Josef Schmid, the new Bavarian Minister of State for Justice, at the 5th Digital Justice Summit

Josef Schmid, the new Bavarian Minister of State for Justice, will speak at the 5th Digital Justice Summit on 23 November 2026 in the opening plenary session. He succeeds Georg Eisenreich, who has already attended the congress on several occasions. Together with Lower Saxony’s Minister of Justice, Dr Kathrin Wahlmann, Congress President Brigitte Zypries (former Federal Minister) and Dr Markus Sikora, President of the Federal Chamber of Notaries, Minister of State Schmid will discuss the progress and challenges of modernising the justice system at federal and state level.