Agenda

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25 June 2026

9:00 am-9:30 am

Welcome Coffee and Registration

9:30 am-9:35 am

GAR welcome remarks

9:35 am-9:45 am

Co-chairs’ opening remarks

Utku Coşar
Utku Coşar Independent Arbitrator, Arbitration Chambers
Steven Finizio
Steven Finizio Partner, WilmerHale
9:45 am-10:45 am

The fundamentals: How best to address key procedural issues involving Memorials and Pleadings

This panel will discuss how to pick the winning approach in drafting PO1, the Timetable, Document Requests, Witness Statements and Expert Reports, as well as Memorial and Pleading styles.

Bernd Ehle
Bernd Ehle Partner, LALIVE
Mehmet Karlı
Mehmet Karlı Partner, Kabine Law Office
Nadja Jaisli Kull
Nadja Jaisli Kull Partner, Bär & Karrer
Ayşe Yazıcı Adanır
Ayşe Yazıcı Adanır Lawyer, Yazıcı Attorney Partnership
10:45 am-11:15 am

Coffee break

11:15 am-12:15 pm

The arbitral institution roundtable

This interactive session will bring together leading figures from some of the world’s most important arbitral institutions to discuss their institutional rules, their practices, new developments and future projects.

Joanne Lau
Joanne Lau Secretary-General, Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre
Robin Oldenstam
Robin Oldenstam Chair, Partner, SCC Arbitration Institute, Mannheimer Swartling
12:15 pm-1:00 pm

Fireside chat with arbitrators

A discussion with leading arbitrators on how to choose the most suitable arbitrator, arbitrator interviews, chair selection, and how to be most effective in drafting key submissions and at procedural and merits hearings.

Brian King
Brian King Independent Arbitrator
Paula Hodges KC
Paula Hodges KC Independent Arbitrator
1:00 pm-2:15 pm

Networking lunch with Round Table Discussions focusing on AI

This year’s lunch will be organized around discussing recent key developments in roundtables with sub-group leaders and reporting the results at the end of the conference. 

2:15 pm-3:15 pm

Sector focus: Energy disputes

This panel will discuss key developments in the oil and gas, nuclear and renewable sectors with a focus on disputes involving supply and price revisions, operating agreements, construction, and legislative and administrative changes.

Gökhan Altun
Gökhan Altun Partner, Deloitte
Mustafa Mert Dicle
Mustafa Mert Dicle Vice Secretary General, Energy Disputes Arbitration Centre (EDAC)
Ergin Mizrahi
Ergin Mizrahi Senior Partner, Pekin Bayar Mizrahi (in alliance with Norton Rose Fulbright)
Dietmar Prager
Dietmar Prager Partner, Debevoise & Plimpton
3:15 pm-3:45 pm

Coffee break

3:45 pm-4:45 pm

How Geopolitics is impacting arbitrations

This panel will discuss the impact of sanctions, tariffs and national security issues on arbitration and enforcement proceedings, and how certain jurisdictions, counsel, arbitrators and institutions are adapting.

Pelin Baysal
Pelin Baysal Partner, Baysal & Demir
4:45 pm-5:15 pm

Report on Roundtable Discussions and Co-chairs’ closing remarks

Utku Coşar
Utku Coşar Independent Arbitrator, Arbitration Chambers
Steven Finizio
Steven Finizio Partner, WilmerHale
5:15 pm-5:20 pm

GAR closing remarks