ODR 2019 Conference Agenda Released

The Online Dispute Resolution Forum  (https://www.ncsc.org/odr2019 ) agenda has been released and is shown below.  The conference will be held from October 28-30 with a special pre-conference event on October 28 in the home of the NCSC, Williamsburg Virginia.

The agenda includes reports and lessons from the real-world application of ODR in the courts both in the USA and internationally.  The agenda looks great!

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Monday afternoon – Plenary sessions 28 October 2019
Time	Title	Speaker(s) / Event
12:00p	Registration
1:00pm	Welcome and Intro	Paul Embley , National Center for State Courts
1:15pm	Highlights of a Successful ODR Implementation	Heidi Anderson , Utah State Courts Brody Arishita , Utah State Courts
1:50pm	Court ODR Across Civil Case Types: Franklin County Municipal Court Benchmarks and Metrics	Veronica Cravener , Franklin County (Ohio) Municipal Court Alex Sanchez , Franklin County (Ohio) Municipal Court
2:25pm	From the Physical to the Virtual: Resolving Motor Accident Claims Online	Joseph Yeo , District Judge, Center for Dispute Resolution, Singapore
2:45pm	Break
3:05pm	From Idea to Implementation – RFIs, RFPs, and Working with ODR Solution Providers	Stacey Marz, Alaska Court System Michelle Acosta, State of Hawaii Judiciary Heather Kulp, Judicial Branch, State of New Hampshire (TBD), Texas
4:05pm	Road trip! Impactful structured and visual decision-making for courts planning for online dispute resolution programs	Sharon Sturges , Colorado Judicial Branch Susanne Van de Meer , Colorado Judicial Branch
4:40pm	ODR as a Public Service: The Access to Justice Driven Canadian Experience	Nicolas Vermeys , Cyberjustice Laboratory, Faculty of Law, Université de Montréal Jean-Francois Roberge , Faculty of Law, Université de Sherbrooke
5:15pm	Measuring the Societal Effects of Using Online Dispute Resolution in State and Municipal Courts	Maximilian A. Bulinski, Educator, Attorney, and ODR Researcher
5:35pm	End of day

Tuesday morning – Plenary sessions 29 October 2019
Time	Title	Speaker(s) / Event
7:30am	Registration
8:30am	Welcome	Ethan Katsh, National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution
8:40am	It's Broken; Fix It: Creating an A2J Ecosystem	Justice Constandinos Himones , Utah Supreme Court
9:30am	ODR Guardrails	Amber Ivey, The Pew Charitable Trusts Linda Warren Seely , American Bar Association
10:15am	Break
10:35am	The genesis of ODR platforms and the rise of ODRAI/Using artificial intelligence to enhance ODR: Highlights from a global inventory	Karim Benyekhlef , Cyberjustice Laboratory, Faculty of Law, Université de Montréal Valentin Callipel , Cyberjustice Laboratory
11:10am	Measuring justice and fairness in Online Courts: An empirical framework	Dr. Natalie Byrom , The Legal Education Foundation
11:30am	Is Judicial Bias Inevitable? Empirical insights from online courts	Orna Rabinovich-Einy , University of Haifa Dr. Avital Mentovich , University of Haifa
12:15	Lunch

NOTE: Participants can choose sessions of interest from either track on Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday morning.

Tuesday afternoon – Track A 29 October 2019
Time	Title	Speaker(s) / Event
1:25pm	Expanding Access to Justice with ODR: Best Practices and Standards from the ADR Field	Colin Rule , Tyler Technologies Nancy Welsh , Texas A&M University School of Law Carrie Menkel-Meadow , University of California Irvine
2:10pm	The Brazilian Consumer Disputes Boom and first steps in ODR/Legal analytics, conflict mapping and online dispute prevention	Andrea Maia , Future Law and Special Advisor at Brazilian Association of LawTechs and LegalTechs (AB2L) Daniel Becker , Future Law and New Law Institute
2:45pm	Break
3:05pm	Assessing the essentials of participant experience in court ODR systems	Jennifer Shack , Resolution Systems Institute
	From user-friendliness to decision-support: evaluating the effect of digital choice architecture on access to justice in online courts	Ayelet Sela , Bar Ilan University Faculty of Law
	The European Union approach to Consumer ODR: with case-studies from the Netherlands and the United Kingdom (England&Wales)	Emma van Gelder , Erasmus University Rotterdam (NL) and the University of Oxford (UK)
4:00pm	Measuring the Societal Effects of Using Online Dispute Resolution in State and Municipal Courts	Maximilian A. Bulinski , Educator, Attorney, and ODR Researcher
	Targeting Poverty in the Courts: Improving the Measurement of Ability to Pay	Meghan O'Neil , PhD, University of Michigan Law School, Empirical Legal Studies Center
	Access to justice and the role of ODR inside and outside Brazilian Courts	Marco Antonio Rodrigues , Rio de Janeiro University and Rio de Janiero General Attorney's Office
4:55pm	Why the APEC ODR Collaborative Framework Is A Potential Game Changer For Small Businesses (Review Of The Framework, Procedural Rules And How Providers Can Address Challenges)	Mike Dennis, International Law Adviser Yoshihisa Hayakawa , Rikko University, Representative to the APEC Economic Committee, Legal Group Rhys West , Fairway Resolution Tsisana Shamlikashvili , Scientific and Methodological Center for Mediation and Law
5:40pm	End of day
6:00pm	Evening social

Tuesday afternoon – Track B 29 October 2019
Time	Title	Speaker(s) / Event
1:25pm	ODR in Family Law Cases: An Arizona Perspective	Catherine Clarich, Arizona Admin. Office of the Courts Nicole LaConte , Arizona Admin. Office of the Courts Tracy McElroy , Superior Court of Pinal County, Arizona
2:10pm	On-Line Dispute Resolution in Traffic Courts and the Impact on Highway Safety	Stacey Manware, Connecticut Judicial Branch
2:30pm	ODR is an appropriate dispute resolution (ADR) for sexual harassment in China	Xuhui Fang (Michael), Nanchang University (China)
2:50pm	Break
3:10pm	Colombia and ODR systems, preventing disputes, promoting justice and enforcing the rule of law	Nicolas Lozada Pimiento , Externado University (Colombia)
3:30pm	Supporting Self-Represented Litigants and Access to Justice: How Does ODR Fit In?	Katherine Alteneder , Self-Represented Litigation Network Bonnie Hough , Center for Families, Children, and the Courts, Judicial Council of California
4:05pm	Ethical Technology Risk	Dr. Chris Draper , Trokt Angie Raymond , Indiana University (invited)
4:40pm	The Invisibles: Access to Justice and Digital Identity for Refugees	Daniel Rainey , Holistic Solutions, Inc., ICODR, IBO
5:00pm	Conflict Resolution and AI	Alberto Elisavetsky , Director of Social Network Online Dispute Resolution Latin-American
5:20	e-Court Initiatives in the UK and Lithuania – Lessons to be Learnt	Graham Ross, ODR Training Ltd
5:40	End of day
6:00pm	Evening social

Wednesday morning – Track A 30 October 2019
Time	Title	Speaker(s) / Event
8:30am	Defining Online Dispute Resolution in the Modern Justice System	Jamie Gillespie , Tyler Technologies
9:00am	ODR Grows Up: An Introduction to Intelligent Dispute Resolution	Jonathan Verk , coParenter Sherrill Ellsworth , coParenter
9:30am	Online Collaboration Algorithms for Small Claims	Dr. Ernest Thiessen , Smartsettle Peter Holt , Smartsettle
10:00am	Break
10:20am	The New Zealand experience: innovation in handling domain name disputes	Brent Carey , Domain Name Commission, New Zealand
10:40	Access to Justice in B2B blockchain-based ODR: Reinforcement of the Parties’ Rights in the Era of Automation?	Sara Hourani , Middlesex University London
	Smart legal contracts, a shift in conflict prevention and resolution	Aura Esther Vilalta Nicuesa , Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Spain)
	AI Driven Online Dispute Resolution	Dr Anyu Lee , Beijing eBridge China Institute
	Can the Schelling Point Provide Fairness in Decentralized, Blockchain-Based ODR?	Dr. James Metzger , University of New South Wales Faculty of Law
12:00	Lunch

Wednesday morning – Track B 30 October 2019
Time	Title	Speaker(s) / Event
8:30am	The Future of Mediation	James Melamed, Resolution Systems Institute
	Design approaches for optimal ODR solutions	Anne Thompson , Thompson | Finn
9:10am	Where have all the lawyers gone? Lawyers and the legal profession in Court ODR	Noam Ebner , Creighton University Elayne Greenberg , St John’s School of Law
9:45am	Measuring Return on Investment with ODR	Joe Al Khayat , Resolve Disputes Online
10:05am	Break
10:25am	What does it take to bring justice online?	Mireze Philippe , Special Counsel, Secretariat of the ICC International Court of Arbitration
10:45am	On-Line Dispute Resolution in Traffic Courts and the Impact on Highway Safety	Stacey Manware , Connecticut Judicial Branch
11:05	Best Practices in ODR and Lessons for the Online Court in the UK	Pablo Cortes , Chair in Civil Justice, School of Law, University of Leicester, UK.
11:25	NCSC Panel	T BA
12:00	Lunch

Wednesday afternoon – Plenary sessions 30 October 2019
Time	Title		Speaker(s) / Event
1:15	Operationalizing Ethical Principles in ODR: Moving to Action	Leah Wing, National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution, U. of Massachusetts Amherst Vikki Rogers , International Association for Contracts and Commercial Management (IACCM) Dr. Janet Martinez , Stanford Law School
2:30pm	Break
2:50	Outcome Evaluations in ODR Courts	Erika Rickard , The Pew Charitable Trusts (+ invited panelists)
3:35	Ethics and Efficiency in ODR Design	Amy J. Schmitz, University of Missouri School of Law, USA Linda Warren Seely , American Bar Association, USA Zbynek Loebl , PRK Partners Law Firm, Czech Republic; David Allen Larson , Mitchell Hamline School of Law
4:20	Closing
4:30	Head to CW