ILTA Conference Blog

Registration takes place in the ARIA Conference Center, beginning at noon. ILTA members can proceed to the third floor, vendors and consultants register on the first floor. There will be many staffers on hand to make the registration process quick and easy.  

ILTA members can meet from 4:00 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. in our “Communities of Interest.”  With ten topics providing the backdrop for this networking opportunity, it’s a great way to start ILTA 2010 and gain even more value from your overall experience. Check your Conference Journal (obtained at check in) for meeting rooms and topic areas.      

The Speaker Meet and Greet will take place from 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. in Juniper 4 for a brief orientation and networking.

The Conference Orientation for ILTA members will take place from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. in Juniper 1. Navigating conference and maximizing the value of your attendance can be daunting no matter how many times you’ve attended. Let us give you some tips and tricks to make the most of your conference experience — and another great opportunity to meet your peers! 
   
The Opening Reception, Opening Act: ILTA 2010 runs from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. This traditional kickoff to our conference week will give members and vendors a chance to enjoy connecting informally with ILTA friends. Join ILTA’s Officers and Conference Committee as they welcome members and vendors old and new to the conference. Enjoy hors d’oeuvres and liquid refreshments in the foyer areas on all three levels of the conference center. There will be lively entertainment as well as the opportunity for quiet conversation.

The registration desks are open till 8:00 p.m. on Sunday evening and open at 6:00 a.m. on Monday.

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Several of our vendors have demo rooms and hospitality suites reserved during the conference for one-on-one demonstrations and meetings. This is a great opportunity to have private time with vendors to see new products or to discuss your current installation. A schedule of demo room assignments can be found in the Digital Program Guide and will be included in each ILTA Globe (conference daily newsletter). It is also available on the mobile app! If there are specific products that you’re investigating, we recommend you contact the vendor before conference and schedule a time to stop by the booth and/or make an appointment for a meeting in the demo room.

State of the Art Demo Track

Spanning all four days, a full track of sessions provides a forum for vendors to demo their state of the art products and services. This track is located in Starvine 11 Monday through Wednesday and Starvine 8 on Thursday in the conference center.  For a list of featured vendors, see the Conference Overview, and for session descriptions and speakers see the Detailed Session Agenda. The information is also available in the Digital Program Guide and via our mobile app.

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Have fun and earn a chance at some prize money while you learn to navigate the beautiful ARIA Resort and Conference Center. In the process, you’ll also learn to navigate the important conference resources before getting on property and in the early days of conference. There will be a $500 prize awarded on Thursday evening to someone who completes the scavenger hunt and submits the correct answers by the deadline.  Answers to the clues will be found in the conference e-news, the conference website, the ARIA website, the mobile app/website and onsite at ARIA. Answers will be entered into a Word document, which will be provided online and on paper, and can be submitted  online or on paper. The Scavenger Hunt begins today and ends on Monday night, August 23rd. The answer to the first question: “What’s the SSID and password for free wireless service?” can be found in the Digital Program Guide. Download the game card or pick it up on property.

Sponsored by Iron Mountain. Visit them in booth #937.

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ILTA 2010′s educational program and all details regarding the conference are now available via the program guide. This guide provides information on sessions, speakers, exhibitors and all resources available at the event. The “fully digital” version allows you to access additional content via hyperlinks, print specific pages or create a downloadable PDF from the site. It is optimized for viewing on screen and is not intended for print.

Its primary advantage is that it allows you to have access to these resources at any time from a web browser. Additionally, you can view a more traditional PDF of the session details and print those pages that are required for your planning. Outside of these “print-like” formats, the Plan Your Week tool from the conference site allows you to create a custom itinerary online.
 
Take some time to map out your session strategy before you arrive at conference, and help us “go green” by using the online tools and/or the new mobile app. With the introduction of our new mobile app this year, paper becomes even less a necessity.

If you rely on paper documentation, it’s best to print your information before you arrive, though we do provide print stations so that you can take advantage of the various ways to print content once you’re on property. It’s best to plan ahead and map our your strategy, as we know there are multiple sessions in each time slot that will vie for your attention.

Digital Program Guide
 
Overview of Sessions in PDF

Detailed Session Agenda in PDF

Plan Your Week from the Conference Site

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We are pleased to announce the development of the ILTA 2010 Mobile App, which will provide easy access to the conference agenda, educational session details, and member-only access to the list of attendees with the ability to easily message other attendees from the app. Educational session evaluations can be entered through the mobile app, and easy access to the Twitter hashtag for ILTA 2010 will be featured. Users will also be able to define and manage a personal agenda. It’s a very convenient way to have the most current conference details at your fingertips. We’ll provide instructions on how to download the app to various mobile devices by mid-August: http://conference.iltanet.org/sp/Mobile-App.aspx

Just whetting your APPetite!

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We’re partnered with LegalQB.com to enhance the experience of our members attending the conference, as well as those who could not make it this year. Members can access our virtual exhibit hall and demo rooms on the site between now and the end of September. In addition to reviewing the products and services of our exhibitors, you can also use the site to schedule booth and demo room times directly with the vendors.
 
Read more about our virtual exhibit hall and register here.

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Start each day with a noteworthy session, starting with Monday’s keynote address: Five Secrets to Put Strategic Unity on the Fast Track delivered by Jason Jennings, authority on business leadership and productivity. Watch Jason’s invitation to ILTA 2010. He follows up his keynote with an “Ask the Expert” Q&A session.
 
Super sessions take center stage Tuesday through Thursday. Check out the details.

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Debuting at last year’s conference, our Communities of Interest provide a great way to meet your peers who share a common professional interest. With ten topics providing the backdrop for this networking opportunity, it’s a great way to start ILTA 2010 and gain even more value from your overall experience.
 
This is an opportunity for networking among various groups before the official beginning of the conference. There is no preregistration required for these networking events, and an ILTA member attendee will facilitate the discussion in each group. Coffee, soft drinks, flip chart and chairs will be provided.
 
On Sunday afternoon, August 22 from 4:00 – 4:45, plan to meet your peers in one of these communities:
 
    Finance 
    Law Department
    Law2020 – Myth or Reality
    Project Managers 
    Mobile Apps
    SharePoint
    Small Firm
    Trainers
    Tweetup (and other Social Networking)
    Uber Geeks (includes OSS and Novell)

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There are multiple ways for you to view the rich educational content that is planned this year. View the details of the educational program and/or create your own conference Itinerary from http://conference.iltanet.org/RightMenu/Planyourweek.aspx.
 
Digital Program Guide: We will post the complete ILTA 2010 Program Guide on the conference website by August 16th. This is a continuation of our green initiatives that have been part of our planning for the past few years.
 
Session Handouts and Presentations: Likewise, as part of our green initiatives, we will be posting session handouts and presentations on the conference website http://conference.iltanet.org. These can be downloaded and printed by attendees after August 10th or onsite at conference at stations specifically set up for that purpose. We do NOT pre-print copies of handouts for the sessions for attendees. Many handouts are provided on a thumb drive in your conference materials.
 
Audio Recordings: You can take home a piece of ILTA 2010 or “attend from afar” by downloading many of the audio recorded sessions starting on Saturday, August 28th. Most sessions will be available for purchase and immediate download in MP3 format. Individual or multiple sessions can be selected. All major credit cards will be accepted.
 
ILTA TV Live! is back for a return engagement at ILTA 2010.
Broadcasting live for two hours each day, the program will feature interviews with ILTA peers and experts on topics that include:
    Strategic Unity and Law2020
    Alternative Staffing and Pricing Models
    Disruptive Technologies
    The 2020 CIO
    Social Media Policy Development
    The Cloud and Law2020
    Cloud Technologies
    Successful E-Mail Management
    Enterprise 2.0
    Mobility
    Knowledge Management
    Successful Office 2010 Deployment
    Integrating SharePoint and Office 2010
    Web and Video Conferencing and Matter Collaboration
    Records Management of the Future
 
Attendees can watch the interviews live, and those not able to attend can tune-in for a live video broadcast, or easily access the recordings after the conference.  Check out the full 3 day programming schedule at:  http://conference.iltanet.org/MainMenu/EducationalProgram/TV-Guide.aspx 
 
ILTA TV Live! is produced by ii3.

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We’re pleased to announce that we are processing member registration for our annual conference to be held August 22 – 26 at the ARIA Resort  in Las Vegas, NV.

Registration information, forms and online registration can be found here:  http://conference.iltanet.org/MainMenu/MemberRegistration/RegistrationInfo.aspx

This online registration process is provided to our member firms and legal departments.  If you are a vendor or consultant to the legal community, you do not register here.   Vendor and consultant registration will be handled by Peggy Wechsler.

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by Maureen Babcock

Ah, post con.  That’s conference committee speak for “We made it through another year.  Where the heck is the spa in this place?”  ILTA ’09 may be over but only in the sense that we are leaving the Gaylord.  Here’s my list of ways to bring the VALUE of conference back home for you, for your peers and for your firm or company:

• Promote ILTA membership to others when you get “home.” The value of webinars, product demos, regional and city meetings, online and archived materials, listservs and networking with ILTA peers doesn’t stop this week.  It continues all year.  Let the rest of your IT, Records, Finance, KM, Risk Management, senior management, project management, lit support, and marketing personnel in on the ILTA benefits.  If your firm or company is a member, so is everyone that works there!
• Review what you learned and make plans to apply it or promote it sooner rather than later.
• Don’t let the contacts you made grow cold. Follow up with a hello in person or virtually.
• Get on the ILTA website and sign up for the E-Groups that interest you.  Stumped by a problem?  Share it on the appropriate E-Group and get feedback from members who may have resolved it before.  Share information from the E-Groups with others in your firm that could benefit from it.
• And finally, a shameless plug for conference committee and speakers for ILTA’10. Interested in serving on conference committee?  Have a suggestion for an educational session for next year?  Willing to share what you know with others as a speaker at next year’s conference?  Contact any ILTA officer or ILTA staff member.  We’ll get you connected to the right person.

SYINFI’10.  That’s ILTA-speak for “See You In Nashville For ILTA ’10!”

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by Maureen Babcock

We are coming to the part of conference that separates the men from the boys and the women from the girls.  Thursday at conference is the equivalent of hitting the wall during a marathon run.  The sheer volume of information that you have been exposed to can overload your brain with lactic acid no matter how good a note taker you are or how reliable a photographic memory you have.  Feeling the pain?

• Give yourself a head start. Load up on power breakfast food so you can take in the fab sessions that fill all of Thursday.
• Give yourself an out. Remember that thumb drive you got at registration?  It has all the session presentations, handouts and pre-session learning materials on it that were submitted by speakers.
• Give yourself the gift of knowing you are not alone. Meet up with your peers and hold each other up to take full advantage of everything still going on today.
• Give yourself a pat on the back. Tonight you can sit back, enjoy the final networking event of conference, reconnect with everyone you have met and congratulate yourself on making it through.

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by Maureen Babcock

Shall we play a game? Let’s start with this:  ”I just met the Project Management PGVP who asked me to go to lunch with her and my RVP so we could discuss opportunities for CRs in my home state.”  Know what I just said?

The ILTA machine runs on the power of its volunteers, fine folks who labor all year to provide the educational and networking options that we have come to expect.  This network of Vice Presidents headed by the Board of Directors and is organized into:

• Peer Group Vice Presidents (PGVPs)
• Regional Vice Presidents (RVPs)
• and Conference Vice Presidents (Sometimes called M&M for Michele and Maureen, but that’s a one-time thing for ILTA ’09)

PGVPs work closely with their steering committees to develop and deliver educational content and opportunities on specific topics for the ILTA membership as a whole.  RVPs work with City Reps (CRs) to schedule and deliver networking and educational content all year within defined ILTA regions (which now extend globally!).  The two Conference Vice Presidents (or co-chairs) work with the conference committee general track chairs, track coordinators and PGVPs to produce the educational content presented at conference each year.  All of these volunteers are supported professionally and dependably by the ILTA staff headed by Randi Mayes, the Executive Director.

So!  Interested in specific areas of legal technology?  Check out the ILTA website and get on the E-Group for that peer group.  Seek out the PGVP at conference; they can be found in the sessions for their track.

Making contact and talking shop with others in your general geographic area more to your liking?  Ask who the RVP is for your region.  Conference committee or the chance to speak at conference sound like your thing?  Flag down someone wearing a ribbon on their conference badge, check the ILTA or the conference websites or even stop by the “Ask ILTA” booth.

The value that your participation gives to other ILTA members is exceeded exponentially by the value you and your firm or company receive.

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Kevin Hunt has been posting some great interviews on Legal Current. Check out the blog here.

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Cheap prices for audio books and e-books: booksonboard.com

Have a happy Tuesday!

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by Maureen Babcock

Let’s talk about the other half of the ILTA ’09 Conference theme “Leading Technology | Optimizing Value.”  LEADERS. There are more legal technology CIOs, Technology Directors,  and Technology Partners from firms and law departments of every size and every geographic dispersal per capita at conference than you can possibly take the advantage of meeting. Not to mention seasoned managers in the ranks of everything from infrastructure organization to business strategy to application support to marketing to remote connectivity, to, ….well, you get the picture.

And did I mention the vendors?  All there, representing the leading technologies that are the tools of our trade.  At your fingertips in the vendor hall.

All friendly. Approachable.  And jam-packed with knowledge.  One stop shopping.  See where I am going with this?  Enough said.

Well, enough said except for one last thing.  “Tangled Web” Trivia Answer:
Cheap prices for audio books and e-books …
booksonboard.com

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Keynote speaker Tom Koulopoulos took a very intense look at innovation, and was a huge hit. More food for thought here. And more here.

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The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

ILTA season is our favorite time of year. It’s also the busiest. 

Conference shines above all other industry events. It provides an unparalleled opportunity for us to connect in person with the legal community, educate ourselves about emerging trends and network with peers and colleagues – all in a relaxed and spirited atmosphere. The volunteers and staff at ILTA do a wonderful job putting together a consistently amazing experience.

A highlight for us is the annual IntApp ILTA wine tasting event. We invite clients, prospective clients and partners to relax and enjoy some wine, cheese and chocolate (and the occasional smuggled beer) amidst the hustle and bustle of the conference. 

To keep things interesting, each year we invite several clients to pre-taste and present a selection of wines to their peers. Past wine selectors have included the teams at: DLA Piper, Finnegan, Cozen O’Connor, Davies Ward, K&L Gates, O’Melveny & Myers, McCarthy Tétrault, Vedder Price, Orrick, Paul Weiss, and several others. (Oh and MoFo, who’s been particularly passionate about selecting the Pinot for several years running.)

In recent years, we’ve added a few twists to keep things interesting… Past attendees may remember the infamous “Logo Wall” of 2007. (We thought the adhesive would be strong enough… but found several firms waiting in friendly competition to see if a rival’s logo would fall or not.)

Last year, we really wanted to surprise folks and took a chance on the “Logo Floor,” an acrylic-covered logo menagerie of 125 clients. There was some internal concern on our end about how people would feel about walking on this… but it turned out to be a big hit. 

We’ve cooked up a few surprises for 2009. We always try to maintain the flair, class and integrated splash of fun people have come to expect from IntApp.

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by Maureen Babcock

The big word for today is KEYNOTE.  Tom Koulopolous is diving into the deep waters many of us have been in for the last year with a message for all:  Innovation is not equivalent to Invention.  In times when we are being asked to do more for less, he contends that survival of the fittest is in favor of  those who spend what time, money and resources they have on innovation and not invention.  Asking “Why?” is and will be the modus operandi instead of just “How much?” and “When?”  Watch for Tom and conference attendee interviews broadcast LIVE on ILTA TV today from 12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. EDT.

Ok, I lied.  A few more words.  Getting the most value from conference is a task for ILTA to provide the opportunity and for YOU to take advantage.  Make the effort to meet new people and expand your professional social network.  Of all things that make ILTA what it is, making those connections and having access to them throughout the year is one of the best values in our industry.  Leave any social hesitancy you may have brought with you in your room’s safe.  Seize the day!  Be shy later.

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A lot of people are registering, attending some of their “Communities of Interest,” and now meeting for an orientation. It’s a fun-packed madhouse of energy!

Here’s a quick scan of some other blogs that are talking about ILTA ’09:

You’re not alone if you’re curious about e-discovery.

There’s some excitement with Sunday’s meetings and afternoon events.

We’ll post more tomorrow.

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