Judges
Jacqueline de Rojas CBE (Chair)
Non Executive Director / Co-Chair
Institute of Coding
Jacqueline is the Former President of techUK and the co-chair at the Institute of Coding. She sits as a Non-Executive Director on the board of UK technology business Rightmove plc; on the board of Costain plc, which is committed to solving the nation’s Infrastruc…
Jeremy Barton (Deputy Chair)
General Counsel
KPMG
Jeremy Barton is General Counsel of KPMG UK, one of the largest member firms of KPMG’s global network providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services. Leading a team of 45 people, he is responsible for legal and corporate governance matters, and advises the Chairman a…
David Robinson
Head of Global IT Security
Herbert Smith Freehills
David Robinson MBE is the Head of Global IT Security for Herbert Smith Freehills, one of the world’s leading law firms, who advise many of the biggest and most ambitious organisations across all major regions of the globe. David leads the delivery and strategy for…
Shilpa Bhandarkar
CEO
CreateiQ
Shilpa Bhandarkar is the CEO of CreateiQ, Linklaters’ proprietary contract management platform. CreateiQ helps automate each stage of the contracting process from draft through to execution, as well as allowing institutions to unlock all contract data from…
Razvan Cretu
Director of IT
CMS
Razvan is Director of IT at CMS, a prestigious international law firm headquartered in London. He is responsible for leading the technology team whilst defining and implementing the future vision and IT strategy of the firm. With over 20 years IT experience, Raz…
Karen Jacks
CTO
Bird & Bird
Karen is CTO at international law firm Bird & Bird providing strategic planning, delivery and support of IT solutions, information security and telecommunications to 30 offices in Europe, Middle East, US, Asia and Australia. Karen has overseen the rapid e…
Mohammed Ajaz
Founder
LEx 360
A member of the Leadership Team with responsibility for strategy, planning, performance, change and improvement across the Global Legal Function. Accountability for National Grid’s Operational Excellence programmes across the Function (Risk and Complia…
Chris Bull
Principal and ExCo Member
Edge International
Chris is the founding Director of legal and professional service sector retained advisors and thought leaders Kingsmead Square and of the tri-partite Intuity Alliance, which launched September 2018. He advises on strategy, operations, transformation and s…
Orlando Conetta
Head of SmartDelivery
Pinsent Masons LLP
Orlando is head of SmartDelivery within Pinsent Masons, and is responsible for proving new applications of legal technology throughout the firm and amongst clients. A double graduate of both Law and Computer Science, Orlando has pioneered the use of technolog…
Amy McConnell
Head of Legal Operations
Vodafone Business
Amy McConnell is Head of Legal Operations for Vodafone Business. Amy manages a multi-disciplinary team of 30 (lawyers, project managers, transformation and knowledge specialists, data analysts and IT professionals). Amy is responsible for the developmen…
Mo Cashman
Principal Engineer EMEA, Director Pre-Sales
Trellix
Mo Cashman is one of McAfee’s passionate leaders in cyber security. As a Principal Engineer at McAfee, Mo inspires our next generation security professionals, helps drive company technical strategy and advises our largest global customers and service provid…
Perminder Jagdev
Information Security Manager
Stephenson Harwood LLP
Perminder has spent the last 12 years working in technology at national & international law firms. She moved into Information Security almost 4 years ago with a focus on governance, risk, and compliance (GRC). Perminder joined Gowling WLG in December 2017 a…
Sayid Hussein
Founder and CEO
AZH Consulting
Sayid Hussein is the Founder and CEO of AZH Consulting. A consulting firm specialising in IT, Security & Change Management. With almost twenty years of IT experience in the legal sector, Sayid’s specialisms encompass a wide variety of strategic technology…
Jonathan Patterson
Managing Director
DWF Ventures
Jonathan is known for innovation in the business of law with particular expertise in strategy and design. As Managing Director of Innovation and Digital at DWF, he is responsible for the day to day running of DWF Ventures, oversees the growth strategy for DWF Adva…
Marcel Henri
Former Global Chief Information Officer
Dentons
Marcel Henri is the former Global Chief Information Officer for Dentons, the world’s largest law firm. During his 20 years with the firm he played an integral role in advancing the firm’s technology, especially as Dentons has rapidly scaled its presence –…
Chris White
Interim CIO
WhiteBoard Consulting
Chris started his career in Financial Services holding senior IT positions at NPI Asset Management, Schroders, Henderson Investors and Cogent Investment Operations. He joined Law Firm Ashurst as CIO in 2002. Since leaving in 2009 he has undertaken a number of r…
Janet Day
Director
Janet Day Ltd
Janet has worked in the broad sphere of legal IT virtually all her working life – even her MBA speciality was ‘Competitive Advantage in the Legal Profession’. After working in administration at A&O, Janet set up a specialist consultancy practice looking at t…
Peter Owen
Founder / Director
Lights-On Consulting Limited
Peter is the Managing Director of Lights-On Consulting Limited, an independent IT and management consultancy practice. Lights-On specialises in the legal sector but also carries out work for sectors outside of legal thus maintaining a broader commercial vie…
Jo Owen
CIO
Cripps
As CIO at Cripps, Jo is passionate about communicating and engaging with the business to understand the needs of the legal and support teams, and ensuring the right processes and systems are in place to deliver the best possible service to our clients. With over tw…
Ray Berg
Partner
Osborne Clarke
Ray is a partner at Osborne Clarke based in its Silicon Valley office from May 2023. He will be supporting the firm’s US clients on their international strategies targeting markets including the UK, EU and south east Asia. Ray was Osborne Clarke’s UK…
Nigel Tranter
CTO
Pinsent Masons
As Chief Technology Officer, Nigel provides strategic leadership and is accountable for all technology services including enterprise business change, product development and servicing, technology and enterprise architectures, operational platforms,…