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  • Monday, April 20, 2026
  • 11:00 AM - 2:30 PM CT
    ADVANCED Legal Operations Bootcamp Legal Ops Leaders' Think Tank - Candid Strategies for Complex Challenges - $199.00

    Speaker: Midori Vasquez – Elasticsearch, Inc.

    Speaker: Gregory Witczak

  • 11:00 AM - 2:30 PM CT
    INTRODUCTORY Legal Operations Bootcamp: Legal Operations Launchpad - Strategy, Process, & Tech Foundations for Legal Operations Professionals - $199.00

    Speaker: Daniel Young – SharkNinja

    Speaker: Suzanne Maso, MSL – Covista

  • 12:00 PM - 7:00 PM CT
    Registration Open
  • 4:15 PM - 5:30 PM CT
    Opening Plenary: Unlock the Secret(s) to Success — Take Your Legal Operations Function to New Heights

    Speaker: Mishele Kieffer – Medtronic

    Speaker: Dan Lin – Crane Patents

    Speaker: Nikki Rahimzadeh – Analog Devices, Inc.

    Speaker: Heather L. Reid – UpLevel Ops

    Speaker: Krista Schwarze – Rovensa Group

    Sponsor Speaker: Evan Wong – Checkbox

  • 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM CT
    Headshot Hours
  • 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM CT
    Welcome Reception
  • Tuesday, April 21, 2026
  • 7:30 AM - 6:30 PM CT
    Registration Open
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Networking Breakfast
  • 8:00 AM - 6:30 PM CT
    Headshot Hours
  • 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM CT
    101 - Opening Plenary
  • 10:15 AM - 10:45 AM CT
    Networking Break
  • 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM CT
    201 - How Companies Define “Legal Ops”
  • 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM CT
    202 - Executive Influence: Mastering the Strategic Ask
  • 10:45 AM - 12:00 PM CT
    203 - Career Building/Paths: The Legal Ops Ladder Is Yours to Build — Hammer Included!
  • 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM CT
    Interest Group Luncheon Meetings
  • 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM CT
    Networking Lunch
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CT
    301 - Legal Ops, Party of One: Scrappy, Smart, and Getting Stuff Done
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CT
    302 - Managing Outside Counsel Effectively In The Age Of AI
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM CT
    303 - How AI Delivers Value at Every Stage of CLM Maturity
  • 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM CT
    401 - Prompting for Impact: Gen AI Skills for Legal Ops Professionals
  • 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM CT
    402 - The Tech-Enabled Contract Team: A Practical Blueprint for Delivering Results Every Day
  • 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM CT
    403 - Practical Magic: Crafting Your Strategy for Outside Counsel & Vendor Management
  • 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM CT
    Networking Break
  • 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM CT
    501 - Legal Tech Tools We Bought and Why We Bought Them
  • 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM CT
    502 - Strategic AI Acquisition: Aligning Business Needs with Technology Solutions in Legal Operations
  • 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM CT
    503 - Be the Fixer — Resourceful. Connected. Indispensable.
  • 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM CT
    Networking Reception
  • Wednesday, April 22, 2026
  • 7:30 AM - 4:00 PM CT
    Registration Open
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM CT
    Networking Breakfast
  • 8:00 AM - 2:15 PM CT
    Headshot Hours
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM CT
    601 - "If You Don’t Measure It, You Won’t Manage It”- How Benchmarking Analysis Drives World-Class Operations
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM CT
    602 - Designing and Scaling AI for Legal Ops Impact
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM CT
    603 - How To Take Mature Legal Operations Functions/Legal Departments To The Next Level
  • 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM CT
    Networking Break
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM CT
    701 - From Cost Center to Value Driver: Telling the Legal Ops Story with Data
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM CT
    702 - The Ultimate Vendor Scorecard Workshop: Metrics, Expectations, and Insight
  • 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM CT
    703 - The Future Of Legal Resourcing: AI, Headcount, Tech, And The Next Generation Legal Ops Team
  • 11:30 AM - 12:45 PM CT
    Interest Group Luncheon Meetings
  • 11:30 AM - 12:45 PM CT
    Networking Lunch
  • 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM CT
    801 - The Legal Executive Playbook
  • 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM CT
    802 - Unlocking The Legal Front Door: The Key To Visibility, Efficiency, And Sanity
  • 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM CT
    803 - Agentic AI-Native Legal Operations: From Copilots To Fully Orchestrated Workflows — Expert-Led Roundtable
  • 1:45 PM - 2:15 PM CT
    Networking Break
  • 2:15 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    901 - Flipping the Script: Applying Change Management Theory to Legal Ops at Scale
  • 2:15 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    902 - Less Tracking, More Acting: How To Put Your Legal Spend Data To Work
  • 2:15 PM - 3:30 PM CT
    903 - OCG — Let's Build the Guidelines We Want and Need! — Workshop
  • 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM CT
    That's a Wrap!