8:30 - 9:30 a.m. | check-in and IMI breakfast

9:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. | program

Program Agenda

8:30 – 9:30 a.m. | Registration and Pastries with IMI and the Speakers

9:30 – 9:40 a.m. | Welcome Remarks

• Edna R. Sussman, Independent Arbitrator; Distinguished Practitioner in Residence, Fordham Law School
• Louis B. Kimmelman, Independent Arbitrator |Professor of Practice, Brooklyn Law School

9:40 – 11:00 a.m. | Pre-Panel Session: Ethics for Mediators and Counsel: Mediating under the Singapore Convention

• Bruce A. Green, Louis Stein Chair at Fordham Law School, director of the Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics
• Linda Gerstel, Adjunct Professor of Law, Fordham Law School; Arbitrator and Mediator, GerstelAdr
• Tat Lim, Partner, Aequitas Law LLP; Maxwell Mediators
• Omer Shapira, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law, Ono Academic College (virtually)
• Ellen Waldman, Mediator, Vice President CPR
• Moderator: Ivana Ninčić Österle, Executive Director of the International Mediation Institute

11:15 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. | Efficient, Effective and Expeditious Resolution of Technology Disputes

• Shai Sharvit, Partner, Gornitzky (virtually)
• Patricia Shaughnessy, Professor, Stockholm University
• Steve Smith, Arbitrator, Steve Smith ADR LLC
• Gretta L. Walters, Partner, Chaffetz Lindsey
• Moderator: Kathleen Paisley, Arbitrator, Ambos Law
• Moderator: Maria Chedid, Partner Arnold & Porter

1:30 – 2:15 p.m. | Keynote Address: Truth, efficiency, and arbitral justice in the space between Spock and Hal

• José Astigarraga, Partner, Reed Smith

2:30 – 4:00 p.m. | Panel 2: Empirical Research and International Arbitration: What Does the Data Show?

• Catherine Rogers, Professor of Law, Bocconi University; Affiliated Scholar at the Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution, UC College of Law, SF
• Maxi Scherer, Professor of Law, Queen Mary, University of London Special Counsel, WilmerHale (virtually)
• Jason Yackee, Foley & Lardner-Bascom Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin Law School
• Trey Childress, Professor of Law, Pepperdine University Caruso School of Law, Of Counsel, Three Crowns

4:00 – 4:10 p.m. | Closing and Invitation to Reception

4:10 p.m. | Reception Honoring George A. Bermann, Walter Gellhorn Professor of Law; Jean Monnet Professor of European Union Law, Columbia Law School