MAY 27–28, 2026

REDMOND, WA

HOSTED BY: MICROSOFT AND MCCA

The Global TEC Forum (“G-TEC”) is a two-day, CLE-eligible conference focused on the evolving intersection of technology and the practice of law. G-TEC brings together legal leaders, technologists, and legal operations professionals to share practical insights on emerging tools, evolving risks, and changing career demands.

Special thanks to our Co-Host & Sponsor:

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May 27 - 28, 2026

Registration is open!

Registration Deadline:
Wednesday, May 22

Register HERE

Hotel Room Block

Reservations at MCCA’s hotel room block at the Seattle Marriott Redmond have now closed.

Room Block Closed

G-TEC Sponsorship

Our sponsors are integral to providing participants with a conference that continues to lift the bar. Sponsors of the Global TEC Forum have the opportunity to contribute to unique and substantive discussions on the latest technological trends and advancements in the legal profession.

Become a sponsor and take advantage of the opportunity to:

  • Meet and build relationships with attorneys from corporate legal departments of Fortune® 500 companies and attorneys from top law firms.

  • Showcase your expertise and give your team a platform to discuss opportunities and challenges shaping the legal profession.

  • Build brand recognition by establishing your company or firm as a thought leader in the industry.

We welcome back our long-term supporters and look forward to engaging with new organizations. There are various ways to be involved. Below are the developed sponsorship packages. These packages are not fixed – so if you have ideas, let’s talk! Please email sponsorship@mcca.com.

  • Sponsor the dinner and receive the following benefits:

    Benefits Include:

    • Priority reserved seating during sessions and dinner

    • Opportunity to speak on a panel or make welcome remarks at dinner

    • Top billing and prominent logo placement on all conference marketing materials, on the G-TEC webpage, MCCA member app, social media posts, and promotional emails

    • MCCA will provide social media post on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, announcing the sponsorship

    • Ten (10) conference registrations, which includes 10 seats at the offsite dinner

    • Recognition in post event thank you email and social media

  • Sponsor a CLE at the conference and receive the following benefits:

    Benefits Include:

    • Three (3) Conference registrations, which includes 3 seats at the offsite dinner

    • Listed as a sponsor on all social media, promotional materials, and MCCA member app

    • Recognition in post event thank you email and social media

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Event Agenda

Day 1
Day 2

*Agenda subject to change. Please note the agenda times are in PT. Session titles and descriptions will be updated as they become finalized.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 2026

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM

Registration & Networking Breakfast

10:00 AM – 10:10 AM

Welcome & Opening Remarks with MCCA

10:10 AM – 10:40 AM

  • The professional responsibility questions around AI in legal practice are no longer hypothetical. When an AI drafting tool confidently cites a case that doesn’t exist and it makes it into a filing, who answers to the court and under what rule? Are law firms creating internal AI tools that they are fine-tuning with client documents? What safeguards are firms using when they do this, if so, and are they informing clients about doing this? How do firms deal with potential conflicts arising from the firm’s proprietary AI outputs? When a junior associate is assigned to supervise AI output, signs off under volume pressure, and an error reaches the client, where does the ABA’s Model Rules of Professional Conduct Rule 5.1 analysis land when the entity being supervised is a machine?

    Ethics opinions are emerging but remain sparse, inconsistent across jurisdictions, and largely reactive to problems that have already surfaced. This session gets into the fact patterns that are actually arising and the specific contractual, policy, and governance language attorneys are using to allocate risk before something goes wrong.

    SPEAKERS:

    • Monya Bunch, Director, Inclusion and Opportunity, WilmerHale

    • Dwight Draughon, Partner, Steptoe LLP

    • Tamaron Houston, Real Estate Partner, Seyfarth Shaw LLP

10:40 AM – 10:45 AM

Break

10:45 AM – 11:45 AM

11:45 AM – 12:45 PM

Networking Lunch

12:45 PM – 1:45 PM

1:45 PM – 2:00 PM

  • In the AI era, the question is rarely just "what does the regulation say?" It's "how do we operationalize compliance when rules are diverging across jurisdictions, changing quickly, and often lagging behind the pace of AI technology itself?"

    This session focuses on practical strategies for engagement and building a solid global compliance program. We'll cover how to translate emerging requirements into concrete governance and regulatory response, and how to advise senior executives and boards on oversight and disclosure.

    SPEAKERS:

    • Cari Benn, Chief Privacy Officer, Microsoft Corporation

    • Jorja Jackson, Vice President, Corporate, Defense & Resilience Management, Workday

    • Mike Jackson, GM and Head of AI Governance and Legal for Microsoft's Office of Responsible AI (ORA) and as Interim Chief Digital Safety Officer, Microsoft Corporation

    • Alex Mendoza, Chief Compliance Officer and Deputy Chief Legal Officer, Nokia

    • Ashley Walter, Partner & Chief Sustainability Officer, Orrick

Break

2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

3:30 PM – 5:00 PM

Break

  • SPEAKER:

    • Jenny Lay-Flurrie, Vice President, Trusted Technology Group, Microsoft Corporation

Break

3:00 PM – 3:10 PM

  • This workshop will explore how AI technologies affect democratic institutions. Led by Microsoft’s Democracy team, participants will work through real-world scenarios involving generative AI.

    WORKSHOP LEADS:

    • Robert Beiser, Senior Technical Operations Lead, Tech for Society, Microsoft Corporation

    • Matt Masterson, Senior Director, Elections and Societal Resilience, Tech for Society, Microsoft Corporation

3:10 PM – 3:30 PM

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM

  • SPEAKERS:

    • Jon Palmer, Chief Legal Officer & Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Corporation

    • Lauren Rothenberg, Senior Corporate Counsel, Microsoft Corporation

Pitch Session Network Reception (Invite Only)

6:00 PM – 9:00 PM

Offsite Dinner and Community Building

Limited seats available.

THURSDAY, MAY 28, 2026

*Agenda subject to change. Please note the agenda times are in PT. Session titles and descriptions will be updated as they become finalized.

8:00 AM – 8:45 AM

Registration & Breakfast

  • The digital sovereignty conversation has moved. Sovereignty is now a resilience and national security imperative. Conflicts in Ukraine and Iran have accelerated this fundamental shift — governments are forming new alliances, cloud providers are rewriting contract assurances across the industry, and customers are demanding different guarantees, both legal and technical. For legal practitioners — whether advising from inside or outside the organization — this means sovereignty questions now sit at the intersection of policy, infrastructure, and crisis planning, and they arrive simultaneously.

    This session explores the practical levers available to counsel: contract restructuring for dynamic sovereign risk, contingency planning across global infrastructure, and advising business leaders making investment decisions while the rules are being rewritten in real time.

    SPEAKERS:

    • Barbara Olagaray Gatto, Chief of Staff and Assistant General Counsel, Microsoft Corporation

    • Mary Huang, Senior Corporate Counsel, Microsoft Corporation

    • Karina Juarez, Chief of Staff and Associate General Counsel, Microsoft Corporation

8:45 AM – 9:00 AM

9:00 AM – 10:00 AM

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM

Networking Break

  • AI's role in legal practice is here, and careers, talent pipelines, and professional identities are being reshaped faster than any organization has planned for. Associates are being asked to supervise output they didn't produce at a stage in their careers when doing that work was how they built judgment. The work that legal ops professionals do is in high demand precisely because of the AI transition, but that role is rapidly changing. And for senior attorneys at firms and in-house, how to train junior attorneys to get the experience necessary to function as senior professionals is a critical question.

    This session is about that imperative: what a legal career will look like going forward, what it demands of professionals who want to stay ahead of the curve, and the concrete strategies people at every stage are using to future-proof their relevance and impact.

    SPEAKERS:

    • Samantha Grant, Partner, Reed Smith

    • Ingeuneal Gray, Vice President of Inclusion and Engagement, American Arbitration Association

    • Jennifer Ivan, Vice President, Product, AI Governance, and Privacy, Sony Interactive Entertainment

    • David Moreno, Partner, Norton Rose Fulbright

    • Oderah Nwaeze, Partner, Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

10:30 AM – 11:30 AM

  • SPEAKER:

    • Tom Robertson, Corporate Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, Microsoft Corporation

11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

  • SPEAKER:

    • Teresa Hutson, Corporate Vice President and General Counsel, Technology + Services Group, Microsoft Corporation

  • Agents have the potential to transform the way we work, streamlining tasks from content creation to research and information retrieval.  Best of all, anyone can design and build an agent – no coding required.

    Join us for a fun, hands-on workshop in AI skilling. You’ll receive guided training, real-time support, and dedicated time to design and build innovative Agents that can help all of us work smarter every day.

    To create your own agent during this session, please bring your laptop and have M365 Copilot enabled.  All are welcome, even without a laptop.

    WORKSHOP LEAD:

    • Ed Novak, Regional Experience Lead, Microsoft Corporation

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM

CLE Filing System

Your badge will be scanned as you enter each session to record your attendance and to receive CLE credit. If you arrive more than 5 minutes late for a session, you will not be eligible for CLE credit.

HOW/WHEN WILL I RECEIVE MY CLE CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDANCE?

Within 1-2 weeks after the Global TEC Forum has concluded, all attendees who requested CLE credit will receive an email with the subject line “MCCA 2026 G-TEC CLE Certificates of Attendance are now Available!” from clereporting@MCCA.com. Please click on the link provided within the email and complete the form to request your CLE credit. Your certificate of attendance will be emailed directly to you.

Additional details on CLE credits to come.

Registration & Fees

IN-HOUSE MEMBERS

Early Bird (Before March 31)

$650

Regular (April 1 - May 22)

$700

LAW FIRM MEMBERS

Early Bird (Before March 31)

$850

Regular (April 1 - May 22)

$1,000

GOVERNMENT/NON-PROFIT
NON-MEMBERS

Early Bird (Before March 31)

$650

Regular (April 1 - May 22)

$700

IN-HOUSE NON-MEMBERS

Early Bird (Before March 31)

$850

Regular (April 1 - May 22)

$900

LAW FIRM NON-MEMBERS

Early Bird (Before March 31)

$1,000

Regular (April 1 - May 22)

$1,200

VENDOR NON-MEMBERS

Early Bird (Before March 31)

$1,000

Regular (April 1 - May 22)

$1,200

PAYMENT MESSAGE:

All payments must be received no later than May 20, 2026, at 11:59 PM ET.

Visa, Mastercard, and American Express accepted.

MCCA Law Firm Members and Corporate Members: As part of your organization's MCCA membership benefits, your company or firm may be eligible to register a designated number of participants at no additional cost.

To take advantage of this benefit, please request your unique registration code from your organization’s designated MCCA membership contact. During the registration process, enter this code in the Discount Code field on the Order Summary Page and click “Apply ” to activate the benefit and adjust your balance accordingly.

If you have any questions about the registration process or need assistance confirming your organization’s membership status, please contact us at events@mcca.com.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:

Any special needs for visual aids or auditory aids must be sent to events@mcca.com.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS:

Click here to review the MCCA Conference Registration General Terms and Conditions.

CANCELLATIONS & SUBSTITUTIONS:

All cancellation requests must be submitted in writing to events@mcca.com.

Requests received on or before May 20 will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. No refunds will be issued for cancellations received after May 20.

Organizations are permitted to substitute one participant with another from the same organization, if needed.