2024 – Arbitration and Infrastructure – 23rd International Arbitration Congress

Brasilia, September 1-3, 2024

Schedule

09/01

Diversity Brunch

1:00 p.m. | Arbitration and Intersectionality: Another Look at Diversity – Round Table

Moderator: Pedro Pacífico

Speakers:Sheila Neder Cerezetti, Rodrigo Bueno, Lie Uema do Carmo, Alessandra Benedito 

Youth Event

3:00 p.m. | Autonomy and Heteronomy in Infrastructure Contracts

Theme 1: Economic function, risk allocation and legal nature of the take or pay clause: between the penalty clause and the obligation

Theme 2: Non-indemnity and limitation of compensation clauses in infrastructure contracts: between private autonomy and mandatory rules

Moderators: Telma Lisowski, Maúra Polidoro

Speakers: Adriana Sarra, Luísa Quintão, Márcio Vasconcellos, Bruno Barreto de A. Teixeira

05:00 PM | Break
Main Event

 Official Opening

5:30 p.m. | Opening Concert

5:50 p.m. | Opening by the President of CBAr

6:10 p.m. | Remarks by Min. Villas Bôas Cueva

6:20 p.m. | Opening Lecture: Arbitration and Infrastructure Contracts

Speaker: Juan Armesto

8:00 p.m.| CAM-CCBC Opening Ceremony
09/02

9:00 AM | Panel I: Circulation of Contractual Models and Infrastructure Arbitrations

Moderator: Eduardo Damião Gonçalves

Topic: FIDIC Models and the Challenges of Reconciling Different Legal Traditions in Infrastructure Arbitrations

Speaker: Aisha Nadar

Topic: The Legal Framework of Civil Liability in Infrastructure Disputes and the Obligation of Fitness for Purpose: Between Fault and Risk

Speaker: Gustavo Scheffer

Arbitrations Involving Risk and Liability Matrix in EPC and Turn Key Contracts

Speaker: Julio Bueno

10:30 AM | Coffee Break
11:00 AM | Panel II: Contractual Incompleteness and Infrastructure Arbitrations

Moderator: Flávia Bittar

Topic: Planning problems, delay & disruption and private autonomy: limits and possibilities of adaptation clauses

Speaker: Fernando Marcondes

Topic: Gaps in infrastructure contracts: limits and possibilities of arbitrator intervention

Speaker: Charles H. Brower II

Topic: Methods for quantifying compensation in infrastructure disputes: limits and possibilities of contractual provision

Speaker: Lucila Hemmingsen

12:30 p.m. | Lunch
2:30 p.m. | Panel III: Limits of Consent, Arbitrability and Appealability in Infrastructure Arbitrations

Moderator: Mariana Cattel Alves

Topic: The ius variandi in Brazilian law: how far can regulatory intervention go?

Speaker: Marilda Rosado de Sá Ribeiro

Topic: Annulment of administrative acts and exorbitant clauses: limits of arbitrability?

Speaker: Vera Cristina Caspari Monteiro

Topic: Effectiveness of the arbitration clause before third parties in infrastructure disputes: subcontractors, insurers, financiers and other cases

Speaker: Francisco Paulo De Crescenzo Marino

16:00 PM  | Coffee break

16:45 PM | Simultaneous Roundtables

1st Session: Consensualism and Dispute Resolution in Infrastructure

 

Room 1: Consensualism and Dispute Boards

Moderator: Augusto Barros de Figueiredo Speakers: Agenor Correa and Renata Faria

 

Room 2: Consensualism in Public Administration, Regulation and SecexConsensus

Moderator: Cristina Mastrobuono

Speakers: Nicola Khoury, Gustavo Binenbojm

17:45 PM | Simultaneous Round Tables

2nd Session: Sector Experiences and Infrastructure Arbitration

Room 1: The Telecommunications Sector

Moderator:Ane Elisa Perez

Speakers: Flávio Bianchi, Caio Mario da Silva Pereira Neto

09/03

9:30 am | Panel IV: Technical evidence in Infrastructure Arbitrations

Moderator: Adriana Braghetta

Topic: Proof of causal link: difficulties and alternatives in highly complex disputes

Speaker: Gisela Sampaio da Cruz Guedes

Topic: Technical evidence of the schedule impacted in infrastructure arbitrations

Speaker: Vincent Lefeuvre

Topic: Methodologies for calculating productivity loss in infrastructure arbitrations

Speaker: André Steagall Gertsenchtein 

11:00 am | Coffee break

 11:30 AM | RBA Panel: The Brazilian Arbitration Journal, 20 years thinking about arbitration in Brazil

Speakers: João Bosco Lee, Fabiane Verçosa

11:45 AM | Special Panel: The Future (of the Past) at the Intersections between Foreign Investment, Infrastructure and Sustainability

Speakers: Elena Landau, Karla Bertocco Trindade

Moderator: Fernando Serec

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