Institute of Chartered Mediators and Conciliators (ICMC) East Africa Region is pleased to announce the 1 st Edition of Africa Mediation Symposium 2024, which will take place on 31st October 2024, to be held at Nairobi Safari Club, Lilian Towers, University Way, Nairobi.
THEME: Mediation Discourse: Advancing Practices in the African Landscape
The 2024 Symposium leverages on the success of one International Mediation Summit in 2023 and Two Regional Mediation Conferences in 2021and 2022. This event is expected to bring together the greatest minds in the Mediation Profession and industry players, leaders and experts from the entire globe, under one roof for a Hybrid (virtual and face-to-face) interaction providing a One
day of unparalleled knowledge sharing and networking opportunities.
Why Attend the Africa Mediation Symposium 2024?
- Network with the Best: Prepare to engage with top-notch professionals from the Mediation industry who will be attending virtually and physically from across the globe. Connect, collaborate, and establish meaningful relationships with like-minded individuals who share your passion for Mediation.
- Stay Ahead of the Curve: In the fast-evolving landscape of Professional Mediation, it is crucial to stay updated on the latest trends and best practices. The Symposium offers a platform for insightful discussions, keynote speeches, and panel sessions delivered by renowned thought leaders, ensuring you stay at the forefront of the industry.
- Learn from Experts: Gain invaluable knowledge and insights from Mediation experts who will be sharing their experiences, success stories, and strategies to overcome challenges in the realm of Professional Mediation.
- Interactive Sessions: The Symposium's agenda is designed to foster active interaction and engagement by participating in interactive presentations panel discussion sessions, using case studies illustrations that will empower you with practical skills and tools to enhance your Mediation practice. Take part in Question and Answer (Q&A) sessions and have all your burning concerns responded to by Mediation Professions finest.
- Unparalleled Sponsorship Opportunities: Elevate your brand presence and increase your visibility among a highly targeted audience by becoming a sponsor of The Africa Mediation Symposium 2024. As a sponsor, you will have exclusive access to additional benefits, including branding and exhibition opportunities, enhanced networking privileges and recognition during the entire event.
Delegate Registration:
- Physical attendance: KSH 5,500/USD 45 for a member or KSH 6,500/USD 55 for a non-member.
- Virtual attendance: KSH 3,500/USD 30 for a member or KSH 4,500/USD 35 for a non-member.
To register, click here
Join us in Nairobi this October and unlock a world of possibilities in the realm of professional mediation. For more information call: +254 714 390 371, +254 725 538 320, +254 721 677 045
Our Partners
Session: To be communicated.
Profile: Dr. Deepika Saini is a distinguished Advocate, Arbitrator, Mediator, and Social Activist with a focus on women’s empowerment, legal education, and social justice. She is the founder of the Institute for Alternative Dispute Resolution in New Delhi, India, and a published author of three best-selling books on Amazon. (more…)
Session: To be communicated.
Profile: Linda’s passion in appropriate dispute resolution was ignited in 2004 at the Harvard Program on Negotiation. She is a Principal Mediator and Trainer with the Singapore Mediation Centre where she focuses on shareholder, intellectual property, contract, employment and healthcare disputes. (more…)
2023 Session: The Evolving Role of Lawyers in Mediation
Profile: Tat is a leading dispute resolution practitioner and international mediator based in Singapore. He is a founding partner of Aequitas Law LLP and Maxwell Mediators. He has extensive experience mediating cross-border commercial disputes and has mediated disputes in and arising in many parts of the world. (more…)
2023 Session: Mediation First Pledge: How To Establish Criteria?
Profile: David S. Weiss has focused on self-determination values through concepts of mediation theory and promotes innovation and entrepreneurship to foster a bridge between law and business from a cross disciplinary approach. He was formally a structured finance banker and holds a license to practice law in New York, New Jersey and Washing D.C. (more…)
2023 Session: Investor-State Mediation
Profile: Joe Tirado has over 30 years of dispute resolution experience and has handled hundreds of cases across a broad range of industry sectors as counsel, arbitrator, mediator, conciliator, adjudicator and expert determiner in more than 65 jurisdictions. Joe is a partner and former Co-Head of International Arbitration and ADR at leading Spanish and Latin American firm, Garrigues. (more…)
2023 Session: Why mediation can benefit both lawyer and client.
Profile: Jonathan qualified as a commercial mediator in 1991 in England. Until May 2012 he combined his mediation practice with that of a commercial litigator in his 100 partner law firm, of which he was for many years, Chair. Since May 2012 he has practiced exclusively with Independent Mediators Ltd (more…)
2023 Session: Cross-Border Mediation: Navigating International Conflicts
Profile: Ms. Nandini Gore is a Senior Partner at Karanjawala & Co. and an Advocate-on-Record at the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India. She has experience of more than 30 years as an Advocate practising before the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India. She has pursued her master’s degree in law from Campus Law Centre, New Delhi. She specializes in litigation, arbitration and mediation. (more…)
2023 Session: Resolving Disputes under OHADA Mediation Rules
Profile: Dr. Theo Bitho, the founder of BITHO LAW, an international arbitrator and a mediator, is a bilingual attorney with a strong background in legal service projects encompassing Civil, American, and African (OHADA) law jurisdictions. Having graduated from the University of Texas at Austin School of Law (US) (LLM), the University Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne (France) (more…)
2023 Session: To be communicated
Profile: Professor Ike Ehiribe FCIArb, FAiADR, C. Arb, QDR. Barrister, Chartered Arbitrator & Accredited Mediator.
Ike was called to the Nigerian Bar (1982) and to the Bar of England and Wales (1996) by the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn. He is a Fellow (1994) of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in London and also a Chartered Arbitrator (2007). (more…)
2023 Session: Mediating Insurance Disputes
Profile: Paul J. Van Osselaer is a full-time mediator and arbitrator specializing in insurance coverage disputes. He has mediated some of the most high-profile insurance disputes in the US. He is the current President and a Distinguished Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators (IAM) and, in the US, has been inducted into the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals. (more…)
2023 Session: Mediation as a performance catalyst in projects
Profile: Jean-Christophe Barth-Coullaré is the Executive Director of the World Association of PPP Units & Professionals (WAPPP), based in international Geneva. WAPPP is a global network with currently 45 PPP Units & over 300 public-private partnership professionals that promotes #NextLevelPPPs. (more…)
2023 Session: Conflict management in companies: how to create a sustainable and robust collaborative culture and manage conflicts in an early stage.
Profile: Susann Bongers is a work place and B2B mediator and business coach in Lucerne, Switzerland. She is working for corporates, NGO, foundations, start ups, governmental organizations, SME and also in the finance sector. (more…)
2023 Session: Court Annexed Mediation; Kenyan Milestones
Profile: Hon. Caroline Kendagor, O.G.W, is a Magistrate with the Kenya Judiciary. She currently serves as Acting Registrar of Mediation, in the Court Annexed Mediation Secretariat, Nairobi, which oversees the use of Mediation as an Alternative Dispute Resolution Mechanism, under the umbrella of the Court. (more…)
2023 Session: Mediation Models: What’s best?
Profile: Agada Elachi is a Founding Partner, Greenfield Chambers. Agada is an ADR expert with a bias for mediation and arbitration. (more…)
Session: To be communicated.
Profile: Dr. Deepika Saini is a distinguished Advocate, Arbitrator, Mediator, and Social Activist with a focus on women’s empowerment, legal education, and social justice. She is the founder of the Institute for Alternative Dispute Resolution in New Delhi, India, and a published author of three best-selling books on Amazon. (more…)
Session: To be communicated.
Profile: Linda’s passion in appropriate dispute resolution was ignited in 2004 at the Harvard Program on Negotiation. She is a Principal Mediator and Trainer with the Singapore Mediation Centre where she focuses on shareholder, intellectual property, contract, employment and healthcare disputes. (more…)
2023 Session: The Evolving Role of Lawyers in Mediation
Profile: Tat is a leading dispute resolution practitioner and international mediator based in Singapore. He is a founding partner of Aequitas Law LLP and Maxwell Mediators. He has extensive experience mediating cross-border commercial disputes and has mediated disputes in and arising in many parts of the world. (more…)
2023 Session: Mediation First Pledge: How To Establish Criteria?
Profile: David S. Weiss has focused on self-determination values through concepts of mediation theory and promotes innovation and entrepreneurship to foster a bridge between law and business from a cross disciplinary approach. He was formally a structured finance banker and holds a license to practice law in New York, New Jersey and Washing D.C. (more…)
2023 Session: Investor-State Mediation
Profile: Joe Tirado has over 30 years of dispute resolution experience and has handled hundreds of cases across a broad range of industry sectors as counsel, arbitrator, mediator, conciliator, adjudicator and expert determiner in more than 65 jurisdictions. Joe is a partner and former Co-Head of International Arbitration and ADR at leading Spanish and Latin American firm, Garrigues. (more…)
2023 Session: Why mediation can benefit both lawyer and client.
Profile: Jonathan qualified as a commercial mediator in 1991 in England. Until May 2012 he combined his mediation practice with that of a commercial litigator in his 100 partner law firm, of which he was for many years, Chair. Since May 2012 he has practiced exclusively with Independent Mediators Ltd (more…)
2023 Session: Cross-Border Mediation: Navigating International Conflicts
Profile: Ms. Nandini Gore is a Senior Partner at Karanjawala & Co. and an Advocate-on-Record at the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India. She has experience of more than 30 years as an Advocate practising before the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India. She has pursued her master’s degree in law from Campus Law Centre, New Delhi. She specializes in litigation, arbitration and mediation. (more…)
2023 Session: Resolving Disputes under OHADA Mediation Rules
Profile: Dr. Theo Bitho, the founder of BITHO LAW, an international arbitrator and a mediator, is a bilingual attorney with a strong background in legal service projects encompassing Civil, American, and African (OHADA) law jurisdictions. Having graduated from the University of Texas at Austin School of Law (US) (LLM), the University Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne (France) (more…)
2023 Session: To be communicated
Profile: Professor Ike Ehiribe FCIArb, FAiADR, C. Arb, QDR. Barrister, Chartered Arbitrator & Accredited Mediator.
Ike was called to the Nigerian Bar (1982) and to the Bar of England and Wales (1996) by the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn. He is a Fellow (1994) of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in London and also a Chartered Arbitrator (2007). (more…)
2023 Session: Mediating Insurance Disputes
Profile: Paul J. Van Osselaer is a full-time mediator and arbitrator specializing in insurance coverage disputes. He has mediated some of the most high-profile insurance disputes in the US. He is the current President and a Distinguished Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators (IAM) and, in the US, has been inducted into the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals. (more…)
2023 Session: Mediation as a performance catalyst in projects
Profile: Jean-Christophe Barth-Coullaré is the Executive Director of the World Association of PPP Units & Professionals (WAPPP), based in international Geneva. WAPPP is a global network with currently 45 PPP Units & over 300 public-private partnership professionals that promotes #NextLevelPPPs. (more…)
2023 Session: Conflict management in companies: how to create a sustainable and robust collaborative culture and manage conflicts in an early stage.
Profile: Susann Bongers is a work place and B2B mediator and business coach in Lucerne, Switzerland. She is working for corporates, NGO, foundations, start ups, governmental organizations, SME and also in the finance sector. (more…)
2023 Session: Court Annexed Mediation; Kenyan Milestones
Profile: Hon. Caroline Kendagor, O.G.W, is a Magistrate with the Kenya Judiciary. She currently serves as Acting Registrar of Mediation, in the Court Annexed Mediation Secretariat, Nairobi, which oversees the use of Mediation as an Alternative Dispute Resolution Mechanism, under the umbrella of the Court. (more…)
2023 Session: Mediation Models: What’s best?
Profile: Agada Elachi is a Founding Partner, Greenfield Chambers. Agada is an ADR expert with a bias for mediation and arbitration. (more…)
The Institute of Chartered Mediators and Conciliators (ICMC) is pleased to bring you the Africa Mediation Symposium which will take place on 31st October, 2024.
Theme: Mediation Landscape in Africa: Legal and Policy Framework
Venue: This is a blended conference taking place both physically and virtually.
Physical attendance will be at the Nairobi Safari Club, Lilian Towers, University Way, Nairobi, Kenya.
The attendance link will be sent out to all the registered virtual participants as we near the conference date.
Join us as we explore the African mediation landscape and the opportunities in conflict resolution outside the courtroom!