LegalTechTalk 2026: Inside the Event and What the Future of Legal Looks Like - Merlin Beyts - E01
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What is Legal Tech Talk and why is it considered Europe’s largest legal tech conference?
What happens when the brightest minds in legal, technology, and innovation come together to shape the future of our profession? Welcome to the Legally Speaking podcast Legal Tech Talk 2026 miniseries. As the UK's number one legal podcast and show ranked in the top 1% of podcasts globally, we're delighted to be returning as the official media partner for Legal Tech Talk for the third time. This event since the beginning, we've witnessed firsthand how it has become Europe's largest legal technology conference bringing together the people, ideas, and innovations transforming the legal industry. Across this special series, we'll be speaking with some of the world's leading legal professionals, founders, technologists, change makers to explore what's next for law.
Because our mission remains the same. Inspiring legal minds, transforming legal futures. Let's get into it. Welcome to the Legally Speaking podcast, recording live here at Legal Tech Talk 2026 in London. Joining me now is a very special guest. Please kindly introduce yourself, name, title, and
organisation. Hi everyone, my name is Merlin Bates. I'm the content director at Legal Tech Talk. And yes, he just said content director of
Europe's
largest
legal tech conference. It's been an incredible year.
How
do
you feel? Um I will start feeling feelings again around six PM tomorrow, I reckon. Um pretty much full robot mode for the vast day and a half, but no it's starting to sink in a little bit. Feels feels good. Um lots of compliments. Yeah. Um you know, lots of sessions going on, lots of movement, I'm hearing people talking about great meetings. Can't ask for more than that.
can't and I think we were here since inception and one thing that everyone has commented on is the speed of growth, the speed of impact, the speed of value that legal tech talk has really brought to uh the legal industry. Has that helped from outside the legal industry people coming in or is it sort of just a strategy you knew all the way along?
I think we always had it in our minds that we wanted we knew what we could achieve. Yeah. And so the idea was was essentially just why not? Yeah. For well at le at least from my perspective. We knew that we had the capacity to go big very early on. And there's there's there's a lot of people that ask us, you know, why don't you do sort of smaller events here and there? And actually it's it's for us us it it works better for our kind of MO to focus on sort of big ticket items, thinking about you know, how do we expand, how do we just keep on, you know, providing the same service and then and then working on it year on year. Um I think it's it's a lot a lot of it's mindset and I mean I have to you know doff my cat to Brad and Michael, you know, no sycophant I am
But they they consistently find great people and find ways for us to achieve things that I would have told you I would have given I would have given you a sort of a look of despair um beforehand. But there's honestly so much of it is down to just just the team working day and night at times. You know, the last three months have been, you know, very intense period for everyone. It's this culture of just everyone Everyone just wants to get it done. There's no one who disagrees with the vision and I think that has been really crucial. You know, sometimes we disagree on the tactics, how we get to where we want to get to, but no one disagrees with how we want people to feel when they're here. No one disagrees with how we wanna pro how much we wanna prepare and how we want people to feel when they get here and you know, feel about coming back again.
And you know, obviously people here have had that feeling, but for people that will be hearing about Legal Tech Talk, you'll obviously be owning a lot of the social media um platforms over the coming weeks. What is that feeling you want people leaving with and what is that vision that you do have for Legal Tech Talk?
In terms of the feeling, so for if I can give you from a content perspective, I I want people leaving feeling inspired to change and develop and enlightened as to how.
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