Three Pre-conference Seminars...A Million Bright Lights

There's no better value in the land of the $4.99 buffet than adding a pre-conference seminar to supplement your educational experience. Specialized seminars are led by industry experts and carry CRM credits for attendance. Additional registration fees are required and seating is limited, but for a high roller like you... we have your table ready.

Fundamentals of Records and Information Management

Saturday, October 18 – Sunday, October 19
8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Mark Langemo, Ed.D., CRM, FAI, facilitates this comprehensive two-day workshop to help those who are new to the profession get up to speed in no time. You'll find tried-and-proven, practical approaches for developing and strengthening organization-wide information management programs. You'll also cover legally valid records retention programs and electronic records management strategies. It's a great way to get up to speed before the conference begins.

Legal Services Focus: Compliance, Collaboration, and Conflicts

Saturday, October 18 – Sunday, October 19
8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.

The Legal Services Pre-conference is sponsored by Thomson-Elite.
Saturday's seminar focuses on conflict-of-interest issues in the law firm, including legal conflicts and "issue" or "positional" conflicts as they relate to a variety of situations such as former clients, expert witnesses, trade associations, government entities, board positions, joint defense, current client and direct adversity, class actions, regulatory proceedings, mergers, and lateral hires.

Sunday's seminar includes a panel discussion of leading CIOs, emerging best practices between RIM and IT, e-mail management, and Microsoft SharePoint Services. Attendees will explore these critical compliance and collaboration issues and bring back action items for immediate implementation.

Electronic Records Management

Choose your one-day experience, or attend both. The split is designed to focus on your level of experience, giving RIM and IT stakeholders valuable insight and tools they need at each stage.

• Collaboration – Creating the Information-Centric Enterprise
  Facilitated by Michael Peterson
  Saturday, October 18
  8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
  This seminar is intended for level 2 (intermediate) information management professionals to motivate your IT, security, and business group peers to collaborate and transform the way your organization does business. You'll explore key issues in managing electronic records, including best practices and technologies for information classification, discovery, setting IT requirements, protecting and securing digital information, long term digital information retention and compliant storage.

• Advanced ESI
  Facilitated by Doug Magnuson
  Sunday, October 19
  8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
  Designed specifically for level 3 & 4 (advanced) information management professionals, this session will explore the state of the industry and evaluate the available vendor solutions. When you leave, you'll have relevant, practical insight and best practices for deploying electronic records management systems.