Next week, a few thousand people will convene at LegalTech New York for 3 days of exhibitions, networking and technology sessions. To give an overview of what will be covered in those sessions, we have again created the LegalTech New York agenda word cloud, visually displaying the words/themes included in the event's agenda of sessions. Size of selected words dictate how often they have been mentioned or referenced within the agenda. [Click on image to enlarge]
This is the third year we have turned the event program into this type of word cloud and it's quite interesting to take a look back and compare 2013, 2012 and 2011 (see previous LTNY clouds below). Here are our thoughts...
- Big data makes a big showing this year, but didn't appear in 2012 or 2011.
- There seems to be a new focus on corporate with more sessions and topics focused on corporate legal as well as a focus on data – how to search it, capture it, review it, store it, share it and even legislate it.
- The cloud keeps on shrinking … cloud ‘2.0’ is definitely here with the initial buzz of what the cloud is and who ‘is doing it’ over and more focus on real world applications and realities including security, jurisdictional concerns and true costs.
- Overall, based on the 2013 Legal Tech World Cloud, the most interesting pairings have to be ‘eDiscovery’, ‘corporate’ and ‘cost’: LegalTech is increasingly becoming the hub for eDiscovery services and technologies in the legal space; corporations are increasingly struggling with how to manage litigation beginning with the legal hold management component of the e-Discovery Reference Model; and related to that, costs associated with eDiscovery are still an unwieldy beast.
As a comparison, we have included the LegalTech NY Agenda Word Clouds from 2012 and 2011.
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Fascinating! Thanks for doing this.
Posted by: Bob Ambrogi | January 23, 2013 at 12:11 PM