On 11th June 2026, our co-founders Sam and Jamie were fortunate enough to attend the LegalGeek Growth Conference in Woolwich, London. Read below to hear what Sam had to say about attending his first Legal Tech conference with Zero Point AI.
Stepping into a room filled with smart, innovative minds at the intersection of technology and law was a daunting but exciting prospect. With our technology background coming through the engineering sector, it was understandable why we felt that way. However, what we found when we got there was that lawyers and engineers aren't so different.
While the medium by which we convey our knowledge may differ slightly, the problems we face in our professional lives all come from similar areas. Everyone in the room was discussing the same thing — how AI can (A) reduce friction in our day-to-day working lives, and (B) help our businesses adapt and grow to places we might not have thought possible.
Many of the conversations both Jamie and I had revolved around the same realisation — that in order to get the most out of technology, first we must understand the human element behind each problem. Starting with people first, and working our way up to a solution for a given workflow stood out as the clearest path to success.
Domain expertise is often seen as a must, but sometimes having an outside perspective is just what we need to solve a challenge. Sometimes when we are too close to a problem, it's easy to get "bogged down" in the detail, and provided we have the people around us to explain and re-live the problem, a wider lens can often lead to a powerful solution.
The Missing Conversation: Sustainability
One area that took us by surprise was the lack of discussion surrounding the carbon impact of AI. In technology, and indeed across many areas of business and economics, it's common that sustainability is an afterthought.
As a new technology emerges, people are excited about the prospect of a "new toy," and developers focus on large-scale improvements and high performance. Once a tool is performing at an acceptable standard, the focus turns to improving efficiency and accounting for environmental impact. This is known in economics as the Environmental Kuznets Curve.
This cycle needs to change — we can't keep following this same path of ignoring environmental impact until we're forced to account for it. Fortunately, in the case of AI, firms can already make decisions that will benefit them both economically and sustainably. It's clear that AI can be used across a whole host of workflows in the field of law, and not all of them need a brand new frontier model to provide value.
Building AI Sustainably
That's what we at Zero Point AI want to show: that AI can be developed, implemented and maintained in a sustainable way. Whether that's through local, on-prem models or smaller, more efficient cloud-based models — not to mention this opens up more doors from a security standpoint.
If there's one thing we took away from Legal Geek Growth, it's that the legal sector is ready to talk seriously about AI adoption — but the conversation around how that AI is built, hosted, and run still has a long way to go. We left London more convinced than ever that sustainability and capability don't have to compete, and we're looking forward to bringing that conversation to more rooms like this one.
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