Wednesday Overview

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ILTACON Wednesday

Crystal Little
Editor of Content & Publications, ILTA

Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Wednesday at ILTACON 2025 kicks off at 9:00 AM in Potomac A/B with Reena SenGupta’s powerful Keynote session, Helping the Legal Industry to Create a Sustainable Future. Reena is the Executive Director of RSG Consulting and a long-time analyst, writer, consultant, and thought-leader within the legal sector.

Morning Sessions

The first round of educational sessions amps up at 11:00 AM, featuring discussions on timely topics like, Preparing Your Organization for the AI Revolution, Building Talent Internally, File Sharing and Collaboration Tools of Today and Tomorrow, Sailing the AI Seas: Navigating Innovation in Ediscovery, How To Be a Data-naut and Untangle Data-knots, Orchestrating Intelligence: AI Agents in the Legal Space, Integrating IT Ops and Security - Perpetual Tug of War, What’s in a Name? Defining the C-Level Information Governance Leader of Tomorrow.

For avid data fans excitedly awaiting the release of this year’s Tech Survey, make sure to put the ILTA Tech Survey 2025: Strategic Insights from the Committee Behind the Data session at 11:00 AM on your calendar! Or, join one of the 11:00 AM Master Classes, like Harvey’s From Pilots to Platform: GenAI’s Next Chapter in Legal or Helient’s One Tool to Rule Them All: Mastering the Microsoft Cloud with Nerdio for M365, Azure, Intune, and Hybrid Solutions.

Afternoon Sessions

Enjoy today’s lunch, “A Taste of Europe,” in Prince George's Exhibition Hall E from 12:00 – 2:00 PM. But don’t dawdle too long! At 1:00 PM, Aderant’s company update, Built for the Future: How Aderant Is Powering the AI-Driven Law Firm, begins in the Cherry Blossom Ballroom, and Bloomberg Law’s company update, Why Innovation Can’t Wait: The Case for Bloomberg Law, is in Potomac C.

Wednesday’s second block of educational sessions starts at 2:00 PM. ILTAns can choose from sessions covering enthralling topics, like: Sailing beyond Review: Steering AI to Litigation Success, The Changing Role of IT Leadership, Embarking on the Voyage from Paper to Paperless Billing, Innovative and Engaging Training Approaches, Actionable AI Strategy and Policy, Accelerating Solutions: Five Firms Describe Their Journey and Plans for AI on Web and Mobile, Breaking Barriers: How Technology Is Shaping the Future for Black Lawyers and Tech Professionals, Marketing Data Strategies to Supercharge Business Growth, and Emerging Cybersecurity Threats in Legal Tech.

With Master Classes like Relativity’s Generative AI in Ediscovery: How to Test, Trust, and Thrive in a New AI Era (2:00 PM), DISCO’s Scope it Out: A Survival Guide to Choosing the Right Tech for Modern Review (2:00 PM), and LexisNexis’ APIs: The Secret Sauce Reshaping the Legal AI Stack (2:30 PM), as well as Progress ShareFile’s Company Update, Progress ShareFile in Action: Streamlining Legal Collaboration and Workflows (2:30 PM), attendees may struggle deciding which session to attend.

But the third day of ILTACON isn’t over yet! Today’s final block of educational sessions gets underway at 3:30 PM and holds treasures like Give me my Shared Drive back - Let's Make a Deal!, Kids' Meal Ediscovery: Shoestring Solutions for Small-Scale Projects, Leading from the Shadows, From Firefighting to Future-Proofing: Building a Sustainable IG Strategy, Building a Culture of Innovation and Change with M365 Tools, Creative AI Prompt Showdown, Forensics on the Frontlines: Mastering Mobile and Social Media Investigations, InHERit Talks: The Shift Sessions - Building Your Board of Directors, Balance IT, Benef-IT: Driving Transformation in Legal IT, and Marketing Roundtable: Bought the Hype, Regret the Swipe, KM Discussion.

You can also take part in Canalini Consulting Group’s Master Class, Building Legal Tech that Sticks: Real Use Cases in Custom Development and AI at 3:30 PM, or attend Microsoft’s or Opus 2’s (Gain Every Advantage with AI-Enhanced Workflows) company update at 4:00 PM.

Receptions

Wrap up the day with the Black Affinity / DEIC / WWL Reception in Maryland A—C’s Foyer at 4:30 PM or the Small Firm Reception in the Town Square at 5:30 PM. Make time this evening to connect with friends and celebrate another pivotal year for legal tech. Rest up, tomorrow’s the grand finale of ILTACON 2025.