Zbynek Loebl, of the Czech Republic, a Fellow of the National Centre for Technology and Dispute Resolution, is organizing an online ODR conference for November 2020. This is the draft agenda. The topics are both timely and interesting. Obviously, the pandemic has spiked interest in, and use of, ODR. The conference will take place over two days, with a four hour session each day. 5 pm CET is 8 am PST, 11 am EST, so everyone in Canada will be able to join the online conference during our work day.
More updates will be pasted as they become available.
Friday 27 November, 5pm – 9pm CET:
– International cooperation in ODR
Chair: Colin Rule (CEO of Mediate.com; USA):
Promoting International Cooperation in Online Dispute Resolution
Zoom
Alberto Elisavetsky (Founder and President of Odr Latinoamerica, Argentina):
State of the art of online dispute resolution in Latin America
Zoom
Morenike Obi Farinde + Ijeoma Ononogbu + Ayo Kusamotu:
ODR in Africa and the Middle East
Tsisana Shamlikashvili (President of Institute of Law and Mediation, Russia):
NCTDR: presentation of NCTDR discussion on ODR and systemic inequalities
Online discussion
– AI, ethics and ODR:
Chairs: Ethan Katsh (Director, NCTDR; Leah Wing, Vice-Director, NCTDR, USA):
The Future of ODR
Zoom
Ayelet Sela (Israel) [Ayelet‘s presentation will be run from a recording];
David Larson (Mitchell Hamline School of Law, USA):
ODR Accessibility for Persons with Disabilities: We Must Do Better
Davide Rua Carneiro (Polytechnic of Porto, School of Management and Technology, Portugal):
Explainability and Interpretability of AI in ODR
Anyu Lee (Professor, Sichuan University, China:
The outlook of AI driven ODR in China
Zoom
Online discussion
Saturday 28 November, 5pm – 9pm CET:
– Lessons learned from online courts:
Chair: Pavel Loutocky (Research specialist and lecturer, Institute of Law and Technology, Faculty of Law, Masaryk University, Czech Republic):
The State of Online Courts in Czechia and a Way Forward
Richard Rogers (CRT Executive Director and Registrar, Canada):
Civil Resolution Tribunal: Improving Access to Justice through User focused Design
Vincent Tilman (Head of Internal Affairs of Comeos, Belgium), Axel Starek (Manager of the Belgian Ombudsman for Retail):
A 360° user experience review of a Belgian ODR scheme
MS Teams or Zoom
Graham Ross (UK lawyer and accredited Mediator, MD of ODR specialist mediator panel at SeeYouOutofCourt.com and Fellow of NCTDR; Member of the Civil Justice Council’s ODR Advisory Group, UK):
How Not To Introduce ODR to the Courts – Lessons from the UK
Online discussion
– What‘s new:
Chittu Nagarajan (CEO of CREK, India):
CREK
Orna Rabinovich (Haifa Law Faculty, Israel):
ODR and Covid
Zoom
Jeffrey Aresty (President and Founder, The InternetBar.Org (IBO), USA); Daniel Rainey (Principal, Holistic Solutions, Inc., Board Member, International Council for Online Dispute Resolution (ICODR), USA):
ODR and Digital Identity
Amy J. Schmitz (Elwood L. Thomas Missouri Endowed Professor of Law University of Missouri School of Law Columbia, MO USA):
Smart Contract Dispute Resolution
David Bilinsky (Practice Management Adviser (on leave); Law Society of British Columbia, Canada):
New Approaches to Dispute Resolution
Zbynek Loebl (Of Counsel, PRK Partners, Czech Republic):
Open ODR
Zoom; MS Teams; Webex
