The ODR Forum of the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution

5–6 June 2024

Location: Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics (CIIRC CTU), Jugoslavskych partyzanu 1580/3, Prague, Czech Republic

The ODR Forum 2024

The ODR Forum is the most prestigious global conference on online dispute resolution (ODR).

It is a gathering of lawyers, designers, academics, experts, policymakers, innovators and investors from all over the world.

Register

The 24th ODR Forum will be held in Prague on 5 – 6 June 2024 at [CIIRC Center]

Agenda


Video-recordings of each panel or presentation are available by clicking on its title.

5 June

  • 9:15 | Opening by Robert Němec; President of the Czech Bar Association
  • 9:30 | Keynote: Ethan Katsh; Director, National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution (NCTDR) - Speculating about dispute prevention.
  • 10:15 | Coffee break

Hall A

  • 10:30 – 11:40 | ODR Standards
    • ISO project on ODR; ICODR Standards; CRT's and UNCITRAL documents; APEC Model Procedural Rules on ODR and related topics.
    • Moderator: Zbynek Loebl
    • Panelists: Yoshi Hayakawa; Mayu Watanabe; Leah Wing 
  • 11:45 – 13:00 | AI Standards and Regulations

    • The panelists will discuss the general question of whether it is practically possible to "control" the development and adoption of AI systems.  The panel will approach the topic from the perspectives of established standards of practice, regulatory and legislative approaches, and international standards development.

    • Moderator: Daniel Rainey

    • Panelists: Leah Wing, Scott Cooper, Chris Draper, Yordanka Ivanova

  • 13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

  • 14:00 – 15:10 | AI Methods for ODR

    • Overview of the current AI methods used for ODR; LLM and other methods, examples of good and bad use cases

    • Moderator: Fernando Esteban de la Rosa

    • Panelists: Jan Sedivy; Davide Rua Carneiro; Jaromir Savelka;

  • 15:20 – 15:50 | AI impact on the role of third parties in dispute resolution: Orna Rabinovich; Talia Schwartz
  • 15:50 | Coffee break
  • 16:05 – 16:30 | A Legal Analysis on the Embedment of Automation and AI in Decision-making in International Arbitration: Sara Hourani

  • 16:35 – 18:00 | How to operationalize new EU digital legislation in ODR platforms

    • Practical workshop open to all participants organized by Masaryk University; detailed description of the workshop is available [here], we kindly ask participants to bring their laptops.

    • Moderators: Pavel Loutocky; Andrej Kristofik; Vaclav Stupka

  • 18:00 | Cocktail: IJODR toast

Hall B

  • 10:30 – 11:40 | ODR around the world
    • Presentations about interesting developments in various countries around the world.
    • Moderator: Eva Fialova
    • Panelists: Graham Ross + Caroline Sheppard OBE (Lessons Learned); Pablo Cortez (England & Wales); Richard Rogers (Canada); Jasbendar Kaur (Presenter from State Courts, Singapore)
  • 11:45 - 13:00 | How can ODR assist in Ukrainian justice reform

    • Moderator: Tetiana Kravchenko
    • Panelists: Oksana Grabovska; Anna Grabovska; Irina Ogorodnicova; Yulia Dziavun
  • 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch
  • 14:00 – 14:30 | Best practices in dispute diagnosis/solution exploration: Colin Rule and Clare Fowler (ODR.com)

  • 14:35 – 15:50 | Lex Mundi Panel:

    • Discussion of selected viewpoints of one of the largest network of top law firms on e-justice and ODR, including online courts in Baltic countries, ODR for disputes arising out of automatized or semi-automatized B-B relations, use of AI in litigation etc.

    • Moderator: Lauren Smith

    • Panelists: Valeriu Mina; Michal Matejka, Zbyněk Loebl

  • 15:50 | Coffee break

  • 16:05 – 17:30 | ODR in specific sectors and/or for specific technologies

    • Presentations about ODR for concrete fields and technologies

    • Moderator: Michal Matějka

    • Panelists: Nicolas Lozada Pimiento (ODR for climate change disputes); Catherine Arias; Federico Olsen; Pablo Cortez (ODR for Dark Web); Simon Boehme (healthcare)

  • 17:35 – 18:00 | ODR Systems and Aggregate Litigation

    • Speaker: Prof. Alon Klement


6 June

  • 9:15 | Opening by Martin Maisner, Vice-President of the Czech Bar Association
  • 9:30 | Keynote: Chittu Nagarajan; Co-Founder ODR.com 
  • 10:15 | Coffee break

Hall A

  • 10:30 – 11:40 | United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women)
    • UN Women and partners explore tech tools to advance the implementation of international Women’s rights. The session will also create a platform at the ODR Forum to foster collaboration between government officials and the tech community through a workshop format aiming to jointly address development challenges and advance right of marginalized groups. More information is available [here].
    • Moderators: Doreen Buettner; Petra Burcikova
  • 11:45 – 13:00 | ODR and marginalized populations
    • This panel will focus on ODR and access to justice for populations often under-resourced and marginalized, addressing topics of gender, poverty, race, rurality, and self-represented litigants.
    • Moderator and panelist: Leah Wing
    • Panelists: Luz-Helena Beltrán Gomez; Jennifer Shack
  • 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch
  • 14:00 – 14:25 | AI and access to justice 
    • AI might substantially change how we look at access to justice: Federica Casarosa, Zbynek Loebl
  • 14:30 – 15:40 | Future visions: student panel
    • Moderator and Panelist: Tereza Rezabkova
    • Panelists: Adria Medina Altarriba, Alex Feigelman, Tiffany Byrd Cook, Cemre C. Kadıoğlu Kumtepe, Santiago Marín a Camila Uribe
  • 15:40 | Coffee break
  • 15:55 – 16:55 | ODRC International Mediation Competition 2024: Final Round (Audience votes for the winner)
  • 17:00 | Conference Highlights: Ethan Katsh; Leah Wing

Hall B

  • 10:30 – 11:40 | ODR in the EU: new opportunities and challenges including security risks
    • This panel will discuss the current EU ODR legal environment, work of the European Commission in the ODR field and related topics, including cybersecurity and related risks
    • Moderator: Pavel Loutocky
    • Panelists: Margarita Tuch; Vaclav Stupka; Petros Zourdoumis, Ayllen Gil Seaton
  • 11:40 - 13:00; 14:00 – 15:40 | Current ODR projects
    • Overview of the current ODR projects and initiatives.
    • Moderator: Martin Maisner
    • Presenters and projects: Sidharth Kapoor, Vaibhavi Khuthia: Presolv360; Raman Aggarwal: Jupitice; Simon Goodrich: Amica, Marco Giacalone: Crea2, Robert Bergman: NextLevel Mediation (link to video); Laura Kistemaker: Uitelkaar
  • 15:55 – 16:55 | Future visions: new ideas and concepts
    • Presentations: Avvneek Kaur Sethii: The necessity of a unified regulatory framework

Dinner of NCTDR Fellows will be held on 4 June. 


Additional Sponsors

Media Partner

Accommodation

There are two international hotels in walking distance from CIIRC building: These hotels are also only 30-45 minutes by taxi from Prague Airport, depending on traffic.

Grand Hotel International Prague

Distance from CIIRC to the hotel: 350 metres 

Vienna House by Windham Diplomat

Distance from CIIRC to the hotel: 300 metres 


Visiting Prague

The CIIRC building is close to Prague Castle (25 minutes by foot) and approximately 15-20 minutes by public transport from Old Town. A public transport stop (metro, tram) is only 5 minutes by foot from the CIIRC building.

Based on your votes we provide the following options:

  1. A cruise on the Vltava river
  2. A concert of Classical music
  3. Visiting Prague’s botanical gardens
  4. A guided tour of Prague Castle

Please be aware that there are numerous alternatives beyond the examples we've given. We hope you have a wonderful time in Prague.


Contact us

24th ODR Forum of the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution, hosted in Prague by PRK Partners.

Contact for partners

Sona Rampulova, MBA Marketing Manager

sona.rampulova@prkpartners.com

The ODR Forum of the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution

5–6 June 2024

Location: Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics (CIIRC CTU), Jugoslavskych partyzanu 1580/3, Prague, Czech Republic

The ODR Forum 2024

The ODR Forum is the most prestigious global conference on online dispute resolution (ODR).

It is a gathering of lawyers, designers, academics, experts, policymakers, innovators and investors from all over the world.

Register

The 24th ODR Forum will be held in Prague on 5 – 6 June 2024 at [CIIRC Center]

Agenda

5 June

  • 9:15 | Opening by Robert Němec; President of the Czech Bar Association
  • 9:30 | Keynote: Ethan Katsh; Director, National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution (NCTDR) - Speculating about dispute prevention.
  • 10:15 | Coffee break

Hall A

  • 10:30 – 11:40 | ODR Standards
    • ISO project on ODR; ICODR Standards; CRT's and UNCITRAL documents; APEC Model Procedural Rules on ODR and related topics.
    • Moderator: Zbynek Loebl
    • Panelists: Yoshi Hayakawa; Mayu Watanabe; Leah Wing 
  • 11:45 – 13:00 | AI Standards and Regulations

    • The panelists will discuss the general question of whether it is practically possible to "control" the development and adoption of AI systems.  The panel will approach the topic from the perspectives of established standards of practice, regulatory and legislative approaches, and international standards development.

    • Moderator: Daniel Rainey

    • Panelists: Leah Wing, Scott Cooper, Chris Draper, Yordanka Ivanova

  • 13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

  • 14:00 – 15:10 | AI Methods for ODR

    • Overview of the current AI methods used for ODR; LLM and other methods, examples of good and bad use cases

    • Moderator: Fernando Esteban de la Rosa

    • Panelists: Jan Sedivy; Davide Rua Carneiro; Jaromir Savelka;

  • 15:20 – 15:50 | AI impact on the role of third parties in dispute resolution: Orna Rabinovich; Talia Schwartz
  • 15:50 | Coffee break
  • 16:05 – 16:30 | A Legal Analysis on the Embedment of Automation and AI in Decision-making in International Arbitration: Sara Hourani

  • 16:35 – 18:00 | How to operationalize new EU digital legislation in ODR platforms

    • Practical workshop open to all participants organized by Masaryk University; detailed description of the workshop is available [here]

    • Moderators: Pavel Loutocky; Andrej Kristofik; Vaclav Stupka

  • 18:00 | Cocktail: IJODR toast

Dinner of NCTDR Fellows will be held on 4 June. 


Hall B

  • 10:30 – 11:40 | ODR around the world
    • Presentations about interesting developments in various countries around the world.
    • Moderator: Eva Fialova
    • Panelists: Graham Ross + Caroline Sheppard OBE (Lessons Learned); Pablo Cortez (England & Wales); Richard Rogers (Canada); Jasbendar Kaur (Singapore)
  • 11:45 - 13:00 | How can ODR assist in Ukrainian justice reform

    • Moderator: Tetiana Kravchenko
    • Panelists: Oksana Grabovska; Anna Grabovska; Irina Ogorodnicova; Yulia Dziavun
  • 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch
  • 14:00 – 14:30 | Best practices in dispute diagnosis/solution exploration: Colin Rule and Clare Fowler (ODR.com)

  • 14:35 – 15:50 | Lex Mundi Panel:

    • Discussion of selected viewpoints of one of the largest network of top law firms on e-justice and ODR, including online courts in Baltic countries, ODR for disputes arising out of automatized or semi-automatized B-B relations, use of AI in litigation etc.

    • Moderator: Lauren Smith

    • Panelists: Valeriu Mina; Michal Matejka, Zbyněk Loebl

  • 15:50 | Coffee break

  • 16:05 – 17:30 | ODR in specific sectors and/or for specific technologies

    • Presentations about ODR for concrete fields and technologies

    • Moderator: Michal Matějka

    • Panelists: Nicolas Lozada Pimiento (ODR for climate change disputes); Catherine Arias; Federico Olsen; Pablo Cortez (ODR for Dark Web); Simon Boehme (healthcare)

  • 17:35 – 18:00 | ODR Systems and Aggregate Litigation

    • Speaker: Prof. Alon Klement


6 June

  • 9:15 | Opening by Martin Maisner, Vice-President of the Czech Bar Association
  • 9:30 | Keynote: Chittu Nagarajan; Co-Founder ODR.com 
  • 10:15 | Coffee break

Hall A

  • 10:30 – 11:40 | United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women)
    • UN Women and partners explore tech tools to advance the implementation of international Women’s rights. The session will also create a platform at the ODR Forum to foster collaboration between government officials and the tech community through a workshop format aiming to jointly address development challenges and advance right of marginalized groups. More information is available [here].
    • Moderators: Doreen Buettner; Petra Burcikova
  • 11:45 – 13:00 | ODR and marginalized populations
    • This panel will focus on ODR and access to justice for populations often under-resourced and marginalized, addressing topics of gender, poverty, race, rurality, and self-represented litigants.
    • Moderator and panelist: Leah Wing
    • Panelists: Luz-Helena Beltrán Gomez; Jennifer Shack
  • 13:00 – 14:00 | Lunch
  • 14:00 – 14:25 | AI and access to justice 
    • AI might substantially change how we look at access to justice: Federica Casarosa, Zbynek Loebl
  • 14:30 – 15:40 Future visions: student panel
    • Moderator and Panelist: Tereza Rezabkova
    • Panelists: Adria Medina Altarriba, Alex Feigelman, Tiffany Byrd Cook, Cemre C. Kadıoğlu Kumtepe, Santiago Marín a Camila Uribe
  • 15:40 | Coffee break
  • 15:55 – 16:55 | ODRC International Mediation Competition 2024: Final Round (Audience votes for the winner)
  • 17:00 | Conference Highlights: Ethan Katch; Leah Wing

Hall B

  • 10:30 – 11:40 | ODR in the EU: new opportunities and challenges including security risks
    • This panel will discuss the current EU ODR legal environment, work of the European Commission in the ODR field and related topics, including cybersecurity and related risks
    • Moderator: Pavel Loutocky
    • Panelists: Margarita Tuch; Vaclav Stupka; Petros Zourdoumis, Ayllen Gil Seaton
  • 11:40 - 13:00; 14:00 – 15:40 | Current ODR projects
    • Overview of the current ODR projects and initiatives.
    • Moderator: Martin Maisner
    • Presenters and projects: Sidharth Kapoor, Vaibhavi Khuthia: Presolv360; Raman Aggarwal: Jupitice; Simon Goodrich: Amica, Marco Giacalone: Crea2, Robert Bergman: NextLevel Mediation (link to video); Laura Kistemaker: Uitelkaar
  • 15:55 – 16:55 | Future visions: new ideas and concepts
    • Presentations: Avvneek Kaur Sethii: The necessity of a unified regulatory framework

Additional Sponsors

Media Partner

Accommodation

There are two international hotels in walking distance from CIIRC building: These hotels are also only 30-45 minutes by taxi from Prague Airport, depending on traffic.

Grand Hotel International Prague

Distance from CIIRC to the hotel: 350 metres

Vienna House by Windham Diplomat

Distance from CIIRC to the hotel: 300 metres


Visiting Prague

The CIIRC building is close to Prague Castle (25 minutes by foot) and approximately 15-20 minutes by public transport from Old Town. A public transport stop (metro, tram) is only 5 minutes by foot from the CIIRC building.

Based on your votes we provide the following options:

  1. A cruise on the Vltava river
  2. A concert of Classical music
  3. Visiting Prague’s botanical gardens
  4. A guided tour of Prague Castle

Please be aware that there are numerous alternatives beyond the examples we've given. We hope you have a wonderful time in Prague.


Contact us

24th ODR Forum of the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution, hosted in Prague by PRK Partners.

Contact for partners

Sona Rampulova, MBA Marketing Manager

sona.rampulova@prkpartners.com