Cat Casey is not a guest who drops in for a keynote and disappears — she's the throughline. As Masters AI's Chief Legal AI Futurist and founder of TechnoCat, she brings more than two decades of earned trust, helping lawyers understand what AI actually means for their work, their judgment, and their future. She sets the tone, cuts through the noise, and keeps every conversation grounded in how the legal profession really operates.

The Honorable Andrew J. Peck served for 23 years as a United States Magistrate Judge in the Southern District of New York (1995 to 2018), including as Chief Magistrate Judge from 2004 to 2005. He is now Senior Counsel at DLA Piper and serves as an arbitrator, mediator, and Special Master with the AAA, Federal Arbitration, Inc., and NAM.
Ranked Band 1 by Chambers in 2025, he authored the landmark 2012 Da Silva Moore decision approving technology-assisted review. The New York Law Journal has called him one of e-discovery's most influential figures, and he has been named to The American Lawyer's Top 50 Innovators.

Alycia Michelle Guichard is the Emerging Technology Counsel at Verizon, where she plays a key strategic role at the intersection of enterprise technology, risk management, and legal operations. In this capacity, Alycia supports the Network and Corporate Systems organizations. Alycia also partners with the third-party risk team and manages global enablement. Additionally, Alycia enables compliance frameworks that support Global Technology Solutions and drives AI-first solutions for Verizon's legal organization.

Jo Ann Lengua Davaris is the Global Chief Privacy Officer at Booking Holdings Inc., where she leads privacy, cybersecurity legal, and AI governance programs across brands including Booking.com, Priceline, Kayak, OpenTable, and Agoda. Since 2019, she has advanced a unified global framework that embeds trust, security, and data ethics into the company's innovation and growth.
Driven by a passion for AI accountability, ethical technology design, and data integrity, she shares her insights at global events including the AI Summit New York, Women, Influence & Power in Law (WIPL), and ARMA International.
Before joining Booking Holdings, Jo served as the Global Chief Privacy Officer at Mercer and led global privacy governance at American Express. Earlier in her career, as an attorney with New York City's Administration for Children's Services, she prosecuted child abuse and neglect cases—an experience that continues to ground her commitment to protecting the vulnerable. She also serves on the Board of The Emergency Shelter Inc. of New York, which provides vital support to individuals and families in crisis.
Across all her roles, she advances the belief that data protection is not just compliance, but a commitment to safeguarding what connects us—trust, integrity, and human dignity.


Rob is the Founder and CEO of Discernis, an AI-native platform built for legal discovery and investigations. Discernis brings modern large-language-model capabilities inside the firewall, letting AmLaw firms and corporate legal teams apply AI to discovery without surrendering data sovereignty, privilege, or client confidentiality to the cloud.
Rob holds a PhD in AI from Columbia University, with research published in Science. He went on to work at AWS, where he worked on building Amazon's first large language models from scratch.



Barclay Blair is Senior Managing Director of DLA Piper's AI Innovation Team. He is the founder and president of ViaLumina and the founder and executive director of the Information Governance Initiative.
He is the author of Information Nation, Information Nation Warrior, and Privacy Nation, and received an EB-1 "Einstein Visa" in 2013. His current work centers on prompt engineering and retrieval-augmented generation.



Michael Pastor is Dean for Technology Law Programs at New York Law School. He previously served as General Counsel of New York City's Department of Information Technology and Telecommunications and of NYC Cyber Command, and spent years with the New York City Law Department.
He serves on several boards and holds a JD from NYU School of Law and a BA from Yale.

Stephanie Wilkins is Director of Content at Legaltech Hub. She was previously Editor-in-Chief of Legal Technology and Legaltech News at ALM (now Centellic), covering the intersection of law and technology.


Anthony Laney is Vice President of Product at ReVia. With more than 20 years in legal technology, he focuses on AI-driven solutions that bridge siloed systems.

Cristin Traylor is Senior Director of AI Transformation & Law Firm Strategy at Relativity, where she works closely with law firms, corporations, government entities, and partner organizations to align AI-driven legal data intelligence with organizational strategy, client service, and risk management. She brings a practitioner's perspective to this work, drawing on her background as a former litigator and Discovery Counsel at McGuireWoods, where she handled complex Government Investigations & White Collar Litigation and Business & Securities matters, and led firmwide discovery strategy.
Traylor advises the legal industry on how to responsibly and defensibly deploy AI across e-discovery and other high-stakes legal workflows, helping organizations enhance efficiency, consistency, and client value. A frequent author and speaker on generative AI and legal data intelligence, she also plays an active leadership role across the industry. Her service includes the Steering Committee of The Sedona Conference Working Group 1, liaison to Working Group 13 on Artificial Intelligence and the Law, the board of Richmond Women in eDiscovery, and membership on the EDRM Global Advisory Council. She is a Relativity Master, Legal Data Intelligence Ambassador, and a member of the Virginia and District of Columbia Bar Associations.



Patrick Bilgere is a legal technology executive and AI strategist focused on redefining how AI is applied in litigation and investigations. With over 20 years in eDiscovery and 15 years spent building and scaling a leading legal technology platform, he has been at the center of the industry's evolution, from early analytics and predictive coding to today's generative AI capabilities.
His work centers on the gap between AI capability and real-world execution, partnering with law firms and corporate legal teams to operationalize AI and design workflows that turn powerful tools into measurable outcomes: faster review, lower cost, and defensible processes. He brings deep expertise across the full discovery lifecycle, working extensively with AMLAW 100 firms, corporate legal departments, and legal service providers.
An active voice in the legal tech community, Patrick serves on the board of the Chicago chapter of ACEDS as Past President, where he regularly leads discussions on the future of AI, automation, and the evolving legal services model.



Stephanie Clerkin is Director of Litigation Support at Korein Tillery, one of the country's leading plaintiffs' complex-litigation firms, where she leverages over 20 years of experience in finance, consulting, and data analytics to manage massive litigation projects as well as the firm's e-Discovery platform. Working with all departments in the firm, she bridges the gap between legal teams and IT personnel to streamline discovery efforts and design cost-effective solutions for clients, overseeing the processing, analysis, review, and production of hundreds of terabytes of ESI.
Stephanie is an ACEDS Certified e-Discovery Specialist and Relativity Master. She is a Member Liaison for the St. Louis ILTA Community and the current Strategic Partner Liaison for ILTA and Relativity. She is also a member of Women in eDiscovery and the Sedona Conference, an EDRM 2.0 Project Trustee, and serves on the Steering Committee for the St. Louis Relativity User Group.

John Rizner, a graduate of The University of Chicago Law School with a Juris Doctor, brings an extensive background in corporate law with a strong focus on legal technology. Licensed as an attorney in New York and Utah, he has guided companies through complex mergers and acquisitions and advised on financing transactions.
At a major law firm, John played a crucial role in evaluating and implementing technology solutions, including machine learning and generative AI products, and has shared his insights through public CLE presentations on the use of large language models and machine learning in corporate legal practice. Currently a Product Manager at Filevine, he combines his legal expertise with a deep understanding of AI to innovate in the field of legal technology.

Eric Robinson has more than 25 years of accumulated legal, eDiscovery, data governance, and project management experience. As KLDiscovery's VP, Global Advisory Services & Strategic Client Solutions, Mr. Robinson leads the company's Advisory Services team and works consultatively with clients to develop and implement cost effective, efficient, and defensible strategies for discovery, data governance, and data privacy compliance.
Leveraging his experience in operational analysis and design and his knowledge of current legal trends and technology associated with information management, Mr. Robinson designs defensible strategies and technology solutions to optimize client efficiencies in alignment with industry accepted practices.
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