Nicole is Bell Legal Group’s General Manager having worked in Legal for over 20 years. Nicole has completed a Bachelor degree in accounting and finance and believes in data driven decision making for better legal services.

A passionate Queenslander and Gold Coast local, Nicole has a strong interest in people and culture and loves the interaction between lawyers and clients to achieve best possible outcomes.

Sam is a Manager in the PwC Legal Business Solutions team which specialises in legal transformation and legal technology. She has worked with law firms on using Generative AI to support their work and improve their client's experience, as well as working with firms on document automation and process improvement. Prior to joining the PwC, Sam provided Legal Project Management and Process Improvement expertise for Ashurst’s clients and led Growth and Innovation projects at LegalVision, including prototyping and testing a legal subscription service for the firm.

As InfoTrack’s Head of Property, Lee Bailie drives development and innovation across the company’s property product portfolio. Lee ensures InfoTrack continually re-evaluates its market-leading technical solutions, maintaining its position as an industry leader.

Lee joined InfoTrack seven years ago as Head of Products and Innovation, after spending over a decade with some of Australia’s largest and most advanced legal firms. In his previous role as CEO of Conveyancing Works, Lee spearheaded the growth of the business to become the largest conveyancing operator in Australia, acquiring extensive industry experience, knowledge of the property market, client expectations, and workflow efficiencies. 

An experienced leader, Lee has an illustrious career history of working in information technology and the professional services industries. With a strong emphasis on people and building dynamic teams across the Australian property landscape, he has cultivated a passion for business growth and transformation within this sector. This determination and drive fuel the work he champions at InfoTrack, ensuring the company continues to lead in delivering cutting-edge solutions for property transactions

Dennis Barnhart is Managing Director for Dye & Durham Australia. Based in Sydney, Dennis is responsible for leading the growth and development of the company by bringing Dye & Durham’s world-class solutions to the local market. He is doing this by creating a made-in-Australia approach to running the company and finding unique ways to provide the best customer experience.

Dennis joined Dye & Durham Corporation in 2021 as President of the Canadian business, where he led the successful integration and consolidation of the DoProcess acquisition, before heading to sunnier climates to support the growth of the company in the Australian market. Since then, he has achieved significant success in accelerating the business and building upon its reputation of being the world’s largest provider of cloud-based legal practice management software.>

Dennis has extensive leadership experience in the statutory registry and legal technology market, having held multiple leadership roles and successfully modernizing and transforming businesses to improve customer value. As the leader of Dye & Durham Australia, he will leverage his breadth of experience in continuing to move the company forward by maintaining it’s status as a world leader in legal technology.

Courtney Blackman is the Head of Partnerships at Lander & Rogers, Australia's largest independent law firm. She is part of the firm's award-winning iHub, a dynamic team of problem solvers and innovators creating smart solutions for everyday and complex business challenges.

She is also on the 'fusion team' of the firm's AI Lab where she oversees the LawTech Hub, a first-of-its-kind global-reaching program that enables startups to develop, test, and scale new legal tech products, and she leads Australia's first AI Clinics in partnership with Monash University, uncovering unique AI use cases for the legal industry. Courtney also manages a series of legal tech clinics annually in partnership with top institutions including Monash, UTS, and QUT.

Before joining Lander & Rogers, she worked with hundreds of industry-agnostic startups and scaleups at one of the country's largest tech and innovation hubs; and was a founder and entrepreneur, having launched, grown, and successfully exited startups in the digital media space.

Renee is the founder and principal at RB Consulting. Combining over 20 years in education, counseling, and non-profit leadership, her passion and purpose is helping law firms cultivate resilience and well-being. She works with firms all over the world and shines a light on the altruistic and economic benefits of investing in their lawyers' and legal professionals' well-being.

Donna Marie Broadley is the Chief Executive Officer of LEAP Legal Software, Australia & New Zealand. 

Donna’s firsthand experience of the law fuels her passion for providing innovative legal software solutions. Beyond her leadership in Australian legal tech, Donna also has hands-on experience, having worked as a paralegal and office manager in a law firm. 

Donna has driven much of LEAP’s success over the past 15 years, working her way up from product consultant to CEO. She's known for her strategic vision and ability to turn ideas into reality, driving the uptake of innovation across our increasingly diverse legal profession. 

Her leadership also led a startup acquisition of Perfect Portal to achieve impressive results within a year. Donna led the team to build ACMR of more than $1M per year from a standing start. 

Donna has returned to LEAP as she has a steadfast belief in the product and culture, having seen first-hand how LEAP has helped law firms in Australia grow, evolve and increase profitability. 

Donna provides guidance to the Executive Team on innovative business practices and legal software solutions for clients. She is responsible for LEAP Australia's overall business performance..

Ann-Maree David was a founding Director of AGEC (2016-2020) and is the immediate past President of Australian Women Lawyers. Ann-Maree is an Executive Director of The College of Law, the largest provider of practice-focused legal education in Australasia. She has worked in the legal profession for over 30 years, in public and corporate sector roles and in private practice as a solicitor.

Ann-Maree has held a career-long passion for developing and delivering education and training programs to enable all involved in the delivery of legal services to thrive both personally and professionally.

Sheetal Deo (She/Her) is an advocate, strategist, and connector. Sheetal is passionate about leveraging platform and privilege to bridge gaps in awareness, education, and accessibility. Sheetal has engaged in a political and social science studies for over 12 years, having earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy and Political Science in Canada before obtaining her Juris Doctor, Master of Laws and Graduate Diploma of Legal Practice in Australia. She is a keen believer in 'calling in', not 'calling out' and creating safe and comfortable spaces to ask ands learn about otherwise uncomfortable topics. Sheetal is driven to effect positive social and systemic changes through an intersectional lens and bring this approach to diversity, inclusion, equity and accessibility forums. She recognises that bridging the gap between awareness and action often requires unlearning and challenging the status quo and this needs vulnerability, kindness and compassion. Sheetal strongly believes that issues relating to diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility may not be our fault, but it is our responsibility.

Founder, Director & Chief Organiser of Lawganised, Ben Deverson, has had a 28-year executive career of which over half has been managing and leading professional services firms. For four years (2016-2019), Ben was the Managing Director and an equity principal of a boutique law firm in Brisbane, Australia. 

Whilst not being a qualified lawyer, Ben is an expert in the best practice operations of law firms. Throughout his career, Ben has gained an intimate knowledge of the challenges that law firm Principals face each day. Ben's strengths include strategic planning, people and culture, forecasting, cash flow management, process automation, performance metrics, leadership, and legal practice risk management. 

Ben has a passion for helping law firm Principals build strong, positive cultures and cohesive teams built on vulnerability-based leadership and trust. Ben believes teams with these characteristics allow Principals to optimise their people and generate enormous value in their practices, leading to a positive outlook on their business and their lives. 

That is why the Lawganised vision is simply: "To change the lives of law firm Principals". 

Ben's unrelenting commitment and motivation to achieve excellence stems from his past unique leadership roles as an Australian Army Officer, Chief Operating Officer and Practice Manager for two global accounting firms, and a senior commercial role in a major Queensland infrastructure project. 

Ben is a proud husband and father of three children, and happily admits he married well outside his weight division(!). He's an avid sports fan, animal lover, Dad joke connoisseur, and a proud 'Swiftie' (a Taylor Swift fan). Ben always enjoys a good laugh and, in particular, enjoys a chat about anything Seinfeld related. Ben is often guilty of excessive overuse of Seinfeld references and quotes given he believes there’s a Seinfeld moment in every day. 

Ben is also a non-executive Director of the AEIOU Foundation for Children with Autism, and the RSPCA Queensland.

David Diamond is the Founder and CTO of MatterX and DataChef, bringing 20 years of experience in the technology sector. Committed to staying at the forefront of technological advancements, David leverages emerging innovations to drive progress in the legal industry. MatterX harnesses advanced AI and Copilot capabilities to help legal professionals streamline their workflows and enhance client service. David's dedication to innovation and excellence continues to drive MatterX's success in delivering valuable solutions for the legal sector.

Tom Dreyfus is the CEO and co-founder of Josef, a global no-code and GenAI automation platform that transforms the way legal teams work through easy-to-use, digital tools. 

Before Josef, Tom worked as a solicitor and served as an associate at the High Court of Australia. Alongside his role at Josef, he is the acting President of ALTA and a frequent speaker on the impact of legal technology on the practice and business of law.

Amanda is the Chair of WALTA having been on the ALTA Board since 2023 and part of the WALTA subcommittee since its launch in 2021. Since then, she has, along with the WALTA subcommittee launched WALTA, launched an 100-page eplaybook as a resource for women on legal technology journey and launched theWiLD, a directory of women in legal technology. She won the WALTA Champion for Change in 2022 at the inaugural ALTA awards, was a finalist in the Women in ICT Awards in 2023 and was a finalist in the Women in Law Awards Innovator of the Year in 2019. Amanda passionately believes in WALTA’s mission and values – in particular, creating actionable outcomes to pave a legacy for the women of legal technology of tomorrow. She is also a founding member of the Access to Justice Network and is a Legal Technology Evangelist at Barhead Solutions.

Andrea Foot coaches leaders to manage the individual, team and system-level challenges that change brings for their organisations. From personal experience, she knows that leading can be an isolating experience, placing unique pressures on individuals at the top of any business. For nearly four decades she has worked extensively in the legal ecosystem in Europe, North America and APAC with legal technology, law firms and legal teams. 

She holds an Executive Master in Coaching & Consulting for Change with distinction from INSEAD, one of the most highly rated European business schools and holds a postgraduate qualification in psychology. She regularly deepens her experience and awareness of working with groups as part of the Group Relations community locally and internationally.

Whether acting as an executive coach, a non-executive director, or a strategic advisor, she applies a blend of practical business knowledge, coaching expertise, and systems-psychodynamic lenses to help organisations work through complex challenges.

Christian is a legally trained professional with a work background that covers executive recruitment, performance coaching, management consulting, human centred design and change management.

Christian leverages experience gained working alongside executive leaders and non-executive boards in conjunction with strong emotional intelligence to deliver effective and contemporary solutions for clients and colleagues alike.

In addition to his bachelor’s degrees in Law and Psychological Science from the University of South Australia, Christian is a certified Organizational Coach via IECL and a Qualified Change Manager via Prosci.

I'm a seasoned leader driven by innovation. My mission? Simplify and improve business operations for business owners and their clients. I've assisted businesses of all sizes by implementing technology to help them with their digital transformation journey and automate operations to ultimately increase profitability. Now, I'm championing File Republic's digital privacy and productivity revolution digitising law firms for the future!

Alex looks after Client Service at LexVeritas. Coming from a finance background, Alex understands the inner workings of a law firm and the levers to improve profitability. With an emphasis on change management, he works with key client stakeholders to ensure the services that are being delivered are optimised and adding value.

I help businesses create sustainable growth and targeted profitability through strategy, leadership, talent development, and business transformation. 

I provide specialist consultant strategic management, human resources, practice management and business excellence solutions for professional services firms, not-for-profits (NFPs), SMEs and other industry organisations. I am a strategic thinker, who is analytical and commercial in outlook. Adding value and making a difference to the growth and profitability of an organisation is paramount to me. 

I am a passionate leader who is driven by the vision, values and culture of an organisation to achieve successful outcomes for the business. Coaching and mentoring partners, directors, professional and administration staff is a passion of mine. 

I have over 25 years’ experience in professional services (legal, accounting and medical) performing Australasian leadership roles in quality, risk management and corporate governance; National leadership and management roles in the areas of practice management; human resources management; change management; operations management; knowledge management; document and database management and information technology. I have worked in top-tier and mid-tier professional services firms. 

I hold an MBA from the University of Queensland. I have been admitted as a Certified Professional (CAHRI) of the Australian Human Resources Institute. I am a University of Queensland Business Economics & Law Faculty (BEL) Mentor for the 2018 to 2024 Mentor/Mentee Program and a CAHRI mentor for the AHRI 2015 to 2017 Mentor/Mentee Program. 

I have written a number of articles that have been published in legal journals and on the web. I have also spoken at Queensland Law Society conferences and seminars, LexisNexis seminars, ALPMA conferences, and many ALPMA monthly seminars. 

I am a former LPMC Adjunct Lecturer and Course Facilitator for the College of Law (2015- May 2024), Director of Education, Learning & Development and Board Director for 13 years (2003-2016), a Board Advisor for 3 years (2016-2019) for the Australasian Legal Practice Management Association (ALPMA), and an ALPMA Life Member. 

Outside of work, socialising with my family, friends, and colleagues is important to me. I have a passion for travel (often to remote countries) to learn about new cultures, history, architecture, and UNESCO/World Heritage sites. 

In 2013, I performed volunteer work in Nepal with NAFA (Nepal Australia Friendship Association) and funded the building of a small primary school in the hills of the Dhading region. Since the 25 April 2015 earthquakes, I was busy raising donations to rebuild my school and dental hygiene project and to support the local health facilities. Our focus was on reconstruction for our remote villages in the hills of the Dhading region in Nepal and other infrastructure projects which have now been completed. In 2022, I travelled to Kenya and donated to the Masai Mara Women’s Community. After visiting Zambia in 2022, I made a donation to a primary school project in 2023.

Tobi is a passionate product leader with over 25 years of hands-on experience leading teams as a Chief Product Officer, VP of Product, Head of Product, and Senior Product Manager. She has spent her career delivering innovative SaaS B2B and B2C products that put users and customers first (where they belong). Tobi has worked from Startups to publicly traded Global Corporations and has experience in multiple industries including FinTech, Higher Ed, Legal, and HR Tech. Her strengths lie in building high-performing product and delivery teams and shaping the internal culture. She is Canadian-born and lived in the US before finding her forever home in Australia.

Ash Kelso is the co-founder and CEO of legal project management platform, Hivelight. Ash has grown up around the practice of law, giving him a backstage pass to the real challenges of growing a law firm. 

He is a qualified mechatronics engineer and lawyer, having practiced in both fields, including project and systems engineering roles with the Department of Defence, and founding his own law firm. 

Ash brings a blend of resilience, empathy, and a multidisciplinary toolset to the intersecting challenges of social change and technology; which has included presentations at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, the Sydney Machine Learning Meetup, and more recently the LIV CPD Intensive AI Cube

As OCRT Consulting’s Business Development Manager, Brittany drives strategic growth and client partnerships across industry and government sectors. Brittany’s background in law as a graduate of the Australian National University and intelligence analyst working within secure Defence environments positions her to understand complex client needs and align them with OCRT’s capabilities. Currently, Brittany is co-leading the build and go-to-market strategy for Vici, an AI-driven advanced eDiscovery solution for the legal sector.

Emily joins LexVeritas from Lawyers on Demand, as an award-winning HR strategist and lawyer, with innovation, leadership and project management experience. Emily holds a current practising certificate and has enjoyed various legal secondments throughout her career, including Clayton Utz and the Brisbane Airport Corporation.

Andrew is a highly experienced professional with over 15 years of expertise in the Australian legal technology sector. Currently serving as the Director of Solutions at Tensis, he demonstrates exceptional sales and leadership skills in driving business growth. Andrew also contributes to the industry as a Board member of the Australian Legal Technology Association (ALTA).

Rhonda McGrath is a dynamic Client Relationship Manager at LEAP Legal Software, bringing three years of expertise and a personal touch to Queensland clients. She excels at guiding firms to unlock the full potential of LEAP’s features, including groundbreaking AI solutions that can save up to 15 hours a week. 

Having worked in law firms herself, Rhonda is deeply familiar with the daily challenges and pressures her clients face. This firsthand experience makes her uniquely equipped to demonstrate how LEAP can ease these burdens and streamline their operations. Her commitment to optimising efficiency and productivity means she doesn’t just support her clients—she empowers them to transform their operations and elevate their service.

Mike is software veteran over 20 years of experience in SaaS (Martech, CRM, BI, AI and LegalTech), bringing his combined experience delivering market leading solutions to multinationals to solo law firms alike. Mike’s experience in supporting his clients through digital transformation brings together best practice project and change management methodologies, all aligned to mission critical business drivers and outcomes. Mike is passionate about building teams who engender trust and focus on customer value to help clients cut through the uncertainty technological change brings, ensuring their reputations and client relationships are protected.

Zahn Nel is a seasoned professional in the legal technology space, currently fulfilling the role as the Regional Vice President of Sales, Australia and New Zealand at Actionstep. With over 15 years of dedicated experience in legal technology, Zahn has become a trusted expert in providing true cloud-based technology solutions and innovation to law firms. 

During his decade-long stint in London, Zahn made significant contributions by working with firms on centralised bidding initiatives across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa for professional service organisations with a global footprint. 

Prior to his role at Actionstep, Zahn held a Director position at FilePro Legal Practice Management Software, where he played a pivotal role in shaping the company’s direction. His wealth of experience has made him a sought-after speaker, and Zahn regularly shares his insights on various legal technology topics at conferences and seminars. With a track record of successfully navigating the fast-paced development of the legal tech landscape, Zahn Nel continues to drive innovation and excellence in the field.

Rebecca is a mindset and leadership coach and facilitator. She is also the owner and founder of Mind Cultivation, of a small coaching practice based in Brisbane. She holds a degree in business psychology from Germany and has 15 years of experience in organisational learning & development and culture change roles across a diverse range of industries, including the Queensland Law Society. Her approach to working with individuals, leaders and teams is deeply rooted in positive psychology and guided by her philosophy, “the way you speak to yourself sets the tone for every other relationship in your life”. Rebecca’s passion is to help her clients gain a clearer understanding of their inner narratives, unique strengths, and core values, and how these can be leveraged to unlock higher performance levels, protect personal wellbeing, and increase interpersonal effectiveness.

Lior is the Head of Legal and Consulting Operations for Industry and the Disputes, Competition and Insurance and Consulting Solutions businesses at MinterEllison. She leads and executes digital transformation initiatives within these businesses and across industries, focusing on service design, harnessing workflow automation, GenAI and digital technologies to streamline internal processes and elevate the client and employee experience.

The foundation of Lior's career was spent practicing as a lawyer and notary, after which she transitioned into knowledge management and she has been involved in the legal operations profession since 2019. She is passionate about strategic service design and the intersecting role of people, process and technology as a mechanism to drive change and deliver legal and consulting services efficiently and innovatively.

Yogesh Patel is the leading figure in driving InfoTrack's litigation and compliance solutions. He leads the strategic direction of InfoTrack’s product initiatives in this area and offers his expertise in shaping the company's advancement within the family law space. 

While a newer focus area for InfoTrack, Yogesh is excited to bring his diverse background spanning law, venture capital, and product management (most recently at Uber and Endeavour Group), to build simple products that solve real client problems. Yogesh possesses a profound understanding of delivering exceptional customer experiences is unique blend of skills enables him to develop technology solutions that are precisely tailored for legal professionals.

Emiliya Peneva is the CEO of Jackson McDonald. One of Western Australia’s largest independent law firms. Having qualified as a Chartered Accountant Emiliya has a strong background in finance and deep understanding of the business of law which has been paramount to her success as a leader in the industry. She is passionate about the importance of strong leadership and management to the success of any professional services organisations. A curious and dedicated life-long learner Emiliya is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and also holds a Certificate of Specialisation in Leadership and Management from Harvard Business School and is a past participant in their Leading Professional Services Firms Executive Education Program.

Cathy Reynolds Chief Operations Officer | McInnes Wilson Lawyers Cathy has been employed in legal management roles for the majority of her 20+ years working within the profession. Cathy deferred her studies and relocated from her first home in Northern Ireland at 19 on a temporary visa and landed a temp role working as Accounts Junior in a local Brisbane Law Firm. She subsequently made her home and started her family in Brisbane (Turrbal and Jagera Country).

This began her early career path in legal accounts and finance management and laid a solid platform for the transition into broader general management roles with a focus on strategy and culture and more recently into Operations in her current role at McInnes Wilson Lawyers. Cathy approaches leadership with a focus on trust and relationships, supported by knowledge derived from real data and ongoing learning and with a healthy respect for creativity in finding solutions.

Harry Raworth, Co-Founder at Mary Technology, has a wealth of experience in small businesses and startups. He began in lead generation, and later joined Virtually Human Studio ($25M+ raised) contributing to product development and operations. Now, as the founder of Mary Technology, Harry is focused on leveraging technology to make legal services more efficient and accessible.

Rachel is a Global Senior Strategic Account Leader and brings extensive international and domestic experience across business development within professional services. She currently leads two of Ashurst's most complex global clients and plays a pivotal role within the Australian Client Growth and Innovation team. Rachel has led client relationships, practice and sector strategies for magic circle firms (including time spent living/working in Hong Kong) as well as Domestic mid-tier firms, providing her with unique experiences in a variety of operating environments.

Mary Savova is a Senior Consultant and Team Leader specialising in Legal Support recruitment. Outside of legal Mary also assists with recruitment in Sales, Marketing, and Healthcare. Mary has over 5 years’ experience recruiting graduate to senior level and technical positions within key accounts. Together with her experience, her Bachelor of Business, and Major in HR, Mary is able to really understand the needs of a business as well as providing a seamless experience to candidates. Mary was awarded with the RCSA Rising Star Award for 2020 for her contributions to the recruitment and staffing industry.

Amarjeet Sihota is the Managing Director of Brisbane-based tech startup Halisok. Halisok specialises in extracting structured data points from the unstructured data locked in PDFs, Word documents, and scans using the latest machine learning technologies from Google, OpenAI and open source. Halisok, in partnership with Australian law firm Landers & Rogers, developed the DocuAnalyser AI tool which automatically classifies and extracts relevant document from agent files.

A leading strategic thinker with 30 years of design experience, predominantly workplace focused, bringing about high quality, feasible & holistic design solutions that capture and exceed client’s organisational imperatives, brand, values & culture. Having delivered such solutions for both global & national clients in all manner of industries, Axiom offer a wealth of knowledge that aids & abets our clients with future proofed approaches enabling business success.

Powell Soe is Principal Corporate Counsel with Microsoft’s Corporate, External and Legal Affairs (CELA) team. Before joining Microsoft, he held regional in-house roles across the Asia, Pacific & Japan region, and private practice roles across Australia. In addition to his passion for supporting his clients with complex legal, regulatory, and advisory matters, he is an advocate for promoting the adoption and use of new technologies, especially in the context of digitalisation efforts to help streamline and improve end-to-end contract life-cycles and internal processes, and to help drive process efficiencies and productivity in the delivery of in-house legal services.

Stephen is the Head of Operations & Pricing at DLA Piper Australia and leads the pricing strategy of the firm. His focus is to offer compelling, innovative and profitable pricing proposals to clients that are mutually beneficial, foster long term commercial relationships and sustainably improve the economics of the firm.

Stephen began his professional career as a chartered accountant and has subsequently worked in the UK, US and Australia across a variety of industries. He has spent the last 15 years with leading law firms in Australia, starting at Herbert Smith Freehills, Henry Davis York and now DLA Piper.

Having grown up in Bathurst as the son of a small-firm owner, Hunter learned first-hand the importance of lawyers and their communities, as well as the many business challenges that they face every day. This experience inspired his education in law and technology, and his decision to develop a solution for small Australian law firms. 

Having Co-Founded Smokeball in 2008, Hunter is the Chief Executive Officer at Smokeball and is responsible for running the Sydney, Chicago, and London offices. With more than 16 years’ experience in building legal software, Hunter has a proven track record for pushing the boundaries and delivering innovative software solutions.

Andrea is the Head of Capability + Organisational Development at Gilbert + Tobin. 

With deep experience in HR and Learning, Andrea leads the Capability function that sets the strategic direction for the implementation and delivery of capability and development strategy and programs across the firm. 

Andrea has held senior roles across Learning, Organisational Development, Talent, Leadership, Capability and Performance with leading companies and sectors, and her approach is always one of a partnership; connected, collaborative and seeking to build relationships.

She is a champion of being adaptive and agile, future focused and moving fast. 

She loves what she does, and she loves making a difference.

Elena is the Co-Founder and COO of Deeligence, an AI platform that halves the time on a typical due diligence for corporate lawyers. Deeligence has been featured in the Australian Financial Review and the Legaltech Hub independent analysis of M&A software. Elena also sits on the committee of WALTA (Women of Australian Legal Tech) and is a proud member of the WiLD (Women in Legaltech Directory). In her spare time, she is always hunting for the next brunch spot to try.

David is a lawyer and software developer. He has practised law as a solicitor and as a barrister, is a former Councillor of the Law Society of NSW, and a former President of NSW Young Lawyers. He completed his MBA at the Australian Graduate School of Management (UNSW) and is now a Co-founder of Lext, where he works on making the law easier to access and easier to practise.

Laura is a pioneer at the forefront of small-firm legal innovation in Australia. Since establishing Australia’s first digital-only law firm in 2013, her leadership has not only grown Nest Legal to be one of Victoria’s busiest conveyancing teams but has also inspired a new generation of lawyers to build firms that use technology to enrich their and their clients' lives. She is an Accredited Specialist in Property Law, the founder of Facebook community NewLaw Chambers and regularly advocates to improve the law and legal profession through speaking, writing and advocacy.

Carl is a recognised leader in Client Experience (CX), service culture and legal transformation. He is the Founder of CXINLAW and a Director in Legal Business Solutions at PwC Australia specialising in law firm transformation and human-centred design. Carl combines his unique background in theatre arts and practice with a Newlaw career that began with Ashurst in the UK. He is passionate about the value of focusing on CX, enabling People and realising the benefits of technology and data in our evolving legal world. Carl is a Distinguished Fellow of the Centre for Legal Innovation, College of Law. He presents regularly at law societies and legal educators and at key industry events and is the author of market-changing CX research supported by the UK College of Law and ALPMA. 

Andrew is a social entrepreneur using technology to help separating families reach resolution 10x faster through adieu.ai. He is currently obsessed with leveraging AI to solve social problems, creating self-sustaining social enterprises, and exploring novel business models. He is a geek, an introvert, and a proud social media underachiever. 

As a junior in house lawyer, Verity White started experimenting with automating and optimising contracts to improve business and lawyering life. 

Now, Verity is an Accredited Specialist in Commercial Law, a LUMA Institute certified Human Centred Design practitioner, and Chief Contract Enthusiast at her B Corp certified law firm, Checklist Legal where she and her team specialise in human-centred contract operations. 

Verity is the author of Create Contracts Clients Love and an Honorary Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne where she taught Contract Design for Automation.

Amanda Wong is a Principal Corporate Counsels at Microsoft Australia. Part of the Corporate, External & Legal Affairs (CELA) function and provide legal support in commercial transactions and advice on policy and regulatory issues within Australia and New Zealand. Here to share on her Generative AI journey as a lawyer for Microsoft.