About this Webinar
New industry research. Oral Argument on AI, decided by the room. The inaugural Rising Stars of eDiscovery, named live.
Every eDiscovery team has tried AI. Far fewer have handed it real work.
Twelve years in, eDiscovery Day, founded by Exterro in 2015, opens for the first time with a single anchor session. This is where the day's question gets answered.
Four things happen in seventy-five minutes.
The research. We release the eDiscovery Day AI Survey, fielded across all five eDiscovery Day partners. It's the first industry-wide study of what practitioners have genuinely handed over to AI. Not what vendors claim. What people reported.
Beyond the silo. Connie Brenton on leading eDiscovery outside the box it usually sits in, and what that means for anyone whose job came to include discovery without their ever choosing it.
Oral Argument. Four practitioners argue assigned sides of one motion: within three years, most eDiscovery workflows will run with AI executing and humans approving, rather than the other way around. Two for, two against, questioned from the bench by a sitting federal judge. We poll the room before and after. The side that moves it wins.
Rising Stars of eDiscovery. We name the first five winners live. Practitioners in their first five years who are already doing the work the rest of us depend on.
One session. One morning. The clearest picture anyone has of where this profession actually stands.
Free to attend. Nothing to buy.
Presenters
Hon. Xavier Rodriguez
U.S. District Judge, Western District of Texas
On the federal bench since 2003, previously a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas. Editor of Essentials of E-Discovery, member of the Sedona Conference Judicial Advisory Board and the EDRM Global Advisory Council.
Doug Austin
Editor, eDiscovery Today
Doug Austin is the Editor of eDiscovery Today, a daily blog about eDiscovery, information governance, cybersecurity, data privacy and artificial intelligence trends, best practices and case law. Doug is an established eDiscovery thought leader with over 30 years of experience providing eDiscovery best practices, legal technology consulting and technical project management services to numerous commercial and government clients. Doug has published a daily blog since 2010 and has written numerous articles and white papers, receiving the JD Supra Readers Choice Award as a Top eDiscovery Author and Top Cybersecurity Author. Doug has presented at numerous webcasts, events and conferences.
Connie Brenton
Legalops.com · professional development and leadership
David Cowen
Managing Director, Cyber Response, KPMG
Two decades in digital forensics and incident response, providing expert testimony since 2003. Author of Hacking Exposed: Computer Forensics and a certified SANS instructor.
Michael Hamilton
VP Marketing, Exterro
Mary Mack
CEO & Chief Legal Technologist, EDRM
Mary Mack, CEO and Chief Legal Technologist of EDRM, leads the project-based organization. Mary is known for her skills in relationship and community building as well as for the depth of her e-discovery knowledge. Frequently sought out by media for comment on industry issues, and by conference organizers to participate, moderate a panel, lead a workshop, or deliver a keynote. Mary is the author of “A Process of Illumination: The Practical Guide to Electronic Discovery,” considered by many to be the first popular book on e-discovery. She was the co-creator and editor of the Thomson Reuters West Treatise: eDiscovery for Corporate Counsel for a decade.
Khrhysna "Khrys" McKinney
Founder and CEO, K L McKinney
Thirty years in legal technology, having built one of the first large-scale litigation support operations in the country. Trustee of EDRM's AI Ethics and Bias project.
Michael Quartararo
President, ACEDS
Maribel Rivera
VP Strategy and Client Engagement, ACEDS
Maribel Rivera serves as Vice President of Strategy & Client Engagement at Association of Certified e‑Discovery Specialists (ACEDS), where she oversees membership growth, local chapter development, event strategy and strategic partnerships. With a background in brand-building, audience engagement and strategic communications, she brings creative problem-solving and operational fluency to the e-discovery community. Her work in creating inclusive, forward-looking professional networks was recognized with the Catalyst for Change Award by Women in eDiscovery in 2025.