AI, Ads & The Law — Inaugural Edition
A practitioner forum, not a panel — convened where strategy, law, and technology actually meet.
AI, Ads & The Law was conceived as JAA's flagship practitioner forum — a deliberately small, deliberately senior convening at the intersection of artificial intelligence, advertising, and the law. The inaugural edition was held in Accra in 2026, drawing strategists, in-house counsel, agency leads, and platform operators into a single room for two days of structured conversation.
The brief was simple to state and hard to execute: build a room where the conversation actually goes somewhere. That meant guarding against the usual failure modes — generalist panels, theoretical posturing, and the kind of audience that listens politely and forgets by the next quarter.
Approach
- 01Curated the guest list ourselves, operator by operator — practitioners with live decisions to make, not theorists with positions to defend.
- 02Structured the facilitation around working sessions rather than keynote-and-Q&A, with each session producing a written artefact the room could carry away.
- 03Framed the agenda cross-disciplinarily — strategy, law, technology, and commercial reality treated as a single problem rather than four adjacent ones.
- 04Documented the proceedings into a follow-up programme — turning the inaugural edition into the seed of the Quiet Conversations Monthly Series.
Outcome
“The measure of a convening is not who showed up. It is whether the conversation in the room was different from the one happening everywhere else — and whether anyone left with something they could act on by Monday.”
Work of this kind is built one engagement at a time.
If your brief sits at the same intersection — strategy, stakeholders, and trust — we'd like to hear it.