Cheaper, Faster, Better: Unlocking the Potential of AI & Blockchain Technology to Improve & Enable Legal Services

Cat Casey is Chief Innovation Officer for DISCO, helping lead innovation and direction for DISCO’s legal technology solutions. She is a frequent guest lecturer and outspoken advocate of legal professionals embracing technology to deliver better legal outcomes. Casey has over a decade and a half of experience assisting clients with complex ediscovery and forensic needs that arise from litigation, expansive regulation and complex contractual relationships.

Before joining DISCO, Casey was the director of Global Practice Support for Gibson Dunn, based out of their New York office. She led a global team comprising experienced practitioners in the areas of electronic discovery, data privacy, and information governance. Her experience includes large complex litigation, HSR Second Requests, FCPA, AML, market manipulation cases, antitrust enforcement actions, government, and internal investigations.

Before joining Gibson Dunn, Casey was a leader in the Forensic Technology Practice for PwC. She also led the North American division of an international ediscovery and contract analytics firm, built out the antitrust forensic technology practice, and served as the national subject matter expert on ediscovery for KPMG. Casey graduated cum laude from Harvard University and attended Pepperdine School of Law.

Seth is a forward thinking security strategist that is building transformative security programs in support of forward thinking business directions and strategies. Seth has deep experience in building cloud first, data driven security programs that are designed around best practices, with a lean and effective method of rapid development and company adoption.

Seth McCallister currently works at HUB International where he serves as the Chief Information Security Officer and is responsible for information security, risk management and compliance. Seth joined HUB International in May of 2016 from Beam Suntory where he served as Head of Global Information Security. Seth McCallister has spent the previous 20 years working in information technology with a focus on information security. Seth has worked and has held leadership roles in a wide range of business environments that span technology, financial services, consumer packaged goods and government. In his role, he is shaping the current and future information security, risk and compliance strategy for Hub International.

Seth provides industry leadership and currently sits on the Evanta governing body and the Cybereason and Guidepoint technology boards. Seth speaks regularly at events in the Chicagoland area and is an active member in the security community.

Sachin Kothari is the managing director of global privacy and compliance for AT&T Inc. His team of privacy practitioners manages privacy and compliance for AT&T’s Consumer focused omni-channel and e-commerce operations. Mr. Kothari brings 17 years of experience in privacy, with a razor-sharp focus on on-line and omni-channel business segments. He instituted a Privacy By Design program at AT&T that brought the company to the forefront of big data monetization practices and put forward a privacy governance framework on advanced target marketing across multiple screens. He also serves as Education Advisory Board and Training Advisory Board member for the International Association for Privacy Professionals.