Aalia brings a unique blend of legal expertise and business acumen to Webber Wentzel Fusion, the firm’s hub for alternative legal solutions, legal tech, and client-focused delivery. A former intellectual property and technology law partner at Webber Wentzel and COO of a tech scale-up, she combines deep industry insight with strategic and operational know-how. Passionate about innovation and entrepreneurship, she led the firm’s first start-up incubator and advocated for regulatory reform to support innovation in South Africa. Aalia and her team champion technology and inventive delivery models to solve complex legal problems in fresh, client-centric ways that challenge traditional boundaries.

Ross is the Founder and CEO of Wordsmith AI, a platform that helps leading enterprises run their legal teams more efficiently and reduce their reliance on external law firms. Backed by Index Ventures, Wordsmith has raised close to $100 million to date and is used by over 500 companies worldwide. Ross previously served as Chief Product and Technology Officer at TravelPerk, the global business travel platform, where he helped grow the company from $1M to $170M ARR in under five years. Earlier in his career, he sold his first startup to Skyscanner, where he went on to hold a senior leadership role ahead of its $1.7 billion acquisition.

Peter Hall is an accomplished entrepreneur and business leader with extensive international experience across legal, finance, technology and customer-focused industries. Having held senior leadership positions at organisations including Cognia, Standard Chartered Bank, Old Mutual and Price Waterhouse, he brings a unique blend of large-scale operational management expertise and entrepreneurial drive. As Head of Innovation and Chief Operating Officer at Cognia, Peter has played a key role in reshaping legal service delivery through technology-enabled and client-centric solutions. Across industries including legal services, banking, insurance, healthcare, mobile technology and security technology, he has built a reputation for leading high-growth businesses through transformation, innovation and strategic expansion.

Kevin is a legal management consultant with over 25 years’ international legal and legal operations experience, including senior roles at Schlumberger, where he built three legal support centres. He advises corporate legal teams on operating model transformation, legal technology, process improvement, performance enablement, and change adoption. As a Prosci-certified change practitioner, Kevin combines practical legal department leadership experience with structured transformation methodology to help legal teams improve efficiency, strengthen business alignment, and build sustainable, technology-enabled ways of working.

With a academic background in accounting and finance, later transitioning into practical law, Max combines a comprehensive understanding of both disciplines with advanced coding and full-stack development skills. Beginning with legal process automation at Amadeus in 2016, Max now leads a team of 11 specialists, recognized for their skills in Microsoft Power Platform, AI, api development and sophisticated cross-platform integrations. Max and his team champion implementation, development and customization, offering bespoke solutions where off-the-shelf products just won't do. Max also joined SYKE as a practice lead for Ironclad and development lead for MS PowerPlatform in 2021/22 and continues to consult vendors and customers on CLM and automation technologies.

Ratidzo Murwisi is a legal innovation specialist, legal technologist, and founder of RM Xchange, a legal technology consultancy focused on helping legal teams and law firms adopt technology and modern ways of working. Recognised as Botswana’s first legal technologist, she has worked with leading legal technology organisations including Legaltech Hub, Clio, and Definely, supporting legal professionals across Africa and internationally. A qualified attorney, Ratidzo is passionate about bridging the gap between law, technology, and business, and regularly speaks on legal innovation, AI adoption, and the future of legal practice. Her work focuses on ensuring that technology enhances—not replaces—human judgment in the delivery of legal services.

Alex Hamilton is the CEO and founder of Radiant Law, an award-winning NewLaw firm based in the UK. Alex spends much of his time working closely with clients and spearheading product and tech development at Radiant to make clients' contracting processes fly.

Alex wrote the book (Sign Here) on how to speed up contracting and create better commercial relationships and he regularly talks and writes about improving contracting, legal tech, and the evolving legal landscape. Alex is a fellow of the College of Law Practice Management and has led a bunch of projects recognised by the FT's Innovative Lawyer awards. Before founding Radiant Law, Alex was a Partner at Latham & Watkins and co-Chair of their global Technology Transactions Group, and when he used to be a real lawyer, he worked on some of the larger technology and outsourcing deals out there.

Calvin Simpson heads up the Legal Tech team at Cognia, where he helps legal departments streamline their processes through automation, improved technology adoption, and holistic reporting. Before joining Cognia six and a half years ago, Calvin worked as a legal project manager, running large litigation and managed review projects.

Experienced legal operations and technology leader with over a decade in the ALSP and Legal Tech industry. Beginning as a document reviewer, I progressed through project, delivery, and operational leadership roles across eDiscovery, contract review, legal technology, and CLM consulting. Throughout my career, I have led high-performing teams, managed complex client engagements, and driven operational excellence across global legal service environments. Currently serving as Vice President of Operations at Stella Legal, I oversee strategic delivery and business operations, helping organizations optimize Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM), legal technology solutions, and eDiscovery programs to achieve measurable business outcomes.

Alison Trappler is a Senior Associate working as a Solutions Architect in the Business Advisory team at Cognia. She started her journey with Cognia in 2013 and although she left briefly to complete her articles, she returned to gain valuable experience in project management in areas including commercial contracts, regulatory compliance, financial documentation and litigation. She is passionate about legal tech and strives to assist clients in finding innovative and workable solutions.

Megan Jackson is Head of Legal Project Management at TLT, based in Bristol. She leads the firm’s LPM capability within the FutureLaw team, driving complex legal delivery, client-facing innovation, and transformation initiatives.

Megan has over 10 years’ experience in legal services, specialising in legal project management, alternative delivery models, and innovation. Prior to TLT, she led the Legal Services Centre at Webber Wentzel, overseeing LPM, legal innovation, and alternative resourcing strategies.

A qualified South African attorney, she is known for building high-performing teams and delivering data-driven, client-focused outcomes.

Stefan is a Senior Associate and Legal Delivery Manager specialising in commercial contract management. He focuses on helping organisations improve contracting efficiency through the streamlining and harmonisation of contract templates, supported by practical playbooks, guidance notes and governance frameworks. He also works closely with clients as an embedded legal resource, providing hands-on contract review, negotiation and delivery support to address resourcing requirements, manage peak workloads and support strategic projects.

Stefan began his legal career in litigation at a Cape Town-based law firm before moving into an in-house legal adviser role with a South African property developer. He joined Cognia in 2021 and has since supported clients across a range of industries and projects.

Ruth Gondwe is a Senior Manager in Webber Wentzel's Fusion team, managing a cross-functional group of lawyers, technologists, and legal analysts who deliver alternative legal services spanning legal technology, legal operations advisory, and flexible resourcing. With deep expertise in legal operations and managed legal services, she advises in-house teams on streamlining their legal functions and managing high-volume work at scale. She is passionate about purposeful leadership, particularly as AI reshapes the legal profession. She also serves as fractional COO to global clients. Her career spans litigation, in-house roles in companies across England, Australia, and Southern Africa.

Natasha has a passion for connecting talented individuals with their dream careers and brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to their role as People & Culture: Recruitment at Cognia Law. Fascinated by the legal field and inspired by the enthusiasm of aspiring lawyers, Natasha now thrives in their role, engaging with lawyers daily to identify the best talent for alternative legal service profession.

Uraysha Ramracheya is a Manager in the Disputes team within the Digital Legal Delivery Practice Group at Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer. She brings together legal expertise and innovative, technology-enabled approaches to support the efficient delivery of complex dispute resolution matters.

Uraysha leads high-performing teams on large-scale legal review projects, using legaltech to deliver consistent, high-quality outcomes. Uraysha is passionate about rethinking how legal services are delivered in a digital environment. With her background of traditional practice at another leading international law firm as well as in-house counsel experience at one of SA's major banks, she is particularly interested in driving innovation, embedding smarter ways of working, and empowering teams to leverage technology within the legal industry to achieve better, more scalable results.