Paula is a lawyer with over 20 years’ experience of working in industry, having spent 13 of those years at IBM specialising in “as a Service” transactions, heading up the Cloud and Solutions legal team across Europe. In 2018, Paula left full-time lawyering to work with innovative organisations on the business side, initially joining late-stage start-up Globality as part of the legal services senior management team and then joining WorldCC as its Chief Legal Innovation Officer.

Today, Paula has her own consultancy PaLiDa Ltd and works as a legal innovation advisor to a broad base of clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups. She also works closely with Passera Designs on contract simplification and design.

Paula is passionate about better contracts and empathetic leadership.

Tim is founder and CEO of ThoughtRiver, the contract acceleration pioneers. Tim’s professional background spans partnership in a London Law firm as well as leading lines of business for large corporates across Asia. In 2015 Tim relocated from Singapore to UK to develop ThoughtRiver’s innovative technology in Cambridge, one of the world’s leading centres for natural language processing and machine learning. Tim is a regular writer and speaker on the role of data and machine learning in transforming legal risk management, and he was recently recognised by the Financial Times as one of the top 10 legal business technologists.

Lauren is VP of Product for ThoughtRiver. She has seventeen years experience crafting media and product strategy in the US, Australia and United Kingdom. Most recently, she lead product management on adZU, an award-winning marketing automation platform.