On November 2nd, AI MEETS LAW headed north to attend the frst German Legal Tech Summit in Hannover. Spanning over a full day, the event featured keynotes, panels, and start-up pitches, all designed to stimulate thought on the challenges and solutions in the legal tech domain.
The summit kicked off with welcoming speeches from various ministries, including Lower Saxony’s justice department, the department of science and culture, and the department of economics, transport, construction, and digitalization. These introductions highlighted the diversity of stakeholders and the complex challenges they face. The keynote set the tone for the rest of the day, emphasizing how legal technology and AI are reshaping the legal profession's future. It underscored the growing importance of complementary skills amid this transformative phase.
Central to this transformation is the effective utilization of data. The panel titled "GDPR Compliant? GPT Models, Automation, and Data Protection" was particularly enlightening. Nils Model from AI MEETS LAW shared his technical insights on various data anonymization techniques and the research feld of „machine unlearning“.
Along the ride AI MEETS LAW invited four students from the University of Tübingen, who mirrored the above and found the summit to be an interesting experience not only giving them the chance to learn from and talk to industry experts, but also corroborating them in choosing law as their feld of study as its transformation is not threatening, but rather exciting.
Text: Maximilian Jaques
