Insight into where e-discovery, information governance cybersecurity, and digital transformation are heading – who is doing what now or in the future, what works and what doesn’t, and what people wish they could do but can’t – gleaned from recent publication.
ABOVE THE FOLD
Relativity Fest Oct. 20-23 – Join us this fall at Relativity Fest in Chicago where my colleagues and I will be speaking on four sessions:
Join Mary Mack and me on Oct. 10 at 1 pm ET for the second installment of our ACEDS webinar series, Monthly Insights with George Socha & Mary Mack.
BDO knows CCPA – BDO’s California Consumer Privacy Act resource page enables privacy executives to stay abreast of the impending regulation and learn about overarching privacy and governance considerations in one convenient location.
ELECTRONIC DISCOVERY
Litigation Support Tip of the Night – Sean O’Shea of Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP has assigned himself a daunting goal, to post a new litigation support tip each night. He may not have managed to do this every single night, but his blog, Litigation Support Tip of the Night, contains over 1,000 tips going back to April 2015. For a recent example, check out his Sept. 14 post, Ringtail – Some cool features.
New UF Law career path program – Mike Quartararo of eDPM Advisory Services reported that the University of Florida Levin College of Law eDiscovery Project, run by Bill Hamilton, has partnered with Consilio on a new summer internship program, offering graduates opportunities to learn the business of e-discovery.
CYBERSECURITY & DATA PRIVACY
CCPA –
- Lawmakers Must Not Listen to the Internet Association and Weaken the California Consumer Privacy Act
Hayley Tsukayama (Electronic Frontier Foundation) (Sept. 4)
- The CCPA and COPPA: Looking for the “Betwixt and Between”
Behnam Dayanim and Claire Blakey (Paul Hastings) (Sept. 10)
- Applying the CCPA to Health Care: The HIPAA Exemption, Exercise Apps, and Marketing Data
Michael L. Yaeger and Joshua L. Gutter (Carlton Fields) (Sept. 10)
- GDPR: What are the grounds for processing personal data during an investigation?
Lara White, Andrew Reeves, and Sarah Greenwood (Norton Rose Fulbright) (Sept. 10)
- “Oh AG, Please Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood”: Breaking Down Common CCPA Myths
Rachel R. Marmor (Davis Wright Tremaine) (Sept. 11)
- #CCPA Legislative Update: “And the days dwindle down … to a precious few….” (September Song, Kurt Weill)
Cynthia J. Larose (Mintz) (Sept. 11)
- California’s Consumer Privacy Act Amendment Process Nears the Finish Line
Victoria E. Beckman, Zachary Hoyt, Melissa A. Kern, and Michael E. Nitardy (Frost Brown Todd) (Sept. 11)
- The Imitation Game: How the CCPA Is Inspiring Other States to Regulate Consumer Data and Online Privacy
Joshua L. Gutter (Carlton Fields) (Sept. 12)
- CCPA: California Legislature Passes Amendments to Data Breach Notification and Information Security Statutes
David Stauss (Husch Blackwell) (Sept. 12)
- Tracking Potential CCPA Changes: Proposed Amendments Amended
Odia Kagan (Fox Rothschild) (Sept. 12)
- CCPA Requires “Reasonable Security”: but You Can’t have Reasonable Security Without Proper Vulnerability Management
Divya Gupta and Cody Wamsley (Dorsey) (Sept. 12)
- CCPA Security FAQs: What is the most popular court for filing data breach class actions?
David Zetoony (Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner) (Sept. 12)
- Health Sector Does Not Completely Avoid the CCPA by HIPAA Exemption
Tara Cho and Nadia Aram (Womble Bond Dickinson) (Sept. 13)
- CCPA Privacy FAQs: Is a Service Provider Responsible if its Client Violates the CCPA?
David Zetoony (Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner) (Sept. 13)
- CCPA Compliance Preparation – Must all Businesses Comply?
David O. Klein (Klein Moynihan Turco) (Sept. 13)
- CCPA Update: Legislature Amends the CCPA to Exclude Employee Data, B2B Communications for One Year
Alysa Zeltzer Hutnik and Alex Schneider (Kelley Drye) (Sept. 15)
- CCPA Amendments Updated, Finalized, and Moving on to Governor Newsom
Joseph J. Lazzarotti, Jason C. Gavejian, Mary T. Costigan, and Maya Atrakchi (Jackson Lewis) (Sept. 16)
- CCPA Taking Shape: Several Amendments Pass as California’s Legislative Session Comes to a Close
(Morrison & Foerster) (Sept. 16)
- And then there were five: CCPA amendments pass legislature
Jeewon Kim Serrato and Susan Ross (Norton Rose Fulbright) (Sept. 17)
- The End of the California Legislative Session: Which CCPA Amendments Passed?
Heather Egan Sussman, Emily Tabatabai, David Curtis, Nicholas Farnsworth, and Maria Rouvalis (Orrick) (Sept. 17)
- Final California Consumer Privacy Act Amendments Bring Practical Changes (But Your Business May Now Be a California “Data Broker”)
Colleen Theresa Brown, Christopher C. Fonzone, Alan Charles Raul, and Sheri Porath Rockwell (Sidley) (Sept. 17)
- CCPA Amendments – Where They Stand Today
Taylor A. Bloom and Alan L. Friel (BakerHostetler)
GDPR –
NIST released draft privacy framework – Deborah George of Robinson+Cole wrote that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a preliminary draft of its NIST Privacy Framework: A Tool for Improving Privacy through Enterprise Risk Management (Privacy Framework). NIST is accepting public comments until 5 pm ET on Oct. 24.
California first-in-nation IoT security law to go into effect Jan. 1 – Daniel Pepper of BakerHostetler discussed California’s Internet of Things security law, Security of Connected Devices (SB-327), which goes into effect on Jan. 1.
Cayman Islands Data Protection Law to take effect Sept. 30 – The Cayman Islands’ Data Protection Law, 2017 is currently scheduled to come into effect on Sept. 30, reported the Ogier law firm.
China issued new cybersecurity law to protect children – Wei-Chun (Lex) Kuo, Weina (Grace) Gao, and Cheng-Ling Chen of Latham & Watkins wrote that the Cyberspace Administration of China has released a new data privacy regulation related to children, the Provisions on Cyber Protection of Personal Information of Children, that will go into effect on Oct. 1.
LEGAL TECHNOLOGY & DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
$1.1 billion and counting – Bob Ambrogi of LawSites reported that legal tech investments this year already have surpassed $1.1 billion. By comparison, last year was the first time those investments reached $1 billion, and there are still 3 months left before year end. Included in the post is a list of this year’s investments.
COLPM’s InnovAction Awards winners – Bob Ambrogi of LawSites reported that the College of Law Practice Management’s 2019 InnovAction Awards went to two organizations. Immigration law firm Siskind Susser won for Visalaw.ai, a series of apps the firm has spend more than three years building using Neota Logic’s AI-based expert system; the apps replicate legal analysis and automate routine and complex tasks and document generation. Suffolk University Law School won for its Legal Innovation and Technology Lab, a joint project between the school’s clinical programs and its LIT Institute.
Interested in entering the ABA TECHSHOW 2020’s Startup Alley? – If you are interested in submitting an entry to the ABA TECHSHOW 2020’s Startup Alley competition, go to Bob Ambrogi of LawSites’s post on the schedule for entering. Fifteen legal tech startups will be selected to exhibit in a special Startup Alley in the TECHSHOW exhibit hall. They also will face off in an opening-night pitch competition to be judged by conference attendees.
GCs place top priority on scaling up legal processes – Richard Tromans of Artificial Lawyer reported that according to a survey of 30 high tech growth company general counsel conducted by contract management software company Juro and the Wilson Sonsini law firm, scaling up legal processes inside the inhouse team is a top-three concern (87%), followed by tooling and technology (74%) and adding value to business (61%). Cutting costs was not a great priority, coming in at 13%.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
ADDITIONAL ARTICLES
UPCOMING EVENTS
Conferences, webinars, and the like can provide insight into where e-discovery, information governance cybersecurity, and digital transformation are heading
9/19/2018-10/18/2019 EVENTS
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Location |
Host |
Title |
9/19/19 8:00 AM |
9/19/19 5:15 PM |
BST |
Conference |
London, UK |
The Masters Conference |
Disclosure Is Always Changing When It Comes To Privacy, Cybersecurity, And Artificial Intelligence. |
9/19/19 8:30 AM |
9/19/19 4:30 PM |
BST |
Conference |
London, UK |
Hogan Lovells |
All-Day Workshop: Privacy and Cybersecurity KnowledgeShare |
9/19/19 8:30 AM |
9/19/19 4:30 PM |
BST |
Conference |
London, UK |
Hogan Lovells |
All-Day Workshop: Privacy and Cybersecurity KnowledgeShare |
9/19/19 9:00 AM |
9/19/19 4:00 PM |
ET |
Conference |
New York, NY |
TetherView |
Cyber Security Summit 2019 |
9/19/19 11:30 AM |
9/19/19 9:00 PM |
ET |
Conference |
Boston, MA |
ACEDS |
ACEDS New England Chapter: E-Discovery Education Day – Legal Technology Education & Sunset Cruise |
9/19/19 11:30 AM |
9/19/19 1:00 PM |
ET |
Meeting |
Jacksonville, FL |
ACEDS |
ACEDS Jacksonville Chapter: Efficient & Effective Tech Solutions for Litigation Life Cycle Problems |
9/19/19 11:45 AM |
9/19/19 1:15 PM |
CT |
Meeting |
Dallas, TX |
Women in eDiscovery |
Dallas Chapter Meeting – Demystifying Metrics: Where’s the Value? |
9/19/19 12:00 PM |
9/19/19 1:00 PM |
PT |
Meeting |
Costa Mesa, CA |
Women in eDiscovery |
Orange County Chapter Meeting – When the Lawyer is the Client, Part I |
9/19/19 1:00 PM |
9/19/19 2:00 PM |
CT |
Meeting |
Des Moines, IA and Cedar Rapids, IA |
Women in eDiscovery |
Iowa Chapter Meeting – Top Tips for Successfully Managing a Document Review Project |
9/19/19 1:00 PM |
9/19/19 6:30 PM |
ADT |
Conference |
Halifax, Canada |
Epiq |
Atlantic Coast Legal Innovation and Technology Roundtable |
9/19/19 2:00 PM |
9/19/19 3:00 PM |
ET |
Webinar |
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ACC |
Preparing for the California Consumer Privacy Act: Lessons Learned So Far |
9/19/19 2:00 PM |
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ET |
Webinar |
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DATAVERSITY |
Stay Non-Invasive in Your Data Governance Approach |
9/19/19 6:00 PM |
9/20/19 5:30 PM |
CT |
Conference |
Minneapolis, MN |
CLEF |
Complex Litigation E-Discovery Forum |
9/21/19 7:00 AM |
9/21/19 7:00 PM |
PT |
Activity |
San Francisco, CA |
Women in eDiscovery |
San Francisco & Silicon Valley Chapters – Napa Wine Tour |
9/23/19 |
9/25/25 |
PT |
Conference |
Las Vegas, NV |
IAPP |
Privacy. Security. Risk. 2019 |
9/23/19 8:30 AM |
9/24/19 12:45 PM |
CEST |
Conference |
Madrid, Spain |
ERA |
Investigating Web 2.0 |
9/24/19 |
9/25/19 |
CT |
Conference |
Houston, TX |
Today’s General Counsel |
The Exchange eDiscovery |
9/24/19 1:00 PM |
9/24/19 2:00 PM |
ET |
Webinar |
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ACEDS |
The State of E-Discovery 2019 |
9/24/19 1:00 PM |
9/24/19 2:00 PM |
ET |
Webinar |
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Above the Law |
Choosing the Right AI Practice Tools: Transactional and Litigation Use Cases |
9/24/19 1:00 PM |
9/24/19 2:00 PM |
ET |
Webinar |
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Above the Law |
Antidote to AI Overload: Framework for Tactical Use of AI Across the Legal Domain |
9/24/19 1:00 PM |
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ET |
Webinar |
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Everlaw |
What’s New at Everlaw: Feature Roundup |
9/24/19 2:00 PM |
9/24/19 3:00 PM |
ET |
Webinar |
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ACC |
Driving Down the Cost of Ediscovery: a PREX Presentation |
9/24/19 4:00 PM |
9/24/19 5:00 PM |
BST |
Webinar |
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ACEDS |
How Automating eDisclosure with Audio, Video & Native Document Translations Saves Time and Money |
9/25/19 |
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CT |
Meeting |
Dallas, TX |
ACEDS |
*Save the Date* ACEDS Dallas Chapter Q3 Event |
9/25/19 7:45 AM |
9/26/19 3:30 PM |
ET |
Conference |
New York, NY |
Corporate Counsel |
General Counsel Conference 2019 |
9/25/19 11:00 AM |
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ET |
Webinar |
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Cellebrite |
Digital Data: Accessing the Latest iOS & Android Devices for Investigations |
9/25/19 12:00 PM |
9/25/19 1:00 PM |
ET |
Webinar |
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ILTA |
Debunking the Top Ten Myths of Document Review |
9/25/19 1:00 PM |
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ET |
Webinar |
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XDD |
New Notifications: Updates on Social Media in eDiscovery |
9/25/19 3:00 PM |
9/25/19 4:00 PM |
ET |
Webinar |
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ZyLAB |
A Practical Approach to Redaction |
9/26/2019 |
9/27/2019 |
ET |
Conference |
Washington, DC |
Duke Law Bolch Judicial Institute |
Developing GDPR Compliance Code and Implications for California Consumer Privacy Act Practices |
9/26/19 |
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ET |
Conference |
New York, NY |
Consero |
Corporate Litigation & Investigations Executive Roundtable |
9/26/19 8:30 AM |
9/26/18 5:00 PM |
CT |
Conference |
Houston, TX |
WiE |
WiE Houston: Legal Technology Showcase & Conference |
9/26/19 8:30 AM |
9/26/19 5:00 PM |
CT |
Conference |
Houston, TX |
Women in eDiscovery |
2019 WIE Houston Legal Technology Showcase & Conference |
9/26/19 8:30 AM |
9/26/19 7:15 PM |
CT |
Conference |
Houston, TX |
Women in eDiscovery |
2019 WIE HOUSTON Legal Technology Showcase & Conference |
9/26/19 8:30 AM |
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BST |
Meeting |
Birmingham, UK |
Ankura |
The Future of Litigation: Innovation and Affordability |
9/26/19 12:00 PM |
9/26/19 1:00 PM |
PT |
Meeting |
Portland, OR |
ACEDS |
ACEDS Portland Chapter: An Introduction to Document Discovery in the Age of Big Data |
9/26/19 12:00 PM |
9/26/19 1:30 PM |
ET |
Meeting |
Boston, MA |
Women in eDiscovery |
Boston Chapter Meeting – Managing & Motivating Important Human Resources |
9/26/19 2:00 PM |
9/26/19 3:00 PM |
ET |
Webinar |
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ACC |
Emerging Trends and Hot Topics in eDiscovery |
9/26/19 2:00 PM |
9/26/19 3:00 PM |
ET |
Webinar |
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Lexbe |
Mastering Privilege Protection in Document Intensive Cases |
9/26/19 2:00 PM |
|
ET |
Webinar |
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DATAVERSITY |
Self Service BI & Analytics: Architecting for Collaboration |
9/26/19 5:30 PM |
9/27/19 4:15 PM |
ET |
Conference |
Detroit, MI |
ACEDS |
4th Annual ACEDS Detroit Symposium/Midwest eDiscovery Conference: “To eDiscovery and Beyond” |
9/26/19 6:00 PM |
9/26/19 7:30 PM |
ET |
Meeting |
Washington, DC |
ACEDS |
ACEDS DC Chapter: Learning Information Governance |
9/29/19 |
9/26/19 |
CT |
Conference |
Chicago, IL |
Today’s General Counsel |
The Exchange Compliance and Ethics |
9/30/19 |
10/2/19 |
CT |
Conference |
San Antonio, TX |
Comexposium |
Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference |
9/30/19 8:30 AM |
10/1/19 12:15 PM |
CEST |
Conference |
Zagreb, Croatia |
ERA |
Computer Forensics in Legal Proceedings |
10/2/19 8:00 AM |
10/2/19 4:45 PM |
ET |
Conference |
New York, NY |
Bloomberg Law |
In-House Forum East |
10/2/19 12:30 PM |
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CEST |
Webinar |
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University of St.Gallen |
Which business models may be subject to the GDPR in Switzerland? |
10/2/19 1:00 PM |
10/2/19 2:00 PM |
ET |
Webinar |
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CCBJ |
Data Privacy Implications of Cloud-Based Social Collaboration Apps |
10/2/19 1:00 PM |
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ET |
Webinar |
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ABA |
Cybersecurity for the Home and Office |
10/2/19 2:00 PM |
10/2/19 2:30 PM |
ET |
Podcast |
|
ACEDS |
Musings with Marc & Mary: Part Two |
10/2/19 5:30 PM |
10/2/19 9:00 PM |
BST |
Meeting |
London, UK |
ACEDS |
ACEDS UK Chapter: Disclosure Pilot – 10 Months in |
10/3/19 8:30 AM |
10/3/19 10:30 AM |
IST |
Meeting |
Dublin, Ireland |
ACEDS |
ACEDS Ireland Chapter: Responding to a Hack/Data Breach Workshop |
10/3/19 1:00 PM |
10/3/19 2:00 PM |
ET |
Webinar |
|
Today’s General Counsel |
California’s New Privacy Law: Four Bet-The-Job Questions for GCs |
10/3/19 1:00 PM |
10/3/19 2:30 PM |
ET |
Webinar |
|
Strafford |
E-Discovery and Spoliation Issues: Litigation Pitfalls, Duty to Preserve, and Clawback Agreements |
10/5/19 11:00 AM |
10/5/19 6:30 PM |
PT |
Conference |
Irvine, CA |
Women in eDiscovery |
2019 SoCAL Tech Conference |
10/8/19 1:00 PM |
10/8/19 2:00 PM |
ET |
Webinar |
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ACEDS |
To Catch a Thief: Using Forensics to Track the Money |
10/8/19 1:00 PM |
10/8/19 2:30 PM |
ET |
Webinar |
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The Sedona Conference |
Webinar on Practical Approaches to Negotiation and Cooperation in Civil Litigation |
10/8/19 2:00 PM |
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ET |
Webinar |
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DATAVERSITY |
Data Quality Success Stories |
10/9/19 7:00 AM |
10/9/19 4:30 PM |
CT |
Conference |
Minneapolis, MN |
Optiv |
OptivCon Minneapolis |
10/9/19 12:00 PM |
10/9/19 1:00 PM |
PT |
Meeting |
San Diego, CA |
Women in eDiscovery |
San Diego Chapter Career Panel |
10/9/19 1:00 PM |
10/9/19 2:00 PM |
ET |
Webinar |
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ACEDS |
Monthly Insights with George Socha and Mary Mack |
10/10/19 1:00 PM |
10/10/19 2:00 PM |
ET |
Webinar |
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ACEDS |
DSARs – Operational Burden and Resource Hungry! |
10/10/19 1:00 PM |
10/10/19 2:00 PM |
ET |
Webinar |
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MER |
A Global Privacy Review |
10/10/19 1:30 PM |
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ET |
Webinar |
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ABA |
Construction & Data Privacy Regional CLE Program |
10/11/19 |
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BST |
Conference |
London, UK |
Artificial Lawyer |
Legal Innovators |
10/13/19 |
10/15/19 |
PT |
Conference |
Westlake Village, CA |
Consero |
Corporate Litigation Forum |
10/14/19 5:00 PM |
10/16/18 5:00 PM |
PT |
Meeting |
Lake Tahoe, NV |
EDI |
The 5th GICLI Annual Meeting |
10/15/19 |
10/17/19 |
ET |
Conference |
Herndon, VA |
OSDFCon |
10th Annual Open Source Digital Forensics Conference |
10/16/19 9:00 AM |
10/16/19 6:00 PM |
BST |
Conference |
London, UK |
Legal Geek |
Legal Geek Conference |
10/16/19 1:00 PM |
10/16/19 2:00 PM |
ET |
Webinar |
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ACEDS |
A Practical Guide to Leveraging Technology-Assisted Review in Litigation |
10/16/19 2:00 PM |
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ET |
Webinar |
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Law.com |
Find that Needle in a Haystack with Advanced eDiscovery Search Techniques Before and During Review |
10/16/19 3:00 PM |
10/16/19 4:00 PM |
ET |
Webinar |
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Holland & Knight |
Cybersecurity Risks for the Autonomous Transportation Sector |
10/16/19 4:00 PM |
10/18/19 1:45 PM |
ET |
Conference |
Incline Village, NV |
EDI |
EDI Leadership Summit |
10/16/19 4:00 PM |
10/18/19 2:00 PM |
PT |
Conference |
Lake Tahoe, NV |
EDI |
The 9th Annual EDI Leadership Summit |
10/17/19 2:00 PM |
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ET |
Webinar |
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DATAVERSITY |
Build Your Own Data Governance Tools |
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