Here’s How the 2024 Agenda Unfolded

Innovation can be a slow and lonely grind on your own… but you are not alone! We will explore the pressing need for teams to foster a culture of innovation, crucial for adapting to the changing dynamics of the external environment.

Andrew and Karen will share what has worked for them (and what hasn’t!) in trying to build an innovation culture in their in-house corporate and government legal teams. They will delve into practical strategies and tools for igniting a spirit of creativity and forward-thinking within different sized legal departments. This includes embracing existing tech stacks, encouraging collaborative and cross-functional problem-solving, and redefining traditional frameworks.

The goal of this session is to equip you with easily adaptable tools and frameworks which you can take away and use straight away, and mindset necessary to transform your teams into dynamic, efficient and future-ready units. The aim is to to help you not only solve complex legal issues but also contribute strategically to the overall success of your organisations.

• Empowering change agents: Innovation is a team sport – the importance of teamwork and cross-disciplinary approaches
• Encouraging risk-taking and experimentation: How to foster a safe environment for testing and learning from failures (including sharing our real-life successes and failures!)
• Streamlining processes: Frameworks for implementing new strategies for more efficiencies
• Setting innovation goals: How to set meaningful innovation goals for your team to guide your transformation journey
• Impact: Tools for measuring the impact on business outcomes
• Now it’s your turn: Practical steps for how to get started and group commitment to take the plunge

Key Learnings

1. Integrating innovation into everyday practice: You will learn practical strategies and frameworks to weave innovation into your daily operations
2. Driving organisational change through legal innovation: You will gain insights into how legal teams can be pivotal in driving broader organisational change by adopting innovative practices
3. How you can get started by starting small: You will learn about examples of small-scale pilot projects that are easily adaptable to different contexts and can help you test new ideas and empower you to be an agent of change