Speaker details

10th Global Entrepreneurship Conference: Legal Challenges in Closely Held Businesses: Strategies for Success and Sustainability

17 May - 19 May 2026

Sofiensäle, Vienna, Austria

Speaker information

Niklas Schmidt

Biography

Niklas Schmidt is a partner at the Vienna office of Wolf Theiss, one of the leading law firms in the CEE/SEE region. He has been admitted both as a lawyer and as a tax adviser. His areas of specialization include tax law, and private clients. He is very interested in tech topics, in particular crypto assets and AI. He is the founder of the "WT Crypto Academy", an educational initiative for non-crypto natives where he has trained more than a thousand lawyers in the last few years. Recently he has begun the "AI Lab for Lawyers" where he is teaching lawyers to automate business development and marketing through AI tools.

Session

AI trends and tools

Tuesday 19 May (1200 - 1300)

Session Co-Chair

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