ALTACON 21 Program

Welcome – Tessa Ramanlal and Jane Garrett

Stop Building the Solution, Start Building the Problem

Kim Craig & Josh Kubicki

Under the guise of innovation, the legal industry industry is quick to jump into problem-solving mode without doing the necessary upfront work to explore, analyze and size the problem. This mindset and approach is risky, wastes time and resources and leads to “innovation fatigue” with no measurable, sustainable improvement. We’ll share lessons learned from the trenches where teams have struggled and succeeded when embracing the design approach recognizing a problem is multidimensional – a business side and human side. Building your comprehensive understanding of the problem increases your probability for building a successful solution.

Why does diversity in LegalTech matter? And what can YOU do about it right now?

Jodie Baker

Jodie takes us on a deep dive into newly commissioned research by ALTA into the data, evidence and outcomes for women in legal technology in Australia and around the world to understand where we stand, how we compare, what needs to be done, and who can make a difference. The answers lie closer to home than you might think!

Interactive Q&A with Josh & Kim (facilitated by Neota Logic)

Panel discussion: Jodie Baker, Laura Keily, Mitzi Gilligan, Lisa Dowie, Kathy Constan

Building Success by Building a Strong Foundation…Through Strategy

Susan Hackett, Alex Rosenrauch & Elliot Leibu

Peter Drucker once famously observed: “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” Many of us in the legal profession or legal operations can attest to the truth of this statement.
We’re often so anxious to implement the next great idea, to adopt new systems or to re-engineer our workflows, that we skip the step of ensuring that we have the right strategy in place. A strong and consensus-driven strategy is essential to drive success and support change. Without it, there is no coordination and everyone goes their own way.
This conversation will dive into the practicalities of establishing a foundation upon which all of our client service technology, operations, data and analytics, practice management and process improvements must be built. We’ll explore what strategy is, how it is crafted and why it is vital to driving the delivery of sustainably strong results.

Continued – Panel discussion: Jodie Baker, Laura Keily, Mitzi Gilligan, Lisa Dowie, Kathy Constan

Continued – Building Success by Building a Strong Foundation…Through Strategy

Susan Hackett, Alex Rosenrauch & Elliot Leibu

Peter Drucker once famously observed: “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.” Many of us in the legal profession or legal operations can attest to the truth of this statement.
We’re often so anxious to implement the next great idea, to adopt new systems or to re-engineer our workflows, that we skip the step of ensuring that we have the right strategy in place. A strong and consensus-driven strategy is essential to drive success and support change. Without it, there is no coordination and everyone goes their own way.
This conversation will dive into the practicalities of establishing a foundation upon which all of our client service technology, operations, data and analytics, practice management and process improvements must be built. We’ll explore what strategy is, how it is crafted and why it is vital to driving the delivery of sustainably strong results.

Early Stage LegalTech Start-Ups: Pitch Competition + Panel

Simon Davidson, Courtney Blackman & Harley Beaumont

Drawing on their deep expertise in supporting early stage legal tech start-ups, our panel discuss the critical success factors for early stage start-ups – and announce the winner of the ALTACON 21 Pitch competition, following pitches from our finalists!

Interactive Q&A with Susan (facilitated by rapidMATION)

Continued – Early Stage LegalTech Start-Ups: Pitch Competition + Panel

Simon Davidson, Courtney Blackman & Harley Beaumont

Drawing on their deep expertise in supporting early stage legal tech start-ups, our panel discuss the critical success factors for early stage start-ups – and announce the winner of the ALTACON 21 Pitch competition, following pitches from our finalists!

Collaboration and the opportunities for Legal Automation

Schellie-Jayne Price & Katrina Gowans

Schellie-Jayne and Katrina share their practical, hands-on experience at Chevron and Origin Energy using legal automation to improve collaboration with and service delivery to their legal team’s internal clients – while improving their team’s productivity and morale along the way!

Learning from a Distance: The Power of Collaboration

Colin Levy

In this talk, Colin Levy, director of business development for WordRake, corporate lawyer, and noted #legaltech advocate explain how and why collaboration facilitates learning and why lawyers should and need to always be learning and how technology now allows for even better ways to collaborate even in widely dispersed teams.

The evolution of the law firm: people, process & technology
Warrick McLean

Warrick walks us through Coleman Greig’s ‘people-first’ approach to driving digital transformation, using their recent implementation of Netdocuments, a cloud-based document management system, as an example. Packed with practical tips that apply for any business implementing technology, you don’t want to miss this session!

Legal Tech UX Makeovers

Nicole Bradick

This session will discuss the ever-increasing importance of user experience (UX) in legal technology and will share some “before” and “after” images of products Theory and Principle has redesigned.

Establishing ethics in digital assets and digital infrastructure

Natasha Blycha

Digital infrastructure and assets are digital twins. Getting ethics correct is almost impossible as there isn’t a global ethical standard in the tangible world. And yet – we need to be able to define/map our ethics to sensibly bring them into the digital realm.

A plaintiff or a password, which carries more risk to revenue?
Lloyd Evans

Like lawyers, we focus on facts here at LogMeIn LastPass, and in our presentation we will share the facts around why passwords carry so much risk for firms and how to reduce this risk, whilst keeping partners and employees productive.

Is content still King? Finding the right answers in the age of information democratisation

Tim Perry

In this session, Tim provides data-driven insights on spending and working trends in the profession and explores the continued centrality of content to legal process innovation. He explains how bringing the right content at the point of need drives efficiency and reduces risk.

Missing Pieces: Building your Corporate M&A Strategy

Haley Altman

As every company grows, it faces opportunities to expand its offering, but must decide whether to build, partner or buy. Hayley explains how to determine the framework for your acquisition and integration strategy and bring your corporate growth story into focus.

Innovation is a Muscle – how can you train it?
Rik Nauta

In this engaging session, Rik trains you to stretch and develop your ‘innovation muscle’. Sign up to Rik’s gym and find out how you can help encourage open dialogue and grow diverse ideas that will help you adopt inclusive and trustworthy solutions at your organisation!

One LegalTech Platform: Adoption, Standardization and Interoperability

Joshua Maley

Learn about the need for greater standardization (from contracts to APIs) and the obstacles impeding adoption and application-workflow connectivity. Discover how to build ecosystems for effective collaboration.

Embracing the human element of NewLaw

Sarah d’Oliveyra

During this session, Sarah shares her insights as a leader of Herbert Smith Freehills’ Alternative Legal Services Australia team on the key strategic initiatives and drivers for success in NewLaw and digital transformation.

Legal Tech Channel

Laying the foundations for legal tech – why we keep talking about process improvement

Mollie Tregillis

Sometimes implementing new tech can hit roadblocks which leaves teams scratching their heads and asking ‘why isn’t this working’? Reviewing the core processes around the tech is a critical step that is often missed. In this practical session, Mollie will share some tips and tricks to help you consider whether you have the right processes in place before getting stuck into implementation. Mollie will share some case studies which illustrate how reviewing processes first will give you a much deeper understanding of what technology (and other improvements) might best suit your needs.

Gamification for collaboration and adoption of change

Dr Kerstin Oberprieler

Dr Kerstin Oberprieler introduces how to use gamification – the use of game mechanics and experience design to nudge behaviour – to increase engagement, collaboration and adoption of new ways of working. Drawing on her PhD research on workplace gamification and her many years of helping clients apply gamification in their business, she shares insights and practical tips for applying gamification to your next projects and to help form habits in legal professionals – while having fun!

Can I help you?

Sheldon Renkema

Based on experience with external law firms and technology providers working together on tech and operational improvement projects that have worked well (and some not so well!), Sheldon shares his recommendations on how to optimise these relationships to achieve win-win outcomes for both the corporate and the service provider.

Build and scale a legal team from scratch

Kirk Simmons

Kirk joined Canva before it became a global phenomenon. Kirk shares his story of how he led Canva’s legal function from startup to beyond a unicorn, and how he leveraged people, process and technology to service the exploding needs of one of Australia’s most exciting and growing companies.

How to deliver value to clients through technology enabled consulting

Caryn Sandler

With an ever-increasing number of legal technology tools and platforms available on the market, it can be difficult to know where to start. How can you leverage these technologies to optimise efficiencies, and improve collaboration with external counsel, your legal teams and with your stakeholders? This session will identify how technology can assist in unlocking efficiencies and enabling new capabilities and will guide you through our G+T Innovate consulting approach when working with clients.

Delivering Digitisation with Design

Verity White

Whether you are building tech for lawyers or bring tech into your legal team, a design-led approach can create delighted clients. In this action-packed session, you will learn key design concepts for finding and classifying problems, understand prioritisation techniques to pick a powerful problem, quickly evaluate and compare legal tech solutions, develop an agreed list of functional and non-functional requirements and get ready for legal tech to make the most of your budget and time.

Multidisciplinary teams: a way to deliver more value to your clients in the future

Sarah El-Atm

You’ve heard the term ‘multidisciplinary teams’, but what does it mean for the legal profession and is anyone really doing this well? What does it mean for lawyers in the future? In this session, we explore these questions and why multidisciplinary teams are becoming an essential device for the legal profession to solve client problems more holistically and deliver greater value to clients. We break down what makes up a successful multidisciplinary team and where to start if you want to build one in your firm.

Technology experimentation and the art of delivering ROI
Anna Golovsky

Legal tech providers and ALSPs offer point solutions to solve problems and pain points. The challenge is to determine what solution is best to solve for your problem and how best to implement given current state in your organisation and your budget. In this session Anna will focus on how to work with key business stakeholders to deliver new innovation initiatives and demonstrate their value. She will discuss how to define, design, prioritise, execute and continuously improve by creating a culture of experimentation and learning.

Putting the CO into eDiscovery

Quin Rjinders

eDiscovery processes have been around for a long time, yet to varying degrees of success in spite of their mature tenure. Budgets and deadlines aren’t always met, leading to frustration for all parties involved. One of the key enablers to meet budgets and deadlines is collaboration. In turn, collaboration has a few essential ingredients, which Quin will share during this talk. In addition, she will look ahead to what the future might look like for eDiscovery and Digital Forensics more broadly – and how collaboration plays into that.

What would you do differently?

Leigh Cooper, Michelle Coman and Sam Flynn 

The legal team at the Clean Energy Finance Corporation – a Government-owned ‘Green Bank’ – recently attempted to implement a legal tech project. In this session, Leigh Cooper and Michelle Coman from CEFC speak candidly to Sam Flynn about the lessons that they learned the hard way through that process and what they plan to do differently as they prepare to revisit that project.

A Dealmaker’s Guide to Unlocking Your Growth Potential

Stuart Clout

A career in dealmaking drove corporate lawyer Stuart Clout to found thedocyard in 2016 with a mission to deliver the next generation of dealtech and board management solutions. In 2020, thedocyard merged with Ansarada to become the market leader in corporate governance and information management solutions. In this presentation, Stuart shares his journey and the secrets to achieving business growth through a relentless focus on effectively serving client needs through technology. His insights can be universally applied to any business wanting to scale and unlock their growth potential.

Interactive Q&A with Stuart (facilitated by Bundledocs)

Wrap up Panel

Stuart Clout, Caryn Sandler,  Lloyd Evans, Jennifer Cathcart, Sheldon Renkema & Julian Uebergang

Our panelists discuss the key take-aways and share their ‘light bulb’ moments from ALTACON 21!