Session Materials

Option 1: Restructuring in a Challenging Time

Session Leader: Burkard Göpfert, Kliemt, Germany

Panellists:

  • Gry Myklebust, Head of Future Work Life, Abelia, Norway
  • María Royo Codesal, AGM Abogados, Spain
  • Roel Staes, formerly International General Counsel, Fedex, Netherlands

Option 2: Football

Session Leader: Nick De Marco KC, Blackstone Chambers, England

Panellists:

  • Dr Antoine Duval, Senior Researcher, T.M.C. Asser Instituut, France
  • Saverio Paolo Spera, Sp.in law, formerly in-house counsel at FIFA, Switzerland
  • Hermine Voute, founder of Better Place to Work BV, member of the Supervisory board of AFC Ajax, Netherlands

Option 3: Bullying 

Session Leader: Natasha Adom, GQ Littler, England

 Panellists:

  • Simon Brittz, Lead Psychologist, HCA Healthcare UK, registered UK & S Africa
  • Joydeep Hor, Founder & Managing Principal, People + Culture Strategies, Australia

Option 1: European Works Councils (‘EWCs’)

Session Leader: Ming Evans, Associate General Counsel, Employment, Smiths Group plc, England, France

Panellists:

  • Rachel Barry, Matheson, Dublin, Ireland
  • Hellmut Gohde, Founder, Training+Consulting International, Germany
  • David Hopper, Lewis Silkin, England

Option 3: A view from the City

Session Leader: Sharon Tan, Mishcon de Reya, England

Panellists:

  • Sabine Chappard, Managing Director Global Markets (Derivatives Marketing), SMBC Nikko Capital Markets Ltd, England
  • François Funck-Brentano, General Counsel Europe, Lazard, France
  • Costanza Posarelli, Sullivan & Cromwell, England

Option 4: Navigating LGBTQ+ rights at work in a changing global landscape

Session Leader: David Mendel, Freshfields, England, Wales

Panellists:

  • Sam Cornelius, Global Gender Diversity & Talent Manager, Linklaters, Germany
  • Tamas Dombos, Project Coordinator, LGBT NGO Háttér Society, Hungary
  • Bethan Price, Legal Director, PepsiCo, England, Wales

Plenary 1: Developments in EU case law

Prof Catherine Barnard, Professor of EU law and Employment law, fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge University

Plenary 2:  Conflict and work

Session Leader: Neil MacLean, Shepherd & Wedderburn, Scotland

Panellists:

  • Juan Pena Moncho, Roca Junyent, Spain
  • Rachel A. Cohen, Lowell & Associates, PLLC, US
  • Frank Kohl-Boas, HR Director, Die Zeit, Germany
  • Prof Chris McCrudden, Professor of Human Rights & Equality Law, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland