Kraft Kennedy

CIE San Francisco Spring 2017
2017-03-21 09:00 - 12:00 (America/Denver)
In partnership with Microsoft, Kraft Kennedy is bringing the Microsoft Customer Immersion Experience (CIE) to San Francisco on Tuesday, March 21th from 9:00am-12:00pm. We have to limit this offer to decision makers and technology leaders.
Kraft Kennedy’s Joe Hoegler, a Microsoft Certified Master on Exchange and Microsoft Certified Solutions Master in Messaging (one of 22 people worldwide with that certification), will lead conversations around common scenarios as well as any areas the participant group raises during the group interaction. This is not a generic demo: it is a true-to-life discussion and role play in which you and the other participants will act as various key business leaders—from CEO to Marketing to HR. As you fulfill common duties of your persona, you will have the opportunity to see how various Microsoft technologies like Windows 10, Office 2016, Exchange 2016 and Exchange Online, SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint Online, Skype for Business 2015 and Skype for Business Online, Surface Pro, Lenovo touch-enabled laptops/hybrids, Windows Phone and modern productivity apps for iOS/Android, and OneDrive can help you be more effective in addressing challenges and solving business issues.
These are not sales pitches; rather they are opportunities for you to explore the practical application of Microsoft technology and learn about the latest versions and capabilities it brings.
Seating is limited to seven people.

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ILTA Roadshow Seattle: Windows 10 Deployment Best Practices
2017-03-16 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Williams Kastner, 601 Union Street, Seattle, 98101, United States
Windows 10 Deployment Best Practices
Lunch Sponsor: Kraft & Kennedy, Inc.
Description:
Learn from our experience in deploying and managing Windows 10 and the latest features from Microsoft, and discover how firms can reduce IT effort, improve reliability and save money.
We’ll address the Windows 10 anniversary update as well as hidden gems in the OS, like free tools to replace third-party apps. We’ll share our experience with new features such as Windows Defender Advance Threat Protection, Device Guard and Credential Guard, and explore the increasing use cases for Application Virtualization (App-V), User Experience Virtualization (UE-V), Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM), Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) and Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (DaRT). We will also discuss the new Windows as a service model, ensure everyone understands the new licensing options and examine best practices for working with the Office 365 Click-to-Run installation.
Presenters:

Chris Owens is a Solution Architect and Practice Group Leader at Kraft & Kennedy, Inc. He leads the company’s enterprise client systems practice group, which is responsible for areas including desktop deployment strategies, virtual desktop infrastructure design, application virtualization scenarios and remote access planning, and has deployed Windows 7/8.1/10 to over 110,000 law firm PCs. With 17 years of consulting and technology management experience, Chris provides technical design and leadership in a multitude of law firm technologies. A frequent speaker at industry events, Chris spoke at the ILTACON 2016 session “Laptops and Tablets and Hybrids! Oh My!”

Anne Shackleford is an Account Executive at Kraft & Kennedy, Inc. Working with a team of engineers, she provides her clients with innovative and customized technology solutions. With over 20 years of experience in law firm operations and legal service sales, Anne offers strategic guidance to firms in areas such as infrastructure design, business continuity/disaster recovery, systems consolidation and IT organization. She can be contacted at shackleford@kraftkennedy.com.

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Playing in the Big Leagues
2017-03-16 11:30 - 13:30 (America/Chicago) | Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar, 54 West Hubbard Street #300, Chicago, IL, 60654, United States
Keep Your Firm Competitive This Year

Please join your information technology peers and thought leaders for a roundtable luncheon focusing on these topics as well as any other challenges you’d like to bring to the table.

Defense – Don’t drop the ball on security and compliance. We’ll address “Shadow IT,” the security of the Cloud, and client security demands.
Offense – Build an IT environment that’s prepared for the years ahead and balance cybersecurity with a superb user experience.
Teamwork – Harness SaaS technology to improve collaboration and resource management.
Game-Changers – Data analytics are transforming legal. Learn how you can use them to fuel your business development.

Please join hosts:
David Hansen, Director of Compliance NetDocuments
Brian Podolsky, Practice Manager of Kraft Kennedy’s Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Practice Group
Joy Heath Rush, VP of Client Development Litera
Tom Mensch, Director of Computing at Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP

A delicious lunch will be served for our roundtable discussion at the Chicago law offices of Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar.

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ILTA Roadshow Boston: Windows 10 Deployment Best Practices
2017-03-15 12:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York)
Windows 10 Deployment Best Practices: Boston
Lunch Sponsor: Kraft & Kennedy, Inc.
Description:
Learn from our experience in deploying and managing Windows 10 and the latest features from Microsoft, and discover how firms can reduce IT effort, improve reliability and save money.
We’ll address the Windows 10 anniversary update as well as hidden gems in the OS, like free tools to replace third-party apps. We’ll share our experience with new features such as Windows Defender Advance Threat Protection, Device Guard and Credential Guard, and explore the increasing use cases for Application Virtualization (App-V), User Experience Virtualization (UE-V), Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM), Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) and Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (DaRT). We will also discuss the new Windows as a service model, ensure everyone understands the new licensing options and examine best practices for working with the Office 365 Click-to-Run installation.
Presenters:

Christopher Wilson is a Practice Manager at Kraft & Kennedy, Inc., where he provides technical design guidance and troubleshooting capacity on engagements involving thin client, virtualization, and operating system design and deployment technologies. He also leads the enterprise client systems desktop infrastructure team, investigating and recommending solutions based on the most recent technologies for Windows deployment and operating system management. Christopher has over 11 years of experience with Active Directory design, Group Policy configuration, software distribution technologies and operating system deployment.
Rob Brindell is a Managing Director at Kraft & Kennedy, Inc. Rob has been providing a wide variety of consulting services to law firms of all sizes for over 20 years. He has been involved in many consulting projects, including messaging design and planning, document management design and implementation, desktop deployments, disaster recovery/business continuity planning, email archiving, storage design and implementation, and server and desktop virtualization. Rob can be contacted at brindell@kraftkennedy.com.

ILTA Roadshow San Francisco: Windows 10 Deployment Best Practices
2017-03-15 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Keker & Van Nest LLP, 633 Battery Street, San Francisco, CA, 94111, United States
Windows 10 Deployment Best Practices: San Francisco

Description:
Learn from our experience in deploying and managing Windows 10 and the latest features from Microsoft, and discover how firms can reduce IT effort, improve reliability and save money.

We’ll address the Windows 10 anniversary update as well as hidden gems in the OS, like free tools to replace third-party apps. We’ll share our experience with new features such as Windows Defender Advance Threat Protection, Device Guard and Credential Guard, and explore the increasing use cases for Application Virtualization (App-V), User Experience Virtualization (UE-V), Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM), Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) and Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (DaRT). We will also discuss the new Windows as a service model, ensure everyone understands the new licensing options and examine best practices for working with the Office 365 Click-to-Run installation.
Presenters:

Chris Owens is a Solution Architect and Practice Group Leader at Kraft & Kennedy, Inc. He leads the company’s enterprise client systems practice group, which is responsible for areas including desktop deployment strategies, virtual desktop infrastructure design, application virtualization scenarios and remote access planning, and has deployed Windows 7/8.1/10 to over 110,000 law firm PCs. With 17 years of consulting and technology management experience, Chris provides technical design and leadership in a multitude of law firm technologies. A frequent speaker at industry events, Chris spoke at the ILTACON 2016 session “Laptops and Tablets and Hybrids! Oh My!”
Anne Shackleford is an Account Executive at Kraft & Kennedy, Inc. Working with a team of engineers, she provides her clients with innovative and customized technology solutions. With over 20 years of experience in law firm operations and legal service sales, Anne offers strategic guidance to firms in areas such as infrastructure design, business continuity/disaster recovery, systems consolidation and IT organization. She can be contacted at shackleford@kraftkennedy.com.
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ILTA Roadshow New York City: Windows 10 Deployment Best Practices
2017-03-14 12:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York)
Windows 10 Deployment Best Practices – New York City
Lunch Sponsor: Kraft & Kennedy, Inc.
Description: Learn from our experience in deploying and managing Windows 10 and the latest features from Microsoft, and discover how firms can reduce IT effort, improve reliability and save money.
We’ll address the Windows 10 anniversary update as well as hidden gems in the OS, like free tools to replace third-party apps. We’ll share our experience with new features such as Windows Defender Advance Threat Protection, Device Guard and Credential Guard, and explore the increasing use cases for Application Virtualization (App-V), User Experience Virtualization (UE-V), Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM), Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) and Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (DaRT). We will also discuss the new Windows as a service model, ensure everyone understands the new licensing options and examine best practices for working with the Office 365 Click-to-Run installation.
Presenters:

Christopher Wilson is a Practice Manager at Kraft & Kennedy, Inc., where he provides technical design guidance and troubleshooting capacity on engagements involving thin client, virtualization, and operating system design and deployment technologies. He also leads the enterprise client systems desktop infrastructure team, investigating and recommending solutions based on the most recent technologies for Windows deployment and operating system management. Christopher has over 11 years of experience with Active Directory design, Group Policy configuration, software distribution technologies and operating system deployment.
Rob Brindell is a Managing Director at Kraft & Kennedy, Inc. Rob has been providing a wide variety of consulting services to law firms of all sizes for over 20 years. He has been involved in many consulting projects, including messaging design and planning, document management design and implementation, desktop deployments, disaster recovery/business continuity planning, email archiving, storage design and implementation, and server and desktop virtualization. Rob can be contacted at brindell@kraftkennedy.com.

ILTA Roadshow Los Angeles: Windows 10 Deployment Best Practices
2017-03-14 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Sheppard Mullin, 333 South Hope Street, 43rd FL, Los Angeles, CA, 90071, United States
Windows 10 Deployment Best Practices
Lunch Sponsor: Kraft & Kennedy, Inc.
Description:
Learn from our experience in deploying and managing Windows 10 and the latest features from Microsoft, and discover how firms can reduce IT effort, improve reliability and save money.
We’ll address the Windows 10 anniversary update as well as hidden gems in the OS, like free tools to replace third-party apps. We’ll share our experience with new features such as Windows Defender Advance Threat Protection, Device Guard and Credential Guard, and explore the increasing use cases for Application Virtualization (App-V), User Experience Virtualization (UE-V), Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM), Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) and Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (DaRT). We will also discuss the new Windows as a service model, ensure everyone understands the new licensing options and examine best practices for working with the Office 365 Click-to-Run installation.
Presenter:

Chris Owens is a Solution Architect and Practice Group Leader at Kraft & Kennedy, Inc. He leads the company’s enterprise client systems practice group, which is responsible for areas including desktop deployment strategies, virtual desktop infrastructure design, application virtualization scenarios and remote access planning, and has deployed Windows 7/8.1/10 to over 110,000 law firm PCs. With 17 years of consulting and technology management experience, Chris provides technical design and leadership in a multitude of law firm technologies. A frequent speaker at industry events, Chris spoke at the ILTACON 2016 session “Laptops and Tablets and Hybrids! Oh My!”

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ILTA Product Briefing: How to Withstand Any Disruption
2017-03-10 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
How to Withstand Any Disruption: Webinar

Zerto is committed to helping enterprises embrace IT Resilience with a simple, scalable solution that future-proofs technology initiatives. Join us for this webinar and learn how businesses can gain the confidence to withstand any disruption, incorporate new technology and meet changing business priorities with ease.
Zerto Virtual Replication enables:

Seamless application mobility and portability, so organizations can easily leverage resources across public, private and hybrid clouds.
Automated replication and recovery with point-in-time journaling, so businesses can recover from anything, including ransomware, in minutes.
Freedom from hardware and hypervisor lock-in, so enterprises can leverage the best technology at the best prices.
Find out how, with Zerto leading the way in IT Resilience, organizations are able to ensure their end-users and customers always have access to the applications, data and services they need.

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ILTA Roadshow Atlanta: Windows 10 Deployment Best Practices
2017-02-28 12:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York)

2017 Legal Vision Event - Dallas
2017-02-22 08:00 - 12:00 (America/Chicago) | The Belo Mansion, 2101 Ross Avenue, Dallas, TX, 75201, United States
2017 Legal Vision Event – Dallas
As part of your firm’s leadership, you are aware 2017 will be a pivotal year of digital transformation across the legal industry. We want to help prepare you with insight, facts, and best practices in support of your vision ahead.

Does your firm’s pace of evolution meet the expectations of your priority clients?
Is your leadership team aware of the biggest risks and opportunities ahead?
Are you attracting, rewarding, and retaining a new generation of talent? Offering new services and solutions ahead of competitors?
Need support prioritizing and validating investments you know are critical for your firm’s success?
Do you just need a forum to help understand solutions others are leveraging?

Event Schedule
Best Practices & Vision for The Legal Industry
Law Firm Executive Briefing
8:00am | Virtual Reality in Law Firms – Informal Breakfast – Experience Virtual Reality first hand and try out a HoloLens headset over a warm breakfast prior to the event.
8:30am | Kickoff by Microsoft’s Corporate Counsel – Putting Trust at the Core of the Cloud, How Microsoft Legal uses Cloud & Emerging Tech
9:15am | Best Practices supporting Risk Mitigation – Best Practices supporting Mitigation of Risk: Issues & Best Practices (Seclore)
10:00am | Day in Life of a Modern Law Firm 2017 AD – Insights around Marketing, Client Development, Financials, Firm Analytics, …
11:00am | Secure Productivity & Collaboration across your Virtual Firm – New Solutions driving Firm Productivity & Collaboration (NetDocs)
Closing Remarks, Q&A Panel | To schedule 1:1 conversations (email to request)
Keynote Speaker:
Dale Kadlec is Corporate Counsel at Microsoft, where he is the chief legal officer supporting Microsoft’s Small and Mid-Market Solutions and Partners organization. His practice includes intellectual property licensing, cloud services transactions and dispute resolution. His home is in Fargo, ND and he received his JD from Univ of South Dakota.

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ILTA Roadshow St. Louis: Windows 10 Deployment Best Practices
2017-02-16 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Chicago) | Lewis Rice LLC, 600 Washington 19th Floor Studio Room, St. Louis, MO, 63101, United States
Windows 10 Deployment Best Practices
Lunch Sponsor: Kraft & Kennedy, Inc.
Description:
Learn from our experience in deploying and managing Windows 10 and the latest features from Microsoft, and discover how firms can reduce IT effort, improve reliability and save money.
We’ll address the Windows 10 anniversary update as well as hidden gems in the OS, like free tools to replace third-party apps. We’ll share our experience with new features such as Windows Defender Advance Threat Protection, Device Guard and Credential Guard, and explore the increasing use cases for Application Virtualization (App-V), User Experience Virtualization (UE-V), Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM), Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) and Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (DaRT). We will also discuss the new Windows as a service model, ensure everyone understands the new licensing options and examine best practices for working with the Office 365 Click-to-Run installation.
Presenter:
Chris Owens is a Solution Architect and Practice Group Leader at Kraft & Kennedy, Inc. He leads the company’s enterprise client systems practice group, which is responsible for areas including desktop deployment strategies, virtual desktop infrastructure design, application virtualization scenarios and remote access planning, and has deployed Windows 7/8.1/10 to over 110,000 law firm PCs. With 17 years of consulting and technology management experience, Chris provides technical design and leadership in a multitude of law firm technologies. A frequent speaker at industry events, Chris spoke at the ILTACON 2016 session “Laptops and Tablets and Hybrids! Oh My!”

Sara Zezza is an Account Executive for Kraft Kennedy Inc., where she works with a team of engineers to provide her clients with innovative and customized technology solutions. She has over eight years of experience and has helped organizations of all sizes with strategic technology projects including global network deployment, messaging design and planning, fully immersed SIP deployments, disaster recovery/business continuity planning, storage design and implementation. Sara can be contacted at
* Attendees are required to show photo ID at the security desk in the building lobby.

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KCALA February Chapter Meeting with Speaker Pat Mansuy
2017-02-16 11:45 - 13:00 (America/Indiana/Knox) | Grand Street Cafe, 4740 Grand Street, Kansas City, MO, 64112, United States
Transforming Your Firm’s Projects from Project Completion to Practical Project Management

Speaker: Pat Mansuy, PMP, MCP – Practice Leader, Management Consulting Practice Group and Project Management Practice Group
Thursday, February 16, 2017 Chapter Meeting
With the evolution of the digital enterprise, law firms and legal departments must assess their workflows, processes, and business projects to streamline, speed up and ultimately provide a greater level of clarity that meets client and executive demands for information. Globalization and mobilization have introduced new forms of competition in the legal industry and improved the way firms can operate and communicate. Ms. Mansuy will present several approaches for implementing project management methodologies and teach us how to advance the conversation for Legal Project Management, pricing, and profitability. Come learn how your firm can manage projects utilizing the latest project management tools to achieve excellence.
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ILTA Roadshow Kansas City: Windows 10 Deployment Best Practices
2017-02-15 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Indiana/Tell_City) | Husch Blackwell LPP *, 4801 Main Street, Kansas City, MO, 64112, United States
Windows 10 Deployment Best Practices
Lunch Sponsor: Kraft & Kennedy, Inc.
Description:
Learn from our experience in deploying and managing Windows 10 and the latest features from Microsoft, and discover how firms can reduce IT effort, improve reliability and save money.
We’ll address the Windows 10 anniversary update as well as hidden gems in the OS, like free tools to replace third-party apps. We’ll share our experience with new features such as Windows Defender Advance Threat Protection, Device Guard and Credential Guard, and explore the increasing use cases for Application Virtualization (App-V), User Experience Virtualization (UE-V), Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring (MBAM), Microsoft Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) and Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (DaRT). We will also discuss the new Windows as a service model, ensure everyone understands the new licensing options and examine best practices for working with the Office 365 Click-to-Run installation.
Presenter:
Chris Owens is a Solution Architect and Practice Group Leader at Kraft & Kennedy, Inc. He leads the company’s enterprise client systems practice group, which is responsible for areas including desktop deployment strategies, virtual desktop infrastructure design, application virtualization scenarios and remote access planning, and has deployed Windows 7/8.1/10 to over 110,000 law firm PCs. With 17 years of consulting and technology management experience, Chris provides technical design and leadership in a multitude of law firm technologies. A frequent speaker at industry events, Chris spoke at the ILTACON 2016 session “Laptops and Tablets and Hybrids! Oh My!”

Sara Zezza is an Account Executive for Kraft Kennedy Inc., where she works with a team of engineers to provide her clients with innovative and customized technology solutions. She has over eight years of experience and has helped organizations of all sizes with strategic technology projects including global network deployment, messaging design and planning, fully immersed SIP deployments, disaster recovery/business continuity planning, storage design and implementation. Sara can be contacted at zezza@kraftkennedy.com.
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Show Me the Data! Easy eDiscovery with Nuix
2017-02-13 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Show Me the Data! Easy eDiscovery with Nuix
Description:
Conduct low-cost eDiscovery quickly and efficiently. Drawing on a new single-engine design, web-based tool Nuix quickly parses previously unmanageable volumes of data.

Access information, view visualizations, and start collaborating early in the case, all in a secure environment. Nuix allows hundreds of reviewers per case without complex databases or tricky client plugins.

Join information security and governance expert Douglas Brush for a demo to find out how to stop wasting time and money during eDiscovery.
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RSA Conference 2017
2017-02-13 08:00 - 2017-02-17 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Moscone Center, 747 Howard Street, San Francisco , CA, 94103, United States
Catch Douglas Brush at the RSA Conference (RASC)
Moscone Center – San Francisco – Booth 407

“Take advantage of this opportunity to learn about new approaches to info security, discover the latest technology and interact with top security leaders and pioneers. Hands-on sessions, keynotes and informal gatherings allow you to tap into a smart, forward-thinking global community that will inspire and empower you.” – RSA
Douglas Brush is an expert in cyber security, incident response, and digital forensics. He is the Practice Leader of the Information Security and Governance group in the New York office of Kraft Kennedy, host of the popular Cyber Security Interviews podcast, and will be at the RSA Conference. Please take this opportunity to have a discussion with Douglas about cyber security and how to tackle some of risks your organization faces.

Session: I Fought the Law – Lessons Learned from the Trenches of Law Firm Cyber Security
Be sure to catch this presentation at either time slot:
Feb 14th at 4pm PST (Booth 407)
Feb 15th at 1pm PST (Booth 407)

It’s no surprise that law firms are targets for hackers. They ingest tons of confidential client data and attackers know they are easy targets to steal intellectual property, merger and acquisition data, and other sensitive information. With the rise of law firm data breaches in the news, have you checked to see if your outside counsel has become the weak link in your infosec program? Are they doing all they can to manage and protect the information?
We will look at the shocking state of the legal industry’s information security practices, real world law firm cyber stories, the reason why law firms are falling behind, and what needs to be done to fix the problem. We will also arm you with the questions that you need to ask the law firms managing your sensitive information.
If you’ll be at the conference, get in touch with our team in advance so we can involve you in the plans!
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ILTA Roadshow Houston: Windows 10 Deployment Best Practices
2017-02-08 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Indiana/Tell_City) | Vinson & Elkins LLP, 1001 Fannin Street Suite 2500, Houston, TX, 77002 , United States

ILTA Roadshow Dallas: Windows 10 Deployment Best Practices
2017-02-07 12:00 - 13:30 (America/Chicago)

LegalTech Wednesday: Cocktails and Lite Bytes for IT Thought Leaders
2017-02-01 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York)
Join the leading minds in Legal IT for light bites and beverages after LegalTech Wednesday.
Industry experts will gather to discuss 2017 challenges and technology goals.
Request your invitation here.

CDS - Corporate Counsel Roundtable LTNY 2017
2017-01-30 09:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
CDS – Corporate Counsel Roundtable 2017
Description:
Information Security & Governance Practice Leader, Douglas Brush, will be sharing the latest expert advice in cyber security at Complete Discovery Source Corporate Counsel Roundtable of 2017. Join your colleagues for a full day of educational sessions and a chance to speak with the leading eDiscovery judges, focused on the latest developments in eDiscovery, Information Governance, Data Security and the top-of-mind issues affecting corporate legal practitioners.
As always, the full agenda will be set with input from the group: stay tuned. This event is intended for corporate counsel, please contact Kraft Kennedy to request registration details if you’re interested in attending.
Moderator:
Christopher O’Connor, CDS
Organizer:
William Bell, CDS
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What's Up with All These Windows 10 Options?
2016-12-14 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Sponsored By: Kraft & Kennedy
Description:
Curious about the proliferation of deployment options? Join us for this webinar to find out what’s new in Windows 10 and how to make your next desktop better, stronger and leaner. We’ll take a look at the big changes Microsoft has made to the OS since its release and discuss Microsoft’s future strategy as well as best practices for deployment, including branches, development methodology, hardware/driver expectations, security considerations and zero-touch vs. touch deployments.
Speaker:
Sulabh Upadhyaya is a Practice Architect at Kraft & Kennedy, Inc., specializing in desktop operations. As a member of the enterprise client systems practice group, Sulabh provides technical leadership on engagements involving a broad range of law firm technologies such as SCCM, MDT, Microsoft Office 2016/2013, Windows 10, document management systems, software life cycle management and software deployment tools.
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ILTA Holiday Socials
2016-12-01 17:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Please join your Information Technology peers for a toast of good cheer to the holiday season
and upcoming new year! We’ll enjoy a fun evening of hors d’oeuvres and libations as
we meet, mingle and network with each other and industry representatives.
There will also be a drawing for holiday gifts! Attire is casual.
NYC December 1
Chicago December 1
Washington, DC December 8
Houston December 8
Please contact us to request your invitation.

Technology + T-Bones: Legal Technology Roundtable Discussion Hosted by Kraft & Kennedy and NetDocuments
2016-11-09 11:30 - 13:30 (America/New_York)
Join us for a legal roundtable discussion and lunch with your peer firms at Morton’s Steakhouse in NY
Client-driven demands around increased cybersecurity and audit requests are driving firms to evaluate their technology and information governance policies and practices. During this roundtable discussion, you’ll be joined by your peer firms and leading legal technology executives to discuss the following topics:

Managing client-driven security and compliance demands
Working to ‘future-proof’ your technology landscape
Balancing increased cybersecurity while improving technology ease-of-use and adoption
Discussing legal technology predictions for 2017 and beyond

along with any challenges or discussions you’d like to bring to the table.
Please contact us to request your invitation.

Best Practices & Visions for The Legal Industry: An Immersive Event Series
2016-11-09 08:00 - 2016-11-30 17:00 (America/New_York) | various cities
Join fellow law firm leaders in this informative discussion highlighting the current and future state of legal technology.
We will focus on critical business topics impacting your firm’s success and leading solutions you should consider entering 2017 planning and budget cycles. Our discussion is tailored for non-tech audience with a keynote from Microsoft’s General Counsel. Breakouts enable insight and discussion across a series of informal topics aligned to your firm’s biggest challenges – and opportunities.

Are you prepared for the dramatic changes your law firm faces in 2017? Is your leadership? Your attorneys? Extended team?
If honest, are you evolving slower than your Clients and External Partners?
Do you feel informed of changes immediately ahead of our profession – offering both risk and opportunity?
How do you evaluate your firms Awareness? Ability to Change?
Do you need Next Steps in Building and Implementing a Strategic Plan?

8am | Virtual Reality in Law Firms – Workshop & Breakfast
Experience Virtual Reality and discover the 3D Future of Law
9am | Secure & Trustworthy Computing, Ethics of Cloud Technology, Provider Contracts
Insights around Marketing, Client Development, Financials, Firm Analytics,…
9am | Day in Life of a Modern Law Firm
Insights around Marketing, Client Development, Financials, Firm Analytics,…
11am | Secure Productivity & Collaboration across your Firm & Virtual Teams
Developing and Sharing across Virtual Teams
11am | Issues & Best Practices supporting Mitigation of Risk: Issues & Best Practices
Developing and Sharing across Virtual Teams in Safe & Trusted Environment
Closing Noon w/ Quick Recap, optional Q&A Panel Discussion
Schedule 1:1 Conversations at the Event
Please contact us to request your invitation to the Microsoft Center in your nearest city.

Information Governance: Policy Creation, Implementation and Continuous Improvement
2016-11-08 11:30 - 12:30 (America/Chicago)
Expert Pat Mansuy will be sharing valuable insights at the Monthly Educational Session of the Greater Chattanooga Area Chapter of ARMA.
Details TBA.

The Client Centered Practice - Becoming More Informed, Collaborative, Competitive, and Less… Overwhelmed.
2016-10-31 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Relationships – Monitoring Social Media and external sources allows insight about your firm, your clients, their products, and your competitors. It enables quick reaction but also proactive engagement to protect and enhance your brand, develop relationships, and drive additional revenue opportunities. Improving the experience of clients and prospects from discovery > referral > engagement > next matter is equally critical.
Attorney Desktop – Improving productivity, empowering collaboration, and monitoring business results is an ongoing priority for your team. Becoming more informed, gaining access to insight, and leveraging alerts and workflow automates tasks that have historically required time consuming hands-on resources. Automated assistants, real-time analytics, and powerful visuals of business performance are becoming the differentiator for attorneys and their extended teams.
Project Management – Attractive interfaces now enable improved Case and Matter management across your team. Monitor and interface across working teams to identify and schedule resources, track utilization, establish deadlines, and gain visibility to budget. Whether independent project or all-up scoreboard, monitor the status and success of your practice tracking team and individual performance against goals.
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Webinar: Build the Foundation for a Secure Enterprise: Critical Controls, ISO27001 and More
2016-10-18 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Webinar
In today’s organizations, clients and firm leadership alike demand the security of critical client and firm data. We will look at the leading frameworks employed to prevent, detect and respond to security incidents. We will discuss how these approaches can be used to build the foundation of a successful information security program, measure the success of your efforts and create a dynamic security program that meets the business needs of your firm.
Jan Petrov has over five years of experience in information technology including over four years of specialized experience in governance, risk, and compliance. He is a Manager in the Information Security and Governance practice of Kraft Kennedy. Jan specializes in offensive and defensive countermeasures, information security advisory services, and risk management as part of the Information Protection team. Jan manages the execution of client engagements ensuring that projects are delivered on budget and on time. Jan is also an active member in the cyber security space and is a member of Infragard New York Metro Chapter and the GIAC Advisory Board. He also does freelance QC work for SANS on Demand.
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Using Backup and Disaster Recovery Technology to Protect Yourself from Ransomware? You're Falling Behind!
2016-09-26 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
BDR technology has evolved. There has been an evolution in what defines a true disaster. No longer are fires, floods and tornadoes the only threat to your business. Last year alone, $325 million was netted from Ransomware attacks worldwide, and that number is growing. In this session, we’ll review the changes and new threats to your business, how the technology has evolved as a result, and what true business continuity looks like. Join Datto and Kraft Kennedy to review the latest in backup and disaster recovery technology.

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Best of ILTACON 2016
2016-09-19 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Join Kraft Kennedy as we present highlights from the following ILTACON 2016 Presentations:

Exchange 2016 Why and How to Upgrade
Windows 10 Deployment Best Practices
Passwords 2.0: Modern Windows Authentication with Advance Threat Analytics and Conditional MFA
Project Modeling: LPM vs PM – Differences, Applications and Templates
Seclore: The Power of Enterprise Digital Rights Management – Automated Data Protection

Laptops and Tablets and Hybrids! (Windows 10) Oh, My!
What Can Today’s CRM Do For You?
Nonlinear Financial Dashboard

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Exchange On-Premises vs. Exchange Online - A Law Firm Bakeoff
2016-09-15 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Webinar
The cloud has been a hot topic for a few years and most firms are working to understand if/when infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), software-as-a-service (SaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solutions will fit into their technology plans. Recently, directory-as-a-service, identity-as-a-service and others have further expanded the cloud service landscape.
In this webinar, we will focus on arguably the most important application in a law firm — its messaging system. Microsoft Exchange is the de facto standard for on-premises messaging systems and Exchange Online, a component of Office 365, has become the standard for hosted messaging solutions. We’ll discuss licensing, pricing, integration, data privacy and sovereignty concerns, migration considerations and more to help you determine whether Exchange Online will meet the needs of your firm.
Speaker:
Joe Hoegler, a Practice Leader at Kraft & Kennedy, Inc., leads the company’s infrastructure and enterprise systems practice group. He is responsible for direction, delivery and thought leadership in the areas of messaging systems and unified communications, directory services, server virtualization, storage area networking, network infrastructure, high availability and disaster recovery, and data center design. Joe has led or advised over 100 projects on Exchange 2010/2013 for law firm clients totaling over 100,000 users, and has presented at numerous industry conferences.
ILTA is pleased to offer this programming at no charge to ILTA members. If you’d like to tweet during this session, our hashtag is #ILTA.
Questions? Contact Gail Persichilli at gail@iltanet.org or 512.795.4659.

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ILTA Roadshow: Microsoft Road Map for 2016 Server Platforms
2016-09-08 11:30 - 13:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Hanson Bridgett LLP, 425 Market Street, San Francisco, CA, 94105, United States
Microsoft’s 2016 server platforms have begun their release cycle, with Skype for Business 2015, Exchange 2016 and SharePoint 2016 already released. System Center Configuration Manager 2016 was released in a preliminary capacity in late 2015, while the remainder of the System Center 2016 suite and Windows Server 2016 are expected to release throughout 2016. We’ll help you navigate the road map with our review on the features and functionality of these new server platforms and a discussion about how they will impact law firm technology.
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