Schedule of Shrieval hosted events 2024/2025

City & Legal Event with WPP:
AI and the Law.  

Speaker:
Mrs Justice Joanna Smith

Panel:
Stephan Pretorius (CTO WPP),  Clare Barclay (CEO Microsoft), Dr Daniel Hulme, (WPP Chief AI Officer, CEO of Satalia and UCL AI Entrepreneur in Residence), Vicky Brown, and Alexandra Leonidou, (Head of Regulation & Governance, AI Office, UK Government).

City & Legal Event with Next European:
Retrofit – there is an alternative to destruction.

This was the concluding event of the European series powered by Drees & Sommer. 

City & Legal Event: with Clifford Chance:  
AI on Trial.

Speaker:
Jonathan Kewley (Co- Chair Global Tech Group Clifford Chance LLP, Partner of the Year 2024)  

Panel:
Mishal Husain (BBC Today Programme); Angie Ma (founder of Faculty AI), Carissa Veliz (leading expert on AI ethics at Oxford), Parmy Olson (Winner of FT and Schroders Biz Book of year 2024) and Sir William Blair.

Discussion and Dinner  

for officers and members of Farringdon Without. 

Shrieval Amity Dinner for Lincoln’s Inn and Corporation.  

Guests include Sir Paul Morgan, Treasurer of LI, Lord Michael Briggs PC IPT, Jonathan Crow KC PT, Alderman Vincent Keavney CBE, Alderman Alison Gowman CBE, Alderman Prof. Emma Edhem   

City & Legal Event with Financial Services Advisory Group of the International Diplomatic & Business Exchange:

Challenges in Financial Regulation  The increased complexity of financial regulation – how are institutions dealing with it, what are regulators expecting, and is this appropriate to achieve regulatory goals?

Chair:
Chris Allen, HSBC

Speakers:
Katharine Braddick (Barclays Bank Plc), Alexandria Carr (Societe Generale), Rosali Pretorius (Partner, Simmons & Simmons)  Roundtable Discussion Group includes Financial Counsellors of the Australian and Canadian High Commissions and the Embassy of France

City & Legal Event:
Transparency and the Courts

Speaker:
Joshua Rozenberg KC (Hon)

Panel:
Sanchia Berg (BBC Senior Correspondent, Nominee Orwell Prize 2023), Lucy Reed KC (Recorder and Chair of The Transparency Project, author of The Family Court without a Lawyer A Handbook for Litigants in Person), HH Wendy Joseph KC (former Old Bailey Judge and best-selling author) and Melissa Davis (MD Communications). 

City & Legal Event with Simmons & Simmons:
Powering the Digital Transformation

Speakers: 
Rod Kirwan (Legal & Regulatory Affairs, Meta),  Waltter Kulvik (Partner, Simmons & Simmons), Matteo Colombo (Managing Director, Private Markets & Head of Digital Infrastructure Investments, Legal & General), Michael Suppan (Managing Director & Head of Digital Infrastructure Investments, Deutsche Bank), Alastair Evans (Director of Corporate and Government Affairs, Rolls Royce)

City & Legal Event:  
Modern Slavery and Supply Chain Economics

Speaker:  
The Rt Hon. Baroness Theresa May

City & Legal Event with Simmons & Simmons:
The English courts and digital assets

Speaker:
The Master of the Rolls, Sir Geoffrey Vos

Panel:
[TBC Standard Chartered Bank, J.P. Morgan, Simmons & Simmons]

City & Legal Event:
Prisons

Speaker:
Rory Stewart

Panel:
[Simon Kuper (Financial Times), Samira Ahmed (BBC 4 Front Row, ex Channel 4 News) further TBC] 

City & Legal Event with Cityforum:
Current issues in tackling Cybercrime

Panel:
Camilla de Silva, Partner, Simmons & Simmons [TBC]

City & Legal Event:
Decisions under pressure 

Speakers:
Wayne Barnes (former international  rugby referee and barrister), Roy Hodgson (former England and premiership football manager) Tom Gregory, youngest person to swim the channel,  further members TBC    

City & Legal Event:
The Implications of the European Convention on Human Rights for the Banking

Speaker:
Judge Tim Eicke KC Judge of the European Court of Human RightsPanel TBC 

City & Legal Event with London Climate Change Week:
Implications for Business of Climate Change

Speaker :  
Professor Aine Ryall, Chair UN Aarhus Compliance Committee