In addition to corporate in-house courses, we occasionally make public presentations and facilitate open courses, workshops and webinars. Examples include:

International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS 2024: Legal Linguistic Models
14–17 February 2024   University of Salzburg, Austria & Online
Helena Haapio, 15 February 2024: Humanizing Legal Communication with AI and
Design
Hilja Autto, Helena Haapio and Yueh-Hsuan Weng, 15 February 2024: AI-assisted Design for Better Privacy Communication in Human-robot Co-existence
Nina Toivonen, Marika Salo-Lahti, Mikko Ranta and Helena Haapio, 16 February 2024:
AI-enhanced Fresh Starts: Proactive Financial Health Care with AI as A Personalized Coach

JURIX Workshop on AI and Access to Justice
18 December 2023    Online
Nina Toivonen, Marika Salo-Lahti, Mikko Ranta & Helena Haapio: Beyond Debt: The Intersection of Justice, Financial Wellbeing and AI
Anne Ketola, Helena Haapio & Robert de Rooy: Chattable Contracts: AI-Driven Access to Justice

University of Vaasa
Tomorrow’s Legal Landscape: Proactive Law, Sustainability, and the Power of AI
11 December 2023    Vaasa, Finland
Marika Salo-Lahti & Helena Haapio: Reshaping Tomorrow: Proactive Law, Sustainability, and AI

Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech) Law School
Proactive Law, Strategic Contracting and Legal Design
6 December 2023   Tallinn, Estonia
Helena Haapio: Pioneering Proactive Law: From Louis M. Brown to AI-Assisted Contract Companions

Legal Design Podcast
Spesiaalijakso – Oikeusmuotoilu Made in Finland
5 December 2023    Online / podcast (also available in Spotify)

WorldCC Foundation
Academic Symposium 2023: Proactive Contracting and the Law
4–5 December 2023   Online
Annika Varjonen & Helena Haapio, Finland HUB, Espoo, Finland & Online, 5 December 2023: Picturing the Agreement: Pre-contract Visualization for Shared Understanding

Digital Futures
Digitalize in Stockholm 2023
18–19 October 2023   Karolinska Institutet, Aula Medica, Solna, Sweden & Online
Helena Haapio, 18 October 2023: Humanizing Legal Communication with Proactive Law, Information Design and AI
Video and transcript
(Digital Futures is a cross-disciplinary research center established by KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm University and RISE Research Institutes of Sweden)

DataLEASH and EXTREMUM projects | Digital Futures
Workshop on Trustworthy Learning
16 October 2023   Stockholm, Sweden & Online
Per Nyden, Annika Palm, Helena Haapio & Helene Spjuth, panel: The Challenge of Bridging the Gap between Law and Tech in the Realm of Trustworthy Learning
(DataLEASH and EXTREMUM projects are funded by Digital Futures, a cross-disciplinary research center established by KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm University and RISE Research Institutes of Sweden)

PLAIN 2023 Conference – Connecting Cultures: Creating Bridges with Clear Communication
27–29 September 2023   Buenos Aires, Argentina
Helena Haapio, 27 September 2023, session “Clarity Tracks II”: Making Legal Information Work for Users: Integrating Proactive Law with Legal Design
Helena Haapio, 28 September 2023, session “Legal Design”: Building Bridges from Lawyer-to-Lawyer (L2L) to Human-to-Human (H2H) Communication: The Role of Design and Plain Language
Helena Haapio, 28 September 2023, Keynote: Human-readable or Lawyer-readable? With AI-powered Writing Tools and Design Patterns, We Can Have Both!

Tampere University
National Legal Research Conference 2023
24–25 August 2023   Tampere, Finland
Hilja Autto, Anna Hurmerinta-Haanpää & Helena Haapio, 24 August 2023: Ennakoiva oikeusajattelu kestävän kehityksen edistäjänä
Marika Salo-Lahti & Helena Haapio, 25 August 2023: Legal Design and AI in promoting sustainability through better information and contracts
Hilja Autto, Helena Haapio, Jouko Nuottila & Anna Hurmerinta-Haanpää, 25 August 2023: Re-thinking and re-designing contracts with AI

Academy of Legal Studies in Business (International)
2023 ALSB Annual Conference
25–29 July 2023   San Diego (CA), USA
Helena Haapio & Vesa Annola, 26 July 2023: Contracting for the Happy Path: Promotive Legal Thinking for Better Business and Better Society
Helena Haapio, 27 July 2023, Interdisciplinary Section & Environmental Section Lunch: Pioneering Proactive Law: From Louis M. Brown to AI-Assisted Contract Design
Tim R. Samples, David Orozco, Helena Haapio & Gerlinde Berger-Walliser, panel 29 July 2023: From Legalese to Language: Making Contracts Accessible for Business Law Students and Users

World Commerce & Contracting (WorldCC)
Vibe Summit: From Operational Overload to Strategic Value
6–7 June 2023   Online
Helena Haapio, 6 June 2023: Revolutionizing Contract Design: Exploring the Potential of AI
(Recording, slides, and checklist for conference registrants only)

Future Law 2023
26–27 May 2023   Tallinn, Estonia
Malin Männikkö, Anna Hurmerinta-Haanpää, Helena Haapio & Thomas Hoffmann, 26 May 2023, Panel: Legal Design and Its Importance in the Legal Profession
Helena Haapio, 27 May 2023: Proactive Contract Design & AI for Better Business

International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS 2023: Legal Informatics as a Legal Methodology Science
22–25 February 2023   University of Salzburg, Austria
Marika Salo-Lahti, Mikko Ranta & Helena Haapio, 23 February 2023: AI Tools for Sustainability – Actionable Information for Both Humans and Machines
Anne Ketola, Robert de Rooy and Helena Haapio, 23 February 2023: Comic Contracts 2.0 – Contracts that Talk

UCLouvain & CRIDES
Clinic on European Digital Rights, Law, and Design (EU-DRAWS)
18 February 2023   Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Helena Haapio: Putting People at the Centre through Proactive Legal Information Design
The “Clinic on EU Digital Rights, Law, and Design” (EU-DRAWS) is an Erasmus+ Jean Monnet Module at the UCLouvain School of Law.

UCLouvain
Legal Design Roundtable 2023
17 February 2023   Brussels, Belgium
Marika Salo-Lahti & Helena Haapio: Proactive Legal Design and AI for Better Business and Better Society
Robert de Rooy, Anne Ketola & Helena Haapio: Comic Contracts 2.0 – Contracts that Have (and Give) a Voice
The Legal Design Roundtable is an event promoted within the Jean Monnet Module “European IT Law by Design”, co-funded by the Erasmus+ Program of the European Union.

University of Oslo, Legal Innovation Lab Oslo (LILO), Norsk forening for jus & EDB (NFJE) & Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law (NRCCL)
Knut Selmer Memorial Lecture 2022/23
18 January 2023   Oslo, Norway
Helena Haapio: Lawyers as Engineers, Designers and Architects

World Commerce & Contracting (WorldCC)
Market Insights: Part 2 – Most Important Terms – Negotiating for Marriage or Divorce?
9 January 2023   Online
Video and report (for WorldCC members only).

Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech) Law School
Proactive Law and Legal Design Hybrid Panel
12 December 2022   Tallinn, Estonia & Online (see details in LinkedIn and in Facebook)
Helena Haapio: Proactive Contract Design for Sustainability

WorldCC Foundation
Academic Symposium 2022: Advancing Sustainable Contracting
7–8 December 2022   Online
Rob Waller, Helena Haapio & panelists, 7 December 2022, panel discussion #3: Contract Simplification and Proactive Legal Thinking in Support of Inclusion, Dignity and Sustainability
Petra Hietanen-Kunwald & Helena Haapio, 8 December 2022: JSCAN Best Paper Award Presentation: Effective Dispute Prevention and Resolution through Proactive Contract Design
Rob Waller & Helena Haapio, 8 December 2022: Workshop 3 – Contract Design & Proactive Law

Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law (SCCL)
The Slow but Inevitable Humanization of Contracts and Law
5 December 2022    Stockholm, Sweden

Law, Technology and Design Thinking Research Group, University of Lapland
Proactive Law and Legal Sustainability
29 November 2022    Rovaniemi, Finland
Helena Haapio: Proactive Contract Design for Sustainability

University of Vaasa
Proactive Law, Legal Design and AI: Strategies and Tools for Better Business and Better Society
25 November 2022    Vaasa, Finland
Marika Salo-Lahti, Mikko Ranta & Helena Haapio: GPT-3 and other AI Tools to Generate Actionable Information for Humans and Machines

Sarjis Research Group, Tampere University
Accessibility and Access to Justice with Comics
24 November 2022   Tampere, Finland
Gerlinde Berger-Walliser & Helena Haapio: Proactive Legal Thinking & Responsible and Sustainable Contracting

Association of Project Professionals Finland, Contract Management, The Finnish Corporate Responsibility Law Association & Finnish Association for Legal and Social Sciences
Responsible contracting and communication in business relationships – From legal jargon to practical action
21 November 2022   Helsinki, Finland
Marika Salo-Lahti & Helena Haapio: Proactive Legal Design and AI for Responsible Contracting and Communication

Lawyers Design School
Legal Design Thinking IRL with Helena Haapio from Lexpert: Contract Design Trends in 2022
9 November 2022   LinkedIn Live (also available in YouTube)
For a summary of the interview, see Contract Design Trends 2022 & 2023 with Helena Haapio from Lexpert.

University of Cagliari
Legal Design and Contractual Forms
22–23 June 2022   Cagliari, Italy & Online
Helena Haapio, 22 June 2022: Proactive Contract Design for Next Generation Contracts

Dispute Resolution Board Foundation (DRBF)
DRBF Webinar – DBs in the Nordics | Preventing unnecessary claims, conflicts and disputes:  Use of Dispute Boards and other tools in the Nordic countries
13 January 2022   Online (video)
Helena Haapio, Proactive Contract Design: Promoting Project Success – Preventing Problems and Disputes by Design (see the video at 25:10)

International Language and Law Association (ILLA) & University of Bergamo
ILLA 2021 Focus Conference:
The Digitalisation of Legal Discourse: Digital Genres, Media and Analytical Tools
16–17 December 2021   Bergamo, Italy & Online
Helena Haapio & Anna Hurmerinta-Haanpää, 17 December 2021: Access for All through Digitalization and Design

ReMeP – Research Meets Practice
ReMeP 2021 – Virtual Legal Informatics Conference:
Workshop “Visual Conceptual Modeling for Law”
27 October 2021   Online
Helena Haapio, Visual Contract Design Patterns – Insights from Research and Practice

European Commission
Clear Writing for Europe 2021 – Understanding Your Rights
13–14 October 2021   Online
Helena Haapio, 13 October 2021: When Drafting Met Design… Making Legal Documents Functional and User-friendly by Design
Arianna Rossi, Marietjie Botes, Rossana Ducato and Helena Haapio, 14 October 2021: Design Patterns for Clarity – A Hands-on Legal Design Workshop

Fondia Academy
Legal Design – What’s in It for Me?
15 September 2021   Online
Helena Haapio: From Drafting to Design: Towards Next-gen Contracts

University of Lapland
National XIX Legal Research Conference 2021: Sustainable and Responsible Law for Society
25–27 August 2021   Rovaniemi, Finland & Online
Helena Haapio, 26 August 2021: Ignorantia iuris no more? Merging AI and Design to Give Power Back to Those Who Do Not Speak Legalese
Helena Haapio, Anna Hurmerinta-Haanpää & Jouko Nuottila, 26 August 2021: Access for All through AI and Design

UCLouvain, EITLab & CRIDES
Legal Design Roundtable 2021: Books in Conversation
25 May 2021   Online
Meta-discussion on Law and Design
Helena Haapio introducing the book Marcelo Corrales, Helena Haapio and Mark Fenwick (eds), Research Handbook on Contract Design, Edward Elgar Publishing 2022.
The Legal Design Roundtable is an event promoted within the Jean Monnet Module “European IT Law by Design”, co-funded by the Erasmus+ Program of the European Union.

EITLab, UCLouvain & CRIDES
EITLab Series of Seminars: Conversations on Legal Design
26 February 2021   Online
Helena Haapio: Legal and Human Readable. By Design.
This course is a Jean Monnet Module, co-funded by the Erasmus+ Program of the European Union.

EITLab, UCLouvain & CRIDES
Legal Design Seminar
3 April 2020   Online
Helena Haapio: Next Generation Contracts: Patterns and Strategies
This course is a Jean Monnet Module, co-funded by the Erasmus+ Program of the European Union.

LeDA, EITLab & UCLouvain
Legal Design VirtualTable
1–2 April 2020   Online
Petra Hietanen-Kunwald & Helena Haapio: Applying Legal Design in Dispute Prevention and Resolution
The Legal Design Roundtable is an event promoted within the Jean Monnet Module “European IT Law by Design”, co-funded by the Erasmus+ Program of the European Union.

23rd International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS 2020
27–29 February 2020   University of Salzburg, Austria
Helena Haapio: Transforming Contract Creation: Goodbye to Legal Writing – Revisited
Rory Unsworth & Helena Haapio: Tidying Up Contract Portfolios the Marie Kondo Way
Marcelo Corrales Compagnucci, Mark Fenwick, Helena Haapio, Timo Minssen & Erik P.M. Vermeulen: Technology-Driven Disruption of Healthcare & UI Layer Privacy-by-Design

University of Lapland Faculty of Law & Northern Arctic Federal University
Seminar on Finnish-Russian Cooperation: Mediation and Social Law
12–13 December 2019   Rovaniemi, Finland
Helena Haapio & Petra Hietanen-Kunwald, 12 December 2019: Legal Design for Preventing and Resolving Conflicts
Helena Haapio, 13 December 2019: Proactive Legal Design: A Cross-Disciplinary Research Agenda

International Association for Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM) & Stanford Law School
Academic Symposium on Contract and Commercial Management
8 November 2019   Palo Alto (CA), USA

International Association for Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM)
IACCM Americas Conference 2019
4–6 November 2019   Phoenix (AZ), USA
Helena Haapio, Stefania Passera and Milva Finnegan, 4 November 2019: Contract Design Pattern Workshop

Sis Ventures
Legal Design and Sustainable Development Goals / Legal Design Summit Side Event
12 September 2019   Helsinki, Finland
Helena Haapio: Design for Understanding and Legal Empowerment

Aalto University School of Business
Oikeustieteen päivät 2019: Digitalization and the Law
28–29 August 2019   Espoo, Finland
Helena Haapio, 28 August 2019: Proactive Legal Design in Action: Design Patterns for Next Generation Contracts and Policies

Centre for the Study of European Contract Law (University of Amsterdam), SRH Hochschule Berlin and University of Exeter
The Transparent Trap: Disclosing Information to Consumers
4–5 July 2019  Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Helena Haapio, 5 July 2019: Addressing “the biggest lie on the Internet”: Design patterns for protecting people from themselves

International Association for Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM)
Massive Open Online Course – Contract Management: Build Relationships in Business
27 May – 14 June 2019
Helena Haapio & Stefania Passera, 30 May 2019, Ask The Expert Webinar / MOOC call 1: The Rise of The Contract Designer: Contract Simplification and Design Explained

Colloque DCCR Droit de la consommation et protection des données à caractère personnel / Colloquium DCCR Consumentenrecht en gegevensbescherming
23 May 2019   Brussels, Belgium
Arianna Rossi, Rossana Ducato, Helena Haapio & Stefania Passera: When Design Met Law: Design Patterns for Information Transparency

International Association for Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM)
IACCM Europe Conference 2019
13–15 May 2019   Madrid, Spain
Helena Haapio & Stefania Passera, 15 May 2019, Closing Workshop 3: Design Pattern Library Workshop

LeDA, EITLab & UCLouvain
Legal Design Roundtable
27 April 2019   Brussels, Belgium

EITLab & UCLouvain
Legal Design Seminar
26 April 2019   Brussels, Belgium
Helena Haapio: Next Generation Contracts: patterns and strategies
This course is a Jean Monnet Module, co-funded by the Erasmus+ Program of the EU Commission.

International Association for Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM) & University of Leeds Law School and Business School
Academic Symposium on Contract and Commercial Management
25 April 2019   Leeds, UK
Helena Haapio: Contract Design Patterns: New Tools for Better and Simpler Risk Management

Association of Law Teachers
ALT Annual Conference 2019
8–9 April 2019   De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
Emily Allbon & Helena Haapio, 9 April 2019: From Contract Visualisation to Legal Design: the first 20 years

International Association for Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM)
From contract drafting to contract design – How to get started
Ask The Expert / Thought-Leadership Webinar, 28 March 2019 (by Stefania Passera)
IACCM has partnered with contract design and visualisation pioneers Stefania Passera and Helena Haapio to build the IACCM Contract Design Pattern Library, a collection of guidelines, methods and real-life examples to help contract drafters create clearer, user-friendlier contracts. Discover what design patterns are, and how you can use them to get started on your contract redesign journey.

22nd International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS 2019
21–23 February 2019   University of Salzburg, Austria
Helena Haapio: Legal Design in Action: From Text-Only Guidebooks to Digital, Visual Playbooks
Arianna Rossi & Helena Haapio: Proactive Legal Design: Embedding Values in the Design of Legal Artefacts
Arianna Rossi, Rossana Ducato, Helena Haapio, Stefania Passera & Monica Palmirani:  Legal Design Patterns: Towards A New Language for Legal Information Design

JURIX 2018 – the 31st International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems
12–14 December 2018   Groningen, the Netherlands

Workshop: Legal Design as Academic Discipline: Foundations, Methodology, Applications
12 December 2018   Groningen, the Netherlands

University of Lapland
Oil Production Networks in the Russian Arctic Project Closing Seminar
3–4 December 2018   Rovaniemi, Finland
Helena Haapio, 3 December 2018: From Contract Visualization to Legal Design

Erasmus University Rotterdam
Working conference on visualizations & law
15–16 November 2018   Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Helena Haapio, 16 November 2018: From Contract Visualization to Legal Design: the First 20 Years

The Data Protection Forum
Nordic Privacy Arena
12–13 November 2018   Stockholm, Sweden
Helena Haapio, 13 November 2018: Keynote: Legal design for better privacy communication, Panel Discussion: User-friendly privacy policies, and Pitching Session: The Legal Design Alliance (LeDA)

Legal Design Retreat
1–2 November 2018   Frankfurt, Germany

Contract Management Conference
24–25 October 2018   Copenhagen, Denmark
Helena Haapio, 25 October 2018: Designing New Contract Genres – How to Make Contracts Work Better?

Legal Design Geek Conference
18 October 2018   London, UK

Legal Geek Conference 2018
17 October 2018   London, UK

Legal Tech Lab, University of Helsinki
Hack the Law! 2018
12–14 October 2018   Helsinki, Finland
Helena Haapio, 12 October 2018: Legal Design Workshop

Aalto University School of Business
Homecoming Day
31 August 2018   Helsinki, Finland
Helena Haapio as panelist in the session “Smart contracting – the new environment of business”

Alma Talent / Lakimiesliiton Koulutus
Privacy by Legal Design – Legal Design ja tietosuoja
29 May 2018   Helsinki, Finland
Helena Haapio & Stefania Passera: Legal Design sopimus- ja tietosuojaviestinnässä – CASE Juro

St. Petersburg International Legal Forum
15–19 May 2018   St. Petersburg, Russia
Helena Haapio, 16 May 2018: From Smart to Wise: Integrating Legal Design and Technology (Track 3. Smart Society / 3.1 Law and FinTech: Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Regulatory Sandboxes – see video recording at 1:00:30) and
17 May 2018: Better Privacy Communication by Design (Track 3. Smart Society / 3.12. Identification of Participants in Legal Relations of the Digital Environment and New Digital Services: Trend Towards Digital Economy – see video recording at 1:00:20)

International Association for Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM)
IACCM Europe Conference 2018
14–16 May 2018   Krakow, Poland
Thomas D. Barton, Helena Haapio & Stefania Passera, 14 May 2018, Workshop 4: Contract Design: Designing New Contract Genres – Integrating design, technology & law

University of Lapland
Making Law through Pro-Active Law and Legal Design Thinking
20 April 2018   Rovaniemi, Finland
Helena Haapio: Good Contracts by Design

Unispace
Challenging the norm – Legal innovations for the way we work today and tomorrow
14 March 2018   London, UK
Helena Haapio: Contracts like you’ve never seen them before

Finland Chamber of Commerce, Finnish Software Entrepreneurs Association, Finnish Association of Purchasing and Logistics, Technology Industries of Finland and Finnish Information Processing Association, TIVIA
Uudet IT2018-sopimusehdot ja GDPR
27 February 2018   Helsinki, Finland
Helena Haapio: IT2018-sopimusehtojen käytettävyys – Legal design -hanke

21th International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS 2018
22–24 February 2018   University of Salzburg, Austria
Helena Haapio, Margaret Hagan, Monica Palmirani & Arianna Rossi: Legal Design Patterns for Privacy
Helena Haapio, Robert de Rooy & Thomas D. Barton: New Contract Genres
Charlotta Kronblad & Helena Haapio: Smart Contracts – Not So Smart Legal Professionals?

Project Management Association Finland SIG-9/IACCM Finland & Helsinki Legal Hackers
Successful Contracts: Merging Legal Design, Proactive Law, and Technology
13 February 2018   Helsinki, Finland
Helena Haapio: New contract genres: from smart to wise, from text to visuals

Kyushu University
Seminar on Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Law
10 January 2018   Fukuoka, Japan
Helena Haapio: Designing Next Generation Contracts: Smart and Beyond

Sample Events and Presentations 2017 and before

The University of Western Australia
Comic and Creative Contracts: Improving Contracts through Innovation
7–8 December 2017   Perth, Australia
Helena Haapio, Thomas D. Barton, James Hazard & Stefania Passera, 7 December 2017: Successful Contracts: Integrating Legal Design and Technology

Leman Solicitors
Future of Law & Legal Technology Forum 2017: Proactive Law – the Competitive Advantage
30 November 2017   Dublin, Ireland
Helena Haapio: Legal Design for Next Generation Contracts: from Smart to Wise

Stockholm University, Digital Humanities Working Group
Workshop on Automation
20 November 2017   Stockholm, Sweden
Helena Haapio: Designing Next Generation Contracts: Smart and Beyond

Alma Talent / Lakimiesliiton Koulutus
Legal Design ja tietosuoja
3 October 2017   Helsinki, Finland
Helena Haapio: Legal Design sopimuksissa – sopimusmuotoilu käytännössä

Plain Language Association International (PLAIN)
PLAIN 2017 Conference
21–23 September 2017  Graz, Austria
Tetiana Tsygankova, Helena Haapio & Marika Salo, 22 September 2017: Communicating contracts more effectively
Rob Waller, Helena Haapio, Stefania Passera & Jenny Waller, 23 September 2017: Simplifying business contracts: language and design working together 

Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
Legal Design for Next Generation Contracts: from Smart to Wise
Master of Legal Management (MLM) Program
6 September 2017   Helsinki, Finland

MyData 2017
30 August – 1 September 2017  Tallinn, Estonia & Helsinki, Finland
Our Data Futures Workshop
30 August 2017  Tallinn, Estonia
Helena Haapio, Thomas D. Barton, James Hazard & Stefania Passera: Smart at the Back, Simple at the Front: Co-Creating Contracts, Consents and Policies that Work

Uppsala University
Uppsala Law and Management Research Seminar
30 May 2017   Uppsala, Sweden
Helena Haapio: Innovating Contracts: Turning Legally-Framed Documents to Usable Management Tools

Department of Future Technologies, University of Turku
Digitization for Developing Higher Education: an International Workshop 
30 March 2017   Turku, Finland
Helena Haapio: New Contract Design: From Lawyer-Readable to Human and Machine-Readable

Properta Asianajotoimisto Oy
Aineettoman ja kiinteän omaisuuden juridiikkaa 
22 March 2017   Helsinki, Finland
Helena Haapio: Sopimuskulttuurit murroksessa

20th International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS 2017
23–25 February 2017 University of Salzburg, Austria
Helena Haapio, Daniela Alina Plewe & Robert de Rooy, 23 February 2017: Contract Continuum: From Text to Images, Comics, and Code
Helena Haapio & James Hazard, 23 February 2017: Wise Contracts: Smart Contracts that Work for People and Machines
Pirjo-Leena Forsström, Helena Haapio & Stefania Passera, 23 February 2017: FAIR Design Jam: A Case Study on Co-Creating Communication about FAIR Data Principles
Marika Salo & Helena Haapio, 24 February 2017: Robo-advisors and Investors: Enhancing Human-Robot Interaction through Information Design
Thorsten Schoormann, Ralf Knackstedt & Helena Haapio, 23 February 2017: Modeling and Visualization in Law: Past, Present and Future

2016

Ministry of Education and Culture / Open Science and Research Initiative
Nordic Open Science and Research Forum 2016
21–23 November 2016   Helsinki, Finland
Helena Haapio & Stefania Passera, 23 November 2016: FAIR Design Jam

Dottir Attorneys, Hellon & Finland100
Legal Design Summit
16 November 2016   Helsinki, Finland
Helena Haapio: Contract Design

International Association for Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM)
supported by JSCAN, ProActive ThinkTank, & Nordic School of Proactive Law
Academic Forum 2016 – Contracting as Strategies for Excellence in Sustainable Relationships
The Strategy of Change: Driving Commercial Success and Improving Business Functions
24 October 2016    San Diego (CA), USA
Helena Haapio: Contract Design Manifesto
Carol Savage, George Siedel & Helena Haapio: Contract Simplification and Change Management: Lessons from a Case Study in Business Transformation

International Association for Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM)
Contract Simplification: Crafting Simple Usable Contracts
Ask The Expert / Thought-Leadership Webinar,  16 June 2016 (with Rob Waller & Stefania Passera)

Project Management Association Finland SIG-9/IACCM Finland
Contract Simplification
15 June 2016    Espoo, Finland
Helena Haapio: From conventional to useful, usable contracts

International Association for Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM)
IACCM EMEA Conference 2016
9–11 May 2016    Rome, Italy
Thomas Barton, Helena Haapio & Rob Waller, 9 May 2016: Workshop 2 Contract Simplification: Crafting Simple Usable Contracts

Swiss Re Center for Global Dialogue
International Conference on Contract Simplification 
29–31 March 2016     Rüschlikon/Zurich, Switzerland
Helena Haapio, 29 March 2016: Keynote 2 Complex contracts: how we got there – and how do we get out  
Summary
Presentation materials

19th International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS 2016
25–27 February 2016 University of Salzburg, Austria
Helena Haapio & Margaret Hagan, 25 February 2016: Design Patterns for Contracts
Helena Haapio, Daniela Alina Plewe & Robert de Rooy, 25 February 2016: Next Generation Deal Design: Comics and Visual Platforms for Contracting. Podcast available for Weblaw/Jusletter IT subscribers. Introduction in English and in German.
Marika Salo, Helena Haapio & Stefania Passera, 25 February 2016: Putting Financial Regulation to Work: Using Simplification and Visualization for Consumer-Friendly Information

2015

International Association for Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM)
IACCM Americas Forum 2015
6–8 October 2015    Henderson (NV), USA
Helena Haapio & Milva Finnegan, 8 October 2015: Closing Workshop The Art of Crafting Simple, Usable Contracts

International Association for Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM) supported by JSCAN, ProActive ThinkTank, & Nordic School of Proactive Law
Academic Forum 2015 – Contracting as Strategies for Excellence in Sustainable Relationships
6 October 2015    Henderson (NV), USA
Helena Haapio: A Positive Approach to Contracting and Law

Project Management Association Finland’s Contract Management Special Interest Group (CM SIG-9) and the International Association for Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM) Finland in collaboration with Fennia
Towards Agile, Simpler Contracts and Successful Relationships
14 September 2015     Helsinki, Finland
Helena Haapio and Stefania Passera: Transforming Contracts – from complex legal rules to usable business tools

Legal Design and Contract Simplification
Master Program of Legal Management (MLM) of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
2 September 2015   Aalto Design Factory, Espoo, Finland

International Association for Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM)
IACCM Europe Forum 2015
15–17 June 2015     London, UK
Helena Haapio & Rob Waller, 17 June 2015: Closing Workshop Improving Contract Clarity & Quality through Simplification, Clear Language & Visualization Practices

18th International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS 2015
26–28 February 2015     University of Salzburg, Austria
Michael Curtotti, Helena Haapio & Stefania Passera: Interdisciplinary Cooperation in Legal Design and Communication
Christina Ramberg & Helena Haapio: Making Contracts Work: Playing a Game for Enhanced Managerial-Legal Collaboration
Meng Weng Wong, Helena Haapio, Sebastiaan Deckers & Sidhi Dhir: Computational Contract Collaboration and Construction

2014

UN CISG Seminar on Status and Current Challenges: International Commercial Law from a Nordic and Baltic Perspective
18 September 2014     Aarhus University, Denmark,
Helena Haapio: Invited keynote, Responding to the Challenges: Making Contracts and the Law Work for Business 

Simplification Centre, Information Design Association and Clarity
Clearer Legal information
9 April 2014    London, UK
Helena Haapio: Visualisation in Commercial Contracts

17th International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS 2014
20–22 February 2014     University of Salzburg, Austria
Helena Haapio, 20 February 2014: Lawyers as Designers, Engineers and Innovators: Better Legal Documents through Information Design and Visualization
Stefania Passera, Helena Haapio & Michael Curtotti, 20 February 2014: Making the Meaning of Contracts Visible – Automating Contract Visualization 

Aalto PRO
Proactive Procurement: Contracting for Business Success and Problem Prevention
Executive Education Program, Diploma in Global Sourcing, Aalto University Professional Development (1-day workshop)
29 January 2014   Espoo, Finland
14 January 2013   Espoo, Finland
18 January 2012   Espoo, Finland

University of Zurich, Department of Law
International Conference on Multisensory Law
27–28 January 2014   Zurich, Switzerland
Helena Haapio, 27 January 2014: Making the Meaning of Contracts Visible: Automating Contract Visualization

International Association for Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM)
Bringing Design Thinking into Contract Design: Visual Tools for Better Contracting
Ask The Expert / Thought-Leadership Webinar,  14 January 2014 (with Stefania Passera)

2013

International Association for Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM)
Decision Trees, Negotiation Planners and Beyond: Visual Tools for Better Contracting and Communication
Ask The Expert / Thought-Leadership Webinar, 5 December 2013 (with George Siedel)

Legal Design Jam @ The Embassy Network
12 October 2013  San Francisco, CA, USA

Legal Design Jam @ Stanford University d.school
11 October 2013   Stanford, CA, USA

International Association for Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM)
IACCM Americas Forum 2013
8–10 October 2013    Phoenix, AZ, USA
Helena Haapio & Stefania Passera, 8 October 2013: Pre-Conference Workshop Contract Simplification & Visualization Workshop

ProActive ThinkTank, Nordic School of Proactive Law & IACCM
Academic Forum 2013 – Integrating Law and Contract Management: Proactive, Preventive and Strategic Approaches
8 October 2013    Phoenix, AZ, USA
Helena Haapio: Good Contracts: Bringing Design Thinking into Contract Design

Legal Design Jam @ Information Design Summer School
30 September – 4 October 2013  Syros, Greece

International Association for Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM)
IACCM Europe Forum 2013
23–25 April 2013   Berlin, Germany
Helena Haapio, 25 April 2013: Transforming Contracts from Legal Rules to User-Centered Communication Tools

University of Eastern Finland & Institut für Ostrecht München e.V.
Project Workshop: Flexibility in Business Contracting
20–22 March 2013   Regensburg, Germany
Helena Haapio, 20 March 2013: A Proactive Approach to Law

Symposium on Communicating Complex Information
25–26 February 2013    East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA
Helena Haapio & Stefania Passera, 26 February 2013:  Transforming Contracts from Legal Rules to Usercentered Communication Tools: a Human-Information Interaction Challenge

16th International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS 2013
20–22 February 2013     University of Salzburg, Austria
Helena Haapio, 22 February 2013: Designing Readable Contracts: Goodbye to Legal Writing – Welcome to Information Design and Visualization

2012

e-Stockholm ’12 Legal Conference
Internationalisation of law in the digital information society
XXVII Nordic Conference on Law and IT
21–23 November 2012     Stockholm, Sweden
Helena Haapio, 23 November 2012: Visualising Contracts for Better Business

Aalto University
Arctic Workshop 2012 – Innovation & Sourcing
Finnish Doctoral Program in Industrial Engineering and Management
15–16 November 2012    Espoo, Finland
Helena Haapio & Stefania Passera, 15 November 2012: Innovating Procurement Contracting: Merging Contract Design with Information Design

Aalto University School of Economics
Tieto näkyväksi – Visualizing Knowledge
17 September 2012     Helsinki, Finland
Stefania Passera & Helena Haapio: The Quest for Clarity in Contracts – Time for a Visual Turn

International Conference on Multisensory Law
hosted by C. H. Beck Publishers
29–30 October 2012   Munich, Germany
Helena Haapio, 29 October 2012: Visualizing Commercial Contracts: Merging Contract Design with Information Design

IACCM Finland / PMAF Contract Management SIG (SIG-9)
Member Meeting: The Future of Contracting
7 June 2012   Helsinki, Finland
Helena Haapio: User-centred Contract Design: New Directions in the Quest for Simpler Contracting

International Association for Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM)
IACCM EMEA 2012 Conference
25–26 April 2012     London, UK
Helena Haapio & Stefania Passera, April 25, 2012: User-Centered Contract Design: New Directions in the Quest for Simpler Contracting

Comprehensive/Integrative Law Conference – Lawyers as Peacemakers and Healers: New Directions in the Practice of Law
13–15 April 2012   Phoenix School of Law, Phoenix (AZ), USA
Helena Haapio, 14 April 2012: Proactive Law in Action: Making Contracts Work

University of Eastern Finland & Center for Independent Social Research
Project Workshop: Flexibility in Business Contracting
29–30 March 2012   St. Petersburg, Russia
Helena Haapio: Flexibility by Design: A Paradigm Shift in Complex Project Contracting

University of Salzburg
15th International Legal Informatics Symposium IRIS 2012
23–25 February 2012     Salzburg, Austria
Helena Haapio, 23 February 2012: Making Contracts Work for Clients: towards Greater Clarity and Usability
LexisNexis Best Paper Award – Read more: Press Release (in German) IACCM News and Contracting Excellence, March 2012.

European Commission, Directorate-General for Translation
Current Research and Initiatives on Clear Writing and Visualisation
3 February 2012   Brussels, Belgium
2 February 2012   Luxembourg

Pre-2012

If  P&C Insurance Company
Contractual Risk Management Workshop
2–3 November 2011    Oslo, Norway
26–27 February 2008    Lysaker, Norway
6–7 February 2007    Lysaker, Norway
15–16 March 2006   Helsinki, Finland
6–8 June 2000   Mariehamn, Åland Islands, Finland

International Association for Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM)
Proactive Law for Managers: A Hidden Source of Competitive Advantage
Ask The Expert / Thought-Leadership Webinar,  7 April 2011 (with George Siedel)

IIR Middle East
Contracts 2008 – Proactive Contracting for the 21st Century
27 April – 1 May 2008     Dubai, UAE
Helena Haapio, 27 April 2008: Pre-Conference Workshop A, “The Proactive Approach: Managing Contract Risks And Opportunities”
Helena Haapio, 28 April 2008: General Session, “Proactive Contracting For Better Business – The Way Forward”

IIR Middle East
4th Annual Contract Management Conference
25–29 March 2007    Dubai, UAE
Helena Haapio, 25 March 2007: General Session “Identifying Invisible Terms In International Contracts”
Helena Haapio, 26 March 2007: Panel Discussion “Getting An International Perspective On Dispute Resolution And Avoidance”
Helena Haapio, 27 March 2007: Workshop: “Identifying and Dealing with Risks in International Contracting”