Technologies and artificial intelligence will also revolutionize the legal market. Futurologist Prof. Dr. Heiko von der Gracht, KPMG AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft, has examined how companies, and legal departments in particular, will be positioned in a few years’ time. He talks to various experts from KPMG Law about how legal teams should position themselves today in order to be able to make a valuable contribution to the company’s success tomorrow.
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What are the success factors for effective compliance management in an increasingly dynamic and complex environment? This is a question that almost all companies are faced with.
Deep fakes, bots and increasingly autonomous AI agents are fundamentally changing the risk landscape for companies. Against this backdrop, the question arises as to how organisations can systematically deal with emerging and as yet not fully described risks. Classic approaches to early risk detection continue to form an important basis for this, but must be further developed and supplemented in a targeted manner. In this episode, Anne-Kathrin Gillig and Francois Heynike, partners at KPMG Law Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH, talk to futurologist Prof. Heiko von der Gracht, department head at KPMG AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft, about how futurology methods can help make compliance management more forward-looking, robust and decisive.
The experts are available to answer questions at agillig@kpmg-law.com, fheynike@kpmg-law.com and hgracht@kpmg.com.
There are laws with hundreds of pages, whose paragraphs and subparagraphs have several thousand numbers. Could artificial intelligence make laws clearer? Yes, according to Dr. Moritz Püstow, partner at KPMG Law Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH, and Prof. Dr. Heiko von der Gracht, futurologist and Head of Metaverse at KPMG AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft. In this episode, the two discuss the future of legislation.
Feel free to contact our experts at mpuestow@kpmg-law.com and hgracht@kpmg.com.
Will we still be working in offices in the future? What about foreign languages in the future? And in which sectors will human labour still be needed at all? These are the kinds of questions that #future research is looking into. Our experts in #labour law are also concerned with these topics. This is because they support companies in designing a suitable legal framework for working in the future at an early stage. In this podcast, KPMG Law partners Dr Thomas Wolf and Kathrin Brügger discuss the future of work and employment law with Prof. Dr Heiko von der Gracht, futurologist and Head of Metaverse at KPMG.
A question that is currently preoccupying many lawyers: How will the legal market change in the coming years in view of the rapid development of technologies and artificial intelligence? How should legal departments position themselves in order to continue making a valuable contribution to their companies in the future? And what qualifications do employees need to achieve this? The guests on the first episode of our new podcast series “Zukunftsausblick Recht” (Future Outlook for Law) make their predictions: Futurologist at KPMG AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft Prof. Dr Heiko von der Gracht and Managing Partner of KPMG Law Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH, Dr Konstantin von Busekist, and Philipp Glock, Head of IT & Innovation at KPMG Law.
Feel free to contact the experts at kvonbusekist@kpmg-law.com, pglock@kpmg-law.com and hgracht@kpmg.com.
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