The e-Discovery and e-Investigations Forum is designed to meet the needs of key stakeholders and decision makers who are responsible for ensuring compliance with legal requirements, managing internal investigations and preparing for or responding to regulatory investigations and litigation events. The agenda provides strategic and technical advice, examples of best practice and practical case studies that detail how organisations can keep the costs of compliance to a minimum and ensure an efficient response to data requests from internal or external parties. The results of the recent 'e-Disclosure 2020' survey that polled over 200 representatives of global business and legal services firms indicates that over 85% of IT and legal professionals believe, due to trends in their organisation, that there will be an increased requirement to retrieve targeted data related to individuals, actions, or events. The survey results further demonstrate that the majority of respondents agreed that: The main cause of inefficiency when trying to locate relevant data is that the methodology used returns a high volume of irrelevant records The main reasons for large volumes of irrelevant data being returned in searches is that data has not been consistently or adequately organised into clearly defined categories when saved or archived The technological trend of most concern in terms of ability to retrieve data is the storage of company data on web-based third-party servers The need to retrieve electronic data in cases of litigation, regulation or investigation will necessitate the creation of a new in-house function that manages all business processes that relate to data creation, storage and retrieval Those attending include heads and directors of IT, compliance, investigations, forensics, records management, privacy, audit, legal and HR. Industry sectors typically represented range from finance and legal services through to oil and gas, food and beverage, pharmaceuticals and manufacturing. This conference delivers delegates with solution frameworks that can help reduce risk, enable operational flexibility, minimise complexity, create value and keep costs low.

Organisations attending in 2011 included:

2011 speakers included:

3 Verulam Buildings; 5 Paper Buildings; Alstom; AMEC; American Express; Aviva; AXA; Baker and McKenzie; Bank of England; Bank of New York Mellon; Barclays; Berwin Leighton Paisner; Bird and Bird; BMW; Bristows; British Airways; British American Tobacco; British Sky Broadcasting; BT; Capita Group; Carey Olsen; Citigroup; City of London Police; Clearwell Systems; Clifford Chance; Complete Discovery Source; Co-operative Financial Services; Dairy Crest Group; Davies Arnold Cooper; Deutsche Bank Group; DigiScan; DLA Piper; DuPont; East Coast Railway; EMC; Ericsson; Eversheds; Fidelity International; Financial Services Authority; Fladgate LLP; Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer; Friends Life; FTI Consulting; Fujitsu; Gala Coral Group; Grant Thornton; Harbottle and Lewis; Hargreaves Lansdown; HCA International; Herbert Smith; HM Revenue and Customs; Hogan Lovells; Holman Fenwick and Willan; HSBC; Hutchinson Group; IBM; ICE plc; IG Group; Intelligent Processing Solutions Limited; IOS; John Lewis; JP Morgan Chase; Kit Digital; Kroll Ontrack; LCH Clearnet; Linklaters; Lloyds Banking Group; Macquarie Banking Group; McGuireWoods; MD5; Microsoft; Mills and Reeve; Mishcon De Reya; Molson Coors; Motorola; Nokia Siemens Networks; Osborne Clarke; Phones4U; Pinsent Masons; Post Office; Proven; Rathbone Brothers; Recommind; Reed Smith; Royal Bank of Scotland; Russian Paralegals; Sage Pay; Scottish and Southern Energy; Shell; Simmons and Simmons; Sony Corporation; Speechly Bircham LLP; Squire Sanders and Dempsey; Standard Chartered Bank; Stephenson Harwood; Stroz Friedberg; Telefónica O2; The 451 Group; The Co-operative Group; Thomas Cook; Transport for London; Trowers and Hamlins; Unilever; Vodafone; Volta; White and Case; Wolseley; Wragge and Co; Zurich Financial Services; ZyLAB and more...   Key Themes for 2011 Included: Ensuring an appropriate level of preparedness for events or incidents that require electronic data to be discovered Addressing strategic, operational and technological factors that increase the costs of data retrieval and processing Resolving key issues that impact the ability to meet internal, legal or regulatory deadlines when responding to an event Understanding the impacts of a changing business and technology landscape on e-discovery risk profile View full details

Dave Wallace, EMEA ITTC, CRIM & Privacy Program Lead DuPont Robert Kenny, MBCS – eDiscovery Specialist ZyLAB UK Ltd Michael Brown, EMC Pre-Sales Manager, Information Intelligence Group, Information Governance EMC Tamara Northcott, Head of Anti-bribery and Compliance Vodafone Group Martin Baldock, Managing Director Stroz Friedberg Simon Hall, Former UKISA Privacy Leader IBM Gennaro Scalo, EMEA GRC Evangelist EMC Matthew Ward, Information Risk Analyst, E-Disclosure Manager Barclays Capital Tony Dearsley, Computer Forensics Manager, Legal Technologies Kroll Ontrack  Manfred Gabriel, Managing Director FTI Technology Karl Dunkerley, Sharepoint Analysis and Design Consultant Financial and Trading Industry Neil McInnes, Senior Associate & Barrister, Litigation and Arbitration Group Pinsent Masons LLP Prashanth Shetty, General Manager, Information Governance/e-Discovery EMC Andrea Ward, Senior Associate McGuireWoods London LLP Nick Patience, Research Director, Information Management 451 Group Michael Miller, Director, Head of Information Risk Barclays Capital Gavin Bushell, Partner Baker & McKenzie View all 2011 speakers

This event welcomes in excess of 150 senior decision makers from industries that include	Delegates attending include directors and managers from group and business functions that include
Banking Insurance Real Estate Telecoms Retail Media Legal Pharmaceuticals Transport and Logistics Defence Manufacturing ISPs	Group IT Information/IT Security Investigations Fraud Prevention Technology & Operational Risk Regulatory Compliance Financial Crime  Group Security CERT Digital Forensics Business Continuity  Audit