The 2024 Summit

Wednesday, January 31, 2024, 6:00-8:00 pm ET   

Pre-KM Summit Reception sponsored by iManage

Tanner Smiths, 204 West 55th Street, New York, NY 10019

Thursday, February 1, 2024, 8:00 am-5:00 pm ET

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, 425 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10017

8:00 am   Breakfast and Registration

9:00 am   Opening Remarks and House Rules

                  Welcome by Oz Benamram

9:10 am    Responding to the emergence of LLMs

                  As we saw in 2023, a lot can change in a year. Get a behind-the-scenes perspective from iManage AI data scientists and engineers on exactly what we learned and how that influences how we should think about the new era of Generative AI. From the practical side, Alex Smith, iManage Sr. Director of Product Management will address incremental steps you and your firm can tackle, today, to be prepared to adopt AI while minimizing risk.

9:30 am    Why didn't the Machine Learning AI era (2016-2022) change the world?

                   Fireside Chat moderated by Nick Pryor with Alex Smith and Danielle Benecke       

LLMs are not the first wave of AI in Legal.  Much of the excitement about LegalAI which we heard in 2023 was an echo of the conversations taking place when ML models arrived in 2016 (not to mention the Expert Systems of decades prior).  Why did the ML era fail to live up to the hype, and what might we learn to do better this time around?

10:00 am    What’s Hot? – Selected Topics from the SKILLS Survey

                     Moderated by Ron Friedmann

11:00 am     Break

11:30 am    CoPilot for Legal

                   Presented by Lydia Petrakis

Microsoft CoPilot for 365 was launched in November 2023.  Inclusion of Generative AI features in the core productivity suite holds significant promise for lawyers and professionals who work with them. This presentation will demonstrate some practical use-cases and will discuss how to integrate CoPilot into your workflow.

12:15 pm   The Client Perspective on Knowledge Management and Innovation

                       Moderated by Ari Kaplan with Laurie Ehrlich, Chris Potter, and Alexis Werth 

A panel of in-house legal will share their candid insights on how knowledge management and innovation can drive legal and business success.  

1:00 pm    Lunch

2:00 pm    Workshop: How Human Connection Transforms Legal Innovation

                  Moderated by Kate Simpson and Chris Clearfield

Tired of hearing the future of law is only about AI and cutting-edge technology? We will explore transformation outside the hype of technology and delve into the heart of innovation - curiosity, conversation, and connection - that shapes behavioral change and drives adoption. Kate and Chris will share challenges faced in starting an innovation program, and their successful strategy to prioritize human connections over tech by emphasizing dialogue among lawyers rather than code.

Optional:  A quick pre-read for the workshop “Agile Conversations” by Douglas Squirrel and Jeffrey Frederick (available from Amazon US and Amazon UK).

5:00 pm  Thank you for attending the KM Summit