2019 ILTACON – Session Highlights for Knowledge Management Professionals

By Deborah S. Panella, Director of Research & Knowledge Services at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

If you haven’t already figured out why ILTACON 2019 is so important to Knowledge Management professionals, check out the below! There are a number of reasons you should register and join all your ILTA colleagues in Orlando.

ILTACON is the organization’s premier event for peer-driven educational programming, with advanced content offered in a variety of formats to suit every learning style. The exhibit hall is packed with business partners ready to show you their products and services in a friendly and low pressure environment. And numerous networking opportunities are provided so that you can meet and talk to speakers, other attendees and exhibitors throughout the week, including several times carved out specifically to gather with KM colleagues.

New this year, Filament is helping ILTA design three collaboration sessions, each with an expert facilitator, to deliver an interactive and action-oriented experience.  Sunday’s theme is “engage and plan,” Tuesday’s is “understand and ideate,” and Thursday’s will be “decide and activate.”  This winning combination ensures that you will bring actionable knowledge back to your employer in the form of case studies, best practices, insights and strategies, along with connections to people who share your goals and challenges.

Below is a small sampling of the many KM-specific educational sessions to consider, but there is clearly no shortage of relevant and timely related programming. For KM professionals, one key benefit of ILTACON is that you are certain to meet professionals with complementary skills and experiences that go beyond pure KM. Their perspectives will help you broaden your knowledge of the legal industry and the tools, technologies and practices used by related disciplines such as legal project management, marketing & business development, financial planning and analysis, learning and development, and litigation & practice support.  For that reason, we urge you to consider all sessions, not just the ones listed below.

KM Strategy, Leadership, and Professional Development – Including Ways to Foster and Embrace Innovation

• Demonstrating the Value of Knowledge Management During a Recession
• Disrupting without Destroying (Disruption Series, Session #2)
• Disruption on the Front Lines (Disruption Series, Session #3)
• Diversity & Inclusion in the Legal Industry
• Going the Extra Inch: Small Solutions with Big Impact
• Innovation Success Stories (Innovation Series, Session #3)
• Innovative Thinking Workshop (Innovation Series, Session #2)
• Lead Your Team to Success by Learning to Navigate Your Organizational Culture
• Organizing for Innovation (Innovation Series, Session #1)
• Preparing Today’s Lawyers for Tomorrow’s Technology
• Scaling Up Adoption: Getting Attorneys to Use and Trust AI (AI Series, Session #4)
• Telling Stories with Impact: Using Stories to Sell Your Ideas
• Thinking Like a Disruptor (Disruption Series, Session #1)

KM Tech Tools: Document Assembly & Document Automation; Enterprise Search, Experience Management, Extranets, Intranets & Portals

• AI Foundations: Artificial Intelligence Basics in Legal (AI Series, Session #1)
• AI-Powered Knowledge Management
• Artificial Intelligence and Learning and Development – The Road to Adaptive Learning
• Best Applications in Visualization Software for Legal Operations
• Choosing a Predictive Coding Approach – Predictive Coding for Dummies
• Contract Review Automation (AI Series, Session #3)
• Data Visualization in the Legal Industry: Mixing Art and Science for Impact (Legal Data Science Series, Session #4)
• Enterprise Search Vendor Shoot-Out
• The Good, The Bad and The Abandoned: Experience Management Winners and Losers
• How to Build a 2030 Intranet
• Impact of Advanced Legal Research Tools
• Machine Learning and AI in Action (AI Series, Session #2)
• A Non-Technical Introduction to the Application Program Interface – What It Is and How to Use It
• Software Selection Process Best Practices
• Teams: The Collaboration House That Microsoft Built (O365)
• Using Artificial Intelligence to Automate Lawyer Work Product: It’s No Longer a Pipe Dream

Thank you to all the volunteers from the KM & Marketing CCT and ILTACON Team Coordinators who helped create this resource. We hope their hard work can be of value to many.