Hon. Karen Wells Roby, U.S. Magistrate Judge, USDC-EDLA

Magistrate Judge Karen Wells Roby is a United States Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of Louisiana with twenty-nine (29) years of service. Formerly, she served as the Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge from 2017- 2021. She has been active in the American Bar Association serving in various leadership roles and was responsible for the success of the (3) three-day gathering of diverse leaders who trained future leaders in the areas of marketing, branding, and networking; Diverse Leaders Academy and the Professional Success Summit "PSS". 

Additionally, Judge Roby in 2012 served as the President of the Federal Magistrate Judges Association (“FMJA”), a national organization of over 600 U.S. Magistrate Judges across the country. As President of the Association, she worked to secure pay raises for all active and recently retired federal magistrate judges. She is a graduate of Tulane Law School and Xavier University. She is a 2023 graduate of Duke Law School where she received her LLM in Judicial Studies.

Judge Roby, an alumnus of Tulane Law School,  serves as an advisor to the Dean of Tulane Law School as a member of the Dean's Advisory Board. She served as an Adjunct Professor at Tulane with 11 years of service and teaches a course on E-Discovery and Digital Evidence. Judge Roby joined other notables at the Georgetown Advanced E-Discovery Institute where she did an eDTalk on Diversity on the E-Team highlighting the importance of diversity in E-Discovery.

Judge Roby is a frequent speaker and thought leader in e-Discovery. She chaired the Tulane Law School’s Black Alumni Reunion held in February 2019 and Judge Roby also was the visionary for the Tulane’s BLA Newsletter, which was first launched after the reunion and now issues quarterly.

Her commitment to the community is unsurpassed. She was integral in saving her high school, has served as the coordinating judge over the LSBA Suit Up program in New Orleans for the last (15) fifteen years.

Andrew R. Lee, Jones Walker LLP

Andrew R. Lee is a partner in the Litigation Practice Group at Jones Walker LLP in New Orleans, where he chairs the Innovation Committee and co-leads the firm's Privacy, Data Strategy, and Artificial Intelligence team and its Technology Industry Team. A Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization certified appellate specialist and a former law clerk to Chief Judge John R. Brown of the Fifth Circuit, he has briefed and argued dozens of appeals and tries all manner of commercial disputes, including cases involving data breaches, privacy claims, trade secrets, and software performance. He counsels clients on cybersecurity resilience, AI governance, information retention, and electronic discovery, and leads incident response teams following cyber events. He is lead author of Jones Walker's biannual critical infrastructure cybersecurity surveys, and a co-founder of the AI Law & Policy Navigator Blog (ailawblog.com).

Chris Gastardi, LCG Discovery Experts

Chris Gastardi is a former federal Special Agent turned digital forensics trainer and testifying expert, with more than a decade of casework in cybercrime, dark web and cryptocurrency investigations, and digital evidence acquisition from mobile devices, computers, vehicles, and the cloud. He served as a Special Agent with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, the Defense Criminal Investigative Service, and the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General — including service on the FBI Cyber Task Force and the FBI’s National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force, and a term as Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Cyber Crimes Unit at USPS OIG. He has provided expert testimony in court proceedings on digital and mobile forensic examinations.

Chris is Director of Technology at Cybervance, where he sets technology strategy for the company’s law enforcement–focused cyber investigations training platform — leading curriculum design, evaluating and implementing new training technologies, managing key vendor relationships, and driving business development with client agencies and partners. He also provides forensic consulting and expert witness services through LCG Discovery Experts. He is a Cellebrite Certified Instructor for Cellebrite North America and adjunct faculty in Champlain College’s graduate digital forensics program. His certifications include the GIAC Certified Forensic Examiner (GCFE), GIAC Advanced Smartphone Forensics (GASF), GIAC Battlefield Forensics & Acquisition (GBFA), Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), and multiple Cellebrite and Berla mobile and vehicle forensics credentials. He holds an M.S. in Information Assurance/Cybersecurity from Capitol Technology University and a B.S. from Liberty University.