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Program
Conference Chairs:
Richard Allan Horning, President
Diana J.P. McKenzie, Co-Chair
Robert M. Weiss, Co-Chair
John Beardwood, Programs Committee Chair |
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Chicago Planning Committee Members:
Cathy Austin, Ken Dort, Sandra A. Jeskie
Matthew Karlyn, Amanda Lewis
Jeffrey E. Lewis, Kiran Sandford
Vincent Sanchez, Thomas J. Smedinghoff
Alan Sutin and Alan Wernick |
| Executive Director -- Susan L. Donegan |
| WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 2007 |
| 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. |
Executive Committee Meeting |
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| 6:30 p.m. |
Welcome Reception
All annual meeting attendees are invited to attend. |
| THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2007 |
| 7:30 a.m. – 8:45 a.m |
Special Breakfast Meeting: Law Committee
Chair, Alex Blumrosen |
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| 7:30 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. |
Registration and Breakfast Buffet for Attendees
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| 8:45 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. |
Opening Session
Welcome and Opening Address: Richard Allan Horning, President of ITechLaw
Annual Meeting Proceedings, Elections of Board of Directors and Officers
Richard Allan Horning, President and Amy-Lynne Williams, Immediate Past President and
Chair of Nominating Committee. |
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| 9:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. |
Keynote Address
Where are We Allowing Technology to Lead Us?
Barbara Frederiksen, Johnson-Laird, Inc., Portland, Oregon, USA |
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| 9:45 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. |
New Approaches in Business Critical Transactions
Moderator: John Beardwood, Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
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Defining Scope and Service Levels: A new approach to properly articulating scope and level of services
Dr. Ursula Widmer, Dr. Widmer & Partners, Bern, Switzerland |
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ERP Agreements: Key contractual provisions that must be in your contract
Diana McKenzie, Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg, LLP, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
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| 10:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. |
Coffee break -- Hosted By Wolters Kluwer |
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| 11:00 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. |
A Sense of Security
Moderator: Brian Hengesbaugh, Baker & McKenzie, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
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Year in Review – Key Legal Developments Relating to Information Security
Thomas J. Smedinghoff, Wildman Harrold, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
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Data Security Laws and Best Practices: the coming global adoption of U.S. duty to notify of security breaches
Alan Wernick, Wernick & Associates, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
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What do you do when the government wants your data? Dealing with PATRIOT Act and privacy law conflicts in cross-border situations
Ken Dort, McGuireWoods, LLP, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
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| 12:15 p.m. – 1:25 p.m |
LUNCH
Hosted By: Field, Fisher & Waterhouse LLP |
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| 1:25 p.m. – 2:40 p.m. |
Privacy
Moderator: David Bender, White & Case LLP, New York, New York, USA |
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Privacy Issues in Location Based Devices and the Use of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) in Commercial Transactions
Francoise Gilbert, IT Law Group, Palo Alto, California, USA |
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A Forward Looking Analysis of Data Use
John Soma, University of Denver Law School, Denver, Colorado, USA |
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Confidentiality and Privacy Issues in Benchmarking, Technical Surveys and Voting
Nigel Wildish, Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP, London, United Kingdom |
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| 2:40 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. |
Coffee break-- Hosted By Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg |
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| 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. |
Ethics and Professionalism
Moderator: Peter McLaughlin, Cardinal Health, Inc., Dublin, Ohio, USA |
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And You Thought the Field was Already Too Crowded: The Foreign Sourcing of Legal Services
Denis Rice, Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin, San Francisco, California, USA |
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Legal Considerations in Creating and Maintaining Attorney Web Blogs
J.T. Westermeier, DLA Piper US LLP, Reston, Virginia, USA |
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Can Lawyers Use Meta-Data?
Bryan Sims, Thompson, Rosenthal & Watts, LLP, Naperville, Illinois, USA |
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| 4:30 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. |
Practical Session
Telecom / IP / Video Convergence: Legal Issues Involved in the Launch of
AT&T’s Internet Protocol Television Service
Program Chair: Jeffrey E. Lewis, AT&T Services, San Antonio, Texas, USA
Panelists include: Cecilia M. Martaus, AT&T Services, San Antonio, Texas, USA;
George D. Callard, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
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| 6:15 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. |
Buses depart Ritz-Carlton for Gala Dinner.
Meet in Hotel Lower Lobby |
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| 6:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. |
Gala Dinner at Chicago Public Library
(Buses will provide return trip to Ritz-Carlton from Harold Washington Library starting at 9:15 pm) |
| FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 2007 |
| 7:30 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. |
Local Representatives Meeting
Chairs: Ken Dort and Pietro Tamburrini |
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| 7:30 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. |
Special Breakfast Meeting for Corporate Counsel
Chair: Peter McLaughlin |
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| 7:30 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. |
Registration and Breakfast Buffet for Attendees |
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| 8:45 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. |
A Celebration of the Life of Mark Gordon
ITechLaw President [1993 to 1994]
Speaker: Scott Glickson, McGuireWoods |
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| 9:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. |
Look Both Ways: The Risks and Rewards of Web 2.0
Moderator: Rahul Matthan, Trilegal, Bangalore, India |
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Social Networks: The Use of MySpace, Facebook and Other Social Networking Sites in the Workplace
Cathy Austin, Drinker, Biddle, Gardner & Carton, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
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How you Should Advise your Clients on User Generated Content Issues
Alan Sutin, Greenberg, Traurig LLP, New York, New York, USA |
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A Multi-National Perspective on Legal Issues from E-Mail and Instant Messaging
Kiran Sandford, Mishcon de Reya, London, United Kingdom (Lead); Paulo Brancher, Barretto Ferreira, Kujawski, Brancher e Gonçalves
Sociedade de Advogados (BKBG), São Paulo, Brazil; Axel Funk, CMS Hasche Sigle, Stuttgart, Germany;
Sajai Singh, J. Sagar Associates, Bangalore, India |
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| 10:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. |
Coffee break -- Hosted by Duane Morris |
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| 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. |
Managing Client Business Strategies
Moderator: John Carson, Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP, San Diego, California, USA |
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Gathering Commercial Intelligence: How far can you go?
Sandra A. Jeskie, Duane Morris LLP, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA |
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Point/Counterpoint: Patent Trolls – Legal Strategies
Stuart Meyer, Fenwick & West LLP, Mountain View, California, USA |
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Beyond India: Expanding Outsourcing Horizons
Robert Weiss, Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
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| 12:30 p.m. – 1:40 p.m. |
LUNCH
Hosted By: McGuireWoods, LLP |
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| 1:40 p.m. – 2:40 p.m. |
Unwelcome Guests
Moderator: Michael Caulfield, ByteMetrics LLC, Cranford, New Jersey, USA |
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Fighting the Good Fight – Waging a Global War Against Spam
Marc S. Friedman, Sills Cummis Epstein & Gross, New York, New York, USA |
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Offensive and Defensive Strategies for Advising Clients on Scraper Software and Spiders,
Bots and other Internet Crawlers
Theresa Melroy, W.W. Grainger, Inc., Lake Forest, Illinois, USA |
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| 2:40 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
Coffee break-- Hosted by Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg |
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| 3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. |
Nurturing the Digital Marketplace
Antonio Millé, Estudio Millé, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
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The Essentials of Digital Rights Management Legislation
Richard L. Green, Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner LLP, Hartford, Connecticut, USA |
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Recent Developments in Micropayment Systems
Amy-Lynne Williams, Deeth Williams Wall LLP, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
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Technology Update: On-line Gaming
Peter Ruby, Goodmans LLP, Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
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| 4:30 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. |
Practical Session
Technology Update: Living in an Alternate Universe -
The Rise of Second Life and Other Cyber Worlds
Joshua Fairfield, Associate Professor of Law, Indiana University School of Law, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
Steve Davidson, Leonard, Street and Deinard, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA |
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| 5:45 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. |
Closing Address
Richard Allan Horning, Fish and Richardson P.C., Redwood City, California, USA, President, ITechLaw |
| SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 2007 |
| 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
Board of Directors Retreat at McGuireWoods
77 West Wacker Drive, Suite 4100 |
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| 3:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. |
Executive Committee Meeting at McGuireWoods
77 West Wacker Drive, Suite 4100 |
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| 7:30 p.m. |
Board of Directors Dinner at NAHA Restaurant
500 North Clark Street |
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