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Monish DardaChief Technology Officer & Co-Founder, Icertis

Icertis is the Leading Enterprise Contract Management Platform in the Cloud

Monish has more than 20 years of experience in application and systems software development and the architecting of enterprise distributed systems. He co-founded Websym Technologies in 1998. He also set up and headed the India R&D operation of Storability, an enterprise storage management startup from Boston. Storability was eventually acquired by Sun Microsystems, after which Monish founded and led the India R&D of BladeLogic, helping build a highly scalable enterprise platform for server management in the data center. BladeLogic was acquired by BMC Software after a successful IPO, and Monish contributed to BMC’s cloud management vision, laying the foundation for some of the early pioneering work on cloud resource management and provisioning. He is also the co-inventor of two patents in this area.

Monish has a BE in Mechanical Engineering and a Master’s degree from Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida.

Karl Manweiler Managing Director, Leman Consulting

Leman Consulting is Ireland’s first dedicated Legal & Technology Consultancy

A consummate technology professional, Karl brings value at all stages of the consultancy process. He is particularly experienced at eliciting and defining client requirements, leading teams, managing digital transformation projects and delivering change. Karl has a deep understanding of technology and how it best serves an organisation. Karl brings over 18 years of technology and consultancy and still remains passionate about simplifying the complex and delivering successful projects.

Karl holds both academic and professional qualifications in law, technology, audit and project management. Karl previously worked as a Senior Consultant with Ergo. He has advised and managed several multinational enterprises on their technology strategy and digital transformation projects.

Dr Trevor Clohessy Information Technology/Systems Lecturer & Blockchain Specialist

Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology

Dr Trevor Clohessy is an information technology guest speaker and an information technology/systems lecturer at the Galway-Mayo institute of Technology. His research interests include blockchain, business analytics, digital transformation, digital addiction, digital politics and cloud computing. In conjunction to organising national information systems and technology workshops, Trevor has also organised international workshops with the most recent being a blockchain research workshop which was held at the European Conference in Information Systems (ECIS) 2018. Trevor and his research associates Reuben Godfrey (Director, Blockchain Association of Ireland) and Michelle Houston (Legal and Regulatory Consultant) conducted one of the first blockchain Irish organisational readiness reports in 2018 entitled “Organisational factors that influence the Blockchain adoption in Ireland: A study by J. E. Cairnes School of Business & Economics in association with the Blockchain Association of Ireland. The industry report can be read here:

https://aran.library.nuigalway.ie/handle/10379/7352

Trevor is also the author of a new book called “Identity Politics: Getting to Know You, Getting to Know All About You” which investigates how digital technologies, including blockchain, are transforming modern political landscapes.

Claire Fitzpatrick Director of Strategic Operation, ConsenSys

ConsenSys is a Leading Global Blockchain Company

ConsenSys is a global formation of technologists and entrepreneurs building the infrastructure, applications, and practices that enable a decentralised world. ConsenSys Solutions is the venture architect and blockchain innovation partnerships arm which works with enterprises, government, non profits and start ups globally to build, test and deploy public and private blockchain solutions. Claire is a broad experienced professional with proven track record of leadership, commercial acumen and digital innovation. Developing innovative business strategies whilst taking advantage of emerging technolgies, new business models and eco-systems to create value is her strength. Claire is the founder of a successful startup securing venture capital and trade sale and is also a seed capital investor in 31 startups delivering market leading fund returns through active portfolio management. She specialises in idea generation and implementation strategies for innovative new products and services and has previously negotiated sale of her start up to Deloitte. Claire is a board advisor, investor and mentor to a number of funded startups and is a Director of YAP Ireland www.yapireland.ie.

Daniel Gandesha Founder, Property Partner

Property Partners is the UK’s Leading Property Crowdfunding Platform

Dan is Founder of Property Partner (www.propertypartner.co), the London based FinTech that is the simpler and safer way for investors to build their property portfolio. Dan launched the company in 2015 and rasied over £27m from some of Europe’s leading VC’s including Index Ventures, Octopus and Dawn. Dan’s background is in mergers and acquisitions and startup partnerships with Sky and KPMG. Dan recently moved to Ireland with his young family, having stepped down as CEO and moved to a Non-Executive Director role.

Anne Heraty CEO, CPL Resouces plc

CPL is Ireland’s Leading Employment Services Company

Anne is currently CEO of CPL Resources plc, which she co-founded in 1989. CPL Resources, Ireland’s leading employment services company, provides recruitment and outsourcing services across a range of disciplines and sectors offering specialist labour market knowledge and expertise in each sector.

CPL Resources, which has a network of 24 offices in 7 countries, has circa 3,800 temporary staff and 500 contractors working on client sites and is listed on the Irish and London Stock Exchanges.

Anne began her career as a telesales worker at Xerox and then moved to Grafton Recruitment before setting up CPL.

Anne was the overall winner of the 2006 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

With Special Guest SpeakerProfessor Kenneth Grady

Speaker, Professor, Consultant, Author & Legal Future EvangelistMichigan State University College of Law

TRANSFORMING YOUR BUSINESSTHROUGH DIGITISATION,

CONTRACT AUTOMATION AND BLOCKCHAIN

WHAT C-SUITE AND LAWYERSNEED TO KNOW

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PROACTIVE LAWTHE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

The 4th ‘Future of Law & Legal Technology’ forum is an exclusive invitation-only event for in-house counsel and C Suite. The forum in 2017 had over 250 guests in attendance from major blue-chip organisations and corporate Ireland, and it continues to grow.

Transforming your business through digitisation, contract automation and blockchain is the focus for 2018.

Digitisation is the first step towards automating processes within your organisation. Modern organisations are paperless, with secure digitised documents, documents which are securely shared and signed by 3rd parties. Documents which are fully searchable, with audit and version control. Documents which are always online and accessible, ensuring business continuity.

One of the key outcomes from implementing a digitisation strategy is the ability to implement automation and blockchain solutions while delivering enhanced business intelligence. Organisations seek to turn their data into actionable insights. Accurate, real-time insights are not possible when organisational data is unstructured or exists in paper format.

When savvy lawyers, combine new and innovative legal technology, the benefits for the organisation result in a rise in profits, minimised risk and improved productivity. 

The latest technology solutions are designed to improve and enhance practice management, legal contracts management, risk and compliance, analytics and legal research, and they are transforming the status quo.

The  4th Future of Law & Legal Technology Forum will address the concept of contract automation and blockchain technology and more with expert International Speakers. It will also showcase the best in class and upcoming legal technology providers in this space. The forum is for in-house counsel interested in understanding the trends affecting the legal industry and engaging in meaningful interaction with technologists, technology companies, legal consultants, innovators and thought leaders who are contributing to the evolution of law.

2.00PM INTELLIGENT CONTRACTS 2.0 MONISH DARDA, Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder, Icertis This session will inspire and educate the market to transform the foundation of commerce

with contract automation and intelligent contracts. Monish will focus on what is possible with intelligent contracts and the contract lifecycle, why it is a must for lawyers to adopt digital contracts and will outline how current contracts case studies are transforming the status quo.

2.45PM CONTRACT AUTOMATION & INTELLIGENT CONTRACT REVIEW KARL MANWEILER, Managing Director, Leman Consulting

Karl will cover the contract automation strategy which businesses should adopt

and will highlight the many benefits of the strategy including risk minimisation. Karl will give practical examples of digital contracts in real use cases. He will also cover working with digital contracts and the insights they can bring to a business. He will discuss the automated mass contract review process, business process management and workflows.

3.30PM BREAK – TEA/COFFEE & EXHIBITION

3.45PM THE OVERVIEW OF BLOCKCHAIN DR TREVOR CLOHESSY, IT Lecturer, Whitaker Institute, NUI Galway Dr Clohessy will introduce Blockchain in Ireland, explaining what it is in simple terms, the

history, the current environment and the future potential of blockchain and contracts and how it will affect the role of the lawyer.

4.10PM BLOCKCHAIN - REAL USE CASES CLAIRE FITZPATRICK, Director of Strategic Operations, ConsenSys Claire will focus on the sectors most likely to be transformed by blockchain. She will give

an insight into the businesses currently using blockchain. She will also take us through some of the largest blockchain proof of concept projects to date.

4.45PM HOW BLOCKCHAIN CAN BE APPLIED IN “YOUR” SECTOR Our experts will talk through how blockchain can be applied to many business processes

to improve efficiency and security. We will take two sample sectors including a standard employment placement and a property investment via a crowdfunding platform. Our experts will advise on how blockchain and automation can be applied to their existing processes. We will also look at what will be possible in the future in these sectors through blockchain solutions.

PANEL Experts: Claire Fitzpatrick, Director of Strategic Operations, ConsenSys Dr Trevor Clohessy, Information Technology/Systems Lecturer Casestudies: Anne Heraty, CEO, CPL Resouces plc Daniel Gandesha, Founder, Property Partners UK MC: Larry Fenelon, Founder, Leman Consulting

5.35PM FESTIVE PIES & DRINKS RECEPTION

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SPEAKERS & BIOGS

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Email: gjolley@leman.ieTel: +353 86 172 4003 or +353 1 639 7078

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