Synopsis:
As modern businesses scale in size and complexity at an unprecedented pace, the legal function must align its response with the needs of the business. The site of that alignment in the legal function is increasingly to be found in legal operations. While there is sophisticated global discussion of the roles of process improvement and technology tools in optimising the legal function through legal operations, the people element has tended towards a flat discourse on upskilling and re-skilling as a response to technology. Join the leaders in this session as they re-frame the people challenge in legal operations and business alignment by examining skills development as a response to the scale (volume and complexity) of business.
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1.5 Public CPD Points | Please refer here for SILE Attendance Policy for this session
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Legal Operations is a term that is no longer just synonymous with in-house legal departments. Increasingly, law firms and alternative legal service providers of all shapes and sizes are getting in on the action. So what is it? Why should you care? What is involved? How can you get started? We speak with leaders who have actively rolled-out legal operations initiatives in a variety of contexts and get them to bust the myths that may be holding you back from effectively pursuing a legal operations strategy.
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1 Public CPD Point | Please refer here for SILE Attendance Policy for this session
Synopsis:
It is fashionable to espouse to the current view that lawyering is a multi-disciplinary team endeavour. But to what extent are incumbents paying lip service? This session assembles a multi-disciplinary team of legal operations professionals who are practising what is being preached. They share the barriers that have had to be overcome, the hard-won successes that have been had, and what lies ahead for the evolution of legal services job roles that will help re-define value for legal businesses and their clients and end-users.
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1.5 Public CPD Points | Please refer here for SILE Attendance Policy for this session
Synopsis:
What is the anatomy of a digital transformation journey by a legal department? This examines in candid detail specific transformation journeys being embarked upon by legal departments in some of the world’s leading businesses. Join leaders as they share the learning points they have gleaned from their journeys thus far – successes, failures and everything in between.
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1.5 Public CPD Points | Please refer here for SILE Attendance Policy for this session
During this presentation and panel discussion, we will be sharing on the Society’s efforts in promoting legal technology adoption and supporting our members in adapting to new developments in the legal industry. Participants will also hear from some of our SmartLaw Guild members on their experiences in transforming their practices in the area of technology. Discussion topics will include challenges faced in adopting new solutions, and strategies to support the changing demands of clients and legal practice.
This session is by-invite only and attendees will be invited based on their profile selection when they register for TechLaw.Fest 2020 here. If interested, please express your interest here.
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The COVID19 pandemic has highlighted how business, law and technology are part of a complex system. In this fireside chat, our leaders share their insights into how businesses and individuals can better prepare themselves to manage such complexity effectively.
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1 Public CPD Point | Please refer here for SILE Attendance Policy for this session
Synopsis:
What are the implications for intellectual property law in a data saturated world? Join this expert panel as they take a deep dive into burning issues challenging IP professionals seeking to advise clients in the technology sphere.
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1.5 Public CPD Points | Please refer here for SILE Attendance Policy for this session
Synopsis:
In this session, experts examine the twin challenges of data protection and cybersecurity through the practical lens of how business can craft policy and establish infrastructure that holistically addresses compliance risks associated with data breaches.
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1 Public CPD Point | Please refer here for SILE Attendance Policy for this session
Synopsis:
The exponential growth in data in the past decade has enabled giant datasets to be compiled and used as the basis for developing ever-more sophisticated AI systems. Those systems are in turn being used to enhance humans’ ability to carry out tasks, or to replace those humans altogether. From self-driving cars and robotic carers, to autonomous weapons and automated financial trading systems, robotic and other data-driven AI systems are increasingly becoming the cornerstones of our economies and our daily lives. Increased automation promises significant societal benefits. Yet as ever more processes are carried out without the involvement of a ‘human actor’, the focus turns to how those autonomous robots and other autonomous systems operate, how they ‘learn’, and the data on which they base their decisions to act. Even in Singapore, questions inevitably arise as to whether existing systems of law, regulation and wider public policy remain ‘fit for purpose’. That is, do they encourage and enable innovation, economic growth and public welfare, while protecting against misuse and harm – whether physical, financial or psychological – harm to individuals?
This panel considers the legal issues regarding:
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Synopsis:
The discussion around regulation of AI has transitioned from AI ethics and principles to the establishment of international norms. At the international level, OECD is perhaps the first out the gate with its 2019 AI Principles, and UNESCO has started its efforts to produce a norm-setting document. The French-Canadian efforts in creating a Global Partnership for AI to produce recommendations for international norm setting is set to gain momentum with OECD secretarial support. The EU has produced its AI Principles and has ambitions to introduce AI regulations for the European bloc. Singapore has made its own contributions through the Model AI Governance framework and self-assessment guide. Apart from norm-setting and governance, there have been sector specific regulations particularly in the areas of autonomous vehicles and facial recognition technologies.
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1.5 Public CPD Points | Please refer here for SILE Attendance Policy for this session
Synopsis:
Getting involved with computational law at SMU — what it is, how it might affect you, and how we might all bring legal into the digital age.
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COVID19 has accelerated certain developments in how legal systems have responded to the need for digital mediums for delivery. At the same time, it has had a decelerating impact in other areas. In this session, our leaders focus on the ways in which a re-shaping of the legal world is unfolding in two key spheres, dispute resolution and legal practice.
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1.5 Public CPD Point | Please refer here for SILE Attendance Policy for this session
Synopsis:
The exponential growth in data in the past decade has enabled giant datasets to be compiled and used as the basis for developing ever-more sophisticated AI systems. Those systems are in turn being used to enhance humans’ ability to carry out tasks, or to replace those humans altogether. From self-driving cars and robotic carers, to autonomous weapons and automated financial trading systems, robotic and other data-driven AI systems are increasingly becoming the cornerstones of our economies and our daily lives. Increased automation promises significant societal benefits. Yet as ever more processes are carried out without the involvement of a ‘human actor’, the focus turns to how those autonomous robots and other autonomous systems operate, how they ‘learn’, and the data on which they base their decisions to act. Questions inevitably arise as to whether existing systems of law, regulation and wider public policy remain ‘fit for purpose’. That is, do they encourage and enable innovation, economic growth and public welfare, while protecting against misuse and harm – whether physical, financial or psychological – harm to?
This panel considers the core ethical principles for which there is emerging consensus, and assesses their implications, and the challenges they may raise, for policy makers in formulating any hard or soft law interventions considered necessary.
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1.5 Public CPD Points | Please refer here for SILE Attendance Policy for this session
Synopsis:
When driverless cars get involved in accidents, who’s to blame? When it’s the actions of an autonomous robot or AI-driven system that causes criminal harm, who’s the ‘criminal’? Are our laws ready to deal with these issues, or are there areas where changes may be needed?
As AI technologies advance and their use across society increases, these are just some of the questions being raised around who bears legal responsibility when these systems cause harm. Join the authors of two forthcoming Singapore law reform reports to hear more about the reports and to discuss the legal issues they raise, how different jurisdictions are approaching them, and what it might all mean for Singapore’s laws.
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1 Public CPD Point | Please refer here for SILE Attendance Policy for this session
Synopsis:
The pandemic has accelerated the pace at which the digitalisation of legal services and access to justice has entered the mainstream. Three broad themes have emerged: the impact of regulation on technology adoption, the impact of technology on business models, and the impact of COVID19 on how the law is or is not perceived as an essential service by end-users. How are different jurisdictions making sense of these emerging issues? Is there a rationalising frame for understanding and addressing these complexities which transcends geographical boundaries?
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1.5 Public CPD Points | Please refer here for SILE Attendance Policy for this session
Synopsis:
(Who is You? The legal client? Or the legal professional? We will keep coming back to this question throughout the talk.)
At SMU’s Centre for Computational Law, innovation in LegalTech goes beyond practice management software, automated contract review, and case-law search engines. We apply deep-tech computer science to the legal domain, producing open-source software that will do for legal and logical reasoning what the spreadsheet did for numerical reasoning. This talk offers a preview of some of the technologies that we are preparing for translation from lab to industry. We demonstrate five examples of how certain areas of legal work could look before and after “digital transformation”. We routinely start with declarative representation in a logical formalism; from that source, we automate the production of a range of downstream applications. What form will these next-generation services take? Will they be run by clients directly, or will they be mediated by legal service providers?
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1 Public CPD Point | Please refer here for SILE Attendance Policy for this session
Synopsis:
We’ve spent many seminars criticising how law firms are slow to change business models, how they are not responding to technology trends, how they are not equipped to respond to new client needs. But are we making an assumption? That the Empire were the bad guys of the Skywalker saga? Thus we need to hear from the law firms on their responses. MDPs, ALSPs, changing clients, use of technology, and macro trends like sustainability, gender, income inequality and the future of the workforce – let’s get deep into law firm thinking and strategy.
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1.5 Public CPD Points | Please refer here for SILE Attendance Policy for this session
Synopsis: The Digital Legal Exchange is a global institute of leading thinkers and doers from academia, business, government, technology and law, committed to accelerating digital transformation. Our non-profit community shares practical and applied learnings to inspire general counsel and their teams to become digital leaders in their businesses to drive commercial value. Join us in the networking session to find out more, and become a part of our global community.
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COVID19 has undeniably accelerated the adoption of technology to advance learning and professional development. But deeper than this, what are some of the implications of the pandemic on how we identify, recruit, manage, develop and retain talent? How is technology providing the means to achieve desired outcomes when it comes to equipping talent with competencies to thrive under these dynamic and uncertain times? How are various industries embracing technologies in the learning and development of their talent? And what are some key strategies that the legal industry can employ to ensure that it creates conditions for its talent to thrive through this period of challenge and emerge with enhanced capabilities to meet future industry demands?
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1 Public CPD Point | Please refer here for SILE Attendance Policy for this session
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Enhancing Access to Justice is a common theme and goal across many jurisdictions. But what exactly does Access to Justice entail? Is it just a question of making information available via digital means? How do we address the “digital divide”, and the apparent growing interest for litigants to directly access systems without the interposition of professional legal advisers? How much can we expect to get out of “AI” powered chatbots? Should we re-engineer legal processes to move away from the Forms that lawyers and Courts are familiar with? What are the “best practices” in such Access to Justice efforts?
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1.5 Public CPD Points | Please refer here for SILE Attendance Policy for this session
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Hackathon for a Better World by DBS and Singapore Judiciary kicked off in July 2020 with 37 teams, the objective, to use law as a force for social good. Over 2.5 months, teams in the hackathon’s learn-as-you-hack-format were encouraged to interview their target audience, generate insights, build, test and then iterate in developing their solution.
More than the winning, Hackathon for a Better World wants to showcase the process that these groups have been through to innovate in the legal landscape. This session will feature live judging of the Top 6 finalists. Each team has 6 minutes to showcase how they used DBS’ design thinking framework to arrive at solutions to their selected problem statement. The 6 finalist teams will vie for four awards: Most Innovative, Most Feasible, Most Life Changing and Most Human-Centred solutions.
To view the Top 6 submissions and judging panel, please see here.
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There are countless initiatives that have been announced under the broad rubric of “Online Dispute Resolution”. Is there clarity in what exactly we mean when we say “ODR”? Does it refer to the online initiation of a dispute? Or the submission of evidence and the parties’ positions? To what extent can there be a “bot” that can serve as the mediator or some kind of neutral evaluator? If a human has to be introduced, how does she interact with the parties? Must such interaction be online or digital for the entire process to be “online dispute resolution”? What about the eventual “outcome” of the “dispute”? If there is an agreement, how is that agreement signified? And how might it be enforced/enforceable? Is it time for a “typology” to be discerned, so that when we talk about ODR and a country’s implementation of “ODR” we know what exactly that means or does not mean?
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How exactly can jurisdictions use technology to enhance to Access-to-Justice at scale? Is there empirical evidence that chatbots, interactive websites and “ODR” have positive impacts on Access-to-Justice? Would focus on technology paradoxically reinforce the Digital Divide and therefore degrade Access-to-Justice to those left behind?
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Networking, re-imagined – Idea Tracing is not just a networking event, it’s your opportunity to join the conversation, tackle real-world problems and connect with like-minded people in a diverse environment that fosters creativity. Think of it as a brainstorming session with guide rails that help drive the discussion and foster engagement. As part of TechLaw.Fest 2020, Idea Tracing will let you explore the challenges and opportunities that await professionals of the future. Are you up to the task?
Sign-up to our pre-tracing sessions where you will be paired up with two other conference participants to network and exchange ideas at a more personal level (Pre-tracing sessions take place on Tuesday, 29 September)
Or, simply join the main session on Thursday, 1 October to listen and engage with our fellow Idea Tracers! Please register your interest here.
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Perhaps one consequence of the pandemic has been a transcendence of physical geography. Instead, we have been presented with a geography of needs that is ripe for exploring. This discussion examines how wicked problems at the intersection of law, business, and technology have created necessities that present an opportunity for innovation in a way that challenges traditional geographical and professional silos.
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It is fair to say that legal innovation has become synonymous with legal technology innovation. Within the latter space, traditional categories of products and services have dominated. Products and services targeted at automating and streamlining workflow to the exclusion of solutioning in the areas of data and infrastructure to facilitate adoption and scalability of downstream technologies and process innovation has led to a kind of insularity in the way the legal industry innovates. In this session, we take a buzzword-free look at (a) the current legal tech landscape, and the existing categories of legal technology innovation; (b) areas for inclusion and exploration to expand the legal tech innovation rubric; and (c) how industry players of various sizes can exploit the yet-to-be-explored opportunities in legal tech – especially those arising from the challenges presented by a pandemic-era and post-pandemic workplace.
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1.5 Public CPD Points | Please refer here for SILE Attendance Policy for this session
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Are you part of a legal tech start-up seeking to scale? Perhaps you are in-house counsel in a startup? Or maybe you are external counsel to clients seeking to raise funds? This session provides: (a) a practical understanding of the funding ecosystem and what VCs consider when assessing whether to invest in a company; (b) a discussion on the emerging legal tech innovation funding trends and the impact that the pandemic is having on VCs and their appetite for investment; (c) insight on what kinds of companies are currently in demand, and who the future unicorns could be for the legal tech industry; and (d) perspectives on the common compliance issues that companies and their counsel need to look out for when seeking to raise funds.
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1 Public CPD Point | Please refer here for SILE Attendance Policy for this session
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Calling all product innovators, product managers, and product counselors (or those who aspire to be any of these)! This session aims to spark the innovation of legal tech products, and to share insights with those who wish to better support their creation and management. The panel will share perspectives on these topics, which aim to reflect key aspects of the product development cycle: (a) Persona building, aimed at providing views on better understanding market needs, opportunities, and challenges, to lead to product ideation; (b) Product ideation and management, focused on the process of creating and early-stage management of a product; and (c) Product counseling, targeted at strengthening skills needed to be able to provide sound and practical advice to startups that have a specialized need to build and move fast.
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Synopsis
Join Mr Edwin Tong SC, Minister for Culture, Community and Youth and Second Minister for Law, for a fireside chat to mark the launch of the Ministry of Law’s Technology & Innovation Roadmap (TIR). The roadmap charts Singapore’s legal technology path to 2030, identifies technologies that will impact or change legal services, and includes an overview of current and upcoming initiatives to encourage adoption and development of such technologies. Minister Tong will discuss what’s in store for our legal industry, and how technology can improve productivity and resilience of our industry.
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A year on from the signature and ground-breaking State of Legal Innovation in Asia-Pacific (SOLIA) Report 2019, the legal innovation picture globally has changed drastically. Amidst the COVID-19 crisis, we have seen a significant rise in legal innovation and the use of technology in providing justice. These include the rise of virtual courts, transformational shifts to a fully-virtual mode of working. At the same time, as economies take a beating, we see both light and dark spots in the appetite for legal innovation.
Building on the goal of SOLIA to provide actionable market intelligence to key legal innovation decision-makers and players in the region, this panel will see the launch and discussion of the SOLIA 2020 Report. Featured in the discussion will include new jurisdictions, insights on legal tech investments and money flows, and how enabling policy environments can be built to take legal innovation forward – which together will help you make sense of the shifting sands in legal innovation in the Asia-Pacific. At the same time, bringing matters from 30,000 feet level to ground-level, a second panel of regional law firms will be sharing with us their breakthroughs, experiences and insights in how they have embraced legal innovation and adopted legal technologies.
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Closing off TechLaw.Fest 2020 will be an APAC-wide open ideation project to determine and unite common aspirations and hopes for legal innovation and technology for the region. Tapping on the Asia-Pacific Legal Innovation and Technology Association (ALITA)’s convening power to encourage coordination and cooperation in legal innovation, the session will give participants a say in identifying the region’s aspirations, concerns and imperatives for legal innovation and technology, based on statement submissions from TechLaw.Fest attendees over the 5 days of TechLaw.Fest.
The session will also see ALITA officially launch three new exciting initiatives for the region: the 2020 State of Legal Innovation in the Asia-Pacific Report, as well as the world’s first Legal Technology Observatory and Asia’s first Legal Innovation Strategy Toolkit.
Guest of Honour:
The Honourable Justice Lee Seiu Kin
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As modern businesses scale in size and complexity at an unprecedented pace, the legal function must align its response with the needs of the business. The site of that alignment in the legal function is increasingly to be found in legal operations. While there is sophisticated global discussion of the roles of process improvement and technology tools in optimising the legal function through legal operations, the people element has tended towards a flat discourse on upskilling and re-skilling as a response to technology. Join the leaders in this session as they re-frame the people challenge in legal operations and business alignment by examining skills development as a response to the scale (volume and complexity) of business.
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1.5 Public CPD Points | Please refer here for SILE Attendance Policy for this session
Synopsis:
Legal Operations is a term that is no longer just synonymous with in-house legal departments. Increasingly, law firms and alternative legal service providers of all shapes and sizes are getting in on the action. So what is it? Why should you care? What is involved? How can you get started? We speak with leaders who have actively rolled-out legal operations initiatives in a variety of contexts and get them to bust the myths that may be holding you back from effectively pursuing a legal operations strategy.
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1 Public CPD Point | Please refer here for SILE Attendance Policy for this session
Synopsis:
It is fashionable to espouse to the current view that lawyering is a multi-disciplinary team endeavour. But to what extent are incumbents paying lip service? This session assembles a multi-disciplinary team of legal operations professionals who are practising what is being preached. They share the barriers that have had to be overcome, the hard-won successes that have been had, and what lies ahead for the evolution of legal services job roles that will help re-define value for legal businesses and their clients and end-users.
Moderator:
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1.5 Public CPD Points | Please refer here for SILE Attendance Policy for this session
Synopsis:
What is the anatomy of a digital transformation journey by a legal department? This examines in candid detail specific transformation journeys being embarked upon by legal departments in some of the world’s leading businesses. Join leaders as they share the learning points they have gleaned from their journeys thus far – successes, failures and everything in between.
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1.5 Public CPD Points | Please refer here for SILE Attendance Policy for this session
During this presentation and panel discussion, we will be sharing on the Society’s efforts in promoting legal technology adoption and supporting our members in adapting to new developments in the legal industry. Participants will also hear from some of our SmartLaw Guild members on their experiences in transforming their practices in the area of technology. Discussion topics will include challenges faced in adopting new solutions, and strategies to support the changing demands of clients and legal practice.
This session is by-invite only and attendees will be invited based on their profile selection when they register for TechLaw.Fest 2020 here. If interested, please express your interest here.
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Synopsis:
The COVID19 pandemic has highlighted how business, law and technology are part of a complex system. In this fireside chat, our leaders share their insights into how businesses and individuals can better prepare themselves to manage such complexity effectively.
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1 Public CPD Point | Please refer here for SILE Attendance Policy for this session
Synopsis:
What are the implications for intellectual property law in a data saturated world? Join this expert panel as they take a deep dive into burning issues challenging IP professionals seeking to advise clients in the technology sphere.
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1.5 Public CPD Points | Please refer here for SILE Attendance Policy for this session
Synopsis:
In this session, experts examine the twin challenges of data protection and cybersecurity through the practical lens of how business can craft policy and establish infrastructure that holistically addresses compliance risks associated with data breaches.
Moderator:
Speakers:
1 Public CPD Point | Please refer here for SILE Attendance Policy for this session
Synopsis:
The exponential growth in data in the past decade has enabled giant datasets to be compiled and used as the basis for developing ever-more sophisticated AI systems. Those systems are in turn being used to enhance humans’ ability to carry out tasks, or to replace those humans altogether. From self-driving cars and robotic carers, to autonomous weapons and automated financial trading systems, robotic and other data-driven AI systems are increasingly becoming the cornerstones of our economies and our daily lives. Increased automation promises significant societal benefits. Yet as ever more processes are carried out without the involvement of a ‘human actor’, the focus turns to how those autonomous robots and other autonomous systems operate, how they ‘learn’, and the data on which they base their decisions to act. Even in Singapore, questions inevitably arise as to whether existing systems of law, regulation and wider public policy remain ‘fit for purpose’. That is, do they encourage and enable innovation, economic growth and public welfare, while protecting against misuse and harm – whether physical, financial or psychological – harm to individuals?
This panel considers the legal issues regarding:
Moderator:
Speakers:
1.5 Public CPD Points | Please refer here for SILE Attendance Policy for this session
Synopsis:
The discussion around regulation of AI has transitioned from AI ethics and principles to the establishment of international norms. At the international level, OECD is perhaps the first out the gate with its 2019 AI Principles, and UNESCO has started its efforts to produce a norm-setting document. The French-Canadian efforts in creating a Global Partnership for AI to produce recommendations for international norm setting is set to gain momentum with OECD secretarial support. The EU has produced its AI Principles and has ambitions to introduce AI regulations for the European bloc. Singapore has made its own contributions through the Model AI Governance framework and self-assessment guide. Apart from norm-setting and governance, there have been sector specific regulations particularly in the areas of autonomous vehicles and facial recognition technologies.
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1.5 Public CPD Points | Please refer here for SILE Attendance Policy for this session
Synopsis:
Getting involved with computational law at SMU — what it is, how it might affect you, and how we might all bring legal into the digital age.
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Synopsis:
COVID19 has accelerated certain developments in how legal systems have responded to the need for digital mediums for delivery. At the same time, it has had a decelerating impact in other areas. In this session, our leaders focus on the ways in which a re-shaping of the legal world is unfolding in two key spheres, dispute resolution and legal practice.
Moderator:
Speakers:
1.5 Public CPD Point | Please refer here for SILE Attendance Policy for this session
Synopsis:
The exponential growth in data in the past decade has enabled giant datasets to be compiled and used as the basis for developing ever-more sophisticated AI systems. Those systems are in turn being used to enhance humans’ ability to carry out tasks, or to replace those humans altogether. From self-driving cars and robotic carers, to autonomous weapons and automated financial trading systems, robotic and other data-driven AI systems are increasingly becoming the cornerstones of our economies and our daily lives. Increased automation promises significant societal benefits. Yet as ever more processes are carried out without the involvement of a ‘human actor’, the focus turns to how those autonomous robots and other autonomous systems operate, how they ‘learn’, and the data on which they base their decisions to act. Questions inevitably arise as to whether existing systems of law, regulation and wider public policy remain ‘fit for purpose’. That is, do they encourage and enable innovation, economic growth and public welfare, while protecting against misuse and harm – whether physical, financial or psychological – harm to?
This panel considers the core ethical principles for which there is emerging consensus, and assesses their implications, and the challenges they may raise, for policy makers in formulating any hard or soft law interventions considered necessary.
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1.5 Public CPD Points | Please refer here for SILE Attendance Policy for this session
Synopsis:
When driverless cars get involved in accidents, who’s to blame? When it’s the actions of an autonomous robot or AI-driven system that causes criminal harm, who’s the ‘criminal’? Are our laws ready to deal with these issues, or are there areas where changes may be needed?
As AI technologies advance and their use across society increases, these are just some of the questions being raised around who bears legal responsibility when these systems cause harm. Join the authors of two forthcoming Singapore law reform reports to hear more about the reports and to discuss the legal issues they raise, how different jurisdictions are approaching them, and what it might all mean for Singapore’s laws.
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1 Public CPD Point | Please refer here for SILE Attendance Policy for this session
Synopsis:
The pandemic has accelerated the pace at which the digitalisation of legal services and access to justice has entered the mainstream. Three broad themes have emerged: the impact of regulation on technology adoption, the impact of technology on business models, and the impact of COVID19 on how the law is or is not perceived as an essential service by end-users. How are different jurisdictions making sense of these emerging issues? Is there a rationalising frame for understanding and addressing these complexities which transcends geographical boundaries?
Moderator:
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1.5 Public CPD Points | Please refer here for SILE Attendance Policy for this session
Synopsis:
(Who is You? The legal client? Or the legal professional? We will keep coming back to this question throughout the talk.)
At SMU’s Centre for Computational Law, innovation in LegalTech goes beyond practice management software, automated contract review, and case-law search engines. We apply deep-tech computer science to the legal domain, producing open-source software that will do for legal and logical reasoning what the spreadsheet did for numerical reasoning. This talk offers a preview of some of the technologies that we are preparing for translation from lab to industry. We demonstrate five examples of how certain areas of legal work could look before and after “digital transformation”. We routinely start with declarative representation in a logical formalism; from that source, we automate the production of a range of downstream applications. What form will these next-generation services take? Will they be run by clients directly, or will they be mediated by legal service providers?
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1 Public CPD Point | Please refer here for SILE Attendance Policy for this session
Synopsis:
We’ve spent many seminars criticising how law firms are slow to change business models, how they are not responding to technology trends, how they are not equipped to respond to new client needs. But are we making an assumption? That the Empire were the bad guys of the Skywalker saga? Thus we need to hear from the law firms on their responses. MDPs, ALSPs, changing clients, use of technology, and macro trends like sustainability, gender, income inequality and the future of the workforce – let’s get deep into law firm thinking and strategy.
Moderator:
Speakers:
1.5 Public CPD Points | Please refer here for SILE Attendance Policy for this session
Synopsis: The Digital Legal Exchange is a global institute of leading thinkers and doers from academia, business, government, technology and law, committed to accelerating digital transformation. Our non-profit community shares practical and applied learnings to inspire general counsel and their teams to become digital leaders in their businesses to drive commercial value. Join us in the networking session to find out more, and become a part of our global community.
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COVID19 has undeniably accelerated the adoption of technology to advance learning and professional development. But deeper than this, what are some of the implications of the pandemic on how we identify, recruit, manage, develop and retain talent? How is technology providing the means to achieve desired outcomes when it comes to equipping talent with competencies to thrive under these dynamic and uncertain times? How are various industries embracing technologies in the learning and development of their talent? And what are some key strategies that the legal industry can employ to ensure that it creates conditions for its talent to thrive through this period of challenge and emerge with enhanced capabilities to meet future industry demands?
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1 Public CPD Point | Please refer here for SILE Attendance Policy for this session
Synopsis:
Enhancing Access to Justice is a common theme and goal across many jurisdictions. But what exactly does Access to Justice entail? Is it just a question of making information available via digital means? How do we address the “digital divide”, and the apparent growing interest for litigants to directly access systems without the interposition of professional legal advisers? How much can we expect to get out of “AI” powered chatbots? Should we re-engineer legal processes to move away from the Forms that lawyers and Courts are familiar with? What are the “best practices” in such Access to Justice efforts?
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1.5 Public CPD Points | Please refer here for SILE Attendance Policy for this session
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Hackathon for a Better World by DBS and Singapore Judiciary kicked off in July 2020 with 37 teams, the objective, to use law as a force for social good. Over 2.5 months, teams in the hackathon’s learn-as-you-hack-format were encouraged to interview their target audience, generate insights, build, test and then iterate in developing their solution.
More than the winning, Hackathon for a Better World wants to showcase the process that these groups have been through to innovate in the legal landscape. This session will feature live judging of the Top 6 finalists. Each team has 6 minutes to showcase how they used DBS’ design thinking framework to arrive at solutions to their selected problem statement. The 6 finalist teams will vie for four awards: Most Innovative, Most Feasible, Most Life Changing and Most Human-Centred solutions.
To view the Top 6 submissions and judging panel, please see here.
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There are countless initiatives that have been announced under the broad rubric of “Online Dispute Resolution”. Is there clarity in what exactly we mean when we say “ODR”? Does it refer to the online initiation of a dispute? Or the submission of evidence and the parties’ positions? To what extent can there be a “bot” that can serve as the mediator or some kind of neutral evaluator? If a human has to be introduced, how does she interact with the parties? Must such interaction be online or digital for the entire process to be “online dispute resolution”? What about the eventual “outcome” of the “dispute”? If there is an agreement, how is that agreement signified? And how might it be enforced/enforceable? Is it time for a “typology” to be discerned, so that when we talk about ODR and a country’s implementation of “ODR” we know what exactly that means or does not mean?
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How exactly can jurisdictions use technology to enhance to Access-to-Justice at scale? Is there empirical evidence that chatbots, interactive websites and “ODR” have positive impacts on Access-to-Justice? Would focus on technology paradoxically reinforce the Digital Divide and therefore degrade Access-to-Justice to those left behind?
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Networking, re-imagined – Idea Tracing is not just a networking event, it’s your opportunity to join the conversation, tackle real-world problems and connect with like-minded people in a diverse environment that fosters creativity. Think of it as a brainstorming session with guide rails that help drive the discussion and foster engagement. As part of TechLaw.Fest 2020, Idea Tracing will let you explore the challenges and opportunities that await professionals of the future. Are you up to the task?
Sign-up to our pre-tracing sessions where you will be paired up with two other conference participants to network and exchange ideas at a more personal level (Pre-tracing sessions take place on Tuesday, 29 September)
Or, simply join the main session on Thursday, 1 October to listen and engage with our fellow Idea Tracers! Please register your interest here.
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Perhaps one consequence of the pandemic has been a transcendence of physical geography. Instead, we have been presented with a geography of needs that is ripe for exploring. This discussion examines how wicked problems at the intersection of law, business, and technology have created necessities that present an opportunity for innovation in a way that challenges traditional geographical and professional silos.
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It is fair to say that legal innovation has become synonymous with legal technology innovation. Within the latter space, traditional categories of products and services have dominated. Products and services targeted at automating and streamlining workflow to the exclusion of solutioning in the areas of data and infrastructure to facilitate adoption and scalability of downstream technologies and process innovation has led to a kind of insularity in the way the legal industry innovates. In this session, we take a buzzword-free look at (a) the current legal tech landscape, and the existing categories of legal technology innovation; (b) areas for inclusion and exploration to expand the legal tech innovation rubric; and (c) how industry players of various sizes can exploit the yet-to-be-explored opportunities in legal tech – especially those arising from the challenges presented by a pandemic-era and post-pandemic workplace.
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Are you part of a legal tech start-up seeking to scale? Perhaps you are in-house counsel in a startup? Or maybe you are external counsel to clients seeking to raise funds? This session provides: (a) a practical understanding of the funding ecosystem and what VCs consider when assessing whether to invest in a company; (b) a discussion on the emerging legal tech innovation funding trends and the impact that the pandemic is having on VCs and their appetite for investment; (c) insight on what kinds of companies are currently in demand, and who the future unicorns could be for the legal tech industry; and (d) perspectives on the common compliance issues that companies and their counsel need to look out for when seeking to raise funds.
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Calling all product innovators, product managers, and product counselors (or those who aspire to be any of these)! This session aims to spark the innovation of legal tech products, and to share insights with those who wish to better support their creation and management. The panel will share perspectives on these topics, which aim to reflect key aspects of the product development cycle: (a) Persona building, aimed at providing views on better understanding market needs, opportunities, and challenges, to lead to product ideation; (b) Product ideation and management, focused on the process of creating and early-stage management of a product; and (c) Product counseling, targeted at strengthening skills needed to be able to provide sound and practical advice to startups that have a specialized need to build and move fast.
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Join Mr Edwin Tong SC, Minister for Culture, Community and Youth and Second Minister for Law, for a fireside chat to mark the launch of the Ministry of Law’s Technology & Innovation Roadmap (TIR). The roadmap charts Singapore’s legal technology path to 2030, identifies technologies that will impact or change legal services, and includes an overview of current and upcoming initiatives to encourage adoption and development of such technologies. Minister Tong will discuss what’s in store for our legal industry, and how technology can improve productivity and resilience of our industry.
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A year on from the signature and ground-breaking State of Legal Innovation in Asia-Pacific (SOLIA) Report 2019, the legal innovation picture globally has changed drastically. Amidst the COVID-19 crisis, we have seen a significant rise in legal innovation and the use of technology in providing justice. These include the rise of virtual courts, transformational shifts to a fully-virtual mode of working. At the same time, as economies take a beating, we see both light and dark spots in the appetite for legal innovation.
Building on the goal of SOLIA to provide actionable market intelligence to key legal innovation decision-makers and players in the region, this panel will see the launch and discussion of the SOLIA 2020 Report. Featured in the discussion will include new jurisdictions, insights on legal tech investments and money flows, and how enabling policy environments can be built to take legal innovation forward – which together will help you make sense of the shifting sands in legal innovation in the Asia-Pacific. At the same time, bringing matters from 30,000 feet level to ground-level, a second panel of regional law firms will be sharing with us their breakthroughs, experiences and insights in how they have embraced legal innovation and adopted legal technologies.
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Closing off TechLaw.Fest 2020 will be an APAC-wide open ideation project to determine and unite common aspirations and hopes for legal innovation and technology for the region. Tapping on the Asia-Pacific Legal Innovation and Technology Association (ALITA)’s convening power to encourage coordination and cooperation in legal innovation, the session will give participants a say in identifying the region’s aspirations, concerns and imperatives for legal innovation and technology, based on statement submissions from TechLaw.Fest attendees over the 5 days of TechLaw.Fest.
The session will also see ALITA officially launch three new exciting initiatives for the region: the 2020 State of Legal Innovation in the Asia-Pacific Report, as well as the world’s first Legal Technology Observatory and Asia’s first Legal Innovation Strategy Toolkit.
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The Honourable Justice Lee Seiu Kin
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