The 2017 SharePoint Symposium: Attendee Registration

Systems Business Analyst Perkins Coie

Rex has over 15 years of experience in the legal vertical. He has consulted on, developed and managed a number of projects, including the conversion of WordPerfect to Microsoft Office environments, Microsoft Office implementations, VBA- and .Net-based desktop software, and Workshare Professional and iManage rollouts. Rex has a knack for translating business requirements into plain language that is understood by all.

Featured Sessions

Welcome and Roundtable Networking

Tom Baldwin

Partner Fireman & Company

Tom helps assess technology tools that increase efficiency, streamline processes and improve productivity. He was named 2005 Legal IT Innovator of the Year by the Legal IT Forum and was featured on the cover of the Nov/Dec 2005 issue of Law Firm Inc. magazine. Tom was a member of the management team that won the CIO 100 Award in 2002 from CIO magazine, and he serves on the advisory boards of Law Technology News, Law.com, Cal State Fullerton Knowledge Management and LexisNexis.

Featured Sessions

Design Differences Between SharePoint On-Premises and in the Cloud

Welcome and Roundtable Networking

Sean Coleman

Chief Customer Officer BA Insight

I’m a technologist at heart with a passion for working with customers, which was the driving force behind the evolution of my career to my now dual position of CTO and Chief Customer Officer at BA Insight. In this position I play an active role in contributing to BA Insight’s product and market strategy, while also working as an executive sponsor to many of BA Insight’s innovative customers. I work closely with global enterprises of all sizes to ensure visionary and successful implementations of cognitive solutions enterprise-wide, covering a variety of platforms including Azure Search, Elasticsearch, SharePoint Online, and SharePoint On-Premise. I am a regular contributor to the BA Insight Blog, the Shared Insights podcast, and can be found at multiple industry events such as Elastic{ON}, ILTACON, and SharePoint/0365 Symposium.

Featured Sessions

SharePoint: Which Flavor Should You Select?

Rick Cruz

Practice Director FlexManage

Featured Sessions

Find the Right Information with the Power of SharePoint Search

Jeff Fried

CTO BA Insight

Jeff Fried is a long-standing information management nerd, with particular focus on search, text analytics and SharePoint as applied to Digital Workspaces. Jeff is CTO of BA Insight, and previously served as product manager for Microsoft’s enterprise search products, as VP at FAST search, and as SVP Products at NLP vendor LingoMotors. He is a frequent speaker and writer, has published over 50 technical papers, and has co-authored several books including Professional SharePoint 2013 Development and Professional Microsoft Search.

Featured Sessions

Selecting Appropriate Search Technology

Welcome and Roundtable Networking

Richard Harbridge

Chief Technology Officer and Owner 2tolead Limited

Richard works as a trusted advisor to hundreds of organizations, helping them understand their current needs, future needs and what actions they should take to grow and achieve their ambitions. Richard remains hands-on in his work and has led, architected and implemented hundreds of business and technology solutions that have helped organizations transform both digitally and organizationally. He is an author and an internationally recognized expert on Microsoft technology, marketing and professional services. As a sought-after speaker for industry events around the globe, Richard has had many opportunities to share his insights, experiences and advice on branding, partner management, social networking, collaboration, ROI, technology/process adoption and business development. Richard is on the Microsoft Community Leadership Board.

Featured Sessions

Security and Compliance: A Whole New World with SharePoint and Office 365

State of the Industry: What's Changed in the Past Few Years with SharePoint and Why It Matters

Welcome and Roundtable Networking

Staffan Hugemark

President Formpipe Intelligo

Staffan has over 15 years of experience in developing, implementing and integrating software applications for the legal market.

Featured Sessions

Design Differences Between SharePoint On-Premises and in the Cloud

Sherry Kappel

Evangelist Litera

Sherry has more than 30 years' experience in design, implementation and change management of content-authoring technologies. She has written and spoken widely to address the needs, goals and strategies of document-intensive businesses, and is an expert in Microsoft Office applications. She was recognized by ILTA as Innovative Consultant of the Year in 2014, and as Vendor Thought Leader in 2017. Sherry is a member of the Document Lifecycle Evangelist team at Litera Microsystems.

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SharePoint Showcase

What Are You Taking Back With You?

Mike Keenan

SharePoint Administrator Nixon Peabody LLP

Mike has worked in the SharePoint space since the 2001 version, and he was the co-lead architect on Nixon Peabody’s SharePoint implementation, which was the inaugural winner of ILTA’s SharePoint Innovator of the Year award in 2008. Mike has been a speaker at this symposium each year, and he has authored several articles about SharePoint.

Featured Sessions

Selecting Appropriate Search Technology

Richard Krzyminski

Client Solutions Officer Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz

Rick is the Chief Knowledge Management Officer at Baker Donelson. Rick oversees the Firm’s industry-leading Knowledge Management team and the design and management of BakerNet, our intranet’s fully-personalized portal. He coordinates the Firm’s strategic knowledge management initiatives and associated emerging technologies. Rick also oversees many of the initiatives that foster our ability to partner with clients and deliver cutting-edge legal solutions. He directs the Firm's data analytics and collaborative, web-based suite of online client services. He manages the Firm’s knowledge management venture fund, facilitating high-quality contributions to maximize the value of the Firm’s many expert contributors. Rick is a well-regarded authority in the legal field’s knowledge management arena, and regularly presents on enterprise search as well as other Rick knowledge management topics.

Featured Sessions

Selecting Appropriate Search Technology

Ted Kukorowski

Director DocsCorp

Ted has been working in the computer industry since 1978 and has over 20 years of experience in knowledge and document management for the legal profession. Ted has been managing DocsCorp's Mid-Atlantic region for the last 10 years, focusing on increasing user productivity in a cost-effective manner with solutions for managing PDF documents, comparing documents, extracting metadata from documents and making all documents text-searchable.

Featured Sessions

Welcome and Roundtable Networking

Steve McHargue

Senior Solutions Architect Aderant

Steve has been a "portal evangelist" for over 30 years. He spent 22 years as CIO for a large Texas law firm, where he promoted an aggressive technology strategy that resulted in a feature-rich information system for the firm’s attorneys and staff. As a consultant for the past 10 years, Steve has worked with dozens of law firms in formulating portal strategies and building out the implementations.

Featured Sessions

Design Differences Between SharePoint On-Premises and in the Cloud

Kara L. Portwood

Practice Area Solutions Consultant Armstrong Teasdale LLP

Kara continually brings value to the firm’s clients by facilitating desktop technology best practices. She often works with clients to help with collaboration, to solve technology issues and to contribute to building successful business relationships.

Featured Sessions

Find the Right Information with the Power of SharePoint Search

Symposium Recap

Welcome and Roundtable Networking

Ted Theodoropoulos

Owner/President Acrowire

Ted combines his interest in technology with his passion to improve business productivity. His background in technology began in the early 1980s, developing applications in BASIC on the first personal computers. He is an expert at reducing the cost of doing business by identifying process inefficiencies and implementing the right technology solution to bridge the gap. He is a Microsoft enthusiast and an avid speaker and writer in the IT community. Prior to Acrowire, Ted held a number of leadership roles at Bank of America and Microsoft, gaining expertise in corporate audits, consumer risk management, global anti-money laundering and product development. Ted is certified in DFSS and as a Black Belt and is a Microsoft Certified Professional and Certified Scrum Master.

Featured Sessions

SharePoint: Which Flavor Should You Select?

Welcome and Roundtable Networking

Guy Wiggins

Director of Practice Management Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

I am a lawyer, technologist and a business oriented strategic thinker who has been focusing on the challenge of how to apply technology to meet the business goals of law firms for over 20 years. As the Director of Practice Support at Kelley Drye, my responsibilities include improving the Knowledge Management, Litigation Support and Records and Compliance functions of the firm. I work closely with these departments on a strategic and tactical level, from providing general direction to setting budgets and managing goals, implementing new technology and better processes to streamline work, reduce cost and achieve competitive advantage.

I have years of hands-on experience in implementing technology and am highly knowledgeable in eDiscovery software, SharePoint, Knowledge Management tools including Enterprise Search, Workflow Systems and Enterprise Content Management. Technology ownership includes the firm Intranet, Extranets, Enterprise Search, Enterprise Workflow, E-Discovery processing and review platforms, document automation/assembly, taxonomy and content management, knowledge banks and custom software development for internal teams and client facing projects. I have years of hands-on practical experience in leveraging SharePoint in a law firm, including the design and development of numerous custom database and workflow solutions and FAST Enterprise Search.

I am equally comfortable discussing the technical requirements of a new workflow or search system with engineers and developers, giving a presentation to the firm’s partners on how our technology platform can aide in the delivery of services or discussing our technology solutions with a client. I am a frequent speaker on technology and the law for organizations like the ABA and ILTA.

Featured Sessions

Selecting Appropriate Search Technology

SharePoint: Which Flavor Should You Select?

Welcome and Roundtable Networking

Fergus Wilson

CTO Repstor

Fergus has more than 20 years of experience architecting and delivering enterprise content management (ECM) products and solutions in the IT industry across a range of sectors including Legal / Professional, Government, Federal and Regulated Industry. A graduate in computer science from Queen’s University, Belfast, Fergus began his career with UK ECM companies including Kainos, Meridio and Autonomy / HPE. Whilst at Meridio, he was instrumental in steering the company to build on Microsoft technology and design its records management functionality on the SharePoint platform. In 2004, Fergus relocated to Redmond in the U.S., where he worked alongside the Microsoft Outlook and SharePoint Product teams. In 2012, he co-founded Repstor, serving as CTO, with a goal to build productivity tools to allow information workers to exploit the power of Microsoft SharePoint and other ECM platforms using the common applications that they use every day such as Microsoft Outlook.

Featured Sessions

Design Differences Between SharePoint On-Premises and in the Cloud

Speakers