The Human Impact of AI – legal must-knows and must-dos on the cutting edge of Agentic AI, Physical AI and beyond

Programme:

Welcome / intro

Opening Keynote
The Rt Hon Lord Justice Arnold

Framing the Day: The Human Stakes and Legal Impact  of AI

The questions that every board and leader asks (or should ask) themselves when looking at the human impact of AI and what that means for legal risk. Also, how the sessions follow will help separate the wood for the tree in finding answers.

Speakers:
Shanthini Satyendra, SCL Fellow, Vice-Chair SCL AI Committee, Founder, Manisain
Andie Garford-Tull, General Counsel for AI Transformation & Governance and Dentsu Creative
Emily Gill, Co-founder and COO, LEVRA
Tara Haig, General Counsel, Multiverse
Noah Waisberg, Co-Founder & CEO, Zuva (Virtual)

AI in Recruitment

The promise of AI revolutionising recruitment has been touted since the early stages of the development of LLM models. Now that its use to source, shortlist and assess candidates has become more mainstream, what does this mean in reality? How does AI compare to human decision-making? In this session, our expert panellists will explore these questions and more through interactive CV and interview assessment exercises.

Speakers:
Robin Allen KC, Cloisters and the AI Law Consultancy, Co-author of Artificial Intelligence (Regulation and Employment Rights) Bill
Sarah Craig, Senior Counsel, Employment, BP
Sarah Mathews, Group Head of Responsible AI, Adecco

Coffee break

Fireside Chat

Speaker:
Professor Richard Susskind CBE KC (Hon), SCL President

AI in Public Services and Healthcare

AI presents a significant opportunity to transform public services—improving outcomes for citizens, enhancing system efficiency, and making better use of public resources. Yet these benefits are not automatic. They sit alongside real risks: to data privacy, to fairness and trust, and to the effective use of taxpayer funding if adoption is poorly governed. For legal practitioners, these challenges raise critical questions around liability, risk allocation, compliance with evolving regulatory frameworks, and the contractual structures underpinning public–private delivery models.

This panel brings together diverse perspectives to explore what responsible AI adoption looks like in practice. It will examine how public sector organisations can innovate while managing competing priorities and trade-offs – between individual and collective benefit, transparency and performance, speed and assurance. It will also consider how legal frameworks shape these trade-offs in practice, including how obligations are defined, enforced, and interpreted in conditions of technological uncertainty.

This panel will cover the responsible use of sensitive data, the evolving role of private sector partners, and the governance models needed to support safe, effective deployment. Discussion will draw out the legal implications of these issues – from data governance and procurement to accountability for harm and dispute resolution – highlighting where existing legal tools are sufficient and where new approaches may be required. Through contrasting viewpoints from different sectors, the session will surface where interests align, where they diverge, and how these tensions can be navigated to deliver meaningful, trustworthy outcomes at scale.

Speakers
Michael Birtwistle, Associate Director, Data & AI Law Policy, Ada Lovelace Institute
Gabi Commatteo, AI Regulation, Policy and Projects Lead at Medicines and Healthcare products Regulator Agency (MHRA).
Ruth Kelly, Chief Analyst, UK National Audit Office
Tom Whittaker, Director, Head of AI Advisory, Burges Salmon LLP

Lunch

Physical AI

As AI steps out of the server room and into the real world – from warehouse robots to autonomous vehicles – the risks shift from the virtual to the visceral. This session will explore how physical AI changes the risk landscape, how those risks can be allocated and mitigated across the value chain, and how these uses challenge how we understand liability today.

Our panellists will examine cutting‑edge contractual and transactional approaches to managing safety, security and performance risks in robotics and AV deployments, and unpack the emerging liability questions that arise when AI systems cause harm. The session will also tackle one of the most provocative debates in tech law: should highly autonomous AI ever have its own legal rights or responsibilities, and what would that mean for existing liability frameworks?

Speakers
Minesh Tanna, Partner and Global AI Lead, Simmons & Simmons, Chair, SCL AI Committee; SCL Vice Chair
Charlie Lyons-Rothbart, Lead Commercial Counsel, CoreWeave
Lucy McCormick, Commercial Barrister, Henderson Chambers

AI in Legal and Justice: The Lawyer in 2031

If an AI can draft the contract, predict the ruling, and advise the client, what is left for the human? As AI moves from a helpful tool to a core teammate for in-house teams, firms, and everyday litigants, some say the industry is facing a fundamental identity crisis. Others are more sceptical.

Join the debate. With the audience’s help, we are going to build a live prototype of the lawyer in 2031; how different will they be? Along the way, we’ll analyse a lawyer’s purpose and whether human trust is the ultimate legal currency.

Speakers:
Henry Goodwin, Partner, Leo Capital
Stéphanie Hamon, Global Head of Legal Market Engagement, Legal COO, HSBC Bank Plc
Professor Dan Hunter, Executive Dean of the Dickson Poon School of Law at King’s College London
Matthew Lavy KC, Barrister and Arbitrator, 4 Pump Court
Rory O’Keeffe, Founder, RMOK Legal

Short session 1

Short session 2

Coffee break

AI and Creativity

The panel will explore the evolving legal landscape surrounding ownership of rights in AI-generated content. The discussion will examine the boundary between human creativity and AI assistance, alongside emerging approaches to transparency and audience expectations around the use of AI. The session will also offer practical insights into the legal and practical considerations for lawyers advising content creators, as well as best practices for lawyers using AI in their own work while preserving ownership and control of their outputs.

Speakers:
Toby Bond, IP Partner, Bird & Bird
Matthew Drinkwater, Director of the Fashion Innovation Agency, London College of Fashion
Angelina Lamke, Founder, Human Provenance in Film
Anne Todd, Technology Partner, Michelmores

Closing Keynote
Lord Clement-Jones CBE, Co-Chair of All-Party Parliamentary Group on AI; LibDem Lords Science, Innovation & Technology spokesperson; SCL Fellow

Networking

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With over US$100 billion in venture capital investment in AI native firms alone last year, AI is coming of age. Agentic AI that acts on our behalf. Physical AI we get to use, not pilot, like self-driving taxis. Creative AI is doing what used to be the domain of human authors, musicians and actors. AI that can diagnose or heal. AI is deciding who we recruit. AI that does legal work.

At the cutting edge, the human impact is significant. Also, polarising. A thread that will run through the day is what that human impact means for legal risks relating to AI. For many, the jury is out as to whether the benefits of AI outweigh the risks. Yet, the pace of change is not slowing down. This means that for lawyers advising, a key question is how to see the wood for the trees.

This conference will answer that – looking at the critical “must-knows” that define modern compliance and the “must-dos” that protect both lawyer and client at the cutting edge. It will draw out themes which cut across use cases and sectors, extracting common challenges and practical solutions – that perspective on what matters across use cases and sectors being so vital to any lawyer advising on AI.

Through a series of expert-led sessions, this will be hands-on, seeking to simplify without being simplistic. To entertain but not trivialise. To give you know-how and approaches you can use and tailor in your practice. Covering legal issues arising from physical AI, use of AI for creativity, implications of agentic AI in practice and AI in recruitment and more. Also, the chance to meet world-class experts and peers, and to network.

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Speakers:

The Rt Hon Lord Justice Arnold
Professor Richard Susskind CBE KC (Hon), SCL President
Lord Tim Clement-Jones CBE, Co-Chair of All-Party Parliamentary Group on AI; LibDem Lords Science, Innovation & Technology spokesperson; SCL Fellow
Shanthini Satyendra, SCL Fellow, Vice-Chair SCL AI Committee, Founder, Manisain
Andie Garford-Tull, General Counsel for AI Transformation & Governance and Dentsu Creative
Emily Gill, Co-founder and COO, LEVRA
Tara Haig, General Counsel, Multiverse
Noah Waisberg, Co-Founder & CEO, Zuva (Virtual speaker)
Robin Allen KC, Cloisters and the AI Law Consultancy, Co-author of Artificial Intelligence (Regulation and Employment Rights) Bill
Sarah Craig, Senior Counsel, Employment, BP
Sarah Mathews, Group Head of Responsible AI, Adecco
Gabi Commatteo, AI Regulation, Policy and Projects Lead at Medicines and Healthcare products Regulator Agency (MHRA).
Michael Birtwistle, Associate Director, Data & AI Law Policy, Ada Lovelace Institute
Ruth Kelly, Chief Analyst, UK National Audit Office
Tom Whittaker, Director, Head of AI Advisory, Burges Salmon LLP
Charlie Lyons-Rothbart, Lead Commercial Counsel, CoreWeave
Lucy McCormick, Commercial Barrister, Henderson Chambers
Minesh Tanna, Partner and Global AI Lead, Simmons & Simmons, Chair, SCL AI Committee; SCL Vice Chair
Stéphanie Hamon, Global Head of Legal Market Engagement, Legal COO, HSBC Bank Plc
Professor Dan Hunter, Executive Dean, The Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London
Reid Hoffman, Co-founder of LinkedIn, Inflection AI and Manas AI, VC investor with Village Global (Virtual speaker)
Matthew Lavy KC, Barrister and Arbitrator, 4 Pump Court
Iain Munro, Barrister and Mediator, 4 Pump Court (Virtual speaker)
Rory O’Keeffe, Founder, RMOK Legal
Henry Goodwin, Partner, Leo Capital
Toby Bond, IP Partner, Bird & Bird
Matthew Drinkwater, Director of the Fashion Innovation Agency, London College of Fashion
Angelina Lamke, Founder, Human Provenance in Film
Anne Todd, Technology Partner, Michelmores