Sep 2, 2024

🇱🇹 Summit IX – Action Points

This is the last issue of the long-form newsletter before the conference kicks off tomorrow. Check if you're up to date on the action points below, and if you have a minute while in transit – here's a pretty awesome article on AI and creativity, by Ted Chiang, over at The New Yorker (no paywall).

Weather

We're still in a heat wave, no rain in sight. Thanks for nothing, Exxon Mobil.

Venues

If you attend for the first time, here's how it works:

Hotel PACAI is where all the three dinners happen (including the Reception Dinner), as well as both lunches. It is a very short walk from the Art Museum, which is the program venue. There we serve both breakfasts, as well as all the coffee breaks, and that's where the stage is set up for the sessions.

Security

A couple of years ago, a passing thief nicked a notebook from one of the tables. Since then, we have tripled the security and started to enforce a strict "no badge, no access" policy. Nothing out of order happened last year (or in Limassol). If you find our security staff a bit on the comic book side, with their beefed up looks, it is for a reason – to repel anybody outside, who might consider to gatecrash the party. At the same time, please do not leave valuables unattended. The attendee bags are meant to hold a computer and whatnot, and you can take them with you when we break for lunch or coffees.

Registration

Because of the security setup, the first thing that you want to get is your attendee badge. It comes with the personalized attendee bag.

Tuesday, September 3

Those who registered for game Workshop at 14:00: your bags will be inside of the restaurant space, where Henner, Kai and Claas will be presenting.

Everyone else: the registration desk at the entrance to Hotel PACAI opens at 16:00 and runs through 21:00.

Wednesday, September 4

The registration desk is at the Art Museum, and opens from 08:00 (same time as breakfast). The desk is at the Summit Camper parked in the corner. A security person or one of the ops staff will walk you there from the entrance.

Your package consists of 2 envelopes:

The yellow starter pack is inside of your attendee bag.

The red pack (blueprints and spare parts) is issued in the morning of September 4, at the Summit Camper.

In the first package, you'll get your crew ID. Unless you want to be a party pooper, please add it to the badge lanyard so that others can identify you for a possible trade?

Of all the attendees, we were unable to include 4 persons who registered last (mostly as replacements of colleagues who cannot travel). And at least 2 crew members will be missing due to emergencies (we expect a few more not to arrive time, because of weather and strikes). It's up to the captain to perform the roll call and compensate lack of crew with a more energetic trading approach!

I apologize that it's all alcohol-related – it's just a part of the culture. I am fully aware how ridiculous it would look, if we were to say, 'Hey, here's some rare cigars for the winning team!' – but at least these high quality drinks, consumed in moderation (meant for sharing!!), are not as nearly as bad.

Anyways, here's what we have in addition to the individual prizes: each of the first 6 winning teams can pick one of the below, to share at the Industry Dinner (or backstage, who knows?) –

A five-liter Bordeaux blend flying all the way from Cape Town, from the private collection of Diemersdal, courtesy of 🇿🇦 Pieter Koornhof.

A three-liter agiorgitiko-cabernet sauvignon mix from Domaine Skouras in Greece, coming via Cyprus courtesy of 🇨🇾 Yiannis Karamanolis & 🇨🇾 Andreas Karamanolis.

One of the three bottles of a very limited (1.600 bottles) release of the super-premium oak-aged zivania from Tsiakkas, courtesy of 🇨🇾 George Mountis.

And, for those celebrating the arrest of Pavel Durov in Paris (or the subsequent release, depending on the side you take, if any) – a 2.5-liter bottle of French armagnac, coming from us to spice things up.

Voting

As in Limassol, we're going to use real printed ballots for the voting at the Summit:

We will distribute them at the end of each day, together with the stickers. Please rate the panels based on their professional value for you personally (the more intense the color of the heart, the higher the value; and if you missed a session, choose the question mark; stickers included with each ballot).

Audience Choice Awards

What happens to the speakers of the top 3 sessions that scores the best in the Audience Choice Awards? The lead(s) get a Wolf Statue to mark the occasion, and each speaker gets a golden* Wolf Pin (*in color, not in composition).

The winners of the Summit's Audience Choice Awards are announced on September 5, ca. 20:00 at the Garden Dinner, as it takes some time to count the ballots (the domaine of our studio's finance director). Moreover, the lead(s) of the most upvoted panel get a free Regular Pass for Summit 2025, which they can assign to a client or to a junior associate (must be a new attendee).

Legal Challenge Awards

The other awards (we have several of everything, as you well know... 🤯) are the Legal Challenge VII awards –

These are scheduled for 14:00 on September 4, and we'll hand out both the Wolf Statues and the diplomas to all the 4 teams attending (the 5th team, which won Best Memorandum for Defendant, will have their diplomas shipped).

Hall of Fame Awards

Finally, in the same session at 14:00 on September 4, we will announce this year's 6 inductees into the Summit's Hall of Fame –

This year sees 4 law firm and 2 in-house inductees. The candidates are proposed and voted by the board – these are the people who are appreciated by their peers for building bridges and sharing knowledge with our legal community.

And that about wraps it.

Fly safe. Pick up your attendee bag whenever you can. Play the social game (if you feel like playing), meet new people – and learn from the sessions.

See you all (well, most of you) at the Reception Dinner tomorrow!

Drinks from 16:00, food from 17:00.

// Sergei