Innovating Arbitration: Insights Into the New SIAC Rules and Future Developments

Speakers

• The Right Honorable Alex Chalk KC
• Michelle Bradfield, Head of International Arbitration – Jones Day
• Vivek Neelakantan, Registrar – Singapore International Arbitration Centre
• Dr Caroline Kenny KC, Chartered Arbitrator – 4-5 Gray’s Inn Square
• Leonora Risenberg, Chartered Arbitrator, INTADR DMCC Dubai, UAE – 4-5 Gray’s Inn Square

• Spaces: 150
• Venue: Jones Day, 21 Tudor Street London, EC4Y 0DJ

What this session will cover

An interactive panel discussion on various institutional rules including the new SIAC rules effective 1 January 2025, covering key procedures and how institutions are adapting to AI, technology, and ESG arbitrations.

This session will feature a moderated, interactive panel discussion, including SIAC Registrar Mr Vivek Neelakantan, focusing on various institutional rules, including the new SIAC rules that came into effect on 1 January 2025, and their practical applications. The panel will delve into topics such as expedited procedures, emergency arbitrator provisions, protective preliminary orders, streamlined procedures, early dismissal, preliminary determinations, consolidation, joinder, and other relevant procedures.

Additionally, the session will explore emerging issues and how procedural rules and institutions are adapting to accommodate advancements in artificial intelligence and other technological developments, as well as the growing importance of ESG arbitrations.