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‍Thursday 21 May 2026 | The Rose Bowl, Leeds Beckett University

A full day of big ideas, bold conversations and real connections. Join us for the fifth LegalTech in Leeds Annual Conference, the region's must-attend event where law meets technology and where the future of legal services takes shape.

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Agenda

8:30-9.00 - Breakfast and networking

9:10 - Welcome to Conference

9.20 - Welcome from Leeds Beckett University Professor Nnenna Ifeanyi-Ajufo, Professor of Law and Technology at the Leeds Law School, Leeds Beckett University

9.30 - Welcome to LegalTech in Leeds, Leeds Law Society Luke Corcoran, President of Leeds Law Society, Director of Leeds Law Society and Senior Lawyer in the Government Legal Department (GLD)

9.40 - Legal Technology in the UK, Lawtech UK Beth Fellner, Director of Legal Geek

9.55 - Keynote: The Efficiency Advantage: How AI Is Rewriting the Rules for Modern Law Firms Harry Black, Sales Manager, EMEA, Clio

10.15 - Panel: LegalTech Perspectives: Honest perspectives on adoption and implementation from across the legal sector. Featuring Laura Pilkington, Innovation Lead, Walker Morris, Claire Thompson, In-House Solicitor and Sheffield LegalTech Chair, Dr Virág Blazsek, Associate Professor of Law, Deputy Director, Centre for Business Law and Practice, University of Leeds School of Law, Ed Strudwick, Solicitor, Gordons LLP chaired by Chloe Thompson, Senior Consultant, Alchemmy Consulting

10.55 - Break and networking

11.25 - Panel: AI and the Future of Legal Work: What Really Needs to Change. Featuring James Grice, Head of Innovation and AI, Lawfront Group, Martin Beanland, Head of Service at Park Lane Plowden, Claire Zucker, Senior Account Executive, Laurel and Kelly Cunningham,. Senior Knowledge Lawyer, Walker Morris, chaired by Clare Grant, Commercial Director for Legal Apprenticeships at BPP.

12.05 - Fireside chat: Beyond the hype, driving AI investment and adoption. What does genuine adoption look like in practice, and what does it really take to move from curiosity to commitment? With Adam Roney, Calls9 / Kalisa.

12.25 - Lunch and networking

13.15 - IT procurement guidance Andy Evison, Director at Xexos

13.25 - AI and the Bar Henry Fingerhut from the Bar Standards Board shares their recent research and published guidance on AI usage for the Bar, joined by Paul Wright, Founder of Barrister Link and CEO of Quartz Barristers, who brings a chambers perspective to the conversation.

13.40 - Panel: Data trust fundamentals, managing change in a multi-stakeholder, multi-regulator environment. How the property market is building the foundations for secure and interoperable data, and digitally-enabled homebuying and selling. Featuring Jayne Roberts - Senior Supplier Performance Lead, Skipton Building Society Kris Byers - Pre & Post Completions Manager, MQube, Angela Hesketh - Head of Government & Public Affairs, PEXA & Board Member, Open Property Data Association, Matt Thomas, HM Land Registry, Julian Wells - Head of Communications, PEXA (panel chair)

14.20 - Keynote: Lawyer of the future, University of Law Patrick Grant, Associate Professor AI and Technology, The University of Law

14.35 - Innovation in a Day: LTIL Hackathon. The winners of the 2025 LegalTech in Leeds Hackathon, rradar, present their solution and reflect on what innovation in a day really looks like. Led by Charlotte Carruthers, Data Protection Practitioner and Kainaat Baig, Paralegal from rradar.

14.45 - Panel: Innovation and investment perspectives. The LegalTech growth landscape, what it takes to scale, where the opportunities are, and how innovation programmes and investment are driving the sector forward. Featuring Gary Gallen, CEO and Founder of rradar sharing the firm's growth and innovation journey, and Clare Streets, Innovation and Digital Lead at SuperTech WM, discussing the LawTech Open Innovation Lab and Seeds Accelerator programme and Jon Bartman, Director, The Law Tech Consultancy

15.15 - LegalTech Showcase - Rapid-fire presentations from LegalTech innovators, followed by a live Q&A with the audience. Chaired by Chris Grant, Head of Client Value at Goodwin.
Featuring:
- Legalito, Peter Ambrose
- AILES Project, Crish Nagarkar, Professor Leonid Bogachev and Professor Serge Sharoff, University of Leeds.
- Laurel Mary Rychlik, Account Executive at Laurel
- i agree, Helen Cutler, Co-Founder and CEO
- Collaborative Conveyancing, Luke Harris
- LegalCloud, Pelumi Okezie, Managing Director
- Katchr, Graham Moore, Managing Director