Stephen Dooley

Director of eDiscovery and Litigation Support, Sullivan & Cromwell, LLP

Stephen is an experienced leader in addressing the business needs of the lifecycle of the discovery process and implementing teams and solutions to address those efforts. With over 25 years of industry experience, advising attorneys, clients, and colleagues on a gamut of complex e-discovery and technical topics, including data governance, data privacy, and the ongoing evolution of GenAI. He has also been instrumental in developing and maintaining two litigation support departments at other firms and currently is the Director of the Electronic Discovery and Litigation Support department at Sullivan & Cromwell. He works closely with the Firm and its clients to provide cost-effective solutions with appropriate controls to mitigate risk, enhance security/compliance, and promote continuous improvement.

Igor Labutov

CEO and Co-Founder, LAER AI

Igor Labutov is a CEO and co-founder of LAER AI. Igor is a computer scientist with interests in building machine learning algorithms that can learn from natural human supervision, such as verbal or visual instructions. Most recently he was a Postdoc at the Machine Learning Department of Carnegie Mellon University, working with Prof. Tom Mitchell on problems of machine learning from flexible and natural forms of instruction. Prior to that Igor received his PhD in Computer Engineering from Cornell University, where he was advised by Hod Lipson and Christoph Studer, and where he was a recipient of the NSF Graduate Fellowship. Igor has also worked at Microsoft Research, where he collaborated with the Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing groups in developing NLP algorithms for education.

Bishan Yang

CTO and Co-Founder, LAER AI

Bishan Yang is a CTO and co-founder at LAER AI. She is a computer scientist with a passion for building systems that can extract actionable knowledge from natural language text. Most recently she was a Postdoc at the Machine Learning department of Carnegie Mellon University, working with Prof. Tom Mitchell on problems of knowledge base construction and natural language understanding. Prior to that, Bishan received her PhD in Computer Science from Cornell University, where she developed structural machine-learning models for information extraction. In addition to her research experience, Bishan has also worked at renowned industry labs such as Microsoft Research and Google Research. She was named Rising Star in EECS in 2016.

Vlad Lobatchev

Director of Engagement Management and Data Science, FRONTEO

Director of Engagement Management and Data Science (FRONTEO) As an Engagement Manager and a Director of Data Science and Strategy, Vlad is responsible for ensuring that our clients always receive top-tier customer experience and best-in-breed technology to enhance their e-Discovery workflows. He draws on his extensive professional experience and legal background to guide development and implementation of innovative technological solutions and workflows on client engagements. Prior to joining FRONTEO, he was an attorney for two years specializing in general corporate and finance law – taxation, contracts, corporate formation, and administration.

Shiho Tanaka

SVP, Discovery Consulting Division, FRONTEO

SVP, Discovery Consulting Division/Global Sales Executive (FRONTEO USA) leading the Marketing, Data Scientist, and Engagement Management teams at FRONTEO USA. As a bridge between law firms and companies mainly in Asia and the United States, Shiho has been engaged in a lot of international litigation, forensic investigation and arbitration cases in the United States and Japan, supporting compliance matters as well.