Have you thought about applying to present at a conference and wonder, “What am I up against?”
Relativity Fest, the annual conference designed to educate and connect the e-discovery community, takes place September 30 through October 3, and the call for speakers is open now. It’s easy enough to check out last year’s highlights see how your ideas measure up to what gets selected, but what about the session topics that don’t turn out to be a good fit?
Many factors come into play in the tough choices that lead to the finished Relativity Fest session catalog. Here are some session titles and descriptions that don’t present a tough choice at all.
1. Just Get the Judge to Solve It
Proportionality disputes, spoliation accusations, production disagreements … isn’t finding procedural common ground with opposing counsel the judge’s job? Meet and confer at this Relativity Fest session for a docket full of ideas on how to kick the can down the road and behind the bench.
2. The Ultimate Guide to Narrowing Your Professional Network
If you have more than 20 connections on LinkedIn, it may be time to trim the fat. But where do you start? Get tips for online and offline disengagement, including how to set up filters for ignoring connection requests from email domains outside your company, as well as ways to avoid eye contact with others as you leave the session.
3. Judicial Poetry Slam
It’s the Annual Relativity Fest Judicial Panel, but with a twist. Prominent jurists take the stage not to examine the latest legal developments in e-discovery, but to drop rhymes for snaps from the audience. And this time, fulfilling his delusions of grandeur, moderator David Horrigan, Relativity’s e-discovery counsel and legal education director, gets to be the judge and issue sanctions for abuses of iambic pentameter.
4. Relativity Trust Falls
Relativity Trust is the term used to describe the breadth of Relativity’s commitment to security. In this session, that commitment gets translated to a visceral experience, one in which attendees line up to let go of their fears, close their eyes, fold their arms, and lean back to be caught safely by Relativity Chief Security Officer Amanda Fennell.
5. Why Aren’t You Using Andrew’s Wedding Photo App on Every Case?
Before unveiling email thread visualization at the Relativity Fest 2016 keynote, Relativity CEO Andrew Sieja demonstrated Relativity’s extensibility by briefly showing how he organized his wedding photos without leaving the platform. Join us for an in-depth look at the common barriers to adopting the app and why you’re missing out on massive time and cost savings.
6. Predictions for e-Discovery in 1968
How will discovery evolve in 1968? Are presidential Dictabelt recordings discoverable? What are the legal ramifications of emerging technologies such as the Rolodex? Do we risk missing important data as information spins quickly on this newfangled wheel? A panel of attorneys and technologists provide their predictions.
Were those real sessions? We made them up, of course. The ideas the Relativity community contributes make Relativity Fest session selection a fun challenge—fun because we get to see a wide range of what people are doing with the platform and for the evolution of their businesses, and challenging because there’s only so much great content you can fit in a few short days.
But with the deadline for speaker submissions approaching, a confidence-builder doesn’t hurt.
