We’re just six days away from the 2025 CLOC Global Institute Conference! Here’s the CLOC 2025 Word Cloud to illustrate topics being discussed!

Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC)’s conference – CLOC 2025 – will be conducted next week May 5th through May 8th at the ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas.

As I like to do for conferences like this, I took this year’s detailed program and ran the session titles and descriptions through a word cloud generator. I then reviewed the first cut of it and removed some obvious words from the list (counts in parenthesis): legal (314 – the most occurrences by far), session (77), technology (48), law (46), key (41) and join (26). I left in “operations” and “ops” to see how they stack up against the most popular remaining term. The CLOC 2025 Word Cloud shown above is the result I got.

Here are some notable terms that occur frequently:

• No surprise here: “AI” appears the most with 109 hits. There are also 19 hits for “GenAI” and 2 more for “artificial intelligence”.
• “Operations” appears 93 times and “ops” appears 30 more times – the two terms total less than the AI-related terms (and this is a legal ops conference!).
• “Insights” appears 60 times.
• “Management” appears 52 times, with “teams” close behind at 50 times (“team” appears another 31 times).
• “Strategic” appears 49 times, followed by “explore” and “technology” at 48 times each, then “strategies” at 42 times.
• “Challenges”, “discussion” and “contract” appear 33 times each.
• “Data” appears only 30 times, “innovation” appears 26 times, and there are a host of words at 25 times: “actionable”, “process”, “success”, “department”, “drive” and “counsel”.

As for terms related to eDiscovery, InfoGov, cyber and privacy?:

• “Discovery” appears 16 times (all but one of those is “eDiscovery”).
• “Governance” appears 6 times (only two hits for “information governance”).
• “Cyber” appears twice (in a single session).
• “Privacy” doesn’t appear at all!

You might think that means it’s not a conference for eDiscovery professionals, but there are at least 15 eDiscovery software and service providers that are sponsors and exhibitors at CLOC 2025. And there are several others that I know which will be there unofficially for meetings, etc.

Hopefully, the CLOC 2025 Word Cloud gives you some sense of what’s being covered at this year’s CLOC Global Institute Conference – a lot of AI, quite a bit of insights, management and strategies for teams, some eDiscovery & governance, almost no cyber and privacy. I’ll preview some notable sessions as we get closer to the conference (including this one again!). Stay tuned!

So, what do you think?  Are you planning to attend CLOC 2025? I’ll be there! Please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.

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