AI Clauses in Vendor Contracts: Practical Insights for Legal Teams (Feb. 19, 2026)
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As AI moves from experimentation into core business operations and offerings, vendor contracts are becoming the primary mechanism for establishing transparency, allocating risk, defining rights, and enforcing governance. In-house legal teams are increasingly asked to negotiate AI-specific clauses addressing training rights, data usage, indemnities, auditability, synthetic content, and emerging agent workflows, often without clear market standards.
This interactive discussion brings together in-house lawyers from diverse industries to examine how AI clauses are actually showing up in vendor agreements today, where negotiations are breaking down, and which approaches are proving workable in practice. Drawing on observed contract patterns and real-world experience, the panel will explore how AI is reshaping traditional contracting assumptions and what legal teams should prioritize in 2026.
Attendees will gain practical insights into current market trends, common negotiation challenges, and strategies for structuring AI clauses that balance innovation, compliance, and operational risk. The session is designed to encourage open discussion and shared learning rather than prescribe one-size-fits-all solutions.
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LockedOlga V. Mack
CEO
TermScout
Olga V. Mack is a legal technologist, CEO, and former General Counsel who works at the intersection of law, technology, and organizational decision-making. Her work focuses on how contracts function as governance infrastructure, particularly as AI moves into core business operations. She advises enterprises on risk allocation, transparency, and contract design, and has founded and scaled multiple legal technology companies, including one acquired by LexisNexis. Olga teaches at Berkeley Law and writes extensively on AI governance, contracts, and legal systems under uncertainty.
Nada Alnajafi
Sr. Corporate Counsel & Legal Operations Lead / Founder
Franklin Templeton / Contract Nerds
Nada Alnajafi is an award-winning in-house attorney, author, and founder. Nada currently serves as Sr. Corporate Counsel and Legal Ops Lead for Franklin Templeton, a Fortune-500 global financial services organization, where she is building the first global legal ops program and negotiating high-impact technology and commercial deals. Since 2020, she dedicates much of her time outside of work to creating resources about contracts for lawyers and contracts professionals, including via Contract Nerds (recently acquired by Docusign), her book Contract Redlining Etiquette, and her LinkedIn posts.
Matthew A. Thomas
Senior Corporate Counsel
Elastic
Matthew is an attorney licensed in the State of Texas with 17 years' work experience in end-to-end in-house corporate legal practice focused heavily on procurement and contract negotiations and oversight, including Process and Policy development, Workflow Development, Contract Drafting, Negotiations, Management and Vendor Oversight in Mortgage Services, Energy, SaaS, Hyperscaler/Infrastructure, Artificial Intelligence, and Regulatory Compliance. In his personal life, Matthew has been an avid parkour athlete professionally and recreationally for nearly twenty years and is a recent leukemia survivor and cancer research and treatment advocate.
Will Dugoni
Director, Head of Commercial Legal
Webflow, Inc.
Will Dugoni is the Director and Head of Commercial Legal at Webflow, where he leads the company’s global commercial, product, and vendor contracting strategy. He has negotiated AI-related terms across fast-moving product, data, and enterprise partnership cycles and brings experience from legal and business roles at Uber, Intel, Red Bull Media, Sony Pictures, and Google. A former Division I athlete, he is known for a practical, business-aligned approach to structuring contracts that balance innovation and risk.
