Meeting Agenda

Day One – Thursday, 15 May (09:00-17:15)

• Kickoff Speaker – ”Fitting the Product to Satisfy the Customer”
  Hans Peter Frick
  Group General Counsel, Nestlé
   
• Negotiating on the Edge: Overcoming Impasse in Tough Negotiations – In an interactive session, these facilitators (and co-authors of International Mediation – The Art of Business Diplomacy) will review the toolkit of techniques available to negotiators and mediators in breaking deadlock.
  • Eileen Carroll, Deputy Chief Executive, CEDR, London, England
  • Dr. Karl J. Mackie, Chief Executive and Senior Mediator, CEDR, London, England
     
• Getting the Other Side to the Table: Pledges, Contracts and Other Pre-Dispute Tools – For many who seek to use ADR, the most difficult obstacle is to convince the other side that it would be mutually beneficial – without risking misinterpretation that the suggestion is a sign of weakness
  • Kathy Bryan, President and CEO, CPR Institute, New York, NY, USA
  • Christopher Rowbotham, Senior Attorney, IBM (UK) Ltd., London England
  • Jürgen Klowait, General Counsel EKK-PG, Center for Legal Affairs, Gelsenkirchen, Germany
  • Mercedes Tarrazón, Consolat de Mar, Barcelona, Spain
     
• The ADR Landscape: “There are More Things in Heaven and Earth Than are Dreamt of in Your Philosophy” – These experts will discuss the broad array of tools and products – mediation/arbitration, mini-trials, collaborative law and bounded arbitration – that are available to sophisticated users of commercial conflict management.
  • Prof. Renate Dendorfer, Bad Feilnbach, Germany
  • Jeremy Lack, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Prof. Francis E. McGovern, Duke University School of Law, Durham, North Carolina, USA
     
• Keynote Address – ”Complex International Mediation”
  Eric D. Green
  Professor, Boston University School of Law
  Principal, Resolutions, LLC
   
• “Real-Time” Dispute Management Processes – Some endeavors, by their nature, cannot wait for disputes to be resolved. These practitioners will explain how “real-time” dispute resolution processes work, and speculate on their broader applicability.
  • Francesco Benigni, VP Secretary General, European Company Lawyers Association-ECLA, Brussels, Belgium
  • Phillip Capper, Lovells LLP, London, England
  • Antonio Rigozzi, Court of Arbitration in Sport, Levy Kaufmann-Kohler, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Prof. Thomas J. Stipanowich, Pepperdine University of Law, Malibu, California, USA