Ayse Aydin-Sanli is a strategic advisor, speaker, and lawyer based in Rotterdam. With over 15 years of experience in contracting within complex construction, infrastructure, industrial, and energy projects, she advises clients, companies, and project teams at the intersection of strategy, contracts, risk, and execution. She has worked on both the client and contractor sides and therefore understands the interests, tensions, and dynamics of both perspectives. As the founder of ATSON LEGAL, she connects legal expertise to societal challenges. From this mission, she shares practical insights on how contracts, incentives, and power dynamics can either accelerate or hinder innovation. In doing so, she focuses on awareness, fair, and future-proof agreements within projects with significant public impact. As a speaker, she challenges professionals to rethink power, contracts, and responsibility. Her conviction: contract law primarily protects the agreements formally established between parties, with legal certainty as a strict standard. Public interests and fairness are considered through softer norms and are therefore less naturally and often more cautiously taken into account. Within contract law, it is one’s legal right to enter into a poor contract, even if it is to the detriment of the public interest. This is where imbalance arises. Precisely for this reason, the energy transition calls for fresh thinking, a sense of ownership, and the courage to break existing patterns. There is much to be gained.