A thought leader and design architect, he focuses on delivering innovative technical solutions that solve the unique application challenges in the legal environment.

Along with providing strategic advice for firms of all sizes, J speaks regularly at industry and educational conferences.

V. Mary Abraham is Academic Director of the Master of Science in Information and Knowledge Strategy (IKNS) program at Columbia University’s School of Professional Studies. She teaches collaboration, facilitation, information and knowledge in the 21st-century economy, networks and social capital, innovation, and knowledge sharing.

A knowledge management practitioner and thought leader, she has also built an international consulting practice facilitating collaboration, strategic conversations, and interactive educational sessions for a variety of for-profit and nonprofit organizations.

Active in the legal industry since 1991, she practiced corporate law at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP and helped lead its knowledge management efforts. In 2013, she co-founded Broadli Inc., a digital startup that created Broadli, the generosity app.

Her report, Optimizing Law Firm Support Functions (Ark Group, June 2014), provides guidance to law firm executives on how to transform administrative staff from cost centers to strategic partners of the firm. She also contributed a chapter to Smarter Innovation: Using Interactive Processes to Drive Better Business Results (Ark Group, June 2014) and a chapter to The Talent Management Toolkit for Law Firms (Ark Group, August 2016).

Ms. Abraham is a frequent speaker and writer on knowledge management, innovation, collaboration, and technology issues. Her blog, AboveandBeyondKM.com, continues to win commendations and readers in the legal community and other industries. She also contributes to Thomson Reuters’ Practice Innovations column.

John Alber serves as Futurist for the International Legal Technology Association and for the Institute for the Future of Law Practice. He writes, speaks and consults on the need to reshape the delivery of legal services to suit a future demanding excellence far beyond substantive legal skills.

John has served as a transportation industry CEO, as a practicing attorney and as a law firm leader. During his 16 year tenure as Bryan Cave’s Strategic Innovation Partner, that firm came to be recognized as one of the most innovative law firms in the world. While at Bryan Cave, he also served for 7 years on the firm's Operating Group (its management committee).

At Bryan Cave, John created one of the first practice economics consulting groups, one of the first client facing software development groups, and one of the first in-firm legal process outsourcing (LPO) organizations. The groups he created developed innovative web-based, client-centric applications that delivered legal advice to clients, managed complex workflows and even created pleadings automatically. They also developed client-facing knowledge management, project management, project estimation and business intelligence systems and highly technology- leveraged alternative staffing solutions for engagements of all types.

John is an Emeritus fellow of the College of Law Practice Management. He has received a number of awards, both in the legal field and in information technology generally. Among other awards, he received ILTA's first ever Premiership Award, was named American Lawyer Media’s first ever ‘Champion of Technology', was given a Lifetime Achievement Award by Law Technology News and recognized as one of the ‘Top 25 CTOs’ in the world by Infoworld. In addition, while under his leadership, Bryan Cave twice received recognition as a CIO Magazine ‘Top 100 Company' and was twice recognized as ILTA’s Most Innovative Firm.

Phil Alberta is the Chief Information Officer at IPM, a New York based IT professional and managed services firm. Phil focuses on providing CIO-level input to IPM's clients while still developing and managing IPM's internal technology operations. Over the past six years, he has worked with IT leaders, IT committees, and key partners in many mid-size firms to develop and execute on technology and IT operations strategies, concentrating on end user experience, service delivery, risk management, and cost savings.

Phil previously was Vice President, IT Business and Technology and acting CTO at Tiffany & Co. His responsibilities included technology strategy and management, information security, compliance, and partnering with senior management to develop and execute the strategic use of technology. He was a co-chair of the corporate senior management Business Continuity and Records Management committees. His work at Tiffany and IPM provided in-depth knowledge in the areas of IT infrastructure, governance, risk management, and finance.

Stephen is a former lawyer who has devoted his career to delivering legal market change.  Internationally recognized as a leading innovator, most recently by Legal Business, who named him the 2016 Legal Innovator of the Year, Stephen joined Hogan Lovells just over two years ago from another global firm. At that firm, he created the Service Delivery & Quality Function, and before that he led the legal market advisory practice at PwC. Today, he is focused on delivering quality, efficiency and innovation to our own legal service delivery, with a particular focus on legal project management, work allocation, legal process reengineering legal service centres, flexible resourcing, service insight and machine learning and cognitive processing.

A partner in the Toronto office of Stikeman Elliott LLP, I am responsible for the strategic direction of knowledge management in our office, leading the firm's knowledge management initiatives, spearheading programs to capture and leverage the firm's intellectual capital and working with practising lawyers on innovative approaches to delivering legal services to clients. I also work closely with other senior management on strategic initiatives around legal project management, pricing and fee arrangements.

In this role, I lead the development and enhancement of the firm's extensive precedent, legal resources and client facing collections, ensuring that these materials are cutting edge and reflect the latest developments in the law and business practices. I oversee the selection and implementation of technology tools used to put actionable knowledge in the hands of our lawyers and clients (such as our enterprise search platform STELLA KM), spearhead pilots of innovative and emerging technologies to improve the practice of law and delivery of services, and lead aspects of the firm’s data and information management. I also consult with clients on their own knowledge management initiatives.

John oversees the training and security projects at Capensys. As such, he has close contact with client throughout the life-cycle of the project. Prior to this position, John worked for 6 years at Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, a top-15 global law firm, as the Technology Training Manager. In this role, John managed the technology training to all 23 offices, oversaw all training-related projects, managed an IT budget, incorporated new technologies and creative ideas into the training program, and designed a corporate online university. Previously John worked at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP and O’Melveny & Myers LLP. as a Senior IT Trainer and a Regional Training Coordinator. John studied history (B.A.) at U.C. Berkeley, and secondary education (M.Ed.) at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Katrina Marie Baker currently works for Adobe as a Senior Learning Evangelist. Her independently operated consulting firm, Resources of Fun Learning, has advised learning executives across multiple industries, including aerospace, construction, legal, retail, technology, and transportation. Katrina speaks frequently at industry conferences and maintains YouTube channel Learn Tech Collective. She has authored books LMS Success (2018), The LMS Selection Checklist (2018), and Corporate Training Tips & Tricks (2017). Katrina is a former Director of Technology with the Association for Talent Development. She has been employed in global training capacities for Fortune 500 retailer Whole Foods Market, and two Global 100 law firms, Cooley LLP and Latham & Watkins LLP. Prior to working in learning and development, Katrina worked in music and video production for clients such as Disney Channel and Adult Swim.