The Arbitration Summit 2025

Welcome Refreshments & Registration
08.30

Chairperson's Opening Remarks
09.10

Opening Keynote
09.20

Competence, Competence: assessing the competence of prospective arbitrators

Analysing the Synergies and Differences of Arbitration Across Different Sectors
09.50

• Looking at the different approaches that arbitration centres take
• The roles of experts
• Arbitration friendly developments – where to enforce awards
• Navigating cultural differences when arbitrating elsewhere

Mastering Early-Stage Arbitration and Ensuring Dispute Avoidance
10.30

• Ensuring you are part of early-stage advisory
• Exploring the use of mediation in early stages
• How to best construct your arbitration clauses in contracts
• Using arbitration as the default mechanism
• Successfully identifying risks and developing protocols and strategies

Networking & Refreshment Breaks
11.10

Arbitral Confidentiality – Will It Stay Intact?
11.40

• Does it hamper the development of commercial law?
• Shall we publish anonymised cases to further the law
• What are the challenges with public relations in arbitration
• Transparency and confidentiality – what is the appropriate balance

Eradicating Fraud and Corruption in Arbitration
12.20

• Who has the duty to investigate this?
• Will arbitrators step in to help institutions tackle fraud?
• Challenges with leaked or fabricated documents
• What happens when it reaches enforcement stage

Networking & Lunch Break
13.00

Navigating Enforcement Issues Raised by Sanctions
14.00

• What is a sanction? Analysing the varied interpretations of sanctions
• Integrating the sanctions regime in the legal framework
• Embargoes – how much authority does the government have
• State intervention in arbitration

Fireside Chat: Discussing the Choice of Arbitrators and What Their Role Is
14.40

• The arbitrator selection - encouraging diversity of arbitrators
• The art of the arbitrator interview
• Ethical and integrity challenges with arbitrators
• The role of the arbitrators and arbitration centres
• Exploring the use of mediators and arbitrators as one person

Making Use of Third-Party Funding to Ease the Costs of Arbitration
15.10

• Sourcing third-party funding
• Disclosure obligations
• What is the recoverability of funding
• Navigating the pushback on the use of funding
• Analysing the growth of arbitration funding

Networking & Refreshment Break
15.50

Addressing Guerrilla Tactics and Strategies in Arbitration
16.10

• What is a guerilla tactic?
• Preventing guerilla tactics through technology
• Navigating delay tactics
• Does it impact the legitimacy of arbitration?

Creating A Whole Ecosystem for Using AI In Arbitration
16.50

• Is arbitration even compatible with AI?
• Using AI tools to make the process more efficient
• What are your disclosure obligations for using such tools
• Using machine learning to conduct document review

Chairperson's Closing Remarks & End of Conference
17.30