Does regulation kill innovation?

Join us for a morning exploring the interplay between regulation, innovation and business culture. Does regulation kill innovation? Or can an innovative but compliant business culture thrive?

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Agenda

08:00 | Breakfast and registration

08:30 | Welcome from Giles Crown

08:35 | The Taylor Wessing view. How do we see regulation for innovation, and how can you best achieve a compliant but innovative culture?

Siân Skelton will moderate a panel of international Taylor Wessing experts including Alison Dennis, Giles Crown, Charlotte Witherington and Dr Markus Böhme exploring insights into the regulatory landscape across our core areas of technology, digital, life sciences, financial services and energy, the approach of the regulators in those areas to their regulatory responsibilities, and how businesses can achieve a compliant but innovative culture, navigating risks whilst maximising opportunities particularly around regulatory change.

09:35 | Fireside chat – The conscience of the company. How can GCs support growth and ensure regulatory compliance?

Giles Crown will be joined by Ian Jeffery, CEO of the Law Society. Using learnings from recent scandals they will explore the challenging interrelationship for GCs and in-house lawyers between supporting growth and innovation in their companies, finding solutions and acting commercially, while also ensuring that both they and their companies act ethically and remain on the right side of their regulatory and professional obligations.

09:55 | Break

10:15 | Lessons from AI – is it possible to regulate and innovate?

Lord Clement-Jones CBE joins us to deliver our keynote presentation. While AI offers transformative benefits across healthcare, education, and public services, its unprecedented autonomy and impact necessitate thoughtful regulation to address risks of algorithmic bias, environmental harm, and intellectual property concerns. Rather than stifling progress, well-designed regulatory frameworks actually enable innovation by building public trust, providing business certainty, and ensuring AI systems operate within ethical boundaries that protect human values and rights.

10:30 | Does regulation kill innovation? 

Parham Kouchikali will moderate our panel of key regulators and other experts who will explore whether regulation aids or stifles innovation and the challenges faced in different sectors, particularly how regulators should go about balancing effective regulation with wider policy issues of achieving economic growth and making the UK an attractive place for entrepreneurial and fast growth businesses. He will be will be joined by Alexandra Aninoiu, Head of Legal – Regulatory at Farfetch, Aidan Christie KC, 4 Pump Court, Ed Richards, Founding Partner, Flint Global, and Alex Fell, Chief Executive of the Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority (PMCPA).

11:30 | Closing comments from Giles Crown

11:35 | Networking

12:00 | Close