CobbleStone® User Conference 2026 to Feature Industry Experts on CLM Success, Peak Performance, and Lawyer Well-Being

Diverse speaker lineup to provide attendees with practical CLM strategies, performance insights, and professional wellness guidance.

PRINCETON, N.J., Oct. 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- CobbleStone Software, a recognized leader in contract lifecycle management (CLM) and contract artificial intelligence, is pleased to announce its featured speakers at the 2026 CobbleStone User Conference. The lineup includes contract management expert John O'Brien, corporate mentalist Christophe Fox, and lawyer wellness advocate Brian S. Quinn, Esq. The User Conference will take place October 18-20, 2026, in Nashville, Tennessee. The event brings together legal, procurement, contract management, and other business professionals to help them perform their best by means of technology and innovation.

John O'Brien

John O'Brien is Co-Founder and Director of Four Business Solutions with more than 20 years of experience working across contract management, procurement, workflow automation, and business process improvement contexts. He has extensive experience supporting organizations across multiple regions. His session, "The 4 T's: Tips, Tricks, Traps, and Techniques," covers:

• Practical CLM administration strategies.
• Workflow optimization.
• Governance and adoption best practices.
• Common implementation and management pitfalls.
• AI policy management considerations.
• Nashville/country music themed approach connecting operational harmony to effective CLM programs.

O'Brien's session focuses on optimizing systems and processes – but the content goes beyond that. Attendees will also gain insights into improving their own focus and effectiveness.

Christophe Fox

Christophe Fox is a mentalist and magician with ample experience working with Fortune 500 organizations and professional sports teams. He promotes interactive audience engagement – blending entertainment with practical lessons. His session covers:

• Focus.
• Resilience.
• Decision-making under pressure.
• Maintaining attention in demanding professional environments.
• Leadership and communication.

Attendees can apply these lessons to contract negotiations, procurement initiatives, legal operations, and everyday professional challenges. In doing so, they can move from performance and productivity into sustainable professional success and wellness.

Brian S. Quinn, Esq.

Brian S. Quinn, Esq. is Education and Outreach Coordinator at Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers of PA, Inc. He has experience supporting legal professionals and increasing awareness around stress, burnout, mental health, and more. His session, "Distressed Lawyers: An Occupational Hazard?" covers:

• Defining stress and burnout.
• Challenges facing the legal profession.
• Mental health and substance use concerns within the industry.
• Early recognition of warning signs.
• Resources available to legal professionals.
• Strategies for maintaining long-term well-being.

Along with personal wellness, the session focuses on organizational culture and professional sustainability. More specifically, it touches on existing support resources for lawyers.

Unifying Theme

Overall, the thread that ties these sessions together is as follows: the success (in its many definitions) of legal professionals, contract managers, procurement professionals, and others extends beyond technology. It involves fundamentally managing contract lifecycles more effectively while maintaining focus and performance and supporting long-term professional health and resilience.

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"We are excited to share our diverse and talented speaker lineup for the 2026 CobbleStone User Conference," said Mark Nastasi, Founder & CEO of CobbleStone Software.

"A well-rounded conference agenda serves to equip attendees with a heavy toolbelt for not only contract management and procurement success – but generalized professional prosperity. Success exists at the confluence of technology, strategy, and people, after all."

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For more information, email [email protected] or call 866-330-0056.

About CobbleStone Software:

CobbleStone Software is a celebrated leader in contract management software solutions whose flagship CLM software solution – CobbleStone Contract Insight® – expedites contract management, vendor management, eProcurement, and eSourcing processes while offering an agentic AI-powered experience, seamless integrations, ease-of-use, and high scalability. CobbleStone provides more intelligent contracts with VISDOM® artificial intelligence, agentic chatbot, machine learning, simplified contract and vendor tracking, highly configurable email alerts, user-friendly calendar notifications, intelligent contract workflow automation, highly robust security options, streamlined authoring of contract templates with dynamic clauses, centralized revenue/cost management, detailed text indexing and searching, future-minded vendor/client ratings, robust document version control, custom contract management reports, speedy IntelliSign® electronic signatures, and more.

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