The past 24 months has seen AI rush to the forefront of conversations across industries. With the launch of ChatGPT and the power of Generative AI and Large Language Models, AI is no longer a figment of the future, but a visceral reality that is impacting, disrupting and challenging traditional industries today. The legal industry is no different. The AI fever has swept across legal and captured the collective imagination of the industry. Everyone is talking about AI, but there are so many unanswered questions and concerns around the new technology.
This Roundtable will bridge the gap between AI and legal and highlight how the future between AI and legal is interconnected and inevitable. Attendees can expect to go away with a newfound sense of clarity around AI, how it will impact the legal industry and practical frameworks and guidance on how to engage with market players and spot use cases for AI in legal.
Session Objectives
- Introduce AI from a conceptual standpoint breaking down what the technology is & what it can really enable
- Unpack & explore common buzzwords like Generative AI & Large Language Models
- Go beyond the hype to understand the resurgent interest in AI across the legal industry
Key Takeaways
- Will equip attendees with the foundational knowledge needed to make sense of everything happening with AI in legal
- Discover how AI is currently being used in the legal industry & establish a framework for forward thinking about use cases for the application of AI in legal
- Introduce attendees to a framework for understanding the various AI players in legal & the emerging Legal AI market so that attendees are able to understand what avenues are available to their firms to make the most of AI.
Time: 14:00
Location: The Lockwood Room
The Masterclass session will run for 90 minutes and include a Q&A/discussion session for attendees. A handout summarising the key points of the session will be provided to attendees.
Facilitator
Uwais Iqbal, Founder & CEO, Simplexico
Uwais Iqbal is an AI Practitioner with close to a decade’s worth of experience designing and building AI systems in the legal sector. He has held roles as a Machine Learning Engineer and a Senior NLP Data Scientist at leading legal tech start-ups like Eigen Technologies and ThoughtRiver and also spent time at Thomson Reuters Labs. Uwais is currently the Founder & CEO of Simplexico. He is on a mission to help legal professionals step into a future of collaboration with AI. Uwais is passionate about demystifying the hype to educate the legal industry about AI and has delivered keynote speeches on AI at the World Bar Conference and the International Conference of Legal Regulators.