The FT Intelligent Business Forum will bring together leaders and innovators from across business and professional services via a live broadcast. The event will feature panel discussions with business leaders and technologists to discuss ways in which business is transforming.
Winning the trust of users: insights from the public sector
Technology implemented in the public sector only works with general participation from the population. For digital projects to succeed, governments and public organisations need the trust of the public. Would you carry a token that tracks your movements? Would you let an algorithm decide bail? Governments are under an imperative to design technology and data services in a way that wins public trust. These chief information officers are experts in building digital infrastructure, finding ways to innovate within the formalities of government and implementing privacy by design so that great ideas, whether virtual courts or Bluetooth contact tracing, become realities.
Speakers:
Cheow Hoe Chan, Government Chief Digital Technology Officer, GovTech Singapore
Siim Sikkut, CIO, Estonia
Jack McCarthy, CIO, New Jersey Judiciary
Convergence pioneers: lessons from the financial services sector
On the front end, financial services is one of the most digitally advanced and data-driven sectors in the world. Through a combination of regulatory pressure and other external forces, the operational functions at major banks are having to digitally transform in order to keep pace with their internal client and increasing regulation. How is a better use of data and tech changing the roles and responsibilities of legal teams in financial services’ organisations and what can other industry sectors learn from their experience?
Speakers:
Lewis Liu, CEO, Eigen Technologies
Frank Domburg, Legal AI Initiative Lead, ING Bank
Amir Mehdi, CIO Legal, Barclays Bank
Sarah Woodland, Head of Digital Banking and Marcus Legal Team, UK, Goldman Sachs
Using contracts to measure economic health
“Modern economies are held together by innumerable contracts” is the statement the Nobel Prize Award Committee made in 2016 when Oliver Hart was awarded for his research into contract economics. This research helped inspire a project led by the Open Trust Fabric to model economic activity in Europe based on contractual activity. How has Trakti’s technology enabled the project and what is the impact of this research for businesses looking to better leverage their contractual data?
Speakers:
Sally Guyer, CEO, World Commerce and Contracting Association & Open Trust Fabric communication leader
Professor Oliver Hart, Harvard University
Luigi Telesca, CEO, Trakti & Open Trust Fabric Project Co-ordinator
Thierry Perrouault, General Counsel, Legal Operations, Orange
The future of legal tech
Can the legal tech market ever scale to the heights of fintech or insurtech? Various governments, including the UK, are trying to invest and scale the legal technology sector but there is doubt about whether, given the size of the legal market, it is scalable. In addition, there is a trend for corporate functions to use enterprise technology stacks with which many legal technologies are incompatible and fall in the bracket of point solutions. What then is the future for legal technology?
Speakers:
Aine Lyons, VP and Deputy General Counsel, Worldwide Legal Operations, VMware and CLOC Board Member and Europe Lead
Richard Punt, Managing Director, Legal Strategy and Market Development, Thomson Reuters
Kamal Hathi, Chief Technology Officer, Docusign
Smart Healthcare
The healthcare sector has always been a collaboration between academia, private sector and the public sector and in this crisis year, there has been an even greater need for cohesion. Healthcare organisations that were digital were better prepared when Covid hit. However, there are certain roadblocks to taking full advantage of the convergence of tech and data in the sector. These are mostly cultural. From covid testing to holograms and virtual intensive care units, these three healthcare leaders discuss how they have successfully overcome cultural impediments to digitise their operations.
Speakers:
James Fleming, Director of IT, Francis Crick Institute
Emma Fauss, CEO, Medical Informatics Corps
Dr. James Kinross, Consultant Surgeon, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Keeping supply chains open
McKinsey claims that averaging across industries, companies can now expect supply chain disruptions lasting a month or longer to happen every 3.7 years. 2020 has seen several supply chain disruptions in the form of COVID-19 as well as geopolitical events such as the US-China trade war. How are businesses using technology and data to keep supply chains open?
Speakers:
Lynn Torrel, Chief Procurement Officer, Flex
Bob Wolpert, Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer, Golden State Foods
Hendrik Venter, CEO EMEA, DHL Supply Chain
Scaled disrupters: The Big 4 in Legal
As legal services are increasingly offered as part of a broader package of professional services, the Big Four are well-placed to reshape this market. They combine the benefits of scale, process, technology and multi-disciplinary expertise. However, their ability to combine legal services into the offering is limited in the US, compared to the UK, Australia and many other European countries. How are new opportunities and restrictions changing the global market for integrated professional services and how are the Big Four evolving themselves?
Speakers:
Emily Foges, Deloitte
Cornelius Grossmann, Global Law Leader, EY
Nick Roome, KPMG
Juan Crosby, PwC NewLaw
A Better Digital Future:
An interview with Jacky Wright, Chief Digital Officer, Microsoft