Programme

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15 APRIL 2026

18:30 – 20:30 Pre-Conference Drinks

16 APRIL 2026

08:30 – 09:00 Registration

09:00 – 10:00 Welcome & Keynote Speakers

Professor Caroline Fournet, Head of the Law School, University of Exeter

Professor Mark O’Brien, Chair of the Association of Law Teachers

Keynote Speaker (To be announced)

10:00 – 10:30 Refreshments, Networking & Exhibition

10:30 – 12:00 Parallel Sessions I

12:00 – 13:00 Keynote Speaker

Sir Geoffrey Charles Vos KG has served as Master of the Rolls and Head of Civil Justice for England and Wales since 11 January 2021. He presides over the Civil Division of the Court of Appeal and leads the development of civil procedure and court reform. He chairs the Civil Justice Council, the Civil Procedure Rule Committee and the Online Procedure Rules Committee and oversees the Advisory Council on National Records and Archives and the Forum on Historical Manuscripts and Academic Research. Sir Geoffrey also sits on the LawtechUK Panel and chairs both the UK Jurisdiction Taskforce and the International Jurisdiction Taskforce. Internationally, he is First Vice-President of the European Law Institute (from September 2025), and serves on the Steering Group of the Standing International Forum of Commercial Courts.

13:00 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 15:00 Parallel Sessions II

15:00 – 15:30 Refreshments, Networking & Exhibition

15:30 – 17:00 Parallel Sessions III

18:30 – 21:00 Conference Drinks Reception & Dinner at Reed Hall, a stunning grade II listed building nestled in a beautiful area of campus among landscaped gardens

17 APRIL 2026

08:00 – 08:30 Welcome Coffee

08:30 – 09:30 Keynote Speakers

Kirsten Maslen is Senior Director of Growth & Commercial Strategy at Thomson Reuters, where she leads growth planning and commercial strategy for the Legal Professionals Europe business. A former projects lawyer, she moved from private practice to the public sector, advising on PPP and complex outsourcing, before joining Practical Law as an editor on procurement, outsourcing and public-to-public arrangements. She has since held proposition, product strategy and marketing roles at Thomson Reuters. Her recent projects include working on the design, development and testing of AI agents for due diligence and contract compliance.

Professor Richard Moorhead is a Professor of Law and Professional Ethics and an empirical legal scholar who has worked on lawyers’ ethics and regulation, the courts and legal services, and access to justice. Interdisciplinary in approach, he has worked alongside economists, management scientists, and psychologists in such work, as well as with judges, Parliamentarians, policy-makers, and, professional regulators and representatives. He blogs at lawyerwatch and on the Post Office Scandal, and regularly features in professional and national press.

09:30 – 11:00 Parallel Sessions IV

11:00 – 11:20 Refreshments, Networking & Exhibition

11:20 – 12:40 Programme Partner Parallel Panels

12:40 – 13:45 Lunch & ALT AGM

13:45 – 15:15 Parallel Sessions V

15:15 – 15:30 Refreshments, Networking & Exhibition

15:30 – 16:45 Parallel Sessions VI

16:45 – 17:00 Closing & Announcement of Prizes