Herbert Smith Freehills is pleased to announce the launch of The Global Pound Conference (GPC) Series 2016-17.
The aim of this ambitious worldwide conference series is to build a global conversation about the current landscape of civil and commercial dispute resolution and how dispute resolution tools and institutions should respond to the needs of 21st century business. In particular, it aims to gather standardised and actionable data on what users of dispute resolution mechanisms need and want and whether those needs are being met. Click here to watch a brief video explaining the benefits of attending the GPC Series.
Over 25 countries worldwide have already committed to holding a GPC event, with more being added. The launch will take place at a two-day conference in Singapore on 17-18 March 2016 and the last event is scheduled to be held in London in July 2017. Other cities will include Hong Kong, India, Paris, Dubai, Madrid, Sydney, New York and Frankfurt/Berlin. The event in Hong Kong is scheduled to take place in the fourth quarter of 2016.
The Series, which is being led by the International Mediation Institute (IMI), is being sponsored by Herbert Smith Freehills as well as other global partners: Shell, AkzoNobel, the Beijing Arbitration Commission (BAC), JAMS, and the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR).
Pivotal to Herbert Smith Freehills' pre-eminent disputes practice is a deep understanding of the importance of working with our clients to assess how they can best make use of the various dispute resolution mechanisms available to them. We have therefore long been at the forefront of efforts to explore what corporates and other organisations actually need from dispute resolution processs and how the existing mechanisms can be improved to meet those needs. In particular, our award-winning alternative dispute resolution (ADR) practice has undertaken extensive client research studies into how corporates develop strategies for using ADR and we were the lead sponsors of the pilot event for the GPC series, held in London last year.
We are therefore proud to be the Global Platinum Sponsor of the GPC series. Alexander Oddy, Partner and member of the GPC Central Organising Group said:
"The GPC Series is a really exciting and unique opportunity for all stakeholders in the dispute resolution community to shape the way we do things in the 21st Century. It is a chance to understand what corporates and other organisations really need, to share ideas and learning and develop new processes that are fit for purpose.
"What we have today is a relatively developed set of dispute resolution processes but we need to understand how we can use those more effectively in combination and in culturally sensitive ways in the future."
Click here to access the Herbert Smith Freehills ADR Notes page for more information about the 'Pound Conference' Series including information on the output of the series and how to get involved.
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