Speaking, Seminars, and Workshops
Waters Edge is strongly committed to leading change through effective communication. We work closely with our clients to deliver powerful lectures, provide effective training and facilitate successful workshops and management strategy meetings that meet and exceed their expectations.
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Jeffrey Ritter is consistently recognized as one of the most effective speakers in the digital information world. His lectures deliver insight, provoke audiences to re-think existing paths and innovate new directions. Passionate, entertaining and candidly honest, Waters Edge presentations inform, inspire and enable change.
Lectures are produced after direct consultation to assure that the audience and the presentation align to be effective and useful. Our lectures are suitable for larger audiences at conferences, association meetings, seminars or internal corporate or customer teaming events.
Jeffrey has been a featured speaker, and contributed thought leadership at private corporate training and leadership programs, at the following events:
International Conference on Electronic Commerce
Managing Electronic Records Conference
FIRST Conference
Society of Petroleum Engineers Conference on Digital Security
International Information Integrity Institute – I-4®
International Security Forum (ISF)
Information Systems Security Association (ISSA), CISO Executive Forum
ISSA Regional Conferences, Pacific Northwest
SecureWorldExpo
Georgetown University Law Center Advanced Institute on Electronic Commerce
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Training Seminars
Our on-site live training seminars are designed to transfer knowledge and empower corporate teams to move ahead in new or complex areas. Each seminar is develop in close consultation with our client, and usually involves meaningful research to assure the seminar is properly aligned to the client’s environment.
Building trusted information assets requires collaboration and convergence within any organization; our seminars focus on enabling smaller teams to learn the materials, the context and to engage in suitable small-group exercises to develop problem-solving and solutions.
We employ powerful new visual collaboration tools in our training and, of course, provide suitable supporting course materials for future reference. In addition, each seminar participant has continued e-mail access to the Waters Edge professional that taught the seminar for six months, for follow-on questions and counsel.
Here are some examples of training seminars we are currently offering:
Managing the Digital Rules for Business in the 21st Century
A management-level seminar, focusing on how to understand and manage the dynamic, complex technology and legal rules that impact business operations.
Implementing the Waters Edge Model RFI—A Corporate Program on Strategies for Working with Outside Law Firms on Electronic Discovery
A seminar to assist corporate teams—law, records management, IT governance, information security and compliance—develop unified, informed strategies to minimize the risks of E-discovery. A detailed review of the Waters Edge Model RFI is employed to evaluate internal corporate capabilities.
The Business of E-Discovery—Catching the Wave
A three-hour briefing for law firm management teams that focuses on the shifting economics underlying the new e-discovery landscape. The briefing reviews the Waters Edge Model RFI in detail and describes the underlying strategic opportunities.
In connection with Evaluating the Electronic Discovery of Outside Law Firms , we have also developed full course catalogs for additional in-depth training targetted at the special training needs of companies and law firms in connection with the management of electronic information as evidence in legal proceedings.
Amidst the demands of surviving in a global marketplace, corporate management teams can benefit from the chance to refocus strategically on how changing external conditions can yield opportunity. Similarly, sometimes a little help from the outside can stimulate conversations and internal planning needed for overcoming inertia and developing progress against lurking issues that can cut across multiple business units, duties and budgets.
Our management workshops focus on discovering new business values around trusted information—melding business, technology and economic drivers to achieve improved collaboration and action within an organization. Our directors have significant experience in creative, informative and productive management facilitation. Each workshop adapts key themes to the context of a company’s specific requirements and, like our seminars, are best executed on the basis of dialogue and research in advance.
Our current workshops include:
Litigation Readiness Workshop
A two-day team evaluation of current capabilities, priorities and design requirements for improved control of the legal and business risks arising from poor records management and litigation practices.
Leveraging the Business Opportunities of Global, Interdependent Information Systems
A company-specific dialogue evaluating how standards, open source code, interoperable computing, transparency, automated compliance and other trends influence the business strategies of creating, managing and creating wealth with information.
Navigating Convergence
An exploration of how convergence in multiple business functions is impacting market leadership and the strategies for turning convergence into competitive opportunities for differentiation.
Waters Edge delivers online training that is focused, interactive and accessible, employing the very latest in “rich-media” Net-based technology. Our online courses are of broad appeal to general audiences, but can be readily customized to meet the professional education and lifelong training requirements for organizations that operate at divergent locations or have the recurring need to provide professional training to incoming or transferred team members. Many of our online courses are modified versions of live lectures or in-house training programs Waters Edge otherwise delivers.
For Records Managers:
Working with Outside Law Firms: Surviving as a Records Manager Under the New Federal Rules (Available Now for Free - Click Here)
An executive summary of a live program by Jeffrey
Ritter to the Washington DC ARMA Chapter, presenting nine strategies for working with outside law firms in litigation discovery and enforcement actions under the amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.For Information Security Professionals:
Achieving Security Against the Lawyers: Confessions from the Dark Side (Available Now for Free - Click Here)
An executive summary of a luncheon address by Jeffrey Ritter to the ISSA Silicon Valley Chapter, presenting insights into the enterprise risks to companies by outside law firms, and the strategies information security professionals can adopt to protect themselves.
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