Speakers 2026
The speakers at the Summit 2026
Voices from law firms, companies and politics, each assigned to one of the programme’s topic areas. More speakers will be announced on an ongoing basis.
Directory
Who is speaking at the Summit
Search by name, role or organisation, or narrow down by topic area.
37 of 37 speakers
Elisabeth L'Orange
AI: The Inflection PointKeynote Speech
Prof. Christian Solmecke
Lawyer for Media Law and IT Law as well as Partner at the law firm WILDE BEUGER SOLMECKEAI in Practice/Law Firm
Carmen Wolf
Rechtswirt / Law Firm Manager, FROMM law firmAI and the Future in the Law Firm
Dr. Melanie Epe Quarch
Compliance Counsel for Sanctions & Export Control and AI at RWE AG and Chairwoman of the Women in AI Network
Olaf Lies
Minister-President of Lower SaxonyDigital Justice, Democracy & Access to Justice
Domenic Tröger
Lawyer for IT and Data Protection Law | Founder of LIT LEGALPresentation
Prof. Dr. Florian Offergelt
Knowledge Architect | Managing Partner quantics plus | Professor of Organizational Knowledge Management and LeadershipPanel
Kim Kleinert
Lawyer at LUTZ | ABEL & Specialist Lawyer for Employment LawSocial Media and the Legal Profession
BoschDeniz Tuc
IT Specialist Legal TechPanel
Roger Cericius
Co-Founder German Legal Tech Hub, Lecturer at HsHDouble presentation on innovation management + workshop
Anke Pörksen
State Secretary for Digitalisation Anke Pörksen
Dr. Kerstin Bäcker
Partner at LAUSEN | Law at the intersection of AI, copyright and media lawTalk or workshop
Henning Schröder
President of the Niedersächsischer Anwalt- und Notarverband e.V.
Prof. Dr. Johanna Wenckebach
In-house Counsel at IG Metall & Professor of Labour Law, University of LabourChief Legal Counsel of IG Metall; panel on co-determination – only available until 2 p.m.
Anisja Porschke
Founder, CPO @ AI ClubSpeech / Panel
Paul Permantier
CEO at Lexgraph – The next generation of legal research.Lecture with Tröger
Dr. Jacob Wende
AML Expert I Founder & CEO at Regpit I Speaker I Author I Editor-in-Chief GWuR
Dr. Julius Remmers
Lawyer specialising in data protection, IT contract and digital law at Taylor Wessing.
Dentons Europe (Germany) GmbH & Co. KGSebastian Wülbeck
Partner – Energy & Technology
Dr. Benedikt Epe Quarch
Co-Director German Legal Tech Hub
Jörg Offenhausen
Managing Director | German Legal Tech Summit GmbH
Oviva / Legal Tech Lab CologneAlicia Urban
Legal Operations @Oviva | Head of Legal Tech Lab Cologne | Legal Tech, Legal OPs | Legal Engineering
Sarah Leischel
Venture Lead at 1763X · Strategic Foresight, Venture Capital & Venture Building
Xella International GmbHJoana Ney
Verena Reichenstein
Lawyer | Senior Associate | Tech & Data
Lara Friedrichs
Dr. Lara Friederichs
Leuphana UniversitätProf. Dr. Markus Abraham
Junior Professor
Tom Gördes
Lawyer @ blaum
NoerrVictoria Rosendahl, LL.M. (McGill)
Lawyer
Justin LegalTech GmbHLukas Pagel
Founder
Su Reiter
Founder of Reiter Media and legalnerd
Pia Bollig
DIRO AG
Eva Pottkämper
Building Markets, Communities and Partnerships for Legal AI.
Alexander Gröger
Passionate Legal Tech Productmanager @ Join GmbH
German Legal Tech HubThorsten Ramus
Co-Founder
Jana Sáez García
Founder of Legal Truffles
Dr. Alexander Georgiadis
CIO of the State of Lower Saxony, Lower Saxony Ministry of the Interior, Sport and Digitalisation
Moderation
Who hosts the programme
The Summit’s moderators.
2 of 2 speakers
Dr. Benedikt Epe Quarch
Co-Director German Legal Tech Hub
Ramiza Schöne
Change & Digital Strategist for Notarial Offices | Process Design, Digitalisation & AI | Specialist Journalist, Podcast Host & Lecturer
4Announcements
More speakers are being announced continuously
The programme is being published step by step and continuously extended. New speakers appear here as soon as they have been released.