ELTA kicks off its annual conference on Tuesday in Tel Aviv!

ELTAcon 2022 will take place on Tuesday in Tel Aviv!

If you are around, you can still join us and meet with our network and many of our Ambassadors (and it’s free for ELTA members!).

We also have a full agenda with remarkable speakers:

08:30 – 09:00

Check-in

Check-in, networking, and breakfast

09:00 – 09:10

Introduction

09:10 – 10:00

Welcoming Words

Holger Zscheyge, ELTA President

Zohar Fisher, Tech&Law (Israel)

Ziv Katzir, Head of the National Program for AI Infrastructure at Israel Innovation Authority

Pedro Tavares, Secretary of State for Justice of Portugal

10:10 – 10:40

Keynote Address

“AI can do things you wouldn’t imagine, and you too can make AI”

Dr. Eyal Shnarch, Manager of the Language and Retrieval research group at IBM Research.

Eyal, a manager of a group at IBM Research, will present Project Debater – the first machine to successfully debate a world champion, and Label Sleuth – a free, open-source, no-code system that enables anyone to create AI. Eyal will explain how these systems work and how you can use Label Sleuth today to create AI models that would make your work much easier.

10:00 – 10:10

7 KEY Fundamentals #1 CREATIVITY

10:40 – 10:55

Coffee Break

11:00 – 11:30

Developing Legal Tech Strategy

Sebastian Hartmann, Vice President Alliances of Intapp

How to develop an execution-ready technology strategy for your law firm / legal department that aligns with your business / firm strategy? This presentation will walk the audience through a compact methodical approach to a legal tech strategy, including key frameworks and exemplary outputs – as well as emerging trends impacting strategic options (e.g., industry clouds).

10:55 – 11:00

7 KEY Fundamentals #2 COMMUNICATION

11:30 – 11:35

7 KEY Fundamentals #3 COOPERATION

11:35 – 12:05

Business Development and Growths Strategies for Legal Tech Companies

Nurit Kenner Yahav, CEO of Boardirector by Sqlink

12:05 – 12:15

7 KEY Fundamentals #4 CREDIBILITY

12:15 – 12:45

Finding the Right Fish in a Very Big Pond

Tamar Haramati, Head of Innovation at Shibolet Law Firm

Jon Bartman, Head of Jameson Legal Tech.

How to identify the right technology in a world of choices. This co-presentation by Tamar Haramati (Head of Innovation at Shibolet Law Firm) and Jon Bartman (Head of Jameson Legal Tech) will discuss how to approach the market correctly, build or buy, ROI discussion, and pricing solutions.

14:25 – 14:45

Choosing the Focus – Innovation vs. Solution

While developing a tech solution for a painful problem, focusing on being innovative should not be the goal. Morly will share her experience developing a Reg-Tech solution – how to set the goals and how failures or success may change them.

Morly Dory, Founder & CEO of Global Pil

12:45 – 13:30

Lunch Break

13:35 – 14:05

Bizdev for Technology Companies/Solutions – Infiltration Manual

Aidas Kavalis – Co-founder of Amberlo – How to prepare and grow your legal-tech startup internationally? Aidas Kavalis, a co-founder at Amberlo, will share his experience building and expanding Amberlo from the Baltics to more than 70 countries.

14:10 – 14:25

Industry Standards for Efficient and Innovative Legal Services – SALI Standardization, Progress Update

Damien Riehl, VP, Litigation Workflow and Analytics Content — Fastcaseof SALI Alliance – Standards Advancement for the Legal Industry

Learn how the legal industry is coalescing around the legal-data standard SALI, which is permitting stakeholders — vendors (e.g., Thomson Reuters, Lexis, Fastcase, NetDocuments), firms (e.g., Perkins Coie, Ogletree), and companies (e.g., Microsoft, Intel) — to make legal data interoperable.

14:45 – 15:00

Coffee Break

13:30 – 13:35

7 KEY Fundamentals #5 CARING

14:05 – 14:10

7 KEY Fundamentals #6 CONSISTENCY

15:00 – 15:05

7 KEY Fundamentals #7 CHOICE

15:05 – 15:35

Showdown: Law firms vs. New Law Companies

Panel moderated by Elliott Gotkine, Journalist, Presenter and Speaking Coach

Jackie Donner, Co-founder, and CEO of Lawflex
Yair Geva, Partner, Herzog
Philipp Glock, Partner, Head of Legal Corporate Services, Head of IT & Innovation, Legal Operations & Technology Services at KPMG LAW