WIPO International Conference on Dispute Resolution in Electronic Commerce, November 6 and 7, 2000

Program and Presentations

Monday, November 6, 2000

8:00 to 9:00

Registration

9:00 to 9:15

Opening Statements

Dr. Kamil Idris
Director General
World Intellectual Property Organization
Switzerland

Mr. Yves Fortier, C.C. Q.C.

President
London Court of International Arbitration
Canada

9:15 to 10:45

Commerce in the Digital Economy

Ms. Theresa Clifford

Head of Marketing
cScape
United Kingdom

Mr. Traver Gruen-Kennedy

Chairman
ASP Industry Consortium
United States of America

Ms. Anne Leer

Author and Editor
FT Prentice Hall
United Kingdom

Moderator: Mr. Francis Gurry
Assistant Director General
and Director
WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center
Switzerland

10:45 to 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 to 12:00

The Challenges and Opportunities for Dispute Resolution in the Era of Electronic Commerce

Mr. Howard Cooper

General Counsel
Vistorm
United Kingdom

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Mr. William K. Slate, II

President
American Arbitration Association
United States of America

Mr. Francis Gurry

Assistant Director General
and Director
WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center
Switzerland

Moderator: Mr. David W. Rivkin
Debevoise & Plimpton
United States of America

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12:00 to 13:00

Applicable Law and Enforcement in a Borderless World

Professor François Dessemontet

CEDIDAC (Center for Enterprise Law of the University of Lausanne)
Switzerland

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Ms. Catherine Kessedjian

Former Deputy Secretary General
Hague Conference on Private International Law
Netherlands

Moderator: Mr. Pierre Karrer
President
Swiss Arbitration Association
Switzerland

13:00 to 15:00

Lunch

15:00 to 16:00

Auction Site Disputes Workshop

Online Systems Workshop

Ms. Elizabeth A. Banker

Senior Corporate Counsel - Compliance
Yahoo! Inc.
United States of America

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Ms. Cara Cherry Lisco

Director
SquareTrade Online Dispute Resolution Network
United States of America

Moderator: Mr. M. Scott Donahey
Tomlinson Zisko Morosoli & Maser LLP
United States of America

Mr. Karim Benyekhlef
President
eResolution
Canada

Mr. Wayne Fagan
Soules & Wallace
United States of America

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Ms. Elizabeth Longworth
Longworth Associates
New Zealand

Moderator: Mr. Erik Wilbers
Senior Counsellor
WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center
Switzerland

16:00 to 16:30

Coffee Break

16:30 to 18:00

Resolving Consumer Disputes in the Digital Economy Workshop

Encryption and Security Workshop

Ms. Dawn Friedkin

Administrator, ICCP Division
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
France

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Ms. Lisa Rosenthal

Bureau of Consumer Protection
United States Federal Trade Commission
United States of America

Moderator: Mr. David Muls
Head, Electronic Commerce Projects Section
World Intellectual Property Organization
Switzerland

Mr. Richard Golding
Managing Director
Europe, Middle East and Africa
beTRUSTed
Switzerland

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Mr. Matthew S. Yeo
Steptoe & Johnson
United States of America

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Moderator: Mr. Christopher Gibson
Head, Electronic Commerce Law Section
World Intellectual Property Organization
Switzerland

18:30

Reception

Tuesday, November 7, 2000

9:00 to 10:15

Domain Name Dispute Resolution: A Model for the Future?

Mr. Pravin Anand

Anand and Anand
India

Mr. David H. Bernstein

Debevoise & Plimpton
United States of America

Mr. Andrew Christie

Visiting Professor
University of Toronto
Canada

Moderator: Mr. Francis Gurry
Assistant Director General
and Director
WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center
Switzerland

10:15 to 11:15

Application Service Provider Disputes Workshop

Courts and the New Technologies Workshop

Mr. Traver Gruen-Kennedy

Chairman
ASP Industry Consortium
United States of America

Mr. Neil Shah

Director of Strategy
Bridge2Market, Inc.
United States of America

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Moderator: Mr. Arif Hyder Ali
Consultant
WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center
Switzerland

Justice Austin Amissah
United Kingdom

Mr. Malte Grasshof
RiVG
Verwaltungsgericht Sigmaringen
Germany

Judge Audrey Lim
District Judge
Singapore Subordinate Courts
Singapore

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Moderator: Mr. James Bridgeman
Barrister-at-Law
The Law Library
Ireland

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11:15 to 11:45

Coffee Break

11:45 to 12:45

Institutional Perspectives and Responses

Dr. Mohamed Aboul-Enein

Director
Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration
Egypt

Ms. Ana Palacio
Deputy for Spain
President of the Judicial Commission and Internal Market
European Parliament
Belgium

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Mr. F. Peter Phillips

Vice President
CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution
United States of America

Mr. Richard Hill

Hill & Associates
Switzerland

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Moderator: Mrs. Deborah Enix-Ross
Senior Legal Officer
WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center
Switzerland

12:45 to 13:00

Closing Remarks

WIPO International Conference on Dispute Resolution in Electronic Commerce, November 6 and 7, 2000

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