Cowen Cafe – George Socha

Cowen Cafe: The Curse of Shadow IT

On Thursday, September 17, 2020, about 40 corporate, law firm, and provider participants gathered for another Cowen Cafe Zoom meeting, sponsored by Integreon, Lineal Services, Litera, and United Lex. This week’s question was, “What is the most surprising trend you are seeing?” The response, dominating this week’s discussion, was Shadow IT.

Cowen Cafe: Flying, buying, and free

On Thursday, September 10, 2020, 40+ corporate, law firm, and provider participants gathered for another Cowen Cafe Zoom meeting, sponsored by Integreon, Lineal Services, Litera, and United Lex. We started with a 30-minute group chat, separated into four breakout rooms, and reassembled for a final recap. The starting question this week was, how will your business model evolve in 2021? In response, the discussion turned to…flying.

Cowen Cafe: The Uncut Version

On Thursday, September 3, 2020, 50+ corporate, law firm, and provider participants gathered for another Cowen Cafe Zoom meeting, sponsored by Integreon, Lineal Services, Litera, and United Lex. We started with a 30-minute group chat, separated into five breakout rooms, and reassembled for a final recap. This week there was a mood of optimism, with participants focused on budgeting, what’s next, and returning to basics – and that with all of these we will do things differently as we move forward.

Cowen Cafe: Squeak and Bind

On Thursday, August 27, 2020, corporate, law firm, and provider participants gathered for another Cowen Cafe Zoom meeting, sponsored by Integreon, Lineal Services, and NightOwl Global, a Haystack company. As usual, we started with a 30-minute group chat, separated into four breakout rooms, and reassembled for a final recap. This week, the discussion turned to things that go squeak in the night and to the ties that bind.

Cowen Cafe: Trying to move on

On Thursday, August 13, 2020, 40 participants gathered for another Cowen Cafe Zoom meeting, sponsored by Integreon, Ipro, Lineal Services, and NightOwl Global, a Haystack company. As usual, we started with a 30-minute group chat, separated into five breakout rooms, and reassembled for a final recap. This week, participants seemed focused on trying to move beyond the disruption COVID to getting things done.

Cowen Cafe: On to a New Reality

On Thursday, August 6, 2020, 35 participants gathered for the 20th invitation-only 75-minute Cowen Cafe call, sponsored by Ipro, Lineal, and NightOwl Global. As usual, we started with a 30-minute group chat, separated into four breakout rooms, and reassembled for a final recap. This week’s highlights: accepting a new reality, a new focus on diversity and inclusion, and a new can-do attitude.

Cowen Cafe: Budgets in the time of COVID

On Thursday, July 30, 2020, 45 participants gathered for another invitation-only 75-minute Cowen Cafe call, sponsored by Ipro, NightOwl Global, and Onna, examining the essence of resilient leadership. A vibrant discussion about budgets drove this call (no – that is not a contradiction in terms) and speculation about GTP-3 sparked thoughts about the future that might be.

Cowen Cafe: Getting down to business

On Thursday, July 23, 2020, 56 participants gathered for another invitation-only Cowen Cafe call, sponsored by Ipro, NightOwl Global, and Onna. As usual, we started with a 30-minute group chat, separated into four breakout rooms, and reassembled for a final recap. This week’s highlights: documentation, onboarding, and bacon.

Cowen Cafe: Worth Doing Well

On Thursday, July 16, 2020, 64 participants gathered for another invitation-only Cowen Cafe call, sponsored by Ipro, NightOwl Global, and Onna. With an eye on how to get from now to next through resilient leadership, this week’s question was, what have been the newest challenges you have faced?

Some calls crystalize around a single concept; others end up more like a word cloud. This week’s meeting fell into the latter group.

Cowen Cafe: Build Back Better

On Thursday, July 10, 2020, 63 participants gathered for another invitation-only Cowen Cafe call, sponsored by Integreon, Ipro, NightOwl Global, and Onna. The question again was, what has shifted since last week?