Stephanie Wilkins is the Editor-in-Chief of Legaltech News at ALM. She has spent the better part of the past decade following the evolution of legal tech and learning how it can help in-house counsel, law firms and others in the legal industry. As a former practicing litigator, she is particularly interested in how legal tech can and should be used in real-life practice and the valuable differences it can make. Stephanie is also keenly interested in shining a light on the ways legal tech is being used to help the greater good.

Brad Blickstein is a legal industry futurist. He has been studying, analyzing and reporting on how legal services are purchased and delivered for more than 30 years. As the creator and publisher of seminal research on trends in law department operations, including the Annual Law Department Operations Survey, and as a co-founder of the industry's first independent publication focused exclusively on law departments, Brad is widely regarded as the authority in these areas.

Zena Applebaum is a global VP, Product Marketing for Research Products at Thomson Reuters and is based in Toronto. Zena is an accomplished cross functional team leader with 20+ years of experience in proposition strategy, competitive intelligence and product marketing. She shares her passion for data analysis, design thinking, sales enablement and personal branding by writing, speaking and teaching in classrooms and conferences across North America. She was inducted as Fellow of the Council of CI Fellows in 2015 and will be induced to the College of Law Practice Management with the class of 2023. She co-authored The Practical Guide to Competitive Intelligence (2022) and authored Business Intelligence for Law Firms (2012). Zena joined Thomson Reuters in 2017 with a focus on proposition strategy and prior to joining the company, Zena was the head of Competitive Intelligence at a prominent Canadian Law firm.

A passionate technology leader, Jim has spent 25 years in software development, focusing on SaaS for the past 12 years. Jim believes in meeting the ever-changing needs and modern demands of our customers by focusing on the optimization of design and development processes for innovation. Holding an MBA from Southern Methodist University along with multiple technical certifications, Jim offers his expertise as a business leader on best practices for software modernization.

James L. Michalowicz's responsibilities include all aspects of legal operations management along with litigation management, eDiscovery and information governance. He is known as an industry leader in developing outside counsel and alternative legal service provider (ALSP) networks, designing value-based fee arrangements, instituting dynamic performance metrics and tracking scorecards, applying Six Sigma and Lean to drive efficiency and implementing AI to accelerate the delivery of services to customers. Michalowicz has worked 20 years in-house serving in various law department operation leadership roles at DuPont and Tyco International. He is a charter member of the Sedona Conference Working Group One, Georgetown Advanced eDiscovery Institute and Legal AI Efficacy advisory boards.

Julie Ryan is the Chief Learning Officer at AltaClaro. A corporate lawyer with over 20 years' experience, she formerly practiced with Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and Clifford Chance in Washington, D.C. in the fields of cross-border finance and M&A, and as a partner at Acceleron Law Group in Los Angeles, California. Most recently, she served as Chief Regulatory Officer and Deputy General Counsel for Northern Data AG, an international emerging growth company. In addition to her extensive legal experience, Julie is also an accomplished educator. She is an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown Law and Loyola Law School, where she has taught courses in transactional lawyering skills and venture capital financing. Previously, she served as an associate professor on the faculty at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law where she developed the law school's first experiential transactional-law-focused legal writing course. She has also served as Education Chair of the Corporations Committee of the California Lawyer's Association and has authored numerous articles, blogs, and presentations on both corporate law topics and on the importance of experiential learning.