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AUDIO-VISUAL REQUESTS FOR SESSIONS - IBA Annual Conference 2026
DEADLINE Friday 31 July 2026
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A matter of purpose: how values and meaning impact next gen lawyers on their career decisions
A recipe to accelerate the green transition in the built environment
A walking tour at Refshaleøen - a unique urban development area
Abuse of dominance and abuse of bargaining position: developments from around the world affecting conduct of dominant market players
Access to justice for the elderly
Across borders: an interactive discussion on global labour and employment law trends
Adaptability: business development in a changing global legal landscape
Advancing climate and nature protection through BHR approaches: lessons from litigation and beyond
AI and disability in the workplace: challenges and opportunities
AI and legal ops for the in-house practitioner and their outside counsel
AI and other digital technologies: how do they change trade in legal services?
AI disputes: what are they, where do they arise and what challenges do they pose?
AI for ESG: the opportunity and the bill
AI in conflict
AI in franchise and distribution system operations and marketing: opportunities, risks, and governance
AI, IP, and the cross-border battle about content protection and the flow of information
Allyship: building coalitions for corporate resilience
An evolving landscape for the profession worldwide: emerging global developments and regulatory trends
Anti-corruption compliance: how emerging risks and the shifting global enforcement landscape are shaping compliance practice, culture and risk management strategies
Arbitral institutions leading the way
Arbitration Committee open business meeting
Arbitration of disputes in the defence sector: benefits and challenges
Are the Geneva Conventions in need of an update?
Are we watching the regulatory pendulum swing toward less intrusion?
Artificial Intelligence and immigration: promise, peril and practice
Artificial intelligence and professional ethics: the results of the BIC AI Working Group
Artificial Intelligence: how to outsmart AI when protecting children and families
Asset recovery in acrimonious succession and family matters
Aviation Law Committee - offsite session
Barriers on the plate: the impact of trade restrictions on global food security
Best practices to ensure LGBTQI+ diversity in the workplace
Beyond AI – AI is not your strategy: designing differentiation that clients actually notice and pay for (even when everyone has AI)
Beyond boundaries: the modern junior lawyers' essential skills toolkit
Beyond burnout: redefining the legal practice through happiness
Beyond the degree: evolving immigration pathways for skilled and essential workers
Beyond the office: uniting in-house and firm lawyers to strengthen access to justice
BIC Showcase - beyond the lawyers: why rule of law matters to civil society
Brand protection and IP in franchise and distribution systems: trademarks, trade dress, and know-how at scale
Bridging the divide: a balancing act across borders
Business and human rights: a survey of the current state of play in a time of headwinds
Can you teach old dogs new tricks and can you teach young dogs old tricks?
Capacity to say yes to sex and other important acts
Car crash cases: what not to do in my jurisdiction
Carbon trading on the rise: a growing niche area for lawyers
Challenges and the future of global financial multilateralism
Charting new waters in a polarised world – perspectives on current developments in energy, environment, natural resources and infrastructure law
China and Europe: recent trends and changes in trade and investment
Choosing judges: judicial selection toolkit update
Climate change: the next steps for bars
Communications infrastructure regulation and its implications for data governance
Competing plans in reorganisation proceedings: challenges and what to do
Compounding medicines and counterfeit prevention
Corporate Counsel Forum breakfast - by invitation
Corporate governance, anti-corruption and compliance in African business
Counselling clients on vertical (distribution, agency, franchise, and digital platform) agreements to ensure competition law compliance
Criminal and rule of law issues that arise from mass migration and the political responses to it
Criminal law in the boardroom
Criminal Law Section mock trial - corruption strikes back
Cross-border deals for closely held companies
Cross-border risk management: mitigating political, economic, and currency fluctuation risks
Cross-border tax advice and criminal prosecution: is there still room for tax avoidance schemes?
Cross-border trade settlement systems and the WTO Appellate Body crisis: where do we stand?
Crossroads: when arbitration meets access to justice
Currency reimagined: legal perspectives on central bank digital currencies and the future of money
Current Issues in relation to aircraft financing
Customs fraud and enforcement in cross-border e-commerce
Cyber security and secrets without borders: managing cross-border risks to company data, trade secrets, compliance, and reputation in a hyperconnected world
Data and AI ethics, algorithmic bias and legal frameworks
Data without borders? One year of the EU Data Act: legal and governance frontiers in the global data economy
Decline of the long-arm jurisdiction of the US - “N.I.M.B.Y.â€
Decoding corporate culture: what investors should know when doing business in Latin America
Defect notification period obligations: regulatory frameworks, transfer of rights to subsequent owners, direct claims against sub-contractors and decennial liability
Deregulation, simplification and investment protection. Are there new legal trends in global oil and gas law?
Digital sovereignty, sovereign clouds and data embassies
Digitalisation and its impact on competition law enforcement and practice: data in investigations, document production, use of AI, and other technologies in investigations and merger reviews
Directors in the age of AI: oversight and risk in closely held companies
Dispute resolution in Latin America: arbitration, courts and enforcement
Diversity & inclusion and Artificial Intelligence
Doomsday planning
Economic security: sanctions and export controls, FDI screening and other instruments of control
Effect of technology on law and access to justice
Energy transition in Latin America: the state of the renewables industry - challenges, pitfalls, and opportunities
Ethical pressure on lawyers: intergenerational perspectives
Ethical regulations for private client lawyers working for global clients
Ethics on trial
Evolution of standard contractual clauses to mitigate risks in the international supply chain
Family business governance
Family Law Committee breakfast
Foreign investment restrictions on controlling agricultural land
Fraternising with the enemy? How lawyers (and judges) help or hinder the delivery of justice when they interact in court
From aspirant to arbitrator: opportunities and challenges for young lawyers
From Casablanca to Beirut, from Ramallah to Dubai: how is law practice both similar and different across the Arab world and beyond?
From conflict to coordination: bridging the Brussels I Recast gap for EU arbitration
From courtroom to community: strategic lawyering in restrictive environments
From firewalls to frameworks: legal oversight of ICT in financial services
From international conflict to resolution: mediation, diplomacy and the art of making peace
From paper to pixel: modernising service of proceedings
From runway to hashtag: managing legal risk and public perception across the aviation chain
From source to socket: grids, pipelines and disputes in energy infrastructure
Fueling growth: how Europe backs startups, scaleups and VCs
Fueling the future: legal perspectives on bunkering and maritime transport - crossroads of oil and maritime law
Funding options to support strategic change: bank finance, partners working capital and PE
Geoeconomics and the weaponisation of trade: the merger of international trade and geopolitics
Get it done! Timetable optimisation and handling the interim period
Getting the deal right: labour and employment law in corporate transactions - structuring the deal before it's too late - employment due diligence, data privacy, TUPE and pensions considerations
Global anti-corruption update
Global currents: navigating the troubled tax waters in international shipping, trade and logistics
Global employment law and the boundaries of free expression
Global legal order: the reboot
Global perspectives on parallel proceedings and related actions
Global product launch unlocked: mastering and navigating compliance, risk, and product laws in 100 jurisdictions
Global women litigators breakfast
Goods at the border: the three amigos and 2026 USMCA review
Governing agentic AI
Guardians of advocacy: lawyers standing with lawyers worldwide
Gulf state insolvency issues
Hiring new counsel in foreign lands
Hot topics in asset management - global round-up
Hot topics in human rights
Hot topics in intellectual property, communications and technology
Hot topics in international arbitration
Hot topics in maritime and transport law
Hot topics in real estate
Hot topics in securities class actions
How the wallet era redefines privacy and liability
How to keep (human) lawyers intelligent in the age of AI
How will AI impact the law firm of tomorrow? A look into the future from different perspectives
How will AI reshape office buildings and cities: will AI improve buildings and the way we work? Will legislation keep up?
IBA HRI Showcase- The world and its children: the grave legal challenges to protecting the wellbeing and rights of the child
IBA Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) General Meeting
In today's increasingly globalised and technology-dependent legal world, what constitutes effective legal writing and drafting (and how do you teach it)?
Independent Arab woman: how are female Arab lawyers challenging and transforming social barriers and traditional stigmas and changing the legal landscape in the Arab world and beyond
Indigenous peoples and the just transition: respecting Indigenous peoples' rights while moving away from fossil fuels
Innovative construction projects require innovative lawyers to provide innovative solutions
Insurance arbitration
Insurance market: looking back and moving forward
Insuring risk in construction projects: are professional indemnity and contract works policies pulling their weight?
International Commerce, Trade, Franchising and Product Law Section TBC
International investment treaties: how they are reshaping the mining industry
International regulations relating to the movement of art and their impact on collectors, estates and all players in the global art market
Internationalisation seminar
Introductory session: is AI really killing the junior lawyer – or just the way we used to work?
Investing in growth: India as a strategic player in global businesses and investments
Investor-state dispute settlement: what's new and what's cooking?
Is arbitration a victim of its own success?
Is coal still an important mineral?
IT, AI, and cyber risk
Judges as neutrals: the role of sitting judges in arbitration and mediation
Judges Forum offsite session
Judicial wellbeing following the 2024 Nauru Declaration: wellbeing in the time of uncertainty
Key developments in private funds - trends and opportunities
Keynote speech and pillar two: from deal to docs
Law in the age of everyday robotics
Law in the line of fire: confronting poverty in conflict
Leading with focus: business professional culture in an ever-changing environment
Lean, not light: making expert evidence cost-effective and tribunal-focused
Legal and practical issues and case law in the use of freight exchange platforms and transport marketplaces (e.g., TIMOCOM, Wtransnet) in international road transport
Legal strategies for M&As in oil & gas in a polarised world
Limitation of liability in the context of real casualty cases
Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! Challenging executive decisions made in the times of emergency
Litigation funding for class actions concerning environmental harm claims
Low risk, high impact: mediation for private company disputes
LPD General Meeting
LPD SHOWCASE: AI: moving fast in the technopolar age
Luxury asset structuring on the moon
M&A megatrends: what's driving dealmaking in 2026? How political uncertainty, state intervention, regulatory scrutiny and financing dynamics are reshaping M&A
Managing partners' breakfast
Mapping and exploring the future of legal services: challenges and opportunities
Master the art of power networking at the IBA Annual Conference 2026
Measuring what matters: data, metrics and accountability in diversity and inclusion
Mediating the challenges of climate change, environmental and energy disputes
Mediation encourages innovation
Mediation in the age of AI
Menopause and andropause in the workplace: implications for employees and employers
Mentorship and legacy: building the next generation of leaders
Mergers: practical issues in international M&A deals with a focus on remedies, risk allocation, and call-in powers
Mind of the machine: who pays when AI goes wrong?
Mining companies, organised crime and armed conflict
Mock CISG litigation: breach of contract and CISG remedies
Morning Keynote Address
Most relevant 2025 class actions cases
Navigating social media infringement, false advertising and fair use: a cross border playbook
Navigating the battlefield with confidence: the use of mediation tools to prevent, manage and resolve public contracts and military procurement disputes
Navigating the mid-career maze: retention, progression and purpose
Nearshoring and tax impacts
Non-disclosure agreements when ethical or criminal matters are involved or compelling: where to draw the line?
North America trade at a crossroads: is the future of trade among the United States, Canada and Mexico headed towards unification or fragmentation?
Not following the rules can cost you: anti-competition law used to punish improper IP enforcement
Optimising the capital stack for closely held companies
Playing it safe: regulating online gaming, live streaming, and user-generated content in a borderless world
Power Law Committee breakfast
Private equity: exit strategies in distressed scenarios
Public and indigenous consultation processes and consent in large infrastructure and critical minerals projects - current trends
Public interest, security, and trade considerations, and the political dimension in competition law enforcement and practice
Rare diseases: strategies for research, development, patient programs, market access and compliance approaches
Recent and future developments in offshore oil and gas and renewables
Redesigning law: implementing a global guide for mental health and wellbeing in legal workplaces
Refugee and humanitarian immigration 2026 update
Resolving cross-jurisdictional business-to-business disputes over defective products: sector-specific insights into mediation, arbitration, and evidentiary challenges
Rethinking arbitrator ethics: towards a modern global framework
Rethinking dispute resolution in sport after Semenya and Seraing
Roundtable session on current developments
RULE OF LAW SYMPOSIUM: International peace and global security in a multi-polar world
RULE OF LAW SYMPOSIUM: Lawfare and lawfair in the age of populism
RULE OF LAW SYMPOSIUM: Not just the rule of law, but a just rule of law
Sanctions, criminal law and M&A
Securing power in a polarised world
Show me the money: how private equity is reshaping law firms through management service organisations
Social media and children
Social media and free expression
Solving alternatively the disputes before the bench: the role of judges and counsel between mediation, facilitation and negotiation
SPPI awards breakfast
SPPI Showcase: A profession under pressure
Stakeholderism v shareholderism
Strength in numbers: can law firm alliances navigate ethics rules and compete with global brands?
Strengthening corporate efforts in UNGP Pillar 3: access to remedy
Sustainability in full: people, principles and progress
Tacking the offshore wind
Talent in tech transactions: acquiring and retaining key employees through M&A and acquihire deals
Taxes committee national reporters breakfast
Taxes Committee open business meeting
Tax-onomy of a restructuring
The Addendum to CEDAW
The AI-driven law firm: redifining the legal workplace of the future - what will the law firm look like in five to ten years?
The art of the exit: private equity strategies in a changing market
The Digital Network Act (DNA): shaping Europe's connectivity future
The dry tap liability: why failing to recycle water is a new D&O crisis
The emperor's new clothes: geopolitical trends affecting capital markets
The ESG challenge for law firm leaders, from Paris to Copenhagen: stakeholders, strategy and the shifting global landscape
The evolving workforce framework in law firms
The future of global benefits and rewards: reinventing compensation across industries
The future of LGBTQI+ rights in a changing world
The impact of digital health on global medical device supply chains
The increasing global criminalisation of breaches of psychosocial and health and safety duties: what should directors be doing to manage personal and corporate liability?
The increasing reliance of the global economy on space: risks and opportunities
The little mermaid: challenges in cross-border offerings
The M&A café
The multi-faceted face of ESG around the globe - the impact on corporate governance and M&A transactions
The new lending game: banks, funds and platforms redrawing the map
The power of networks: building influence and community across borders
The princess and the pea: the focus on minority protections in hostile and conflicted transactions
The pursuit of job satisfaction in a 24/7 profession
The rise of automated travel authorisation systems: navigating the global shift to digital borders
The role of activist investors in shareholder litigation: influence, ethical considerations and market consequences
The role of bars in anti-corruption activities
The role of international economic law in poverty eradication efforts
The role of referral lawyers in a time of polarisation and populism
The sound of dissent: music, art and performance as protest
The thirsty cloud: navigating the water-energy nexus in the digital age of data centres
The ugly duckling: unicorns in need - what if you can't IPO and are burning cash?
Things that go bump in the night: in the darkest hours, what are the current issues keeping general counsel from Mexico, Canada, and the United States awake at night
Thriving at work: prioritising wellbeing to combat burnout and embrace age diversity
Trust me if you can: entity classification issues in common wealth planning strategies
Trusts and foundations with holding companies in closely held businesses
Uber regulators: new supervisors, sanctions and shenanigans
Under pressure: the realities of work and life for government and public lawyers
Update on aviation litigation: focus on recent case law in different jurisdictions
Using artificial intelligence in the courtroom
Water in mining: a critical asset and a paramount liability
What are clients really paying for? From hours to outcomes, AI and (the end of) traditional billing
What are the GAARdrails?
What does it take for more women to reach leadership positions in law firms?
What is the role of legal regulators in upholding the rule of law?
What to do when LMEs fail
When illicit power meets legal ethics: strengthening the rule of law worldwide
When takeovers turn hostile: insights from the European market and dissecting some attempts
When tech triggers tax
Where is the US Supreme Court? What are the contrasts with the Supreme Court of Canada and the Mexico Supreme Court in terms of safeguarding the constitution and fundamental principles of democracy?
Whistleblower reports in litigation: navigating legal, ethical and strategic challenges
Who holds the crystal ball: futureproof planning for small and medium-size law firms
Whose genes are they? A discussion on genetic testing and human rights
Young Lawyers' Committee breakfast: from legal expert to business partner: leadership skills
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