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Chris Dale

The e-Disclosure Information Project

Chris Dale qualified as an English solicitor in 1980 after reading History at Oxford. He was a litigation partner in London and then a litigation software developer and litigation support consultant before turning to commentary on electronic disclosure/discovery. He runs the e-Disclosure Information Project which disseminates information about the court rules, the problems, and the technology to lawyers and their clients, to judges, and to suppliers. He is a member of Senior Master Whitaker's Working Party which drafted the new Practice Direction and Electronic Documents Questionnaire. He writes the UK's only authoritative and objective web site and blog on the subject and is a well-known speaker and commentator in the UK, the US and other common law jurisdictions.

Prof. Ing. Vladimír Smejkal, CSc. LL.M.

Gov. Legislative Council, court expert, CR

Prof. Vladimír Smejkal, PhD. LL.M. is a university professor, an expert witness and an expert in the field of law and security of information systems and of the internet. In 1986 he was appointed by the minister of justice to the post of expert in the field of economics, cybernetics and computers. In 1995 he was appointed in the field of data security and copyright. Prof. Smejkal is also actively involved in legislation activities, for example the Act on Digital Signatures and the Act on Electronics, as well as the Act on the Authorized Conversion of Documents. From June 2004 he has been counselor of the Government Legislative Council of the Czech Republic (www.znalci.cz).

Yuval Ben Moshe

Senior Forensics Technical Director, Cellebrite

Yuval Ben-Moshe, is a Senior Forensics Technical Director at Cellebrite, the world's leading provider of forensic solutions for mobile devices including smartphones, tablets and portable GPS devices. In this role, Mr. Ben-Moshe is acting as a subject matter expert for the company and a central knowledge hub, assuring the company's tight and intimate connection with the forensics community of law enforcement agencies worldwide. In addition, Mr. Ben-Moshe is Cellebrite's primary speaker and representative with the long list of professional forums and conferences, sharing the company's innovative breakthroughs with the community, around the world. Mr. Ben-Moshe has an accumulated experience of over 25 years, in which, prior to joining Cellebrite, he led many technological and business initiatives, with some of Israel's leading and innovative companies, mastering fields of cellular communication, cutting-edge software systems and security.

Radim Polčák

Institute of Law and Technology, Masaryk University

Radim Polčák is a legal theorist working at the Law Faculty of Masaryk University in Brno, where among other things, lectures at the Institute of Law and Technology. He specialises in the theory of law, law of modern information systems, Internet and cyberspace. He has also been leading the popular conference on cyberspace. In 2007 he published the book "Introduction to ICT Law", which was the first publication in Central Europe that discussed the legal issues surrounding information technologies

Jan Balatka

Senior Manager, Deloitte Forensics

Jan Balatka is senior manager in Deloitte Forensics. He is leading the analytic and forensic laboratory for Central Europe and his experience is in IT services with focus on data analytics (fraud prevention and detection, tax evasion analytics etc.), electronic data discovery (litigation support and content optimization) and continuous controls monitoring. Jan has an international experience, working in various countries, especially in Switzerland and Canada. Jan is also leading the research and development activities as part of the analytics center of excellence of Deloitte CE.

Nigel Murray

Managing Director, Huron Consulting Group

Nigel has been at the forefront of the litigation support and eDisclosure industry in the UK since 1991. He managed the first eDisclosure project to go before a UK court in the early 2000’s and has helped facilitate the development of the industry within the major law firms in the UK, mainland Europe and the Middle East. Prior to joining Huron, Nigel was founder and Managing Director of TRILANTIC, the first UK-based eDisclosure company. Some of his prominent work in Europe included advising a German bank on its strategy for the collection and processing of all documentation required for current and potential litigation. He also managed the collection and processing of several million paper documents for legal review for a Norwegian pharmaceutical company facing intellectual property litigation in the United States. Nigel is a frequent speaker at both public events around the world and training sessions within law firms and corporations.

JUDr. Josef Donát, LLM

Partner, ROWAN LEGAL

Josef Donát is a leading specialist in the area of ICT law and intellectual property rights. Working on comprehensive IT outsourcing, cloud computing and information system delivery projects, Josef Donát has led teams involved for instance in complex due dilligence of a significant transportation infrastructure manufacturer/provider or a major project on IT infrastructure and application outsourcing in the Czech Republic. Josef is also a respected speaker at many highly-reputable Law and Technology conferences.

Steven Cohen

Executive VP, COO and Co-founder, BasisTech

Steve is responsible for worldwide sales and the planning and operations of Basis Technology’s linguistic product research and development. Before starting Basis Technology with Carl Hoffman, Steve was engineering manager for Cognex Corporation's Tokyo office and development manager for SMT device inspection. He has also consulted on software internationalization engineering and developed software for embedded systems and electronic test equipment. Steve earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from MIT and studied at Waseda University in Tokyo.

Mattias Aggeler

Managing Director, M.Sc., Swiss FTS

Mattias Aggeler had worked for several years in the area Forensic Technologies for a renowned international audit- and consulting firm in Switzerland. In this position he was part of various client projects in different industries, e.g. financial institutions, industrial groups and national agencies. During his projects he gained thorough know-how in the areas of digital forensics and E-Discovery. Based on the international context of his experience he especially acquired knowhow in specific national data protection laws.

Marián Svetlík

Principal Consultant, RAC

Marian Svetlik, 55, Slovakian, is recognised mainly as a digital forensic expert with a wide-ranging background in information security. He has 30 years of experience in IT, more than 15 years of experience in digital forensics and 10 years of experience in information security management, especially in disaster recovery and incident handling. Marian is a former police officer, a former head of the special computer-crime expertise police unit, and co-founder of ENFSI Forensic Information Technology Working Group. Marian is working as a principal consultant in Risk Analysis Consultants now; his main orientation is information security risks analysis and management. He has been involved in many projects in the financial and telecom sectors, as well as assisting lead industry companies in BS 7799 certification etc. He is the founder head of the first private Digital Forensic Institute in the Czech Republic. Marian has participated in many conferences, mainly in the digital forensics area, from Interpol training courses and ENFSI activities, to the Council of Europe Cyber-Crime committee, as well as the CTOSE project and ECCE conferences. He is a member of HTCIA and ACFE and an experienced trainer in digital forensics and information security. His last activity is the Digital Forensic Forum (DFF) Initiative. He is CEO of the Academy of Forensic Sciences. Marian lives near Prague, he speaks English, Russian, Czech and Slovak.

Rogier Teo

Managing Director, Swiss FTS

Starting his career in computer forensics and e-Discovery, Rogier Teo worked several years for an international audit- and consulting firm in the area of Forensic Technologies. During this engagement he participated in and led several national and international E-Discovery and computer forensic projects. Being involved in a considerable number of these projects he acquired a vast knowledge in the field of E-Discovery. The different projects enabled him to become an expert at technical as well as legislative problems in areas of IT forensic on a national as well as international stage.

JUDr. Martin Maisner, PhD.

Partner, ROWAN LEGAL

Martin Maisner is a partner at ROWAN LEGAL. He is a renowned expert in the area of ICT Law, Outsourcing, Alternative Dispute Resolution and Cyber Security. He is the author of many publications and articles; gives presentations at many professional conferences in the Czech Republic and abroad. He regularly lectures at the University of Economics, Faculty of Law at Masaryk University and the Pan European University. He has acted as an arbitrator in a number of hearings before the Arbitration Court Attached to the Economic Chamber of the Czech Republic and Agricultural Chamber of the Czech Republic and under the rules of the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris. Martin is an arbitrator of the Centre for Dispute Settlement for .eu domains. He has represented clients in arbitrations in Prague, Geneva, Zurich and London. Martin is a member of a global expert group of top arbitration specialists (MULTILAW Arbitration Team), the Czech Bar Association, the Slovak Bar Association, the International Bar Association, Association Suisse de l'Arbitrage, the London Court of International Arbitration and is also the vice president of CSSI (Czech Society for Systems Integrations).

Goran Oparnica

General Manager, INsig2

From the start of his carrier, Goran Oparnica (B.Sc. in computer science) was interested in issues related to information security, both from consulting and technology perspectives. Since there is no such thing as absolute security, a logical step forward was an interest in digital forensics, both from technological and legal points of view. Since 2004 he has been the general manager of company INsig2 (Zagreb, Croatia), and is leading the company in Central and Eastern Europe in the field of digital forensics. Projects that INsig2 has carried out in the region include education of investigators, prosecutors, lawyers, court expert witnesses in the field of digital forensic methodology and tools, consulting in various aspects of digital forensics and implementation of different technological forensic solutions. Mr. Oparnica is a holder of a CPP certificate by ASIS internationaland CISM by ISACA.

Browning E. Marean

Senior Counsel, DLA Piper

Browning is Senior Counsel in DLA Piper’s San Diego office, and is one of the worldwide leaders of the firm's E-Discovery task force. He advises firm clients about best practices for the preservation of electronic data and meeting the other challenges of E-Discovery in a cost effective manner. He is co-chair of the firm’s Electronic Discovery Readiness and Response Group and is a member of the firm’s Litigation Group. He is a frequent and an internationally known teacher and lecturer on various topics including electronic discovery, computer technology and legal ethics.

Andrew Haslam

Consultant, Allvision

Andrew Haslam, from Allvision Computing (www.allvision.co.uk), is the UK's leading independent litigation support consultant, who since 1997 has provided specialist legal IT advice and Electronic Data Disclosure (EDD) strategy to the UK’s top law firms. Andrew started his professional career serving 12 years in the British Army where he acquired an IT degree and an abiding interest in how computing can help people work more efficiently. He then spent a decade delivering document management solutions to clients in the Military, Central Government and Pharmaceutical sectors. From early 2004, Andrew has been at the forefront of developments in EDD, and is recognised as one of the UK's leading consultants in this field, speaking at many conferences and authoring a series of white papers on EDD and Litigation Readiness. He has an on-going part time role as the manager of a Litigation Support team at Hogan Lovells International LLP, as well as providing practical and strategic EDD support to top 100 firms including; BLP, RPC, Bird & Bird, Geldards, Hugh James, SJ Berwin, Clyde & Co, Berrymans Lace Mawer, Mishcon de Reya, Lewis Silkin, Thomas Eggar, Heath Buckeridge, Pinsent Masons and Curtis Davis Garrard.

Zbynek Loebl

Founder and CEO, ODR Exchange, CR

Zbynek Loebl is founder and CEO of ODR Exchange (www.odrexchange.com), a start-up in global cross-border online dispute resolution (ODR). Zbynek managed in the past six years several international Internet projects related to ODR, including the development of ADR.EU, the sole ODR provider for .eu related disputes and also an UDRP-accredited ODR provider. Zbynek has been very active in UNCITRAL ODR Working Group and has moderated inter-sessional conference calls of UNCITRAL delegates and other interested parties for almost two years. Zbynek was also the main organizer of ODR Forum 2012, a major annual conference on ODR which was held in Prague on 27-29 June 2012 and which brought to one place almost 100 ODR experts from all over the world.

Tomas Mach

Anglo American University, Prague

Tomas Mach holds graduate degrees in law from the University of Cambridge (LL.M.) and Charles University in Prague (Ph.D.). He is partner in Tynska Chambers/ Advokatni kancelar Tynska in Prague, Czech Republic where he focuses on corporate Law and related litigation and arbitration. He also lectures law at the Anglo-American University in Prague, Czech Republic.

Philipp Amann

Information Management Officer, OSCE

Dr. Philipp Amann is the Information Management Officer of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s Transnational Threats Co-ordination Cell. He is also the focal point for OSCE’s activities in the field of cybercrime. Dr. Amann has co-authored several papers on information management, looking for instance at the challenges to advanced electronic evidence lifecycle management in an international court environment. He holds a master’s and a doctoral degree in business informatics from the University of Vienna and is currently enrolled in an MSc program in Forensic Computing and Cybercrime Investigation at the University College Dublin. Dr. Amann held senior information management positions with several other international organisations, including the International Criminal Court in The Hague. He has extensive experience in all aspects of electronic evidence and case management.

Chukwunonso Okoro

Manager of Forensic Audit Services, MTN Cameroon

Chukwunonso Okoro is the Manager of Forensic Audit Services at Mobile Telephone Networks (MTN) Cameroon. He holds the Master of International Law & Diplomacy Degree from the University of Lagos. He is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and a Certified Anti Money laundering Specialist (CAMS) with seven years of experience in Enterprise Risk Management. He has testified as an Expert Witness in the Federal High Courts of Nigeria and secured several convictions in criminal prosecutions. As a Cybercrime Investigator in the service of the Nigerian Government, he performed joint international investigations with the United States Secret Service, the United States Department of Justice and the United States FBI.

Tomas Hulle

Director, Prague Program on International Transactions

Tomas has been serving as a visiting scholar at University of Science and Technology of China. His main professional focus is dispute resolution and arbitration, contracts, intellectual property and technology law. Before coming to China, he worked for the top tier international law firms and was also in charge of business legal analysis at Hospodárské noviny and Ekonom in the Czech Republic. Tomas graduated from Faculty of Law, Masaryk University. Tomas has been participating as an expert group member at work for UNCITRAL in the area of ecommerce and online dispute resolution. He is also member of many international professional NGOs and closely cooperates with Institute of Law and Technology at Masaryk University. In the past, Tomas lectured shortly at John Marshall Law School in the USA and at Shanghai University of Foreign Trade, Shandong University and Shanghai University of Political Science and Law in China. He is a co-author of several books and numerous academic or business/analytical articles.

Karl Obayi

Computer Forensics & Ediscovery Attorney

Karl Obayi is dual qualified as an Attorney and Certified Computer forensics expert (ACE). A former University Law lecturer for many years. Practiced as a Barrister of the Supreme Court of Nigeria and presently, a Solicitor and Higher Rights Advocate of the Supreme Court of England and Wales. He is a Microsoft certified systems engineer (MCSE), digital evidence and ediscovery consultant, with more than 20 years combined experience in law and technology dispute resolution, undertakes consultancy for law firms, Government agencies, Law enforcement authorities and financial institutions. He has acted as lead ediscovery and forensic consultant in cross boarder disputes and as digital forensic expert in matters involving the Metropolitan police of London. Author of various published articles and white papers. He is the Principal Consultant and Head of practice - ITsolicitors a specialist legal technology firm with offices in Nigeria and the UK.