“How Artificial Intelligence and Data Science completely changed
the handling of regulatory requests”
IN BRUSSELS:
June 20th
IN AMSTERDAM:
June 27th
[ you will find links below for the details on each venue
and the process to register ]
The Benelux Chapter of the Association of Certified eDiscovery Specialists (ACEDS) has organized a unique panel discussion about the use of the latest AI and Data Science technology to deal with regulatory requests and investigations. The event will be presented at two locations: Amsterdam and Brussels. You will find links for all the details below.
We had an opportunity to interview Johannes Scholtes (Chief Strategy Officer of ZyLAB, and Chapter President of the ACEDS Benelux Chapter) on the event, and the operations of ACEDS:
As electronic data sets continue to grow and regulatory pressure continues to increase, answering regulatory request is continuing to be a huge challenge for law firms and corporations.
Competition, financial oversight, privacy, consumer protection, tax, fraud, bribery, health care, environmental, are just a few of the areas that are under increasing attention of the authorities.
For quite some time, regulatory agencies use advanced AI and data science to analyze data sets they obtain through dawn raids and information requests. In responds, more and more law firms and corporations now use the same technology to be at par with these agencies.
As a result, technology has completely changed how a regulatory request can be handled. Parties not using technology are a giant leap behind, get higher fines, take much longer and spent more resources handling such requests.
In the panel discussion, participants will share their view on and experiences with the use of the latest AI and Data Science technology to deal with regulatory requests and investigations. ACEDS members have guaranteed access to this event. For non-members there is limited availability.
THE BRUSSELS VENUE
About the speakers
Matthias Eisenbarth
Matthias is Senior Legal Counsel at AB InBev. He heads AB InBev’s European competition and antitrust legal department, which includes matters such as compliance, regulatory approvals, and other related issues. He is also the General Counsel for the European and Middle Eastern Exports Business Unit (EEME) covering 48 countries where he advises on all commercial law and corporate affairs issues. Matthias was previously an associate at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer where he focused on all aspects of competition law. Matthias is a German qualified lawyer and holds an LL.M in European Law from the College of Europe, Bruges.
Eline De Borger
Eline De Borger is e-auditor / data-analyst at FPS Finance. Her background in applied economics and prior work experience as a consultant at HP Enterprise Services awakened her interest in how technology impacts business environments.
Actively handling e-audit investigations as a federal agent of the Special Tax Inspectorate (STI), she brings hands-on field experiences to this panel. As project lead of FPS Finance preferred e-discovery platform, she knows the opportunities and challenges in presenting e-discovery solutions to a non-technical audience.
Daniel Colgan
Daniel is partner with DLA Piper and an experienced competition law practitioner, who has practiced in this field for more than 10 years.
Daniel’s practice includes advising on a wide range of complex competition law issues in an international context, covering both the EU and national regimes. In particular, he has managed numerous complex multi-jurisdictional merger control proceedings (including Phase II investigations before the European Commission) and major high-profile global cartel matters involving coordinated investigations by multiple competition authorities worldwide. Daniel’s areas of practice also include advising clients in relation to a wide range of horizontal and vertical arrangements, dominance investigations, competition litigation and State aid.
Evert-Jan Lammers
Evert-Jan is an economist, Registered Auditor and Registered Fraud Auditor. After studying economics, he worked 11 years as an auditor at KPMG, first in Amsterdam and then in Paris. There he worked for banks and large multinational corporations. Subsequently in 1997, he formed the forensic integrity practice of KPMG in Belgium, which he led for seven years. In 2004, he founded IFO/TRIFORENSIC, predecessor of EBBEN Partners.
Olivier Aelterman
Olivier Aelterman recently joined legal services provider Epiq as Regional Account Director. Olivier is based in Brussels. Prior to Epiq, Aelterman was Regional Director for Belgium and France at Consilio, provider of legal consulting and services. Before joining Consilio, Olivier spend eight years managing international eDiscovery programs for law firm Linklaters.
Johannes Scholtes
Johannes (Jan) Scholtes is a frequent public speaker and blogger discussing the disruptions and benefits of the AI and Data Science revolution for eDiscovery and LegalTech to lawyers, corporate counsels, governments and other teachers in LegalTech. Since 2008, he is appointed as full-professor holding the extra-ordinary Chair in Text-Mining of the Artificial Intelligence group at the Department of Data Sciences and AI from the Faculty of Science and Engineering at the University of Maastricht. Scholtes is also Chief Strategy Officer of ZyLAB. Since 1989, Scholtes has been involved in deploying in-house e-discovery and intelligent information governance software worldwide. In addition, Scholtes is president of the Benelux Chapter of the Association of Certified eDiscovery Specialists (ACEDS), focused on building a local community of e-discovery practitioners for the exchange of ideas, guidance, training and best practices.
For details on the Brussels venue and to register click here.
THE AMSTERDAM VENUE
About the speakers
Michiel Crombeen
Michiel works as a Forensic Technology and E-Discovery Specialist at the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM). The AFM is the national regulator for the Dutch Financial Markets. Michiel specializes in Investigative E-Discovery, Computer Forensics, Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), cyber security and various forms of investigations and is very much driven by technological innovations. Michiel participates in this panel on his personal capacity.
Manon Bovens
Manon is legal counsel of VodafoneZiggo. Manon has advised a broad range of multinational companies in complex cases before the European Commission and the ACM. Prior to VodafoneZiggo, Manon worked for law firm Stibbe.
Her practice covers all areas of competition law, including cartel investigations. She provides advice and training on competition law compliance and has a broad experience in advising on internal investigations and the use of legal tech.
Vincent de Bruijn
Vincent is a senior associate in the Corporate Advice, Litigation & Insolvency team of law firm Nauta Dutilh. He is an expert in cross-border internal investigations. Vincent advises large multinational companies in complex international matters regarding fraud, corruption and reporting obligations. Vincent has experience litigating in both civil and criminal courts, which equipped him well to manage the many aspects of corporate crime matters and internal investigations.
Marcel Westerhoud
Marcel is co-founder and partner at investigation and consultancy firm EBBEN Partners. Marcel is specialized in digital forensics and eDiscovery and has a broad experience in forensic fraud investigation in the private and public sector. Marcel is also member of the ACEDS Benelux Chapter board.
Thom Eijken
Thom is a Senior Manager with KPMG Forensic and has international experience in fraud-risk related projects in a wide variety of sectors. He leads his team to help businesses providing insight into large amounts of (financial) data, using innovative statistical and analytical procedures. This is done in a process of helping the client identify the most critical areas of risk within their business, translating these risks to analytical procedures specific for the client’s IT environment and presenting the results in a way that best fits the client’s needs (e.g. graphical dashboard, written report, etc.).
Johannes Scholtes
Johannes (Jan) Scholtes is a frequent public speaker and blogger discussing the disruptions and benefits of the AI and Data Science revolution for eDiscovery and LegalTech to lawyers, corporate counsels, governments and other teachers in LegalTech. Since 2008, he is appointed as full-professor holding the extra-ordinary Chair in Text-Mining of the Artificial Intelligence group at the Department of Data Sciences and AI from the Faculty of Science and Engineering at the University of Maastricht. Scholtes is also Chief Strategy Officer of ZyLAB. Since 1989, Scholtes has been involved in deploying in-house e-discovery and intelligent information governance software worldwide. In addition, Scholtes is president of the Benelux Chapter of the Association of Certified eDiscovery Specialists (ACEDS), focused on building a local community of e-discovery practitioners for the exchange of ideas, guidance, training and best practices.
For details on the Amsterdam venue and to register click here.
