IBA Annual Employment and Diversity Law Conference 2019 | International Bar Association | 3 April 2019 | The Westin Paris - Vendôme, 3 Rue de Castiglione, 75001 Paris, France

A conference co-presented by the IBA Employment and Industrial Relations Committee and the IBA Diversity and Equality Law Committee
The 2019 conference will cover a wide range of current and emerging employment and diversity law issues, from both a regional and global perspective, and will provide excellent networking opportunities with lawyers from around the world.

Topics include:
• Communications in crisis management
• Incentive compensation following dismissal
• Conducting cross-examinations in workplace investigations and employment litigation
• Directors’ liabilities and responsibilities, and how employment lawyers should deal with them
• Implementing ethics and compliance regulations in multinationals, and difficulties in labour and employment law
• Role of unions and works councils in a globalised world
• Artificial intelligence bias and data transparency in the legal workplace
• Worker classification: challenges of outdated legislation in a modern workplace
• Sexual orientation and gender transition primer: practical guidance on proactive and appropriate handling of transition-related issues
• Harassment hysteria: managing a gender-balanced workforce in the #MeToo era, examining global policies and avoiding the next Harvey Weinstein

2019 Speakers

KEYNOTE:

Advisor, Prime Minister Cabinet, Paris

CO-MODERATORS:
Caroline Andre-Hesse
AyacheSalama, Paris; Conference Quality Officer, IBA Employment and Industrial Relations Law Committee

Karine Audouze
UGGC, Paris; Committee Liaison Officer, IBA Diversity and Equality Law Committee

Valeria Morosini
Toffoletto De Luca Tamajo e Soci, Milan; Co-Chair, IBA Diversity and Equality Law Committee

Peter Talibart
Seyfarth Shaw, London; Co-Chair, IBA Employment and Industrial Relations Law Committee

Patrick L Benaroche
Stikeman Elliott, Montreal, Quebec; Vice Chair, IBA Employment and Industrial Relations Law Committee

Vikram Shroff
Nishith Desai Associates, Mumbai; Treasurer, IBA Employment and Industrial Relations Law Committee

Mikael Pelan
Lusis Avocats, Paris; Newsletter Editor, IBA Diversity and Equality Law Committee

Peter Talibart
Seyfarth Shaw, London; Co-Chair, IBA Employment and Industrial Relations Law Committee

Selvamalar Alagaratnam
Skrine, Kuala Lumpur; Senior Vice Chair, IBA Employment and Industrial Relations Law Committee

Luis Mendes Pinheiro Neto, São Paulo; Secretary, IBA Employment and Industrial Relations Law Committee

Eva Knipschild
Kennedy Van der Laan, Amsterdam; Membership Officer, IBA Diversity and Equality Law Committe

Olivier Kress
Flichy Grange Avocats, Paris; Corporate Counsel Forum Liaison Officer, IBA Employment and Industrial Relations Law Committee

Bjoern Gaul
CMS Hasche Sigle Partnerschaft von Rechtsanwälten und Steuerberatern mbB, Cologne; Communications Officer, IBA Employment and Industrial Relations Law Committee

Szymon Kubiak
Wardynski & Partners, Warsaw; IBA Council Member, Polish Bar of Legal Advisers

Juan Bonilla
Cuatrecasas, Madrid; Senior Vice Chair, IBA Employment and Industrial Relations Law Committee
Aoife Bradley
LK Shields, Dublin; Membership Officer, IBA Employment and Industrial Relations Law Committee

Ueli Sommer
Walder Wyss, Zurich; Corporate Counsel Forum Liaison Officer, IBA Diversity and Equality Law Committee

Iván Suárez
Tellechea Suárez de Vivero, Barcelona

Ronnie Neville
Mason Hayes & Curran, Dublin; Senior Vice Chair, IBA Diversity and Equality Law Committee

Veronica Raffo
Ferrere, Montevideo; Website Officer,
IBA Employment and Industrial Relations Law Committee

Hironobu Tsukamoto
Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu, New York; Co-Chair, Disability Rights Working Group; IBA Diversity and Equality Law Committee

Isa Soter
Verano, Rio de Janeiro; Secretary, IBA Diversity and Equality Law Committee

Philip Berkowitz
Littler Mendelson, New York; Co-Chair, IBA Diversity and Equality Law Committee

Inge de Laat
Rutgers & Posch, Amsterdam; Co-Chair, Disability Rights Working Group, IBA Diversity and Equality Law Committee

Rebecca Ford
Clyde & Co, Dubai

Marianne Granhøj
Kromann Reumert, Copenhagen; Co-Chair, IBA Employment and Industrial Relations Law Committee

SPEAKERS:

Frances Anderson
Victorian Government Solicitor’s Office, Melbourne, Victoria

Erika Collins
Proskauer, New York Richard Frank Alexion Pharma, Zürich

Lucy Lu
King & Wood Mallesons, Beijing Nancy Mangenot Servier, Paris

Roselyn Sands
EY Société d’avocats, Paris

Catriona Watt
Fox & Partners, London; Member, IBA Young Lawyers’ Committee Advisory Board

Andrea Gangemi
Portolano Cavallo, Rome Regina Glaser Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek, Düsseldorf; Council Member, IBA Global Employment Institute

Vilma Kutomi
Mattos Filho, São Paulo

Pål Kvernaas
Haavind, Oslo; Conference Quality Officer, IBA Diversity and Equality Law Committee

Aude Pinguenet
Nokia, Paris

Aleixandre de Almeida
Cardoso Tozzini Freire, São Paulo Cyrille Debar IPSEN, Paris

Masahiro Matsuoka
Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu, Tokyo

Ivan Strbac
ŠunjkaLaw, Novi Sad, Serbia

Alvaro Aguilar
Aguilar Castillo Love, San José

Joydeep Hor People + Culture Strategies, Sydney, New South Wales; Secretary, IBA Diversity and Equality Law Committee

Björn Otto
CMS Hasche Sigle, Cologne

Ajay Solanki
Nishith Desai Associates, Mumbai

Miroslava Hajkova
European Commission, Brussels

Johan Järvklo
Volkswagen AG, Wolfsburg, Germany

Lorenzo Repetti
European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC), Brussels

Olivier Rigazio SNPL France ALPA, Tremblay-en-France

Delphine Rudelli
Union des Industries et Métiers de la Métallurgie (UIMM), Paris

Nicolas Simon
Van Olmen & Wynant, Brussels

Chloe Alligier
Société Générale, Paris

Irina Anyukhina
ALRUD, Moscow

Evy de Roover
UPS Europe, Brussels

Tim Gilbert Travers
Smith, London

Ineke Jeuster
G-Star RAW, Amsterdam

James Washington
Nike, Amsterdam

Mercedes Balado
Bevilacqua MBB Balado Bevilacqua Abogados, Buenos Aires

Orly Gerbi
Herzog Fox & Neeman, Tel Aviv

Faisal Mahmood
Ghani Faisal Mahmood Ghani & Co, Karachi

Henriette Stakemann
Plesner, Copenhagen

Gregory C Tollefson
Micron Technology Inc, Boise, Idaho

Paul Epstein
QC Assurety Ltd, London

Sonia Saville
Assurety Ltd, London

Ed Williams
QC Assurety Ltd, London

Inês Castro
F Castelo Branco e Associados RL, Lisbon

Emanuela Nespoli
Toffoletto De Luca Tamajo e Soci, Milan

Pierre Roquecave
Capgemini, Paris

Todd Solomon
McDermott Will & Emery, Chicago, Illinois; Council Member, IBA Global Employment Institute

Alexander Vandenbergen
Lydian, Brussels

André Wolff
Accenture, Paris

Geraldine Amiel
Bloomberg News, Paris

Eric Giuily
CLAI, Paris

Guillaume Jubin
WEMEAN, Paris

Terence McCrann
McCann FitzGerald, Dublin

Agnieszka Pytlas
Magnusson, Warsaw

2019 Sponsors

HEADLINE:
• L&E Global

HEADLINE SOCIAL EVENT:
• C/M/S/
• Littler
• MGGL

ASSOCIATE:
• Lus Laboris

WELCOME RECEPTION:
• Heuking

RECEPTION & DINNER:
• AyacheSalama
• Barthelemy Avocats
• Galion
• Karl Wajeed avocats
• Mijares Angoitia
• Proskauer

CLOSING RECEPTION:
• Flichy Grange Avocats
• Seyfarth Shaw

REFRESHMENT BREAK:
• Beiten Bukhardt

LUNCHEON:
• Lus Laboris
• L&E Global

SUPPORTERS:
• International Law Office
• Lexology

LANYARD:
• K2Intelligence