ICC Joint Arbitration Day 2026

12:00-13:00

Networking lunch

13:00-13:10

Welcome

13:10-13:40

Keynote address by Paul Verhagen – Senior Fellow at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies, Strategic Liaison at the UvA Civic AI Lab and lecturer at the University of Amsterdam

13:40-14:30

Panel 1: How is EU law shaping commercial arbitration

EU law has moved from the background to the foreground of commercial arbitration. Following the CJEU’s Achmea and Komstroy line of case law, alongside state aid issues and the responses of national courts across jurisdictions, tribunals, users and counsel are increasingly required to grapple with questions that would have seemed remote only a few years ago.

Moderator: Ulrike Gantenberg, Founder, Gantenberg Dispute Experts, Dusseldorf

Speakers:

• Yves Herinckx, Chair BE Commitee on Arbitration & ADR, Brussels
• Lilian Laribere, Professeur de Droit privé et de Sciences criminelles, Université de Paris Nanterre, Paris
• Panellist, Netherlands (to be confirmed)

14:30-15:20

Panel 2: View from the Bench

Senior judges from each partnering jurisdiction on enforcement, set-aside and the EU law interface. A genuinely joint discussion that ties back to panel 1.

Moderator: To be confirmed

Speakers:

• Gesa Curtius-Stollenwerk, Judge, Commercial Court, Oberlandesgericht Frankfurt am Main
• Joanna Ghorayeb, Counsellor, Court of Appeal, Paris
• Paul Glazener, Senior Justice, Court of Appeal The Hague
• Judge, Belgium (to be confirmed)

15:20-15:50

Coffee break

15:50-17:00

Parallel break-out sessions

Five parallel sessions in separate rooms. Participants choose one upon registration. Each session is a working discussion rather than a presentation.

Topics of discussion:

1. AI in Arbitration: Disclosure, the ICC Task Force and the EU AI Act

Two pressure points: what arbitrators should disclose about their use of AI, and what the EU AI Act requires of arbitrators seated in the EU.

· Prof Dr Antje Baumann, Founder, BAUMANN Resolving Disputes, Hamburg; Member, ICC International Court of Arbitration

· Further speakers to be confirmed

2. Drafting Arbitration Clauses for 2026: EPP and Highly Expedited Arbitration

An in-house workshop on how to draft, or not to draft, for the new Highly Expedited Procedure. Clause language under the microscope.

• Glenn Baumgarten, Senior Counsel, Deutsche Telekom, Bonn; Chair, ICC Germany Arbitration Commission
• Further speakers to be confirmed

3. The 2026 ICC Rules: New Disclosure Obligations and What They Mean in Practice

The parties' obligation to identify and explain relevant entities, the additions to the Note to Parties, and what in-house and external counsel should be doing now.

• Marieke van Hooijdonk, van Hooijdonk Arbitration, Amsterdam; Vice-President, ICC International Court of Arbitration
• Further speakers to be confirmed

4. Preventing Disputes: Is the Mediation Window Friend or Foe?

The multi-tiered dispute clause under the microscope. Does the mediation window prevent disputes or merely delay them? Perspectives from across the partnering jurisdictions.

• Marnix Leijten, Partner, De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, Amsterdam
• Gustav Flecke-Giammarco, Partner, Seven Summits Arbitration, Munich
• Further speakers to be confirmed

5. Arbitration and crypto: digital asset disputes

Drawing on the ICC France crypto working group report, expected to be available by December.

• Clement Fouchard, Partner, Reed Smith, Paris; Chair, ICC France Arbitration Commission
• Further speakers to be confirmed

17:00-17:25

Plenary: key takeaways from the break-out sessions

Each break-out session reports back to the plenary in five minutes.

17:25-17:30

Concluding remarks

17:30-19:00

Networking drinks

19:00

Transfer to Central Amsterdam

19:00

Walking dinner

Royal Industrieele Groote Club, Dam 27, Amsterdam. Included for all registered participants.