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18 December 2015 – As I have noted before, the LawTech Europe Congress has become a “must attend” event for the e-discovery community in Europe. I might be a little biased because I am on the advisory board of the Congress and I lead several panels. But of all the e-discovery events to which I have been invited to participate as a board member over the years, this was the one I chose.
Fred Gyebi-Ababio, the founder and director of this most ambitious project, has achieved exactly what he intended: an event where attendees are engaged throughout with advanced topic presentations, panel discussions, and an array of the latest solutions from “A List” exhibitors and presenters. And Fred’s decision to move it to Brussels this year was a great move because it opened the event to more participants.
NOTE: we are back in Brussels next year on Monday, November 7, 2016 and Tuesday, November 8, 2016 so mark your calendars. And next year we are beefing up our Cyber Security track and Digital Forensics track and Artificial Intelligence track.
This year’s keynote speakers were stellar:
JUDGE ANDREW PECK
Judge Peck is at the epicenter of the e-Discovery universe with his landmark opinions touching on many of the questions surrounding the use of predictive coding in litigation. At the Congress this year he said “let’s not do the speech-from-a-lectern thing. Let’s you and I just sit at a table and chat”. So we enthralled the audience (well, my view anyway) with a chat about the litigation “techno ecosystem” and how he set a path for himself in that ecosystem, talking about the statistical elements and procedure of predictive coding, continuous active learning, and how new technology platforms such as instant messaging, Facebook and other social media outlets have changed the playing field.
I thought we needed to get some of this chat on tape so my colleague Ryan Costello grabbed him for a video interview:
For my French viewers: we have subtitled the interview in French. We did not have time to subtitle this in Dutch and German. Just click the “CC” button at the bottom right corner of the screen and the French subtitles will appear.
MARKUS HARTUNG
Markus Hartung is a lawyer and mediator, the director of the Bucerius Center on the Legal Profession at Bucerius Law School, Hamburg. He gave a brilliant keynote address technology and trends in the legal market, with a focus on whether it’s disruption, evolution .. just hype? All from the perspectives from the European market. As he noted “lawyers don’t look at technology in a consistent way. Either they over value it, or they under value it. The rapid changes and developments make it even worse”.
He used some great slides during his presentation so my colleague Ryan did an interview with him right after his keynote and we incorporated some of those slides.
For my German viewers: we have subtitled the interview in German. We did not have time to subtitle it in Dutch and French. Just click the “CC” button at the bottom right corner of the screen and the German subtitles will appear.
NOTE: more LawTech Europe Congress videos to come …
The Project Counsel Media team covered a whirlwind of events right after the Congress so we are a wee bit behind on video production. But we have some excellent videos which will launch in January:
- a chat with Sally Trivino, Director of Forensic Technology Solutions at PwC. You’ll find out why PwC’s capabilities in the area of international elec¬tronic discovery and forensics makes it the top of its class.
- a chat with Eric Laurent-Picard of the French forensics company ECOSIX who discusses the differences between U.S.-style discovery and French-style discovery
- a chat with Rob Moody, founder and CEO of Forensic Data Services, a recognized international expert in fraud analysis and detection, who talks about hacking, identity theft, IP theft, and cyber stalking.
- a chat with Nigel Murray, a person who has been at the forefront of the litigation support and eDisclosure industry in the UK and who has some very definite opinions on what “information governance really means.
So enjoy your holidays and see you in 2016.
