Full Name
Danielle Benecke
Job Title
Global Head, Applied AI
Company
Baker McKenzie
Speaker Bio
Danielle leads Baker McKenzie's Applied AI practice, an award-winning team of lawyers and technologists delivering AI-enabled solutions for complex, high-stakes business and regulatory challenges. Her team partners directly with global clients to design and deploy intelligent, defensible workflows across major transactions, incident response, compliance programs, and operational matters.

A technology lawyer by background, Danielle has spent her career advising global tech leaders on AI development, commercialization, and responsible use. She focuses on unlocking new legal capabilities that were not previously achievable, using frontier AI to build bespoke workflows embedded into live mandates.

Danielle is recognized in Chambers Global, Lawdragon Global 100, and Forbes Top Lawyers, and has received industry honors including Law.com Innovator of the Year and Financial Times Changemaker of the Year. She holds a Master's from Stanford and serves as a venture coach with Stanford Law School's CodeX.
Danielle Benecke