Conferences & Public Speaking
I have had the honor of being a speaker, a panel moderator, a trainer, a member of task forces and of organizing committees of some forty conferences on international arbitration, on negotiation skills and on compliance,
mainly on the kind invitation of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the ICC Advanced Training Institute, the Global Arbitration Review (GAR), the World Chambers Congress, Legal Doctrine, the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), and the International Bar Association (IBA).
The topics included:
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Technology and artificial intelligence in international arbitration
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Virtualization of international arbitration
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Rules governing confidentiality, trade secret, conflicts of interest in international arbitration
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Insights, recommendations (and tricks!) on how to conduct an arbitration process, and how to have a resilient approach to dispute resolution
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International arbitration in the Arab world
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The role and relevant of in-house counsel in ongoing arbitrations
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The future of Alternative Dispute Resolution mechanisms
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The arbitrator as a settlement facilitator
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Drafting enforceable arbitral awards (training delivered in collaboration with the ICC Advanced Training Institute)
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Risk assessment in contract negotiations
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Meeting stakeholders’ expectations during negotiations
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Regulatory enforcement of compliance requirements
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Building ethics and compliance awareness
I was member of the “ICC Arbitration and ADR Commission Report on Leveraging Technology for Fair, Effective and Efficient International Arbitration Proceedings”, was a speaker at the webinar organized by the ICC on February 18, 2022 and a have been a member of the ICC Working Group on the Report: *The Report is available here: https://iccwbo.org/media-wall/news-speeches/icc-launches-new-report-reflecting-how-tech-is-changing-the-face-of-arbitration