining CrowdJustice Joanna was a solicitor at Ashurst LLP where she worked on High Court and international litigation.

Naomi is a dual-qualified solicitor in Scotland and England & Wales and a Solicitor Advocate in England, and specialises in commercial litigation.  She has particular expertise in complex contractual disputes, commercial fraud and proceeds of crime work.  Many of Naomi's cases involve an international element.
 
Naomi is an elected council member for the Law Society of Scotland representing the constituency of England and Wales. In 2017 she won a prestigious WeAreTheCity "Rising Star" Award recognising her as a future leader in law.  

Professor Delacroix focuses on the intersection between law and ethics, with a particular interest in Machine Ethics and Agency. Her current research focuses on the design of both decision-support and `autonomous’ systems meant for morally-loaded contexts. She also researches the effect of personalised profiling and ambient computing on ethical agency.

Professor Delacroix’s work has notably been funded by the Wellcome Trust, the NHS and the Leverhulme Trust, from whom she received the Leverhulme Prize in 2010.

Professor Delacroix has recently been appointed to the Public Policy Commission on the use of algorithms in the justice system (Law Society of England and Wales).

She is also a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute (commencing on 01 October 2018).

Edwards is a leading academic in the field of Internet law. She has taught information technology law, e-commerce law, and Internet law at undergraduate and postgraduate level since 1996 and been involved with law and artificial intelligence since 1985. Her current research interests, while broad, revolve around the topics of online privacy, intermediary liability, cybercrime, Internet pornography, digital assets and digital copyright enforcement.

She worked at Strathclyde University from 1986–1988 and Edinburgh University from 1989 to 2006. She became Chair of Internet Law at the University of Southampton from 2006–2008, and then Professor of Internet Law at the University of Sheffield until late 2010, when she returned to Scotland to become Professor of E-Governance at Strathclyde University,while retaining close links with the renamed SCRIPT (AHRC Centre) at Edinburgh . Since 2011, she has been Chair of E-Governance at Strathclyde University.

She has co-edited (with Charlotte Waelde) three editions of a textbook, Law and the Internet; the third edition appeared in 2009.She won the Barbara Wellberry Memorial Prize in 2004 for work on online privacy. A sole edited collection of her essays, The New Legal Framework for E-Commerce in Europe, was published in 2005. She is Associate Director, and was co-founder, of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Centre for IP and Technology Law (now SCRIPT). Edwards has consulted inter alia for Google, Symantec, McAfee, the EU Commission, the OECD, and WIPO. Edwards co-chairs GikII, a annual series of international workshops on the intersections between law, technology and popular culture.

Since 2012, Edwards has been Deputy Director of CREATe, the Centre for Creativity, Regulation, Enterprise and Technology, a £5m Research Councils UK research centre about copyright and business models. She is also a frequent speaker in the media and has been invited to lecture in many universities in Europe, Asia, America, Australasia and most recently, South Africa.

Ross is a Partner in the Data team overseeing data work across the firm. He is a qualified data protection practitioner and holds a masters in IT and telecommunications law with distinction focussed on data privacy and the General Data Protection Regulation. Ross takes a pragmatic and commercial approach to his data advice with a financial services client noting that Ross has “a total grasp of the GDPR” and is “able to make it understandable and interesting”.

Most recent experience has included:

• advising a range of Building Societies on GDPR compliance including development of fair processing notices, supplier contract negotiations, marketing consent strategies and staff training;
• delivering strategic data governance advice arising from the GDPR to a global utilities provider including providing management training, advice on the appointment of Data Protection Officers, and advising on data processor contracts;
• supporting clients on fair processing notification requirements involved in asset refinancing;
• providing data commercialisation advice for a national brand using customer profile data; and
• advising on international data transfers for a range of oil and gas services companies.

Ross was also appointed to advise one of the world's largest cloud providers negotiating complex customer agreements with financial services customers together with specialist data protection training. This gives Ross a unique insight to cloud contracting issues relevant to many organisations migrating their platforms to the cloud.

Dr Archibald’s present research and teaching focus is in Cyber Security, having been a lecturer/researcher in computing field since 1990.  She has supervised to completion upwards of 30 MSc, MRes and MPhils and 6 PhDs. Dr Archibald’s present role is as Programme Tutor of MSc Ethical Hacking and Cyber Security.  From a teaching perspective, she lectures in the areas of Information Security Management, Security Education and Training and Security Policies. Dr Archibald’s current research work lies in the area of Usable Security, particularly in Human Aspects of Security.

Federico is a senior cyber security executive with 15 years of experience in industry and consulting. Federico specialises in Financial Services, with experience in Europe, the Middle East, and Americas. His mission is to lead Quorum Cyber in creating innovative, simple security services built for the next generation of cyber-attacks.

Basil is a digital forensics consultant, owner of Strathclyde Forensics and the Manager of The Cyber Academy at Edinburgh Napier University.

He has diverse business experience in the UK and Greece, and has worked with organisations like IBM, Abbey National, Glasgow University, HM Government and Edinburgh Napier University.

Since 2009 he has been running his own business, Strathclyde Forensics, providing Expert Witness and Digital Forensics services, businesses and individuals, but mainly to the legal profession. He has been involved in several high-profile cases and has been providing customised CPD training to solicitors and other legal professionals in Digital Evidence, Cybercrime and Cybersecurity.

Through his position at The Cyber Academy he has provided training to the Chinese Government, including the Ministry of Industry and IT, and the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, as well as most branches of the Scottish Government on Incident Response and Cyber Resilience.

 Basil is a regular speaker to universities (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Edinburgh Napier, UWS, Robert Gordon, SAN, American College of Greece) and conferences in the UK and abroad (Poland, Romania, Greece, Germany) and he has organised this year’s Big Data in Cyber Security Conference, at Napier University which attracted an audience of 250 and speakers from around the world, including the ITU and the FBI.

In the last year he has participated in several events of The Law Society of Scotland, has been working (and presenting) with INTERPOL’s Digital Forensics Expert’s Group, and has had over 20 awareness engagements that also include SYLA (Scottish Young Lawyer’s Association) and SPA (Scottish Paralegal Association).

Alasdair has over 20 years’ experience as a solicitor and partner in private practice bringing legal sector knowledge. Since 2005, he has been involved in 100 + online business generation projects. He has experience of law firm practice management along with experience in creating legal brands and rebranding existing legal firms. Alasdair co-founded Network Legal in 2012, an online lead generation company which owned a significant portfolio of legal sector websites in the UK. The company was successfully sold in August 2017.

As well as being a 2016 graduate of Squared Online, the digital marketing leadership course developed by Google for "tomorrow`s connected leaders", he is a member of the Law Society of Scotland Technology Law and Practice Committee. Alasdair has experience of implementing effective in-house procedures in legal firms to ensure business opportunities are effectively handled and converted, with associated reporting procedures being implemented.

Alan Stuart is a projects lawyer based in Edinburgh with over 25 years’ experience in assisting clients to achieve their goals.

After qualifying, Alan worked in two of Scotland's largest legal practices, he then spent 17 years in a large and well respected Scottish law firm based in both Edinburgh and Glasgow and was a partner in the Commercial department for 12 years.

Alan set up his own specialist practice in 2014 with leading London Corporate Lawyer Mark Lawson.

Alan specialises in IT, Space Science, Life Sciences and International Contracts.

Alan is the retained lawyer for:
A major food retailer
One of the leading Space Science Companies in Europe
A leading UK clinical research organisation
The second largest global restaurant booking platform.

He also acts for a large number of software companies ranging from start ups to PLCs.

Alan acts as a consultant for other law firms and lectures on IT Contracts and International Contracts.

Alan is a member of:
the Society of Computers and the Law;
the International Institute of Space Law

Alan is a Writer to Her Majesty’s Signet.

Laura Fessey is a Product Manager at CMS, working in the Legal Service Design and Delivery Team. Laura is responsible for raising awareness and adoption of legal technology tools at CMS to improve efficiency, profitability and client satisfaction. Laura will also be creating new products for CMS, which will incorporate a combination of people, process and technology. Prior to this, Laura was a Solution Architect at Axiom, an American alternative legal services company. In this role, Laura scoped and designed technology enabled project solutions for a host of clients either in response to regulatory activities or to enable contract transparency. Laura holds an LPC from The College of Law, and a degree in Economics and Law from the University of Leicester.

Casey Kuhlman is the CEO of Monax a blockchain-based contract management system for small businesses. Prior to co-founding Monax, Casey was the head of legal information systems at the US Open Data Institute. A lawyer and international development practitioner for nearly a decade, Casey has worked extensively in the Horn of Africa, including co-founding the first law firm in Somaliland. Casey has also been a New York Times bestselling author, an infantry officer in the Marines, and is an avid participant in open source software development.

Maeve heads up the EMEA division of Education & Community Programmes for Neota Logic, preaching the imminence of AI to legal educators and policy-makers. After finishing her law degree in Dublin, Maeve jumped straight into the tech world at Web Summit, where she spent 2 years working with startups and investors from all over the world. While there, she spearheaded the launch of the Women in Tech initiative at the flagship conference in Lisbon. Having rejoined the legal circle as part of the Neota Logic team in London, she works with educational institutions to prepare their students for a career enhanced by technology.