Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Law Firm Knowledge Management Conference Agenda Released

After a sold out 2008 conference, we are pleased to announce the full agenda of sessions for the upcoming Janders Dean Law Firm Knowledge Management Conference to be held in Sydney Australia on 28th May 2009 at L'Aqua Gold Room Darling Harbour.

Once again we have assembled some of the regions leading law firm and inhouse legal Knowledge Management specialists for this unique event.

Delegate places for the event are strictly limited due to venue capacity, and only a small number of delegate passes remain to this event. For registration instructions, please see here or alternatively contact us at info@jandersdean.com. As per the 2008 pricing agreement, for two paying delegates from the same firm, the third delegate place is free.

Whither KM? The Future Shape of Law Firm KM (Matthew Parsons, Author and former Global Director of Knowledge, Linklaters LLP)
- Where are we in the evolution of law firm KM?
- What are tomorrow's challenges and today's limitations?
- Where to for the CKO and KM workers of today?
- Predictions for the future

The Other Side. The Future Shape of Corporate KM (Justin Harness, Associate Director, Macquarie Bank)
- How does today's corporate KM differ from law firm KM?
- Are the challenges and limitations the same?
- What can we learn from corporate KM?
- Predictions for the future

Does KM Add Value to Your Law Firm - A Chief Operating Officer's View? (Janet Young, Chief Operating Officer, Freehills)
- What is the value proposition?
- What is the return on investment?
- How do you articulate/prove these to the partnership?
- What does the partnership actually think of KM?

Developments in Enterprise Search & Next Generation Solutions (Neil Etheridge, Solutions Evangelist, Autonomy iManage)

KM Case Study - Ensuring KM Relevance in an Economic Downturn (Rachel O'Connor, Director of Knowledge, Allens Arthur Robinson)
- How does your KM need to change in light of the economic conditions?
- How do you manage expectations during a period of potential cost cutting?
- How do you make the most of lawyer capacity for KM initiatives?
- Where are you allies in the firm?

Australian Tax Office eLibrary Project - A Case Study (Vanessa Lewis, Associate Director, Australian Taxation Office)
- Overview of the eLibrary project and product?
- What has been the impact on staff?
- What does it mean for knowledge/information management?
- Lessons from the successfully implementation of collaboration tools

"After the Buzz" Web 2.0 features in a KM world - How to translate social experiments into business solutions (Simon Price, Director, Recommind)
- Overview of legal market adoption of Web 2.0 features and applications
- What "Web 2.0" features are really appropriate for a KM/Search system?
- What are the implications to the firm?
- The future of Web 2.0 within the legal market?

Developments in Legal Research (Anna Thomas, Associate Director Research Solutions Development/Marc K Peter, Marketing Director/CMO Pacific, LexisNexis)

Delegate places for the event are strictly limited due to venue capacity, and only a small number of delegate passes remain to this event. For registration instructions, please see here or alternatively contact us at info@jandersdean.com.