Agenda

Start your day with a hot breakfast and fresh coffee while connecting with fellow attendees before sessions begin. A variety of options will be available to suit all preferences.

Exterro is thrilled to welcome Theresa Payton, the first female White House Chief Information Officer under President George W. Bush, as our keynote speaker for Exterro XChange. As a veteran cybercrime fighter and founder of Fortalice Solutions, Payton has built an exceptional career helping organizations secure big data and safely navigate high-stakes data breaches. With pioneering achievements in cybersecurity, AI, and digital trust, Payton's insights will inspire and inform attendees dedicated to protecting their organizations' data against modern digital threats.

Few technological developments of the last century have fueled as much curiosity, misinformation and fear as AI. In this highly-engaging, jargon-free presentation, Theresa unpacks AI's transformative power while exposing its looming risks, then demonstrates how our businesses, security and individual daily lives are being impacted by them. With anonymized stories from law enforcement's front lines and stunning live demonstrations that reveal the tradecraft of modern cybercriminals, Theresa will equip you with practical actions to harness AI's vast potential while protecting yourself, your clients and your organization.

This session tracks the most significant recent case law and judicial guidance on AI in legal proceedings. Learn what courts are accepting, what they are sanctioning, and what emerging standards for AI defensibility look like in practice. Walk away knowing exactly where your organization's current AI use creates legal exposure.

Most organizations don't have a data strategy problem because they lack ambition — they have one because they don't actually know what data they hold, where it lives, or how sensitive it is. In this 45-minute session, Fahad Diwan and Rebecca Perry give you a practical framework for building a defensible data strategy, then bring it to life with a live look at Exterro OptiX360.
You'll walk through the platform's three-tiered scanning approach in real time — from a Surface Scan that maps and clusters your data sources, to a Metadata Scan that refines those clusters, to a Targeted Content Scan that classifies sensitive and regulated content in place. See how Exterro OptiX360 turns raw metadata into business-context clusters, recommends retention, protection, and access control policies, and surfaces data that's ready for defensible disposition — all while your raw content stays inside your own environment.
Whether you're starting from a survey-based inventory you no longer trust or building a governance program from scratch, leave with a concrete first step for turning data chaos into a governed, current foundation that legal, privacy, security, and IT can all work from.

Join us for a candid conversation with one of our valued customers on how they moved structured data eDiscovery from a manual, resource-intensive bottleneck to a fully automated process—built in true partnership from the ground up.

In this fireside chat, we will discuss:

-The challenges that drove the need for change

-How the solution was co-developed through the product lifecycle

-The measurable impact it has had on their team

We will then open the floor for an interactive roundtable discussion where participants can share their own structured data challenges and opportunities, surfacing collective ideas on where automation can drive the next wave of productivity and efficiency. Expect real talk, not a sales pitch: a chance to learn from a peer's journey and shape the conversation on what's next.

Trace the full thread from preservation obligation through legal hold issuance, data collection, forensic investigation, legal review and production. See how the Exterro platform orchestrates this workflow as a single, auditable, and defensible process. This serves as a bridge session for organizations looking to align Legal Ops and DFIR on a shared workflow.

Get hands-on time with Exterro ARMOUR for FTK in a guided, live demo environment. See how Agentic FTK deploys autonomous AI agents across the forensic investigation workflow—triaging data at scale, prioritizing collection based on relevance signals, surfacing key artifacts without waiting for a human to find them, maintaining forensic integrity and chain of custody throughout.

This isn't a roadmap slide—it's the product. Running now, doing things that weren't possible two years ago.

Bring your real investigation scenarios. Our demo staff are available to:

-Walk through your specific collection and triage challenges.

-Show how Exterro ARMOUR for FTK integrates with your existing DFIR workflow.

-Answer the technical questions that don't fit in a breakout session.

No slides. No pitches. Just the product, running live.

Are you ready to stop managing eDiscovery reactively and start running it as a strategic function? Learn from peers in enterprise legal departments on how they've restructured their litigation readiness, posture driven defensible deletion programs, and built internal reporting that earns budget and credibility at the executive level.

Data shouldn't be locked away behind complex tools and tedious workflows. As part of the Insight Revolution, this session unveils Exterro’s next-generation reporting platform—engineered from the ground up to free your data and transform how you work. Discover how our redesigned reporting experience streamlines data accessibility, reduces manual overhead, and delivers actionable clarity at speed. We’ll preview upcoming capabilities, demonstrate new productivity-boosting workflows, and show you how to turn raw information into strategic intelligence faster than ever. Join us to see what’s coming soon and learn how to lead your organization's own reporting revolution.

Key Takeaways
-A Preview of What’s Next: Get an exclusive first look at Exterro’s upcoming reporting features and roadmap.
-Streamlined Productivity: Learn how the updated interface eliminates friction and accelerates daily reporting workflows.
-Data Accessibility: See how "Freeing Your Data" translates into faster decision-making across your organization.

Refuel and recharge with lunch. Enjoy a variety of options while networking with fellow attendees and taking a break between sessions.

Executive women leaders across legal operations, DFIR, privacy, compliance, and technology leadership discuss what it takes to build and sustain a career in legal tech. This panel of leaders will share insights on navigating organizational dynamics, earning a seat at the table, building cultures that attract talent, and leading through AI disruption.

Get hands-on time with DSR Manager in a guided, low-pressure demo environment. See how DSR Manager automates the end-to-end data subject request fulfillment process — intake, identity verification, data discovery, response generation, and audit trail — all in one place

DSAR volume is growing faster than most teams' capacity to fulfill manually, and this demo shows exactly how DSR Manager closes that gap

Bring your real workflow questions: demo staff are available to walk through your specific use case, show integrations with data mapping and Information Governance, and answer the "but how would this work for us?" questions that don't fit in a breakout session.

No slides. No pitches. Just the product, running live.

Forensic investigations are getting harder—data volumes are exploding, cloud and mobile sources are outpacing legacy tooling, and the pressure to respond faster without compromising forensic integrity has never been higher.

This is not a presentation. This is the room solving real problems together with the sharpest forensics minds in the room, structured and focused.

1.The Framing:First 15 minutes.We frame three of the most pressing challenges facing DFIR practitioners today: accelerating mean time to respond without breaking chain of custody, managing cloud and mobile evidence at scale, and building defensible investigation workflows that hold up under legal scrutiny.

2.Focused Breakouts:Next 20 minutes.The room splits into three focused breakout groups—each tackling one challenge head-on with Exterro DFIR experts anchoring each table. Groups work through their challenge to land on a concrete, actionable output: a workflow fix, a decision framework, or a best practice.

3.Rapid Debrief:Final 15 minutes.The full room comes back together. Each group shares their single most valuable insight, creating a peer-built DFIR playbook that every practitioner leaves with.

Get a wide-angle view of where corporate forensics is headed: the data types, threat vectors, and regulatory pressures that will define the discipline over the next 3–5 years. Also the AI and automation capabilities that will separate teams that keep pace from those that fall behind. This is a must-attend for forensic leaders and CISOs evaluating future capability investments.

Work in teams to design and configure real Exterro workflows from scratch—including routing rules, automated notifications, operational dashboards, and review controls—with Exterro product experts in the room to guide and challenge. Compete in a build challenge where the best-designed workflow wins! No prior configuration experience is required.

Proving the value of your investment shouldn't be an afterthought—it should be built into how you work every day. Yet, most ROI reporting is built by vendors based on assumptions. It's time to flip that model.

In this hands-on, customer-led session, we're handing you the blueprint:

-Review: Evaluate Exterro's initial ROI dashboard construct—the metrics, framework, and logic we believe matter most.

-Rebuild: Break into customer teams to challenge, reshape, and rebuild it around what actually proves value in your organization.

-Co-Author: Work together to design the tool that helps you and your stakeholders see and prove the true impact of your work.

By the end of the session, we'll have real, customer-validated input that shapes the future of how Exterro helps you demonstrate ROI—straight from the people who need it most.

We’re going out on a high note! Join us for an exclusive takeover of Luke’s 32 Bridge for a private rooftop bash high above the neon lights of Broadway. Bring your A-game as we kick things off with XChange Xtreme Trivia, then let’s toast to the connections made and the innovations shared. With the best views in Nashville, great drinks, and a crowd that knows how to celebrate, it’s the perfect way to wrap up an unforgettable week!