Legal Future Summit 2026
First Edition

Legal future Summit 2026

From AI and knowledge management to cyber resilience and cloud innovation. During this half-day event you will gain practical insights to help your firm stay ahead.

Tuesday 27 October 2026
Canon, 's-Hertogenbosch
09:30 – 14:00+
Free of charge
For law firms and legal departments
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Why this summit

Disciplined modernisation, not disruption for its own sake.

According to the latest iManage benchmark, 72% of organisations are highly likely to modernise their document management environment within the next two years.

The most mature firms are not pursuing wholesale replacements. They are building on existing foundations, upgrading strategically, and integrating new technologies to create a future-ready digital workplace.

Together with industry experts, we will explore the latest trends and developments shaping the future of LegalTech. Join fellow legal professionals for a day of inspiration, knowledge sharing, and valuable networking.

Programme

09:30
Walk-in with coffee, tea and cake
10:00

Opening and introduction

Welcome to the first edition of the Legal Future Summit and the roadmap for the day ahead.

Ralph Willems · IRIS Nederland
10:15
Managing documents → Activating knowledge

The iManage Platform in 2026: What's New and What's Next

Legal technology is not just evolving, it is accelerating. The opportunity to reimagine how your firm manages knowledge, governs AI, and drives productivity at scale has never been greater. An inside look at the next-gen iManage platform: how to transform your firm's accumulated knowledge into a governed, AI-ready intelligence layer that extends across Microsoft 365. New capabilities give administrators control, visibility, and confidence to manage a mission-critical platform while delivering greater value to users.

Denys Georgiou · iManage
11:00
Coffee break
11:15
Backed up → Genuinely resilient

Resilience by Design: Your Legal Matter Data Needs a Safety Net

When ransomware, a SaaS outage, or an accidental deletion hits, legal matter data is rarely confined to one system: it lives across Microsoft 365, iManage cloud, file shares, and dozens of other workloads. HYCU delivers matter-level resilience across that entire footprint, storing immutable backups in your firm's own sovereign storage so you keep full control over where data resides. A practical look at how law firms can keep matters moving through disruption while meeting data sovereignty, retention, and audit requirements.

Bogdan Viher · HYCU
11:45
Experimenting with AI → AI-native practice groups

5 Upskilling Levels towards AI Native Practice Groups

What does it take to move from individual AI experimentation to AI-native practice groups? Five levels of AI upskilling for law firms and legal departments: prompting, AI workflows, multi-AI workflows, agentic AI, and the firm's legal brain. See how Newcode provides the missing orchestration layer, connecting fragmented tools, models, knowledge, and data, contextualising material from sources, configuring AI around legal work, and keeping firms in control. You will leave with a clearer view of where your firm stands and what it takes to reach the next level.

Malin Männikkö · Newcode
12:30
Lunch break
13:30
Ambition → A concrete roadmap

The Future-Proof Law Firm: Your Firm Knows More Than It Can Use

 What separates firms that thrive from those that scramble to keep up? A practical self-check for the knowledge foundation of the modern law firm, built around five questions you can apply to one real workflow. Learn where your firm stands, what the next step looks like, and how to turn ambition into a concrete pilot. 

Carlo Bellinzis & Dave Heidstra · IRIS Nederland
14:00

Closing remarks and networking drinks

Informal conversations and the chance to speak one-on-one with speakers and fellow professionals.

Speakers

Ralph Willems

Ralph Willems

Sales Executive EMEA · IRIS Nederland

Ralph is Sales Executive EMEA at IRIS Nederland, where he helps law firms and professional services organisations build secure, future-ready foundations for knowledge management. With years of hands-on experience in legal technology, he advises managing partners, IT managers, and knowledge leaders on cloud transformation, AI readiness, and document management strategy. A regular author and speaker on knowledge maturity, information governance, and the evolving role of technology in legal, Ralph combines honest, consultative advice with deep market insight to help firms modernise with clarity and confidence.

Denys Georgiou

Denys Georgiou

Solutions Consultant · iManage

Denys Georgiou works with organisations across industries to shape the technology stack their AI workflows need to succeed. Before iManage, he spent four years in legal innovation roles, first as a legal engineer at AI start-up Lexical Labs, then in legal operations at Stephenson Harwood, and most recently as a senior knowledge management technologist at Proskauer Rose, where he advised associates in the private investment funds team on which technology to deploy for each investment fund, and trained them on it. He holds an LLM in Banking and Finance Law, completed the Bar Practice Course, and is based in London.

Bogdan Viher

Bogdan Viher

Senior Director · HYCU

Bogdan works at HYCU, a global leader in data protection across private cloud, public cloud, and SaaS environments. With over 25 years of experience in data protection and management software, he has spent the last eight years helping organisations, including law firms safeguarding legal matter data, build resilience and recover quickly from data loss incidents through effective backup and restoration in public cloud and SaaS applications. Working with partners and clients worldwide, he and his team advise on business continuity and compliance with standards and regulations such as the EU's DORA and NIS2.

Malin Männikkö

Malin Männikkö

Product Lead & PhD Candidate · Newcode

Malin is a Product Lead at Newcode.ai and a PhD candidate researching agentic AI systems for lawyers. A lawyer with eight years of experience in legal tech, she focuses on building intuitive, high-impact tools that help legal professionals deliver greater value to their clients. Her work spans the full product lifecycle, from development and implementation to change management and adoption. Through her PhD research, Malin develops practical frameworks for the effective use of agentic AI in the legal sector. At the intersection of law and technology, she regularly speaks and teaches on legal tech, innovation, and career development, and has presented at international conferences and lectures on legal technology at Stockholm University and Karlstad University.

Carlo Bellinzis

Carlo Bellinzis

Business Consultant · IRIS Nederland

Carlo is Business Consultant at IRIS Nederland, where he helps law firms and professional services organisations across the EMEA region gain control of unstructured information and build smarter, more connected ways of working. With over six years at IRIS and a background in enterprise content management, he advises managing partners, IT leaders, and compliance officers on digital transformation, information governance, and productivity strategy. Equally at home in a boardroom workshop and a technical deep-dive, Carlo bridges the gap between business ambition and technology execution, helping firms turn complexity into clarity.

Dave Heidstra

Dave Heidstra

Solution Consultant · IRIS Nederland

Dave is Solution Consultant at IRIS Nederland, where he translates complex platform capabilities into practical, working solutions for law firms and professional services organisations. With a decade of hands-on experience in the iManage ecosystem, he has designed, built, and optimised document management environments from both the vendor and the consultancy side. A certified iManage engineer with a deep technical toolkit, Dave combines architectural precision with a pragmatic, client-first approach to help firms get the most from their technology investments.

Venue & directions

Canon Nederland, Den Bosch

Conveniently located close to the A2 and A59 motorways, the Canon office is easily accessible by car and public transport.

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Date
Tuesday 27 October 2026
Time
09:30 – 14:00+ (networking drinks)
Venue
Canon Nederland N.V., Brabantlaan 2, 5216 TV 's-Hertogenbosch
Car
Close to A2 and A59. Free parking on-site. Electric charging on request.
Public transport
Local bus from 's-Hertogenbosch Central Station. Taxi approx. 10 min.
Cost
Free of charge. Places are limited.
Audience
Law firms and legal departments. This event is not open to suppliers or vendors.
Language
English and Dutch

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