Speaker details

15th Annual London Finance and Capital Markets Tax Conference

26 Jan - 27 Jan 2026

The Savoy, London, England

Speaker information

Niklas Schmidt

Biography

Niklas Schmidt is a partner at the Vienna office of Wolf Theiss, one of the leading law firms in the CEE/SEE region. He has been admitted both as a lawyer and as a tax adviser. His areas of specialization include tax law, and private clients. He is very interested in tech topics, in particular crypto assets and AI. He is the founder of the "WT Crypto Academy", an educational initiative for non-crypto natives where he has trained more than a thousand lawyers in the last few years. Recently he has begun the "AI Lab for Lawyers" where he is teaching lawyers to automate business development and marketing through AI tools.

Session

Tax in the age of AI and digital assets

Tuesday 27 January (1740 - 1845)

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