Programme

How to Deploy AI Within a Data Legal Framework

5 March 2026

Speakers

RECORDING

 

 

Time Session
10.30 REGISTRATION and COFFEE
11.00

INTRODUCTION

Stewart Dresner, Founder and Chief Executive, Privacy Laws & Business

11.05

THE AI-DISRUPTED DAY

Richard Nicholas, Partner, Browne Jacobson

  • Introduction to how the offer of AI solutions may interrupt the privacy professionals' day, leading to the need to expand the scope of their role.
11.15

SESSION 1: HOW CAN AI HELP?

Scenario: Choosing your priorities

Part A: How to Use Your Existing AI Tools for Your Challenges

Richard Nicholas, Partner, Browne Jacobson

  • Use cases and demonstration of what AI can do for you.
  • How to use what is available e.g. Microsoft Co-pilot

Part B: Organisational Innovation

Panel discussion:
Clare Thoresson, Founder, Quiet Counsel
Oliver Geidel, Associate Director - Research Contracts & Compliance, Division of Research, Enterprise and Innovation, University of Bristol
Rohit Kahlon, Senior Engagement Manager, Growth, Legora
James Mervyn, Director, Legal Engineering, Legora

  • How data teams are planning AI strategy through self-service solutions and involving others in decision-making.

Proposed Case Studies: How organisations benefit/profit from implementing AI

  • Tools to answer policy-based questions, FAQs, and create simple template documents
  • Filtering of enquiries

12:15 - Q&A

12.30 BREAK
12.45

SESSION 2: AI VENDOR PROMISES - CONTRACTUAL NEGOTIATIONS

Rohit Kahlon, Senior Engagement Manager, Growth, Legora
James Mervyn, Director, Legal Engineering, Legora
Richard Nicholas, Partner, Browne Jacobson

Scenario: An AI vendor makes extensive promises of AI functions and benefits

Key Topics:

  • Transparency/traceability challenges - many models are non-interoperable
  • Key clauses to watch out for
  • How to navigate the negotiation process
    1. Compliance with data protection law
    2. Confidentiality clauses
    3. Ownership of training data
    4. IP concerns
    5. Liability allocation
    6. Third-party and cross-border transfers

Outputs: Co-create a checklist for choosing and using AI

13:15 - Q&A

13.30 LUNCH
14.15

SESSION 3: “THE 20 MINUTE CHALLENGE”

Richard Nicholas, Partner, Browne Jacobson
Oliver Geidel, Associate Director - Research Contracts & Compliance, Division of Research, Enterprise and Innovation, University of Bristol
Conor Moran, Associate, Browne Jacobson

Scenario: Utilising AI for 20 minutes to prepare for a meeting

Interactive workshop

  • Identifying areas to work on
  • Considering your long-term goals
  • Creating an action plan

Takeaways

  • Personal upskilling plan
  • How do you develop the prompts?
  • How do you work with them?

15.30 - Q&A

15.45 BREAK
16.00

SESSION 4: GOVERNANCE AND IMPLEMENTATION

Claire Archibald, Legal Director, Browne Jacobson

Introduction

  • What can businesses and other sectors learn from the implementation of AI governance in the education sector?
  • What do developers of services likely to be accessed by children need to consider when building their own AI governance frameworks?

16.10 - Scenario: The business wants to implement AI tools. Where to start?

Key Topics:

  • AI governance framework
  • Training staff to use tools responsibility – How to spot misuse of AI by employees – How to encourage good habits in using AI
  • AI literacy roll out; Participants to share their examples of gamification of AI

Use Cases – Participants to choose to focus on one or two of the following:

  • Recruitment (training, onboarding, job descriptions, CV screening)
  • Employee monitoring (sentiment detection, AI recording/note taking)
  • HR (annual leave, sick leave, analytics, file set up, predicting workforce v workload)
  • Chatbots - When and how to use Chatbots
  • Creating a Governance programme

Issues to resolve- Participants to choose to focus on one or two of the following:

  1. Internal governance structures for AI use
  2. Role of the legal team
  3. What approval process should be in place before deploying a new AI system?
  4. What internal audits can you carry out to review post implementation?
  5. Review process - timeline and duration?
  6. Transparency, accountability, ability to audit

Risk Management - Participants to choose to focus on one or two of the following:

  • Cyber attacks on the AI system
  • AI misbehaviour/hallucinations/discrimination
  • Data sharing issues
17.00

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Richard Nicholas, Partner, Browne Jacobson
Rohit Kahlon, Senior Engagement Manager, Growth, Legora
James Mervyn, Director, Legal Engineering, Legora
Clare Thoresson, Founder, Quiet Counsel
Oliver Geidel, Associate Director - Research Contracts & Compliance, Division of Research, Enterprise and Innovation, University of Bristol

  • Overview of practical tools
  • Choosing your priorities
  • Checklists
  • Post-event resources
  • Community building and Next steps
17.20 CLOSE
17.20 to 18.30 DRINKS