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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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