IBA Annual Conference Copenhagen 2026
4 Oct - 9 Oct 2026
B4 5+6, Level 0
Session information
Sustainability in full: people, principles and progress
Thursday 8 October (0930 - 1045)
B4 5+6, Level 0
Committee(s)
Regional Fora
(Lead)
African Regional Forum
Arab Regional Forum
Asia Pacific Regional Forum
European Regional Forum
Latin American Regional Forum
North American Regional Forum
Description
This session will take a broad view of ‘sustainability’ and look at issues such as sustainable careers, sustainable futures and stateless lives (looking at refugees and migrants), the future of humans (in the face of robotics leaving the factory and coming into our daily lives), a more sustainable rule of law and implementing sustainable DEI (coaching, mentoring, flexible working etc).
The session will be in roundtable discussion format with two moderators per topic. We will have three topics, with two Regional Fora assigned for each topic. Each table topic discussion will last for 20-30 minutes, then the participants will change tables. The moderators will present their topics three times to three different groups of participants. The table topics will be as follows:
North American Regional Forum and Latin American Regional Forum
Implementing sustainable DEI (coaching, mentoring, flexible working etc.)
European Regional Forum and Arab Regional Forum
Sustainable careers
Asia Pacific Regional Forum and African Regional Forum
Topic pending
Session / Workshop Chair(s)
| Benjamin Grebe | Prieto Abogados, Santiago, Chile; Co-Chair, Regional Fora Coordination Committee |
Speakers
| Andrea Ajibade | University of Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria |
| Henry John Chang | Dentons, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Vice Chair, North American Regional Forum |
| Dinesh Dhillon | Allen & Gledhill, Singapore, Singapore; Co-Chair, Asia Pacific Regional Forum |
| Chantal Pernille Patel Simonsen | Gorrissen Federspiel, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Noradèle Radjai | LALIVE, Geneva, Switzerland; Co-Chair, Arab Regional Forum |
| Elie Jaques Sherique | Machado Meyer Advogados, São Paulo, Brazil; Regional Fora Liaison Officer, Latin American Regional Forum |