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Nathaniel Huber-Fliflet is a Senior Managing Director at Ankura, based in Washington, DC. He has 14 years of experience consulting with law firms and corporations on advanced data analytics solutions and legal technology services. His core expertise is in machine learning, speech recognition, data mining, and software development – all within the legal technology and services market space.

Dr. Jianping Zhang is a Senior Managing Director at Ankura in the Washington, DC office. He has over 25 years of proven leadership and technical experiences in solving complex data analytics problems. Specifically, his experience covers artificial intelligence, machine learning, predictive analytics, big data analytics, text analytics, and software development. Jianping’s extensive experiences in analytics address clients’ complex and evolving data challenges. Jianping has led the efforts in developing AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics products and solutions for government and commercial problems in various industries including financial, legal, and high tech. Jianping’s innovative research and development work resulted in more than 100 peer reviewed technical publications and two US patents.

Robert Keeling, founder and head of Sidley’s eDiscovery and Data Analytics group, is one of the country’s preeminent authorities on eDiscovery. Keeling serves as global outside discovery counsel for some of the nation’s best known and most technology-focused corporations.

An experienced litigator and white-collar lawyer, Keeling’s practice has long included a special focus on eDiscovery. He regularly serves as coordinating discovery counsel on major litigations, government investigations, regulatory enforcement actions, and internal investigations. Keeling guides clients through every aspect of modern discovery and successfully handles some of the largest, most sophisticated, and most data-intensive matters in the country. Clients benefit from his unique blend of real-world litigation experience and cutting-edge technological skills.

For more than a decade, Keeling has remained at the forefront of technology in litigation and government investigations. Today, whether working on a matter that has millions of documents or only thousands, Keeling applies a tailored combination of data analytics and machine learning (e.g., “predictive coding”) to quickly identify key evidence, minimize client costs, and synthesize information into compelling legal arguments.

Keeling’s extensive litigation and investigations experience gives him uncommon perspective when advising clients on the practical consequences of the eDiscovery policies, procedures, and practices they adopt.

Keeling was selected as the inaugural chair of the Electronic Discovery Reference Model (EDRM) Global Advisory Council, a body of distinguished members of the judiciary, the legal profession, industry, and academia.

Rishi recently joined AT&T Services, Inc. as Executive Director and Senior Legal Counsel focusing on federal regulatory matters and eDiscovery issues. His practice covers all aspects of antitrust investigations and litigation, including counseling as well as data preservation, collection, processing, review and production. Prior to joining AT&T, Rishi was an associate at Sidley Austin LLP in Washington, D.C., representing Antitrust and Telecommunications Regulatory clients in front of federal courts and agencies.