20 years experience in Rolls-Royce, working across Civil Aerospace. Experienced commercial professional and contract account manager, having worked with customers, suppliers and partners in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. Led a number of organisational change programmes within Rolls-Royce, including the creation of a Commercial Shared Service (providing transactional support to the General Counsel teams). Created a Digital Solutions Team within General Counsel, responsible for new technology improvements. Currently lead the General Counsel Capability Centre, accountable for early career strategy, commercial degree apprenticeships, training, outsourcing and digital solutions, business transformation and policy/process.

Adrian Furner has over 25 years’ experience in the design, implementation, and delivery of complex commercial transactions through novel business models. He has worked in a variety of sectors including defence and security, aviation, technology and is Managing Director of Kommercialize.

Kommercialize is a practitioner-led organization focused on ‘Commercial Excellence’, supporting organizations in developing and leveraging their ‘commercial acumen’ to gain better business outcomes. This includes: raising their commercial awareness; designing and implementing innovation models; and deploying relational contracting to enhance business performance.

Prior to founding Kommercialize, Adrian held a number of Director level commercial, procurement, and operations roles within BAE Systems, giving him significant experience including: multi-billion £, long-term Private Finance Initiative (PFI) bids; joint venture creation and management; outsourced training management; portfolio management; asset financing; civil aircraft sale, leasing and broking; and fully financed naval ship reactivations.

Adrian is a member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), and a Fellow of the International Association for Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM), where he is a former member elected Board Director. Adrian has contributed to a number of books on commercial and contract management and co-authored the recently published Professional Services Leadership Handbook (www.koganpage.com/pslh).

Craig is the lead partner for Legal Operate and has been working in contracting, contract management and tech enablement for over 20 years. Craig’s team focuses on legal managed services, providing solutions that are focused on delivering better business outcomes, lowering the cost of contracting and increasing speed and efficiency, while recognising that contracts are at the heart of an organisation.

Craig has unique expertise in creating contracting Centers of Excellence hubs and deploying contract enablement technologies, having assisted with the selection, implementation and management of dozens of platforms for many clients globally.

Prior to joining Deloitte Legal, Craig was first a practicing lawyer in New York with a focus on outsourcing and IT transactional law. He has previously held roles as head lawyer for Capgemini’s BPO practice, building global capabilities for legal, commercial and customer support; and Elevate where he built the organisation’s contract consulting capabilities. Craig is on the Board of Directors for World Commerce & Contracting and regularly speaks on industry innovations in contract and commercial management.

Fraser leads the digital transformation agenda within the managed supply chain across Upstream, Downstream, Integrated Gas, Projects and Technology in Shell. His team of 120 staff is accountable for digital transformation of the supply chain, technology, process design, AI, big data and digital.
Fraser has also been the driving force behind the development and implementation of a new operating model, known as Project Optimus

Keld Jensen has consistently ranked in the Global Gurus Top 30, reaching #4 as a Global Guru on Negotiation worldwide in 2024. In 2016 he was recognized as one of the world’s 100 Top Thought Leaders in Trust. He is the creator of the world’s most awarded negotiation strategy, which has received accolades from The Organization of Public Procurement Officers and The World Commerce & Contracting Organization’s Innovation and Strategic Award, IACCM etc.

Keld's extensive background in management and his role as a former CEO of a publicly traded technology company, underline his leadership and strategic acumen. An associate professor, Keld teaches at top-ranked universities worldwide, including the Thunderbird School of Global Management at ASU, BMI Executive Institute in Lithuania, BMI/Louvain University in Belgium, and Denmark’s Aalborg University. He is the former chairman of the Centre for Negotiation at Copenhagen Business School.

With more than 200 international TV appearances, and hundreds of articles in major business publications across Europe, Asia Pacific, and the U.S., Keld has established himself as a global thought leader. He is a prolific author of 26 books, which have been translated into 16 languages and have reached over 3 million readers worldwide. Several of these works have received awards, marking him as a significant voice in international business literature.

He is the founder and head of The SMARTnership Negotiation Organization, a pivotal force in consulting and training for both the private sector and governmental bodies. His clientele includes industry giants such as Vestas, LEGO, ConocoPhillips, Novo Nordisk, Johnson & Johnson, Bechtel and leading organizations like UNICEF and World50, as well as the governments of Canada, Denmark, and Great Britain.

Keld is the Negotiation Expert in Residence at WorldCC.

Alistair is the founder and CEO of SYKE, a legal engineering business. We help businesses and law firms to procure and use technology to solve legal problems. Legal technology has now reached a level of sophistication where it can be a game changer for lawyers overwhelmed by the demand for pace and cost-efficiency.

Barry joined the Civil Service in November 2015, having held a number of senior posts in the financial services, telecoms and automotive sectors spanning 30 years. Now Chief Commercial Officer and Head of Profession for the Ministry of Justice, Barry is the principle commercial advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister/Lord Chancellor/Secretary of State, and Permanent Secretary. This requires oversight of one of the largest outsourced portfolios in Whitehall covering a contracted spend in excess of £26bn across c4500 contacts. Responsibilities span the end-to-end commercial process from governance and policy, market stewardship, commissioning, sourcing, supplier management to mitigating third-party risk. Barry also oversees the operation of the department's national distribution centre, fleet and engineering services. More broadly, he is a member of the MoJ Investment Committee, Chair of the Commercial Oversight Group, and a regular attendee at the Audit and Risk Committee.

As a member of the Government Commercial Function’s leadership team, Barry is integral to the development of the public sector’s far-reaching procurement profession. He is also Chair of the Cabinet Office consulting triage board, member of the Infrastructure Projects Authority Steering Board and a Civil Service Reform Champion.

Through his work as a mentor and champion of women in procurement, Barry is able to leverage his position as a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Procurement & Supply to contribute to achieving greater equality. Barry is a qualified marketeer and as one of the pioneers of marketing procurement, helped establish the Commercial Purchasing Action Group at ISBA. Barry is also Chairman of the board at World Commerce and Contracts (formerly known as IACCM).

As Chief Procurement Officer at Proxima, Simon is accountable for driving product and product service innovation, market and media relations. His job means that he works with and advises executives procurement teams and vendors on all thing’s procurement now and next. He is a two-time failed tech entrepreneur, master shape shifter in PowerPoint and regular commentator in the media. As a father of two young girls when not working he spends his time moonlighting as a taxi driver, dinosaur or being ridden around his house like a horse.

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.

Bernadette Bulacan is a frequent speaker regarding the digital transformation of global enterprises. As Vice President and Lead Global Evangelist for Icertis, the recognized leader in enterprise contract lifecycle management, she is charged with sharing contract management best practices with legal and contracting teams and evangelizing the use of innovative technologies like AI/ML and blockchain. Prior to Icertis, Bernadette was a co-founder and Assistant General Counsel of Serengeti Law, which created e-billing and matter management platform, Serengeti Tracker (acquired by Thomson Reuters.) She held leadership roles at Thomson Reuters and QuantAI, an intellectual property AI analytics start-up. Bernadette was recently named 2020 Women of LegalTech by the American Bar Association. Bernadette advised start-up technology companies at Graham & Dunn, a Seattle firm and Venture Law Group, a Silicon Valley firm. Bernadette received her undergraduate degree from Yale University and her law degree and LL.M from the University of Washington.

Jamie is the Chief Product Officer and co-founder of an award-winning Enterprise SaaS platform. Deployed is a work authoring platform that automates the scope-of-work and statement-of-work writing process. Better scoped projects and clear contracts create value for buyers and sellers on every statement of work. Jamie launched the annual ‘Defining Work’ Summit at the Royal Society of Arts in 2019 and works with clients across multiple industries to establish policies and processes to improve productivity of external workforce. Prior to launching Deployed, Jamie held senior roles in Financial Services and Financial Regulation, most recently as CTO of a private equity-backed challenger bank, technology COO at HSBC, Lloyds Banking and Barclays and Head of technology change at the Financial Conduct Authority.

Mirko is the thought Leader in Lean-Agile Procurement, CIPS Award Winner 2018, int. Speaker, Author, President of LAP Alliance, co-founder flowdays, Agile Enterprise Coach, Certified Scrum@Scale Trainer
He used to be a manager, co-developing youngculture to an intern software sourcing provider with 200+ employees in 6 countries. During scaling agile in 2006 we made all mistakes you could imagine. Overcoming these challenges we increased productivity by +200% and customer-& employee satisfaction. As a former leader of big eCommerce programs he also know the challenges of agile teams, scrum masters, product owners and stakeholders at first hands.
As an Agile Enterprise Coach, he enjoys the collaboration with persons from all levels, industries and company sizes.
Mirko is a serial entrepreneur having created WAIoBLUE, flowdays and LAP Alliance. As a certified trainer he gives master classes in Lean-Agile Procurement and Scrum at Scale.
He was named in "The procurement magazine", received the CIPS Awards 2018 and a speaker on int. agile & procurement conferences in NYC, Moscow, London, Berlin, Zurich, ..
He loves to lecture at the EIPM, support the Business Agility Institute NY & advise the CIPS Switzerland Committee.
He is currently working on topics like: De-Scaled Business Agility, Adaptive Partner Ecosystem & the question "What if we create our own money?"

Mark is a global thought leader and innovator in the legal industry. He is the CEO of Legal Mosaic (www.legalmosaic.com) a legal business consultancy; regular contributor to Forbes where he has a column on the global legal marketplace; and sought-after international speaker. Mark is the Executive Chairman of the Digital LegalXchange, a global nonprofit learning community designed to accelerate digital transformation in the legal function and ensure the legal industry can keep pace with its corporate counterparts.

Mark was appointed by the Singapore Academy of Law (SAL) to serve as its inaugural LIFTED “Catalyst-in-Residence” and concurrently serves as the General Editor of the forthcoming LIFTED Global Partner white paper on future legal skills. He has been a Distinguished Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center and at Northwestern University Pritzker College of law and presently teaches at Bucerius (Germany), IE Spain), and the College of Law (Australia). His Legal Mosaic blog was recognized by the American Bar Association as one of the 50 outstanding worldwide legal blogs in their inaugural “Web 100.” He also serves as an Intelligence Fellow for ALM.

Mark has focused on “the business of law” since the turn of the Millennium. Prior to that, he was an internationally recognized civil trial lawyer, serving stints as a decorated Assistant United States Attorney, BigLaw partner, national boutique founder, outside General Counsel, and Federally-Appointed Receiver of an international aviation parts business.

Isabel is a partner in the Deloitte UK and North South Europe Legal Management Consulting and Legal Managed Services practice, and leads Deloitte Legal’s financial services industry sector group and Global Legal Generative AI group.

Isabel originally trained as a project finance lawyer at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP. She moved out of practice to become the firm’s Chief Legal Innovation Officer, leading the firm’s client-facing digital product development on a global basis. Isabel is a recognised thought leader and writes and speaks extensively about change and innovation in the legal industry.

Isabel has significant experience in delivering change and transformation programmes for legal departments in financial services organisations. Isabel’s experience includes legal operating model reviews, digital transformation strategy development, legal risk management framework development and legal technology strategy and implementation.