Welcome to Asia Pacific’s top LegalTech conference

Daniel Walker is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Zegal, the trusted platform to manage law online. Prior to founding Zegal, Daniel practised at DLA Piper, Stephenson Harwood and Clyde & Co, in Hong Kong, Singapore, and the UK. Daniel received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of London and legal qualifications from MMU in Manchester.

Operating out of San Francisco and Hong Kong, Antoine is a visionary technology entrepreneur and investor. He is the co-founder and managing partner of Alpha Intelligence Capital, a venture capital firm investing in deep algorithmic science-based Artificial Intelligence companies worldwide. Over the past 20 years he has dedicated himself to the development of Artificial Intelligence. He was the chief executive officer of Dejima, the company that powered DARPA’s foundational CALO project that later evolved into Apple’s Siri. Antoine was also chief operating officer of Zi Corporation, whose predictive text input software was embedded in hundreds of millions of devices. He is the co-founder and Chairman of Sentient Technologies, one of the world’s leading AI technology startups.

Antoine has also held senior leadership positions at Good Technology, Salesforce, and Sybase. He also is an advisor to Pictet et Cie.’s $4.5B Global Digital Fund, and a founding member of Audi’s Beyond think tank dedicated to the economic and societal impact of AI.

Pádraig’s practice focuses on venture capital and related corporate work. His work encompasses advice on private equity and debt financings, leading on investment negotiations and completion, and preparing documents to implement deal terms. He also advises on the range of common issues for emerging companies, such as corporate structuring, IP licensing, equity incentive plans, and shareholder disputes. He represents both investors, strategics, and founders.

With clients broadly within the technology sector, Pádraig has represented companies within specific verticals of fintech, insurtech, regtech, medtech, edutech, and cleantech. Pádraig’s practice also includes assisting clients on licensing, regulatory and compliance. His experience in this area has enabled him to advise clients on a number of innovative, complex fintech projects. He is at the forefront of advising on legal issues for emerging businesses using blockchain technology.

Pádraig is a mentor, and provides legal training programmes, for a number of accelerator programmes. He is also a regular speaker at various startup events and a blogger on the tech startup scene.

Finally Pádraig advises companies of all sizes on mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings, and joint ventures as well as on investment structures, and regulatory and governance issues for investments into a range of asset classes.

Terry is Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Zegal. He is responsible for the strategy, design, and delivery capability behind the groundbreaking technologies that underpin Zegal’s services, and he has been a key part of building the company’s diverse and talented team. Terry spent his early career with Accenture, as a Manager with the firm’s Technology Architecture practice. He went on to build a number of startups as both an employee and co-founder, delivering applications and infrastructure in a diverse range of verticals, including insurance, supply chain management, and mobile handsets and apps. Born and raised in the USA, Terry has degrees in Architecture and in Management from MIT.

Bill is a senior litigator turned legal operations specialist with over 8 years’ experience in legal innovation roles. Bill has worked for both in-house departments and law firms across Hong Kong, China (Shanghai), India, Canada, and the USA designing and implementing various process and technology based initiatives. His clients span a wide variety of industries including TMT, heavy equipment manufacturing, consumer goods and financial services.  Bill has a keen interest in the transformation of the legal profession and elevating the role that lawyers’ play in the strategy and operations of their corporate clients.

Juyuan is the Coordinator and Programme Manager for the Singapore Academy of Law’s Legal Technology Vision (LTV) programmes. The LTV aims to help the legal industry leverage technology to enhance their practice. It is also a call to action for legal technology providers to engage in public-private collaboration for the building of a legal tech ecosystem.

He graduated from the National University of Singapore in 2013 and was admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor of the Singapore Bar in 2014. Over the years, Juyuan practiced extensively in the area of Community Law. He was one of the 5 lawyers in the inaugural batch of Criminal Legal Aid Scheme (CLAS) Fellows (a pro bono outfit aimed at providing legal aid to underprivileged accused persons run by the Law Society of Singapore). Juyuan sees access to justice as one of the core tenets of an effective legal system, and believes that the use of technology is but one of the many ways to achieve this.

Maurits Fornier is the founder of Fornier Legal Design. He is a practicing lawyer and legal designer based in Amsterdam.
Prior to that, Maurits worked as a lawyer in the arbitration and litigation team of Freshfields in Amsterdam (and briefly Hong Kong). As a lawyer, Maurits experienced first-hand the vast amount of information lawyers, clients and judges need to process and comprehend.
In order to deal with this challenge, he started using visuals, diagrams and flowcharts. It was a logical step to use these visuals not only as an analytical tool to structure thinking internally, but take them out ‘to the real world’.
Maurits started using visuals to communicate with clients in order to further develop legal reasoning and case strategy. And lastly, to argue the case in court.
Nowadays, Maurits and his team use design principles to help clients solve legal problems. They work on projects related to contracting, compliance, negotiations, and litigation.
Fornier Legal Design’s clients include start-ups, multinationals and law firms.