Chairperson Welcome & Opening Remarks

Marlene Gebauer, Assistant Director of Innovation (Americas)
Mayer Brown

Keynote Address: The Path to Enterprise Grade Generative A.I. + Law

• Discuss the current state and capabilities of generative AI and law
• Highlight the balance between fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) versus fear of missing out (FOMO)
• Consider how generative AI impacts the future of KM

Moderator:
Josh Hogan, Sr. Product Manager
NetDocuments

Tiffany O’Neil, Director, Knowledge Management & Technology Innovation 
Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP

Fireside Chat: The Power of the Imagination: Risk and Reward in AI

• Understand Security Concerns: How can you use LLM and AI and not expose confidential or protected information that the law firm deals with both internally, and for its clients? 
• Debate around Hallucination Concerns: The recent issue with the New York attorney using ChatGPT to write a brief and how the AI tool fabricated cases, citations, and issues that simply did not exist. 
• Discuss Legal Specific Results and Timeliness: LLMs are not easy to update and absorb new cases, laws, regulations, and trends in the legal market. How can a law firm or in-house legal team rely upon the information it provides in a world that is constantly being updated? 

Moderator:
Alex Smith, Global Search & AI Product Lead
iManage

Cynthia Cole, Partner
Baker McKenzie

The Art of Persuasion: Incentivizing Attorneys to Embrace Cutting-Edge Tools

• Explore persuasive techniques to overcome resistance to change and “buying” attorney time that could be used on client work  
• Discover effective strategies for influencing and motivating new and seasoned attorneys  
• Hear about creative roll out strategies that can be adopted and implemented, that really work   

Moderator:
Andrew Brinkman, Global Director of Knowledge Management
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson

Panelists:
Sara Miro, Managing Attorney and Director of Knowledge 
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

Evan Shenkman, Chief Knowledge & Innovation Officer
Fisher & Phillips LLP

Alex Chiang, Vice President of Customer Success
SimplyAgree

Tools & Technology Spotlights

Leading service providers will showcase their offerings in a quick-pitch setting. Evaluate the latest and greatest tech tools to bring back to your organization.

Becky Bloom, Senior Product Manager
iManage

DANGER Data overload – Finding a Needle in a Haystack

• Learn how to better serve clients, by ensuring that data collected is accurate, up-to-date, and relevant to your practice
• Share best practices on how to connect different data collections from business development and IT to improve law firm profitability
• Understand how data is stored and minimize the risks of a data breach to your firm

Moderator:

Josh Blandi, CEO and Co-Founder
Unicourt

Panelists:

Keli Lea Whitnell, Director of Firm Intelligence
Troutman Pepper

Vishal Agnihotri, Senior Director of Knowledge and Innovation
Alston & Bird

Courtney Toiaivao, Director of Research Services 
Holland & Knight LLP 

Deeper Data Yields Deeper Insights: How Firms Are Mining Unstructured Data to Create Rich, Tailored Practice Intelligence Capabilities to Meet Their Clients’ Needs

• Learn how firms work to expand the pool of practice data they have based on key documents
• Explore different approaches and perspectives that facilitate the drawing of discrete, structured data from firm documents
• Examine tools and techniques that help generate easy-to-access insights for lawyers

Moderator:
Barry Solomon, VP M&A Integration
Litera

Panelists:
Cindy Thurston Bare, Chief Data and Innovation Officer
Frost Brown Todd LLP

Andrew Baker, Director of Data Analytics
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Rachel Shields Williams, Director, Knowledge Management Enablement & Insights,
Sidley Austin LLP

Real stories from Legal Technology Implementation

• Hear real stories about legal technology implementation and the challenges faced by legal professionals 
• Engage in open discussions with KM professionals about the legal technology implementation process 
• Evaluate the potential benefits and risks of implementing legal technology in your own firm 

Moderator:
Tiffany O’Neil, Director, Knowledge Management & Technology Innovation 
Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP 

Panelists:
Colette Schuler, Senior Knowledge Operations Lead
BCLP

Felicia Morris, PMP, Director of Legal Technology Solutions
Baker Donelson

Knowledge in the New Work Era: Challenges & Opportunities

• Implementing effective communication strategies in the new work environment to enhance knowledge exchange 
• Fostering knowledge sharing among hybrid workers to facilitate the curation and organization of knowledge resources 
• Promoting collaboration and teamwork among hybrid workers (and clients) to leverage knowledge resources and more efficiently create better work product 

Moderator:
Brian Jenson Director of Operations
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Panelists:
David F. Majors, Knowledge Management Director
Sidley Austin LLP

Leanna R. Simon, Director, Research and Knowledge Management
Honigman LLP

Catherine A. Bernard, Professional Support Lawyer – US Litigation & Dispute Resolution
Mayer Brown LLP 

Closing Remarks

Marlene Gebauer, Assistant Director of Innovation (Americas)
Mayer Brown