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A frontier lab lead
Applied or policy rather than research. Somebody who deals with enterprise deployment every day.
The Expedition · first edition
An industry changing by the week. A place that has not changed in centuries.
A small group of the people actually deciding what artificial intelligence does to legal, several days in the Andes, and the conversation you never get to have at a conference — because at a conference there is always a taxi to catch.
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Why FutrGC exists
The relationship comes first. The business follows.
The best conversation at any event happens after the agenda ends, once the titles drop and people just talk. We stopped treating that as a happy accident and built the whole thing around it, through experiences people remember and want to repeat. Three things follow from that.
Assembled
A world-class room, built one name at a time, on the biggest change the profession has seen in a generation. Not a delegate list and not a headcount — the people whose decisions are the change.
Captured
Thought leadership filmed rather than written. Human moments rather than staged ones, and the pauses where somebody actually stops and thinks. Nobody forwards a webinar.
Remembered
Work has always been won through relationships, and relationships come from the person, not the position. Get it right and they are still talking about it in ten years.
Why it works
Everybody else gets these people for twenty minutes, from three rows back.
Nothing else in this market puts a small group of the most interesting people in legal and legal technology in continuous company for the better part of a week. By day three nobody is performing. By the train down, the people in that carriage will take each other’s calls for the rest of their careers.
Five minutes becomes five days
The people you queue to shake hands with at a conference are the people you eat breakfast beside here, with nowhere either of you has to be.
Nobody is selling
A published code with a stated sanction. Break it and you are not invited back, and the room knows why. That is what makes days together a pleasure rather than an ordeal.
A number you can actually call
Not a card in a drawer. The point of the week is that afterwards you can ring somebody senior, unannounced, and they will pick up.
The room
By invitation. Assembled one name at a time.
Nobody applies and nobody buys their way in. General Counsel, Chief Legal Officer, Head of Legal Operations, Chief Compliance Officer and Chief Data Officer on one side. Managing Partner, Head of Innovation, Chief Knowledge Officer and Chief Technology Officer on the other. Chosen one at a time for what they know about the subject, rather than for what they might sell to it.
One person per organisation. Days together make that rule matter more here than anywhere else we run, and the mix of the room is stated in advance rather than quietly exceeded.
This is the one FutrGC room that is not in-house only, and the reason is the subject. On artificial intelligence and data, a head of innovation is a peer rather than a supplier. The rule that does not move is not “no private practice”. It is that nobody in the room is selling to anybody else in it.
The keynotes
People who are changing it, not describing it.
Figures actually dictating the change, in legal and in artificial intelligence more widely. By role, because none of them is booked yet and we would rather say nothing than say a name we cannot stand behind.
Two
A General Counsel who has actually done it
Deployed at scale in their own function. One practitioner outranks three commentators.
Three
A regulator, or a recent one
Somebody who wrote or enforced the rules rather than commenting on them.
Four
A data officer from outside legal
Banking, healthcare, energy. Their sector went through this first and legal has not listened.
Five
A founder past the hype
Somebody who will say what did not work, and why, without a product in their hand.
Six
Somebody who failed at it
The session no other event can book, because everywhere else the failure is the one paying for the room.
No supporter supplies a speaker, at any price. The programme is FutrGC’s alone, which is exactly why each announcement is worth something.
The shape of it
Arrive, acclimatise, work, climb, take the train down.
Day one
Arrive and acclimatise
Into the mountains and down to the valley. Nothing scheduled that matters, which is the point.
Everybody
Days two and three
The sessions
Keynotes, then the room takes them apart. Mornings work; afternoons are the place itself.
Filmed
Day four
The citadel
Six hundred years old, built without the wheel, and still standing while we argue about what survives the next eighteen months.
Everybody
Day five
The train down
The last conversation of the trip, which is always the one people remember.
Everybody
The shape holds and the detail firms up. Nothing is contracted, and the rest of it belongs in a conversation rather than on a page. If it sounds like your kind of thing, ask.
Why somewhere like this
The setting does the work a room can’t.
A hotel ballroom can be left at any point. A conference hall means no two people attend the same thing. Neither gives you the days on either side of the conversation, which is where the conversation actually happens.
Distance is the mechanism. Once the phone stops working and the diary stops mattering, people talk about the parts of the job they don’t put in a panel answer. And the whole thing is captured as it happens, so what you bring home isn’t only a memory of it.
One ask, and only one
Ask for an invitation.
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