Marek Furtek
Marek Furtek, b. 1956, In the years 2009 – 2018 President of the Court of Arbitration, and from 2018 Chairman of the Arbitration Council of the Court of Arbitration…
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SPEAKERS
DAY 1: 17 November 2022 (Thursday)
Opening of the Conference
Tomasz Giaro
Professor Tomasz Giaro, Dean of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the UW. Habilitated at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the UW (1988). Fellow of the…
Panel I. The Future of International Arbitration in the New Security Situation
Piotr Nowaczyk
Piotr Nowaczyk 25 years of experience in International Commercial Arbitration, Mediation and Dispute Board Adjudication. Member of the International Court of Arbitration (2003-2015), past President of the Court of Arbitration at…
Natalia Petrik
Natalia Petrik, SCC Deputy Secretary General and head of business development. Before joining the SCC, Natalia worked as arbitration/litigation associate with major Swedish law firms. Natalia holds double degree…
Asko Pohla
Asko Pohla was born on August 10, 1964. He graduated Faculty of Law of Tartu University in 1989 (cum laude) and Georgetown University Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree in 1994.…
Mykola Selivon
Mykola Selivon Merited Lawyer of Ukraine, Academician of the Ukrainian National Academy of Law Sciences, Professor, Candidate of Law, Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in Hague, Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary…
Galina Zukova
Dr. Galina Zukova, ZUKOVA Legal, Partner (Paris) Dually qualified in Paris and Latvia, Dr. Galina Zukova is a leading arbitration practitioner with twenty years of legal experience. She has…
Panel II. New reality: States’ responsibility, international public law and dispute resolution
Maciej Jamka
Maciej is an advocate practicing in all areas of Polish and international law, with particular emphasis on arbitration and litigation. He is the head of the litigation and arbitration…
Eligiusz Krześniak
Eligiusz Krześniak President of the Polish Arbitration Association and Professor of the Faculty of Law and Administration at the Lazarski University in Warsaw and head of its Commercial Law Department. Managing Partner of…
Tatyana Slipachuk
Dr. Tatyana Slipachuk, Chartered Arbitrator, has 28th years’ experience in international arbitration acting as arbitrator in around 400 disputes under leading institutional rules and as counsel, including in some of the…
Sergiy A. Voitovich
Arbitrator and independent consultant. Former partner at Ukrainian law firm Grischenko & Partners (1993-2022), former Associate Professor/Assistant Professor of Kyiv State University, Department of International law (1981-1994). Doctor…
Volodymyr Yaremko
Volodymyr Yaremko has more than 12 years of experience gained in Ukraine, including most recently at Sayenko Kharenko in Kyiv. After the war he joined Construction & Engineering and…
Panel III. Energy Transition and Arbitration: Is Synergy Possible?
Ramūnas Audzevičius
Ramūnas Audzevičius has been the partner and the co-head of dispute resolution practice at Motieka & Audzevičius since 2003. Ramūnas is highly experienced in business, commercial and regulatory disputes…
Filip Balcerzak
LL.M., Ph.D., partner at SSW Pragmatic Solutions Law Firm, attorney at law is admitted to the bar in two jurisdictions: Poland (adwokat) and Spain (abogado). He specializes in commercial dispute resolution…
Bartosz Krużewski
Bartosz Krużewski is an advocate, a partner at the Warsaw office of Clifford Chance and the head of the litigation practice in Warsaw and Continental Europe. He is one…
Smaranda Miron
Smaranda Miron is a senior energy lawyer with the Energy Community Secretariat, an international organisation based in Vienna. She handles energy disputes (cases against the Contracting Parties of the…
Małgorzata Surdek-Janicka
Małgorzata Surdek-Janicka is an independent arbitrator, founder of SURDEK ARBITRATION and Vice-President of the ICC International Court of Arbitration. Before establishing her own independent arbitrator’s practice in autumn 2022…
Justyna Szpara
Justyna Szpara, advocate, partner at Łaszczuk & Partners. Justyna Szpara is the head of firm’s Dispute Resolution Practice Group. She is the Vice-President of the Polish National Committee of…
Jakub Wołkowicz
Jakub Wołkowicz is a local partner in White & Case’s Dispute Resolution and International Arbitration Practice. His practice has a particular focus on disputes relating to major infrastructure projects…
Panel IV. Subject Matters of Disputes of Tomorrow
Maria Hauser-Morel
Maria Hauser-Morel is based in the Paris office of HANEFELD, a top tier international dispute resolution boutique firm with offices in Germany and France. She is a Polish-qualified lawyer…
Stefan Kröll
Kröll is Professor for International Dispute Resolution at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the German Arbitration Institute (DIS). He is…
Olena Perepelynska
Olena Perepelynska is a Partner and Head of Arbitration at INTEGRITES law firm in Kyiv, Ukraine. She serves as President of the Ukrainian Arbitration Association, Member of the ICC…
Karl Pörnbacher
Karl Pörnbacher heads the firm’s international arbitration team in Germany. Together with his multinational team of over 20 experienced international arbitration lawyers, he has represented clients in more than…
Maciej Zachariasiewicz
Professor Maciej Zachariasiewicz, LLM is a professor at Koźmiński University Law School in Warsaw and an of counsel at Popiołek, Adwokaci i Doradcy law firm in Katowice. He frequently…
DAY 2: 18 November 2022 (Friday)
Novel Procedural Ideas for the Practice of Dispute Resolution – Exploring the Ways Forward - Opening of the 2nd day
Piotr Rylski
Dr hab. Piotr Rylski, prof. UW – postdoctoral degree in legal sciences; professor of the University at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw (WPiA…
Monika Włodarczyk
Dr Monika Włodarczyk is a civil judge at the District Court in Chrzanów. Since June 2022 she has been the vice-president of the European Association of Judges for Mediation…
Panel I. Post-Pandemic Dispute Resolution Toolbox: What Did We Actually Learn from COVID-19?
Piotr Chańko
Piotr Chańko Sędzia Sądu Rejonowego dla Łodzi-Śródmieścia w Łodzi od 2015 roku, od 2019 roku Przewodniczący XIII Wydziału Gospodarczego. Od 2017 roku orzeka na delegacji Prezesa SA w Sądzie Okręgowym w…
Agnieszka Durlik
Director General of The Arbitration Court at the Polish Chamber of Commerce long-time practitioner in the field of business support. Jagiellonian University Master of law, completed postgraduate studies at…
Wojciech Jarosiński
Wojciech Jarosiński is an advocate admitted to the Warsaw Bar (Poland). Wojciech specializes in complex technology disputes. He has led or supervised more than three hundred technology litigations, the…
Michał Jochemczak
Michał Jochemczak is a partner and the Head of the Arbitration Practice in Dentons’ Warsaw office. He specializes in complex arbitration and litigation. He has represented clients in arbitration…
Paweł Lewandowski
Paweł Lewandowski is a partner and a Co-head of the Dispute Resolution Practice at DZP, one of the largest Polish law firms. He specialises in litigation and arbitration proceedings…
Irina Paliashvili
Dr. Irina Paliashvili began her private practice by co-founding one of the first private law firms in Ukraine and expanded by founding the Washington-based RULG-Ukrainian Legal Group, where she…
Henriette Sigmund
Dr Henriette Sigmund is a senior associate at Busse Disputes, an arbitration boutique based in Frankfurt, Germany. She represents clients in national and international arbitration proceedings, including those conducted…
Panel II. State of the Art in the Dispute Resolution Management
Beata Gessel-Kalinowska vel Kalisz
Founding and senior partner at GESSEL. Beata is an expert practitioner in arbitration, M&A, private equity and commercial law. Former member of the ICC International Arbitration Court…
Monika Hartung
Monika Hartung is an attorney-at-law and partner and co-heads the Dispute Resolution & Arbitration Practice. She is also responsible for the Insurance Practice. She has great experience representing clients…
Tomasz Kałużny
Judge Tomasz Kałużny PhD – adjudicator in labour law and social security cases, lecturer at the Faculty of Law at the University of Białystok and the National School of…
Krystyna Szczepanowska-Kozłowska
Professor Krystyna Szczepanowska-Kozłowska is a partner at Allen & Overy where she heads the firm’s Intellectual Property and Commercial Litigation practice. She specialises in litigation, both in intellectual property…
Marcin Olechowski
Dr. Marcin Olechowski is a partner with Sołtysiński Kawecki & Szlęzak, a leading independent Polish firm where he coordinates the international arbitration practice. He has represented clients in a…
Cezary Wiśniewski
Cezary Wiśniewski is a Polish qualified lawyer, senior partner and head of Dispute Resolution practice at Linklaters’ Warsaw office. He has more than 30 years’ experience representing clients in large-scale…
Panel III. How to Effectively Use Mediation within Litigation and Arbitration? Novel Procedural Ideas for the Practice of Dispute Resolution – Exploring the Ways Forward
Marcin Asłanowicz
Prof. Marcin Aslanowicz is the president of the Lewiatan Arbitration Court (since March 2020) and partner in SSW Pragmatic Solutions Law Firm. He has served as an arbitrator (including presiding arbitrator…
Felix Dasser
Prof. Dr. Felix Dasser, LL.M. (Harv.), is a senior member and former head of the Dispute Resolution practice of the Swiss firm Homburger. His practice focuses on the litigation…
Richard D. Freer
Richard D. Freer is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law at Emory University in Atlanta. He is author or co-author of seventeen books and is a contributing author…
Katarzyna Kazaniecka-Kapała
Katarzyna Kazaniecka-Kapała Sędzia Sądu Okręgowego w Gdańsku, orzeka w sprawach cywilnych. Od kilkunastu lat pozostaje zaangażowana w promowanie alternatywnych metod rozwiązywania sporów. Od początku uczestniczyła a następnie także organizowała Salon Mediatora…
Agnieszka Owczarewicz
Judge Agnieszka Owczarewicz, judge of the District Court in Warsaw since 2008. For years she has been promoting alternative dispute resolution methods, including conducting workshops on mediation at postgraduate…
Felicitas Paller
Dr Felicitas Paller is a judge of the Vienna Commercial Court and previously served on the civil and commercial divisions of three different district courts, handling matters involving contracts…
Inna Yemelianova
Merited Lawyer of Ukraine, Vice President of the International Commercial Arbitration Court at the Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Vice President of the Ukrainian Maritime Arbitration Commission…
Final remarks
Oksana Karel
For more than ten years Oksana Karel has been helping clients in international arbitration proceedings. She has extensive experience in acting for businesses and individuals in investment arbitration as…
Aleksandra Orzeł-Jakubowska
Aleksandra Orzeł-Jakubowska is an associate in the White & Case Dispute Resolution, International Arbitration and White Collar practices. She provides legal assistance to clients in arbitration, mediation and court…
Dalibor Valinčić
Dalibor Valinčić heads the Dispute Resolution team in Zagreb and co-heads the firm-wide arbitration group. He focuses on investment and commercial arbitration and also has extensive experience in energy…
Cosmin Vasile
Dr. Cosmin Vasile is a Romanian lawyer and arbitrator based in Bucharest. He is managing partner of Zamfirescu Racoți Vasile & Partners and head of the firm’s Arbitration Department…