Keynote address: State of the European M&A market

Keynote speaker

Marcus Schenck Managing Director, Lazard, Munich

Leading at the edge: technology, AI and the transformation of business - a fireside chat with a global business leader

The pace of technological change is redefining competition, risk and value. In this fireside chat, Capgemini CEO Aiman Ezzat shares how leaders bet on emerging tech, scale innovation and turn breakthroughs into measurable outcomes. They will examine what rapid advances in technology, like the emergence of AI, mean for strategy, operating models, governance, the pressures on boards and institutions, and how the business of law may be transformed. The discussion will focus on how to build durable advantage in a world that refuses to stand still.

Speaker

Aiman Ezzat CEO, Capgemini, Paris

Introduction

Maria Pernas Group General Counsel and Commercial and Contract Management, Capgemini, Paris

Moderators

Bertrand Cardi Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier, Paris; Co-Chair, IBA Corporate and M&A Law Committee

Gabriella Covino Gianni & Origoni, Rome; Vice Chair, IBA Corporate and M&A Law Committee

Emanuel P Strehle Hengeler Mueller, Munich