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About the authors
Shawnna Hoffman
Ms. Hoffman serves as the Global Leader
of the IBM Cognitive Legal Practice. She is
a sought after Blockchain Subject Matter
Expert and recently spoke at the United
Nations at the Blockchain for Impact
Summit and GlobalMinded. In September
2018, she was appointed as Chair of
the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading
Commission's (CFTC) Distributed Ledger
Technolo and Market Infrastructure
Subcommittee for the 2018 - 2020 term.
In March 2019, she testified in front of the
CFTC on "The Current State of Blockchain
Adoption". She has one published patent
for Detecting Clusters and Relationships
in Large Data Sets and one pending for
Method and System for Pattern-based
Home Network Configuration. She also
co-authored the book "eDiscovery Plain
& Simple", is the Co-Founder of Women
in eDiscovery and the Co-Founder of
Diversity in Blockchain. In 2017, Ms.
Hoffman became an Advisory Board
Member for Integra Ledger and became
a pioneering member of the Global Legal
Blockchain Consortium. In 2015, she was
certified as an IBM Thought Leader. In
2017, she was awarded the Certificate
of Leader Development in National
Security and Strate by the U.S. Army
War College. As her give back to her
local community in Orlando, Florida,
Ms. Hoffman co-founded and serves on
the Board of Directors of the Community
Hope Center of Osceola County which has
helped over 30,000 homeless individuals
since its inception.
Serena Wellen
Serena Wellen is a Senior Director of
Product Management for LexisNexis
and a former trial attorney. Her portfolio
includes artificial intelligence, analytics
and visualization capabilities for Lexis
Advance as well as litigation research
products for LexisNexis. She lives and
works in San Francisco, CA.
John Alber
John Alber is retired but serves in a
volunteer capacity as a futurist for
the International Legal Technolo
Association. For the 16 years prior,
he served as Bryan Cave's strategic
innovation partner. The groups under
his leadership developed innovative
web-based, client-centric applications and
client-facing knowledge management,
project management, project estimation
and business intelligence systems. Contact
John at john@johnalber.com.
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