SPEAKER

Uwais

Iqbal

Founder

Simplexico

Uwais Iqbal is the Founder & CEO of Simplexico, a specialist AI consultancy serving law firms and legal teams. With a background in theoretical physics and hands-on experience building AI systems for the legal sector - including roles at leading legal tech startups and as a Senior NLP Data Scientist at Thomson Reuters Labs - Uwais brings a rare combination of deep technical expertise on AI and a decade of practical implementation experience in legal practice. He has delivered trained over 5,000 legal professionals on AI and has delivered AI literacy programs to international law firms including Linklaters and Bird & Bird. Uwais teaches courses on AI to the public at the prestigious Royal Institution, has published research on Legal AI in academic journals and speaks regularly on the realities of deploying AI in legal practice.