Spread across five days and with some 350 distinct educational opportunities, ILTACON 2023, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, is a marathon, not a sprint. But it was a marathon well worth the effort, and almost all of the attendees I spoke to considered themselves winners for having participated.
When I say it was more a marathon than a sprint, there was some literal as well as figurative truth to that this year. Conference events spanned some 431,000 square feet of activity space, and while the conference was centered in the side-by-side Disney Dolphin and Swan hotels, it spilled over into farther-afield buildings on the Disney campus, sometimes requiring walks of three-quarters of a mile just to get from one meeting to another – walks, mind you, outdoors in the swampy heat of Orlando in August.