EDI Leadership Summit
October 13 – 15, 2026 | Lahaina, HI
Achieve more value. Transform legal work with award-winning AI and improve discovery outcomes with Chambers-ranked expertise.
- Manage discovery through a single provider across the matter lifecycle.
- Gain access to experts, proven processes, technology, AI, and services, all at a predictable monthly cost.
- Fill discovery talent needs in under one week.
- Achieve AI readiness with strategies backed by Microsoft-recognized expertise.
- Transform how teams work with trusted AI that accelerates analysis, drafting, and knowledge discovery across enterprise content.
- Transform legal work with the winner of the 2026 Legalweek award for AI innovation.
Epiq Sessions
To Build, Borrow, or Partner? Designing the Modern Discovery Team
Wednesday, October 14, 2026 | 9:15 – 10:15 a.m. Hawaii Standard Time
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Corporate legal departments continue to seek the optimal balance between internal and external resources in their discovery programs. This panel will discuss factors that drive insourcing and outsourcing decisions, and how recent evolutions in discovery technology have altered legal departments’ evaluation of those factors. How does the swinging pendulum impact planning for employment and staffing at corporate legal departments, law firms, and service providers? Join this session to find out.
Speakers:
- Rich Bowes, Director, eDiscovery and Information Governance, Paramount
- Heather Nash-Harmann, Lead Discovery Analyst, Starbucks
- Rebecca Lorance, Senior Litigation Counsel-Director eDiscovery and Data Protection, Corning Incorporated
- Janeth Vargas, eDiscovery Manager, United Airlines
- Eric Crawley, Senior Vice President, Product Management and Advanced Solutions, Epiq (Moderator)
The M365 Maze: Governance, Discovery, and AI in a World of Infinite Collaboration
Thursday, October 15 | 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. Hawaii Standard Time (Luncheon Plenary Session)
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As enterprise organizations continue to expand their use of Microsoft 365 (M365), legal, compliance, and technology, teams are navigating a rapidly growing ecosystem of Teams chats, OneDrive data, transcripts, collaborative workspaces, and AI content. This user-focused session will examine the governance, discovery, and operational challenges emerging across the modern M365 environment, including how organizations are managing retention, legal holds, Copilot adoption, data sprawl, and cross-platform discovery workflows at enterprise scale. Panelists will share lessons, implementation strategies, and real-world perspectives on building defensible governance programs inside today’s increasingly interconnected Microsoft ecosystem.
Speakers:
- Peter Cladouhos, Director & Senior Counsel eDiscovery & Information Governance, Abbott Laboratories
- Becca King, Manager, Client Engagement, eDiscovery Center of Excellence, Cox Enterprises
- Ross Parker, Global Head, Data Privacy, Protection, And Governance Compliance, S&P Global
- Sarah Riedel, Senior Litigation Project Analyst, Solventum
- Jon Kessler, Vice President and General Manager, Information Governance, Epiq