FutureLaw 2025

Dan Hoadley

John Nader

Josh Lawson

Mary-Anne Williams

Paul Saffo

Rawan Dareer

Executive Director at Hakimu

Rawan Dareer is the Executive Director of Hakimu, which is building the first AI-empowered pan-African legal search engine. She is a Knight Hennessy Scholar and JD candidate at Stanford Law School, with an MSc from the University of Oxford and a B.A. from NYU Abu Dhabi.

Renny Hwang

Deputy General Counsel and Head of Litigation and Regulatory at OpenAI

Renny Hwang is Deputy General Counsel and Head of Litigation and Regulatory for OpenAI. He was previously Head of Litigation for Google and has experience in product management and software development, leading product and engineering teams in building Internet software technologies.

Surya Ganguli

Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University

Surya Ganguli is a professor of Applied Physics at Stanford, an Associate Director of Stanford’s Human Centered AI Institute, and a Venture Partner at a16z. His research spans neuroscience, machine learning, and physics, focusing on understanding and improving how both biological and artificial neural networks learn emergent computations.

Teel Lidow

Thor Alden

Director of Technology Innovation at Dechert LLP

Thor Alden focuses on matters related to artificial intelligence, legal practice technology, and robotic process automation. He was formerly a senior associate within Dechert’s financial services group and joined Dechert in 2012.