LegalTech New York is coming up in February, and it looks to be a very exciting event. LegalTech impressed a lot of folks in the industry when it announced the lineup of Keynote speakers for the show. On Wednesday, February 3, Malcolm Gladwell, the author of Outliers and Blink, will be giving the keynote address, while on Tuesday, Mark Howitson, Deputy General Council of Facebook, will be the speaker. We are also very excited that our own Alvin Tedjamulia will be speaking on the Emerging Technologies track on Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 2:45pm. He will be joined by Dierk Eckart, who is the CIO at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP.

Emerging Technology Track on Cloud Computing

Title: Why Heads are in the Clouds – Exploring Cloud Computing and SaaS

There is increasing talk about Cloud Computing and Software-as-a-Service, its development and potential benefits and concerns. It's not surprising that many IT professionals and attorneys want to know what cloud computing means to them and its impact on their firms. With uncertain economic times, the promise of predictable costs, reduced capital expenditures and dynamic scaling of IT resources collected under a general 'cloud computing' banner is proving very popular by vendors, enterprise organizations and law firms. Firms are realizing that it no longer makes sense to build and manage their own entire infrastructure; thus, services "in the cloud" are a feasible solution. During this session, the speakers will share their experiences, highlight cloud services, discuss a single repository in the cloud, and underline examples of firms who have made the jump.

Speakers:

- Dierk Eckart, CIO, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP
- Alvin Tedjamulia, Founder and CTO, NetDocuments

Other Noteworthy Presentations

Title: Storage in the Cloud: the Future is Now

When: Tuesday, February 3

This session will feature Chris Romano, CIO of Ward and Smith P.A., who has much experience with data storage in the cloud as his firm uses NetDocuments to store its documents in the cloud. To learn more about his experience with cloud computing, watch this video.

NetDocuments Booth

NetDocuments will be at booth #234 so come stop by and say hi.

Social Media

The social media scene at LegalTech NY will certainly be busy this year. As has become standard at technology shows, attendees will be using Twitter to provide real time news during the show using the hashtag of #LTNY.

We will not be doing a Twitter contest at this show, as we did at ILTA 09, but we will certainly be following, and contributing to the #LTNY conversations. There is also a Wave on Google Wave for LegalTech NY discussion. To find that wave, search "with:public LegalTech New York." There is also a LegalTech group on Linkedin.