Svetlana Grigoryeva offers strategic focus, technical expertise, and business leadership gained during her successful career in application development and architecture. As the Manager, Application Development & Architecture for Shearman & Sterling, Svetlana leads firm-wide application development efforts, which includes custom development and 3rd party applications implementation. She is a well-respected technology expert and maintains an exceptional level of knowledge regarding emerging technologies to help the firm provide best in class service to the clients.

As part of her present role, Svetlana provides application architecture direction and manages a team of 15 for whom she serves as a motivating and inspirational leader, shepherding the adoption of cutting-edge technologies to drive cost effectiveness and service quality. In partnership with C-level leadership, she gained adoption for service oriented architecture, systems data integration, BI analytics and visualization, mobile friendly responsive web applications, modern JavaScript frameworks and APIs, and AI.

She has extensive experience in implementing knowledge management, experience management, matter intake and conflicts checking systems, financial billing and reporting, legal, CRM, human resources and intranet systems. Under her technical direction, a new knowledge management system was put in place leveraging existing infrastructure platforms in a new creative way. In partnership with the firm’s business development team, Svetlana championed the implementation of Tableau visualization software to replace manual corporate governance processes. This effort resulted in saving hundreds of hours in attorney and partner time. Leveraging her commitment to innovation and in partnership with marketing department, Svetlana oversaw the delivery of a cloud-based merger matrix calculator, a business development tool with merger filing requirements rules calculations for potential mergers.

Svetlana’s dedication to driving the adoption of cutting-edge technologies is evident in all of her undertakings. She focuses her efforts on business growth, operating performance and cost containment, and service quality. In her previous positions as Applications Architect and Senior Supervisor, Svetlana applied her talents to build firm-wide relationships to achieve support for initiatives that included shifting technology from Java to MS SharePoint. She also pioneered, designed, and instituted data integration processes, including BizTalk data integrations and web services. A consistent theme in Svetlana’s career is her ability to serve as a proactive change agent with the technology and business acumen to define initiatives that deliver sustained, positive outcomes.

Svetlana achieved her Master of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from St. Petersburg Institute of Civil Engineering. She completed multi year certificate programs in computer science at St. Petersburg State University and Chubb Institute of Technology, NJ.

Alison is an eDiscovery advocate who leverages legal strategy and technology to discover the facts needed to help clients win cases, settle at the right value, resolve internal investigations, comply with governmental subpoenas, and complete due diligence.  She is known for her proactive, practical, efficiency-obsessed approach to discovery. 

Recognizing that most of the increased costs and risks of the discovery process come from too many disconnected stakeholders and processes, Alison founded and leads eMerge – a wholly owned subsidiary of the firm focused on providing clients with end-to-end, integrated discovery services.  eMerge’s lawyers and technologists combine legal strategy, advanced technology, and project management to manage data in legal matters. 

Alison is an adjunct professor of eDiscovery and Legal Technology at Emory University School of Law, is frequent speaker and author on eDiscovery issues, and serves as a dedicated legal resource for Troutman Sanders' lawyers and clients on the intersection of discovery law and evolving technology.

In 2015, Alison was the inaugural recipient of the Monica Bay STEM Leadership Award, was recognized as ILTA’s Technology Advocacy Professional of the Year in 2012, and has been selected as a Georgia Super Lawyer for eDiscovery (2015 – 2018). Alison is an active member of Sedona Working Group 1 where she assisted with the drafting of the Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 34(b)(2) Primer, serves as a mentor to law students through the Leadership Counsel on Legal Diversity, and fosters rescue dogs.

Mike Guernon has been providing Am Law 100 law firms with legal ethics process and technology solutions for the past 17 years.

Currently serving as the global Director of New Business & Conflicts for Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, an International AmLaw 100 law firm, Mike has had opportunity to address a variety of legal ethics compliance issues including; lateral and new business conflict analysis, outside counsel agreements, Anti-Money Laundering, OFAC, Financial risk assessment and client intake due diligence.

Mike is a frequent presenter to the on risk management roundtables and a founding member and principal of the Bay Area Conflicts Group, a peer professional group of new business and conflict leaders in the San Francisco Bay area.

Mike resides in Sonoma County and does risk management presentations for local colleges and professional associations.

Wafik serves as a Managing Director for HBR Consulting and has over 18 years of legal operations consulting and corporate experience. Wafik brings advisory expertise to corporate clients on the matters of law department operations and contract lifecycle management. He has worked with leading legal organizations to perform operational and technology assessments, process and technology improvements, contracting organizational design, and complex implementations of legal matter and legal spend management.

Prior to joining HBR, Wafik was a Senior Director in Huron Consulting Group’s Law Management Group and a Vice President in Merrill Lynch’s Legal Operations. He has also held positions at Deloitte and PwC.

Jared has a multi-faceted focus on governance, overseeing Information Governance initiatives for the firm as well as departmental governance for IT pertaining to project management and IT service management processes.

Leveraging a strong background in customer service as well as an affinity for process and structure, Jared helps align the often conflicting efforts between governance and customer service.

Jessica Hackett is Baker Donelson's Director of Online Services with the Knowledge Management Department. She manages the Firm's Online Services Team, which is in charge of client team support and all client connectivity including extranets, collaboration sites, mobile apps, and online training tools. Jessica also serves as the KM liaison to the Advocacy and Financial Services practice groups. Jessica joined Baker Donelson’s Knowledge Management department in 2013 after several years as a litigator and judicial law clerk.

Leveraging her background in information technology, business, and law, she is an adjunct professor for the University of Memphis and Christian Brothers University.

Barrie was among the original founders and CTOs of Workshare, where he served as head of the company's research and development division. During his tenure, Workshare gained more than 14,000 enterprise customers in 70 countries. He brings over 20 years of experience conceiving, producing, and selling software.

Prior to Workshare, Barrie founded SQL Development Ltd, growing it organically and employing 20 people who produced SQL data synchronization software for more than 300 enterprise customers in the United Kingdom and North America. He started his entrepreneurial career by founding Information Management Services Ltd in 1990 as a software developer, building data matching systems for The Council of Europe, BZW, and several London law firms.

Karl Haraldsson is an expert in the application of data science and analytics to legal practice. Karl oversees the delivery of analytics services, designing and implementing strategies around data and process. His areas of expertise include legal data strategy and platform implementation; legal analytics team design; discrete analytics services; legal matter outcome modeling; legal data visualization systems; preemptive enterprise risk monitoring; and legal process improvement.

Karl has advised large, multinational corporate legal departments and global law firms, including previous central roles at Janders Dean, Seyfarth Shaw, and SeyfarthLean Consulting.

Elisabet is responsible for leading Legal Enterprise Solutions (LES) Global Product Management and Marketing teams at Thomson Reuters. The LES portfolio includes 3E, ProLaw, Business Development Premier, MatterSphere, eBillingHub, and Legal Tracker. She is accountable for new product development, roadmap and product life-cycle strategies, product integration, market positioning and communications, and pricing strategies and packaging.

Elisabet has over 20 years of experience building top-performing product management and product marketing teams for software companies. Prior to joining Thomson Reuters, Elisabet was Vice President of Product Management & Product Marketing at Approva Corporation (now part of INFOR). In this role, she was responsible for developing product vision, market strategy, and roadmaps for Approva's risk management platform. Elisabet also has expansive experience in the ERP market from holding various software development leadership roles at Sage Software.

Elisabet earned a degree in economics from Vaxjo International Business University in Vaxjo, Sweden, and also a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Villanova University in Villanova, Pennsylvania.

Steven is a member of the Cisco Legal executive management team where he manages the Legal Technology Solutions (“LTS”); Global Export Trade (“GET”) teams; the global process for Trademarks and Corporate Marketing, and the Global Center of Excellence – an industry-leading example of the use of “captive Legal Process Outsourcing.” The LTS team is chartered with developing and maintaining systems and process that support the efficiency and accuracy of legal functions at Cisco. These systems and processes include contract management, export compliance tools, regulatory compliance, legal knowledge management, web-based resources, and file room operations. The GET team is responsible for expediting Cisco’s worldwide trade by ensuring global compliance with global export rules and regulations.

Steven is also a co-founder and Board member of the Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (cloc.org) whose broad mission is to promote industry collaboration among in-house legal operations professionals.

Steven holds a B.S. degree in Business Management (Information Systems emphasis) and a J.D. degree, both from Brigham Young University.

Dan is an attorney and former co-founder and CEO of ThreadKM, which was acquired by NetDocuments in November 2017. He is focused on developing solutions that improve productivity and client service in the legal profession. Dan also leads the product teams in planning, researching, designing, and developing the company's portfolio of cloud-based products, including document management and file syncing, intelligent predictive email filing, and real-time messaging.

Prior to working in technology, Dan practiced at Bryan Cave doing complex commercial litigation and antitrust counseling. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia, USA and has spoken at numerous events about legal technology including ILTACON, Lawtech, LexThink and others.