Agenda

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ACT I: FINDING YOUR VOICE, REWRITING THE SCRIPT, MOVING AHEAD OF YOUR CURVE
9:00am	Welcome Remarks by Clariden Global
9:05am	Australasia-Pacific Keynote Address
	The Rule of Law in an age of Populism.
9:15am	Driving Change: Legal Leadership in today’s complex and evolving commercial environment – The Pro-active In-house Counsel
	The expectations on Legal teams have changed dramatically over the past decade. From protecting reputation and delivering meaningful compliance programs through to creating competitive advantage and driving efficiency through innovation. How can In-house counsel create the dynamic for their teams to deliver across such a challenging landscape? How can the General Counsel help drive towards certainty in a post-Brexit/Trump/VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity) environment? Articulating value and performance metrics. Challenges faced by the In-house Counsel. Speakers:
	Caroline Beaumont, General Counsel & Executive Director, Coca Cola Amatil
	Paul Gray, Supervising Counsel, Telstra
10:15am	Empowering the In-house Counsel
	General counsel and senior legal counsel have the ability to influence business units to ensure smarter and faster delivery of legal services. There are four areas that in-house counsel can review with the aim of making improvements and ensuring the legal team can work to the best of its ability and that the business’ objectives are achieved. Centers of excellence v generalists. The decision as to whether an organization’s legal team should embrace a ‘center of excellence model’ or consist of legal generalists is an important one for large legal departments. Some of the positives of embracing a center of excellence model are that it allows the in-house team to develop expertise in areas such as IP, trademarks, competition law and M&A, and the business benefits from cost savings on external advisers. On the other hand, this model can run the risk of creating silos, as lawyers become specialists in their respective areas of law and become potentially under-exposed to others. Lawyers can also become demotivated after working in one niche area of law for an extended period of time. A generalist approach sees all lawyers undertaking a variety of legal work, which can be beneficial in keeping lawyers engaged while also expanding their knowledge base. The downside of a more generalist team is that in some scenarios external advisers with specialist knowledge may be required, and this can come at a substantial cost to the business. In-house counsel, corporate and government, are increasingly utilizing the specialist expertise of the Bar by directly barristers. How could counsel work directly with barristers to meet specific challenges in the area of dispute resolution and beyond, including briefing the bar to inform and set corporate strategies, policies and responses? Legal team renewals: How can we renew legal strategy and direction to better assist our businesses? Panelists:
	Sarah Gillies, General Counsel International, CoreLogic
	Richard Donaldson, General Counsel, Pilbara Ports Authority
	Invited Senior Barrister
11:00am	Morning Refreshments (Sponsorship Opportunity Available)
11:15am	Nurturing and Adding to Depth to the Lawyer-Client Relationship
	Clients are calling out for lawyers to be collaborative problem-solvers. They want lawyers to work together with them to come up with solutions that reflect their challenges as a business, and not just address a legal issue in isolation. What is the secret to maintaining an effective working relationship? How to over-perform rather than under-perform? For the General Counsel: how to manage external legal counsel in an efficient and cost-effective way is becoming one of the most important challenges. Aligning business & legal objectives: achieving an ideal synergy with external legal services. Some Case Studies. *Panelists:*
	Debra Tegoni, Executive General Manager, Legal & Regulatory Services, Crown Melbourne (invited), “Australian Corporate Lawyer of the Year 2014”
	Invited Senior Partner
11:45am	Grand Roundtable for General Counsel, Corporate Counsel in different industry sectors: This discussion allows you to be updated on the topics most pertinent to you, increasing interactivity. Areas to focus include looking at the latest updates and developments in regulatory, legislative, investment, technological, intellectual property & patent matters, issues and scenarios in: Speakers:
	1. Telecoms, ICT, Space & High Tech: Donna Lawler, Assistant General Counsel, Optus
	2. Automotives, Connected Cars & Transportation: Victor Li, General Counsel, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles
	3. Financials, Payments, Fintech: Matt Poblocki, Director of Legal Services, Paypal
	4. Food, Agriculture: Stephanie Vass, General Manager, Corporate Services & Company Secretary, Allied Mills
	5. Industrials: Julian Bechini, General Counsel & Company Secretary, ABB Australia
	6. Energy John Fitzgerald, General Counsel & Company Secretary, AGL Energy
12:45pm	Lunch and Networking (Sponsorship Opportunity Available)
ACT II: THE DIRECTOR’S CUT, CHINA, TRUMPIAN AMERICA, BREXIT, ACCC & FIRB
2:00pm	Case Study of Business in and with China
	Lessons learnt in negotiating and doing business with China enterprises and government bodies: overcoming contractual challenges and profit from it. Speaker:
	Quentin Lowcay General Counsel & Commercial Manager Synlait Milk
2:45pm	Case Study of dealing with American and European entities
	Managing the Expectation Gap: Commercial Contracting with US and European entities in the Asia Pacific marketplace. Speaker:
	Veronica Holloway General Counsel Novotech
3:30pm	Afternoon Refreshment & Networking (Sponsorship Opportunity Available)
3:45pm	Strategic Investments for Organic Growth
	Deal-making, New Investments, Due Diligence in the Australasia-Pacific marketplace. Almost two-thirds of Australian CEOs are planning to grow their businesses through M&A in the next 12 months, according to a recent survey. Organic growth is expected by 93 per cent of respondents while 60 per cent name M&A among their plans. Capitalizing on the new world of opportunities – ANZ, Asia Pacific, America, post-Brexit, Japan, China (One Belt, One Road) Term Sheets Risk Period Designing a Balanced Draft Hip Pocket Issues Managing ACCC clearance & FIRB approval Political risks management Financial Close Whetting the Super’s appetite Machine Learning to expedite due diligence and transaction time? Panelists:
	Hanna Lee, Head of Investment Legal, Risk Legal & Compliance, SunSuper
	Peter Wetzig, CFO, Corporate Counsel, Executive Director, Qponics Limited
	Gordon A. Glasfurd, Managing Director, GIA Capital Solutions
	Invited Private Equity Investor/Investment Banker/Fund Manager
	Invited Corporate Finance Expert
	Invited ACCC/FIRB senior management
4:30pm	Panel Discussion: The General Counsel as a Board Member & Business Partner
	Getting a board position New regulatory and management challenges a company secretary face Navigating within the board The evolution of the General Counsel as a Strategic Business Partner, Business Leader driving value creation Why General Counsel must be involved in the corporation’s cultural transformation The demand to provide strategic input into the commercial undertakings and the uncertainty of what the business expects of its legal advisers beyond the traditional role When a General Counsel becomes the CEO (or member of the Executive Team) and leads the business Panelist:
	Julian Bechini, General Counsel & Company Secretary, ABB Australia
5:30pm	Closing Remarks and End of Day 1
5:45pm	Champagne Cocktail Networking Session (Sponsorship Opportunity Available)
	Enjoy a glass of champagne whilst networking with other like-minded individuals on topics that are of most interest to you and fellow delegates.

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“All good innovation depends upon analyzing what we have done in the past, why it does not meet modern needs and how things can be improved”
ACT III: INNOVATE, MEDIATE, A NEW ELEPHANT, MATTERS OF THE DAY
8:50am	Dispute Resolution & Mediation in Large and Complex Cases: A better Solution for Business Speaker:
	Christopher Barry, Queen’s Counsel
9:15am	Building an Effective Business Case for Legal Innovation
	To succeed in delivering disruptive legal services, we know we need to be on the same strategic page as the business. So how do we begin to build business cases – how do we get everyone around us focused on innovation? The In-house counsel can achieve excellence by: Getting a board position Transforming transactional and operational data into information that will enable intelligent business decisions Articulating and communicating a clear vision and strategy for innovation Creating a strategy which aligns with the overall business aims and objectives Panelists:
	Victor Li, General Counsel, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles
	Mark Buckland, Group Company Secretary & General Counsel, Dymocks Group of Companies
	Invited Top Law Professor
10:00am	Project, Change and Stakeholder Management
	How do we get key team members on board to help us succeed in our legal innovation projects? Building successful project teams is difficult, whilst maintaining business as usual priorities and keeping up momentum during stressful times. How do you build the right relations with the exec and the rest of the business? Enablers for In-house Counsel in achieving excellence: Identifying and empowering the key people with the qualities to win and retain support from the specialists within the business Ensure you avoid change fatigue and not “change for changes sake’’ It’s essential we can demonstrate our end-to-end vision – we have to get the roadmap right and follow it through Panelists:
	Jessica Miller, Senior Legal Counsel & Government Relations Leader (Aus/NZ), Procter & Gamble
	Sarah Thornton, General Counsel & Group Company Secretary, Brisbane Airport Corporation, “Australian Corporate Lawyer of the Year 2016”
10:45am	Morning Refreshments (Sponsorship Opportunity Available)
11:00am	New Elephant in the Room: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, e-Discovery, Automated Case Analysis, Blockchain (Sponsorship Opportunity Available)
	While these concepts are not new to the legal industry, only recently has some of the very latest technology become more mainstream. Today, organizations are looking to real practical examples of how they can use technology to drive innovation in addition to improving efficiency. How do you initiate productization in-house? The way forward for the In-house Counsel in managing these new inroads by: Turning conceptual ideas into practical solutions Articulating the business benefit and linking return on investment directly to cost Maintaining knowledge and relevancy with your clients and competitors Some Case Studies in the use of AI in contract drafting & due diligence Legal AI & Computational Models of Argument (CMA) How do you build your internal e-discovery lab? March of the Legal Virtual Assistants; what are the liabilities in the case of wrong advice? Where is the ‘mens rea’? Bot-driven Dispute Resolution The advent of On-line Litigation in Australasia Emergence of the Robot Lawyer? The potential of a booming e-Discovery market How would new RegTech impact legal workplaces? Towards Legal Tech Success: Getting the right expertise and the right planning upfront Panelists:
	Chris McLean, General Manager – Legal, IT, Knowledge, Marketing & Comms, Energetics Australia
	Invited AI Thought Leader & Pioneer
	Invited LegalTech Expert
	Invited RegTech Start-Up
11:50am	Information Connectivity Cyber-Risks – A Global Threat to Intellectual Property, Critical Infrastructure, Privileged Information and Privacy
	Advances in global information connectivity have driven enormous economic benefits. Enabled by data networks, and driven by technologies, such as Cloud Computing, Big Data and document digitization. However, the downside is that actors such as nation states, terrorists, organized crime syndicates and hacktivists attack information connectivity technologies. They turn them into cyber-threats against economies, governments, businesses and citizens alike. Cyber-security is no longer just a technical issue. Because information connectivity technologies are the backbone of professional services organizations – the legal profession, medical sector, financial services and others – professionals and their clients are exposed to serious long-term cyber-risks. These cyber-risks explain how a pharmaceutical IP developer may discover identical products in another country; how an international litigation collapsed due to a suspected ‘leak’; and even how a lauded organisation’s brand collapsed due to a data breach. And, then there are the regulatory and legal penalties!
	Simon Galbally, Chief Marketing Officer, Senetas Corporation
12:20pm	Lunch and Networking (Sponsorship Opportunity Available)
ACT IV: MORE ELEPHANT, RISK & COMPLIANCE, THE NEXT BLOCKBUSTER: PREPARE FOR TOMORROW
2:00pm	“Managing the Bigger Elephant in the Room” – Are more lawyers suffering from mental ill health? Are we facing a time-bomb waiting to happen? How well are issues of diversity being managed?
	Promoting Mindfulness, Wellness and Mental Health among Legal Professionals Healthy growth for better talent retention What Google and other New Tech millennial companies with progressive policies can teach others and offer? Fit for Tomorrow: Happier lawyering as a resilient strategy forward for the General Counsel to engage head-on new technological and industry changes. What is the business case for mental wellbeing in legal workplaces? How do you pro-actively promote Diversity & Inclusion in your team? What are the challenges and how can you overcome them? Panelists:
	David Field, Chief Legal Counsel, Canon Australia
	Marie Jepson, Executive Director, Tristan Jepson Memorial Foundation
	Maki Takken, General Manager, Legal, Medibank
2:45pm	Towards Better Performance and Job Satisfaction: the In-House Counsel as a CSR Leader in the Corporation – Effective strategies that work
	Whether your legal department is large or small, in-house counsel can be CSR leaders: enhancing the company’s commitment to socially responsible behavior, serving our profession’s highest goals, and increasing performance and job satisfaction. This session will explore the effective implementation of CSR initiatives in legal departments and beyond. Panelists:
	Claire Bibby, SVP Legal & General Counsel, Brookfield, Lawyers Weekly “Construction and Real Estate Lawyer of the Year 2017”
	Lori Middlehurst, Head, APAC Legal (Employment), VMWare & Vice President, Association of Corporate Counsel, Australia (NSW)
3:30pm	Afternoon Refreshment & Networking (Sponsorship Opportunity Available)
3:45pm	Compliance, Regulatory, Risk & Ethics Management, Adverse Events Challenges Ahead
	Why are ethics and compliance issues so high on the GC’s agenda? Balancing risk and compliance Managing information privacy and data breaches The need for developing regulatory and government affairs expertise. In-house or outsource? Responding to enforcement action when it happens Some Case Studies of compliance breaches, consequence and recourse Global conflict and instability, domestic and foreign terrorism, workplace violence all require policies thatsupport the best possible outcome should an adverse event occur. Chief Legal Officers in Australia, in arecent survey, has rated this issue as “extremely” important! Panelists:
	Lily Tsen, General Counsel, Amcor Asia Pacific
	Mark de Carvalho, Senior Manager, Ethics & Business Conduct Office, Asia Pacific, Lockheed Martin Corporation
	Alexandra Rose, Senior Manager, Group Compliance & Regulatory Affairs, Enterprise Risk, IAG
	Jessie Yap, Head, Legal & Compliance, ANZ, Medtronic Australasia
4:30pm	The General Counsel’s Future: Panel Discussion – What is keeping me awake at night? How to turn challenges into competitive advantages?
	Managing risks & safeguarding the reputation & commercial interest of the organization When a cyber-attack happens: managing the fallout Singapore has launched a nationwide competency framework for in-house counsel to raise industry standards, providing regional opportunities for corporate counsel. Can corporate counsel here look out for themselves too? Lawyering for Millennials? The Combination Lawyer of the Future? Other challenging issues of the day Panelist:
	Elaine Pretorius, General Counsel, ANZ, Kimberly-Clark
	& Other Invited Speakers of the Congress
5:30pm	Closing Remarks & End of Day 2

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9:00am – 12:30pm	Seminar A: Practical Automation and AI for In-House Counsel & External Lawyers: Choosing the right Legal Tech & Optimizing your Legal Tech spend

2:00pm – 5:00pm	Seminar B: Practical Change Management for In-House Counsel & External Lawyers in an age of industry and tech disruption
	After attending an upending Congress for the past two days, how do you effectively put your Change Management ideas into practice, gearing up for a seamless implementation and execution?