An international, cross-industry career that has moved from corporate management to extensive research, advisory and capability development services to public, private and third sector organisations. Tim has lived and worked in the UK, France (3 years) and United States (20 years), building an impressive research and entrepreneurial record, with demonstrated commitment to delivering social benefit.

As Founder and President, World Commerce & Contracting (formerly International Association for Contract & Commercial Management), Tim has built a 72,000 member worldwide non-profit association which increasingly influences commercial policies and contracting practices in major corporations and governments. In September 2019, he was presented with the Financial Times ‘Market Shaper of the Year’ Award.

Tim was until recently Professor and Chair, International Commercial & Contract Management, University of Leeds, School of Law, where he taught and led development of inter-disciplinary commercial programs.

Prior to founding World Commerce & Contracting, Tim was on the Chairman’s staff at IBM Corporation and led the development of worldwide commercial processes and skills. His early career included management roles in banking, automotive and aerospace industries, where he led negotiations up to $1.5 billion in value. He has served in advisory roles for government departments in various countries, including the US, UK, Australia, Canada, and Japan.

As Global CEO of one of the world’s fastest growing non-profits, Sally’s mission is to inspire and support the World Commerce & Contracting (WorldCC) team and global community to collectively drive recognition and excellence in Commercial and Contract Management.

She is an experienced and accomplished commercial and contracts management professional, holding senior commercial positions at a range of corporate and multi-national organizations. Her focus is on the creation of positive and successful business relationships, constantly striving to ensure that businesses realize their true potential and value.

In 2019 Sally was invited to become Chair of the Board for the Open Contracting Partnership (OCP) and in 2021 she was appointed Professor in Practice in Strategy and Innovation at the University of Durham Business School.

Paul Lippe is the Founder and CEO of xMentium, a collaboration automation system based in Denver, Colorado and Calgary, Alberta. xMentium is dedicated to the idea that “everything is translation,” and companies can do a better job of aligning across themselves and with partners to minimize delays and improve outcomes. Paul is also a member of the Advisory Board of Elevate Services, which acquired OnRamp Systems, where he was CEO.

Paul was at various times General Counsel and Senior Vice President, Business Development and Corporate Marketing at Synopsys, an electronic design automation company. Paul was also CEO of Stanford SKOLAR, a medical digital library and e-learning company spun off from Stanford Medical School.

A graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School, Paul speaks and writes regularly about the “New Normal” in law. Prior to law school he was a special assistant to Senator Daniel P. Moynihan (D. NY) and was Chairman of the Colorado Air Quality Control Commission.

After obtaining a BA in economics from the University of Chicago in 1986 and a JD from Harvard Law School in 1990, Bernstein served as a clerk for the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts and was a visiting research fellow in law and economics at Harvard Law School. She began teaching at Boston University in 1991, and after visiting at the University of Pennsylvania and the Georgetown Law Center, joined the Georgetown faculty in 1995. After visiting the Law School in the fall of 1997 and Columbia Law School in the spring of 1998, Bernstein joined the Law School faculty. She has also been a visiting professor of law at Hebrew University, Tel Aviv University, The College of Law and Business in Ramat Gan, and the Interdisciplinary Center in Israel. Bernstein was recently appointed as an international research fellow at the Oxford University Center for Corporate Reputation.

Bernstein's research interests are in the area of contracts and commercial law with a special emphasis on industry specific dispute resolution, modern supply chain relationships, social network analysis, and the intersection of strategy and relational contracting. She is also interested in the design of commercial courts in emerging and transitioning economies and the relationship between social structures and economic development.

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.

Beverly Rich is a Ph.D. student in Strategy at USC Marshall School of Business. She holds a J.D. from USC Gould School of Law and a B.A. from Yale University. Beverly researches how firms use legal strategies to gain competitive advantage and drive innovation, with a focus on firms’ strategic use of contracts and cooperation. Prior to beginning her Ph.D., Beverly worked as a trial lawyer in Los Angeles and as a consultant on internet security and policy.

David T. Nguyen is a creative thinker and passionate innovator deeply committed to the pursuit of continuous innovation. He has over 20 years of business and technology leadership experience ranging from crafting business strategies to building innovative solutions in both the commercial and public sectors. He has extensive experience in business transformation, change management, financial systems, portfolio management solutions, enterprise software development, electronic commerce, and supply chain management. He formed the award-winning digital transformation company, United Solutions, an INC 5000, CMMI DEV L3 and ISO 9001:2015 certified company, with the vision of helping people do extraordinary things with technology.

Today, his company is making history by helping organizations around the globe implement emerging technologies such as Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cloud Computing, and Open Innovation to reinvent management, reimagine workforce, and redesign value chains. United Solutions built the first scalable cloud native artificial intelligence infrastructure that enables massive, configurable, and elastically scalable data science processing. With this infrastructure, they deployed the first federally authorized blockchain within the federal government to illuminate and intelligently automate the supply chain of goods and services. They also built the first emergency response blockchain for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention which expedites deployments during a global disaster, saving lives. His greatest area of pride is the late nights, passion, and innovation his company puts into helping each and every one of their clients succeed.

David is a lifelong learner, philanthropist, and change agent who welcomes new challenges. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce, Workforce Development Board, and The Community Foundation. He holds a Juris Doctor (JD) from the Antonin Scalia Law School, a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Bachelor of Science (BS) Degrees in Biochemistry, Physiology & Neurobiology, and Computer Science from the University of Maryland. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), Scrum Master (CSM), SAFe Practitioner (SAFe SP), and Hyperledger Blockchain for Business. United Solutions is the winner of the IACCM Innovation Award, the SPIRIT OF FREE ENTERPRISE AWARD, SMARTCEO CORNERSTONE AWARD, and ALLIANCE FOR WORKPLACE EXCELLENCE AWARD; and it has been featured in the Washington Business Journal, Federal Computer Week, and Daily Record.

Daniel W. Linna Jr. has a joint appointment at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and McCormick School of Engineering as the Director of Law and Technology Initiatives and a Senior Lecturer. Dan’s teaching and research focus on innovation and technology, including computational law, artificial intelligence, data analytics, leadership, operations, and innovation frameworks.

Dan is also an affiliated faculty member at CodeX — The Stanford Center for Legal Informatics. He joined Northwestern as a Visiting Professor of Law from Michigan State University College of Law, where he was a Professor of Law in Residence and the founder and Director of LegalRnD — The Center for Legal Services Innovation. At Michigan State, Dan taught Quantitative Analysis for Lawyers, Litigation {Data, Theory, Practice, & Process}, Entrepreneurial Lawyering, and Lawyer Ethics and Regulation in a Technology-Driven World. He has also been a visiting professor at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany, where he has taught Computational Law and Rules-Driven Automation, and an adjunct professor at IE Law School in Madrid, Spain, where he has taught Assessing Artificial Intelligence and Computational Technologies. Dan has also been an adjunct professor at the University of Michigan Law School, where he has taught Negotiation as well as Legal Technology & Innovation: Legal-Service Delivery in the 21st Century.

Dan began his legal career with a one-year judicial clerkship for U.S. Court of Appeals Judge James L. Ryan. After his clerkship, he joined Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn, an Am Law 200 firm headquartered in Detroit. Dan was a litigator and member of Honigman's Automotive and Manufacturing; e-Discovery and Information Management; Commercial Transactions; and Social, Mobile, and Emerging Media groups. In 2013, Dan was elected equity partner.

Dan received his BA from the University of Michigan, received a second BA and an MA in public policy and administration from Michigan State University, and graduated magna cum laude, Order of the Coif from the University of Michigan Law School.

Before law school, Dan was an information technology manager, developer, and consultant. His work included computerizing and automating business processes, developing dynamic, data-driven websites, and building enterprise information systems.

Dan co-founded the Chicago Legal Innovation & Technology meetup group in 2014. He was named to the 2015 Fastcase 50 as a person who has charted a new course for the delivery of legal services. In 2018, Dan was inducted as a Fellow of the College of Law Practice Management and named an ABA Journal Legal Rebel. He is Vice Chair of the Legal Analytics Committee of the ABA Business Law Section. Dan is also a co-founder and co-director of the Institute for the Future of Law Practice.

Naomi has a global reputation for her work on cross-sectoral comparisons of the performance of large and complex projects. She ran the MEGAPROJECT COST Action, an EU funded research programme that bought together over 90 researchers from 23 countries to create and analyse a cross-sectoral database of megaproject performance. She was a member of the World Economic Forum’s CEO Council for Transformational Megaprojects. Naomi has disseminated her research findings internationally to organisations such as the OECD, World Bank, and the European Investment Bank; and nationally to organisations such as the National Audit Office, Lloyds Register, the Nuclear Decommissioning Agency (NDA) and the Association of Project Management. She has worked with a variety of companies from ‘blue-chips’ to regional SMEs. She has been an executive director for the European Construction Institute and she is the author of one hundred and thirty peer-reviewed journal papers, book chapters and articles in the field of project and innovation management.

In addition to her work as a researcher, Naomi has worked across the world in designing and delivering programmes and events focusing on the management and leadership of projects for undergraduate, masters, doctorate and continuing professional development audiences including Rolls-Royce and University of Oxford’s TSU leadership programme.

Hart is currently the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1993. He is the 2016 co-recipient of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the British Academy, and the American Finance Association, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association, and has several honorary degrees. Hart works mainly on contract theory, the theory of the firm, corporate finance, and law and economics. His research centers on the roles that ownership structure and contractual arrangements play in the governance and boundaries of corporations. He has published a book (Firms, Contracts, and Financial Structure, Oxford University Press, 1995) and numerous journal articles. He has used his theoretical work on firms and contracts in several legal cases. He has been president of the American Law and Economics Association and a vice president of the American Economic Association.

Laura Pedraza-Fariña joined the Northwestern faculty in 2013 as an Assistant Professor of Law. She is also a faculty affiliate of the Science in Human Culture Program at Northwestern. She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School and her Ph.D. in genetics from Yale University. Her research interests include intellectual property, patent law, and international organizations. Her scholarship on intellectual property law uses the methodology of history and sociology of science and technology to analyze and inform the design of patent law. Her current projects include an analysis of the implications of sociological studies on tacit scientific knowledge for the disclosure theory of patent law, and a study of how the specialized court structure of patent law influences the content of patent decisions.

Jamal is the Head of Legal Innovation and Technology in the Legal Department at Fidelity Investments. He is responsible for continuous improvement in the department’s service delivery, and as such sets direction across and collaborates with an international team of IT development teams, operations and eDiscovery staff, legal service providers, contract attorneys and paralegal staff. With an extensive background in engineering and technology, Jamal is charged with identifying and implementing scalable platforms and designing new process and organizational models to improve the speed, accuracy, cost-efficiency, and effectiveness of the Legal Department.

Jamal has over 20 years of experience in process engineering, platform design and implementation, and innovation “evangelism” in the legal, financial services, and manufacturing fields. He has previously worked as an engineer and consultant, including getting his start at GE in the Six Sigma program. He donates his time and expertise to many non-profits, and is particularly passionate about legal service innovation that will advance the cause of equal access to justice.

Mr. Stockton holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering Technology from Northeastern University in Boston Massachusetts, along with various accreditations in consulting and management techniques including LEAN, Six Sigma and Strategic Negotiations.