AI for Legal: From Hype to a Working System
An evening for legal professionals in Bangkok, hosted by AI Strategy Institute × Harbour.Space
Everyone in legal is talking about AI. Few law firms or legal departments have actually made it work.
Most are stuck somewhere between "we should do something" and "but what about client confidentiality?" Meanwhile, the work that eats your days (research, drafting, reviewing, summarising, answering the same client questions again) is exactly the work AI is getting good at.
This evening is about getting from hype to a system that actually runs in your firm or legal department, safely. No vendor pitch, no buzzwords. Just a clear picture of what's possible, a hands-on exercise, and a practising lawyer showing how it's done.
What you'll take home
The big picture: why AI is becoming the new operating system for legal work, and what that means for how your firm or legal department works, delivers and competes.
Your own AI report: a hands-on exercise where you map your daily tasks and see what can be automated, what AI can augment, and where agents fit in. You leave with a personalised report.
How to do it safely: if your AI setup meets Germany's and the EU's standards (the strictest in the world), it holds up anywhere. Plus how to make your team's legal knowledge usable through context engineering, without exposing client data.
The evening closes with an open fishbowl panel with voices from Thailand's legal and business community. One chair on stage stays empty: take it, bring your question or your experience, and join the discussion.
Who it's for
Legal professionals in law firms and legal departments: partners, associates, general counsel, in-house teams, plus compliance and anyone else who works with legal questions and wants to use AI properly. You don't need a technical background.
Agenda
18:30 Doors open, drinks and get-together
19:00 Welcome by Harbour.Space
19:10 Keynote: AI as the operating system for legal work (Tristan Post)
19:40 Hands-on: AI Fluency for legal professionals (bring your laptop)
20:10 Secure setup and context engineering, from a lawyer's perspective (Elias Reiche)
20:30 Open fishbowl panel: AI in Thailand's legal world
21:00 Networking at the bar
Speakers
Tristan Post is the founder and CEO of the AI Strategy Institute, which helps organisations turn AI from experiment into strategy. He works with the Boston Consulting Group and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), where he advises governments on AI. Before that, he built one of the largest AI startup incubators in Europe. He is the author of AI Native and co-author of 10 Hard Truths about AI, out this December. He is a standing member of the German AI Association's committee on AI and sits on the board of the Munich Chamber of Commerce. He teaches the management of AI at Munich Business School and the Technical University of Munich, and this term at Harbour.Space Bangkok. He holds an MSc from the London School of Economics.
Elias Reiche is a German lawyer and legal technologist, currently based in Bangkok, who helps law firms implement AI into their legal practices through his business Law Flow (law-flow.de). Before that, he advised on IP and IT law at a venture capital boutique and worked on international M&A transactions at Freshfields. He also founded a legal tech startup that makes contract negotiations in the creative industries simpler and fairer. With a master's in Information Technology, he connects legal practice with the technology that is changing it.
Panel guests from Thailand: two voices from Thailand's legal and business community, to be announced.
About the hosts
Harbour.Space is an institute of technology for tech, entrepreneurship and design, founded in Barcelona in 2015. Its Bangkok campus sits inside the University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce (UTCC), Thailand's oldest private university. Guests take home a little Harbour.Space merch.
AI Strategy Institute is a German-based think tank, consultancy and academy. It helps companies and leaders turn AI from experiment into strategy, and trains their teams to use it well.
Sponsor the evening
Want to support the evening with drinks or food? Sponsors get their logo on the event page and visuals and a mention on stage. Contact: tristan@aistrategyinstitute.com
Free. Seats are limited. Bring your laptop for the hands-on exercise.