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The 2026 Future of AI & Technology Forum

Thursday September 17, 2026 | 9:00 am to 4:00 pm

The 2026 Future of AI & Technology Forum is built around real conversations, use cases, and decision鈥憁aking moments facing legal and professional services leaders today.

This year鈥檚 program, in the heart of Chicago’s West Loop neighborhood, will bring attendees inside the workflows, governance choices, talent questions, and economic trade鈥憃ffs shaping AI adoption across the industry. You will hear directly from practitioners who are building AI into their firms and making tough, real decisions along the way.

Through expert discussions, peer conversations, and interactive sessions, this forum helps you cut through the noise and better understand what AI means for your organization. #TRIAI26.

Read 成人VR视频 Institute’s 2026 AI in Professional Services Report ahead of the program.

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Chicago, IL

$495.00

For questions about this event, please call 1-800-308-1700, ext. 1 or email us at TRIsales@thomsonreuters.com

What you will gain

  • Clear direction on where AI fits into your strategy鈥攁nd where it doesn鈥檛.
  • Real examples of how firms are using AI across workflows, governance, and talent.
  • Honest conversations with peers facing the same challenges and decisions.
  • A clearer view ahead so you can focus on changes that matter most.

Recommended for

  • C-level strategy & decision makers
  • Managing partners & principals
  • Managers & directors
  • Tech & AI professionals

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Event agenda

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Thursday September 17, 2026

TimeTopic
8:30 am to 9:15 am Breakfast & registration
9:15 am to 9:30 am Opening remarks & AI in Professional Services Report presentation

Join us as we dive into the latest data听from the 2026 AI in Professional Services Report, produced by听成人VR视频 Institute.

 

Rawia Ashraf, Head of Product, CoCounsel Transactional & GCO, 成人VR视频

9:30 am to 10:30 am The state of AI & technology

As emerging technologies move from experimentation to embedded infrastructure, professional services leaders are being forced to make faster, higher鈥憇takes calls about where and how to place their bets. AI now sits at the center of debates on regulation, data governance, client expectations, and talent, reshaping both the economics and the ethics of how work gets done. This session takes a forward-looking view of the 2026-27 technology landscape, separating durable shifts from short-lived noise and examining how policy, platform consolidation, and new AI-native tools are likely to reshape the market. You’ll听gain a clearer picture of the trends that matter, the risks that听can’t听be delegated, and the strategic questions firms need to answer now to be ready for the next wave of innovation.

10:30 am to 10:50 am Break
10:50 am to 11:50 am Workshop/game: quantifying your AI strategy

Gather up for an interactive session that turns AI from buzzword to bottom-line impact. In this hands-on game, facilitator(s)will guide you听through professional听services scenarios where you’ll听estimate听and听validate time saved听and听value created听through various use cases. See how your听AI strategy and usage can be measured and quantified. Together, you’ll听pressure-test when听to deploy听agents, automated assistants, prompt builders, and chatbots, and where human judgment must remain firmly in the loop. Through team-based challenges and rapid debriefs, participants will听walk away with a sharper sense of听the most efficient AI utilization听tactics.听Expect team challenges and a bit of friendly competition as you discern a quantifiable outlook on the role of AI in real client work and internal operations.

11:50 am to 1:00 pm Networking lunch
1:00 pm to 1:40 pm Fireside chat: inside the firms getting AI right

In this detail-oriented听fireside听chat,听two AI experts will divulge the finer details of cultivating a credible, durable AI strategy inside a professional services firm. Instead of abstract visions of 鈥渄igital transformation,鈥澨they’ll talk through how they’re听approaching this听work day to day, focusing on: setting foundations around data and governance, weaving AI into legacy workflows, choosing which ideas to pilot first, and making sure investments line up with firm economics and client expectations. Expect a candid, focused look at what has genuinely worked, what hasn’t听landed the way they hoped, and how their teams are building comfort and confidence around experimentation, risk, and change at scale.

1:40 pm to 2:00 pm Break
2:00 pm to 3:00 pm Keynote presentation
3:00 pm to 3:20 pm Break
3:20 pm to 4:00 pm Fishbowl: candid dialogue on the future of AI

To close the day, step into a high-energy fishbowl session where the agenda belongs to the room. Throughout the forum, attendees will have the opportunity to听submit听pointed, real-world questions about AI, automation, and emerging tools in professional services鈥攆rom operating models and commercialization to talent, ethics, and vendor strategy. In this finale, panelists from leading firms and听professionals pioneering in the software industry听will draw questions at random and respond on the spot. The result is an unscripted, intellectually rigorous dialogue that surfaces live case studies, contrarian perspectives, and hard-won lessons you听won’t听find in polished decks鈥攁n opportunity to road-test your own assumptions听in a culmination of the day鈥檚 insights.

4:00 pm to 5:00 pm Closing remarks & reception

Please join us for cocktails and light bites as we bring the day鈥檚 conversations to a close.

 

Rawia Ashraf, Head of Product, CoCounsel Transactional & GCO, 成人VR视频

Loft on Lake

1366 W Lake St, Chicago, IL 60607
Fulton Market - West Loop, Chicago

Hotel Accommodations

For your convenience, we’ve compiled a list of recommended hotels and rental stays near Loft on Lake, with a variety of options in the West Loop and Fulton Market area. Please note that accommodations are not included in the registration fee and will need to be arranged individually by each attendee. You can view the full list here:听.

 

Getting Here & Parking

Free street parking is available around the venue. A public parking garage is also located just behind the venue at Ada Street and Fulton Street. If you’re taking public transportation, the #9 Ashland bus and the Green and Pink Line trains are just a short walk away at Lake Street and Ashland Avenue.

 

Registration Deadline:听Friday, September 4.

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