The three-day programme will bring together judges, senior advocates, law officers, arbitrators and representatives of leading domestic and international arbitration institutions, with sessions focusing on developments in arbitration law, institutional arbitration, investment treaty arbitration, private international law, and the use of technology and artificial intelligence in arbitration proceedings.

The opening ceremony on September 3 will feature Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendrabhai Patel, Deputy Chief Minister and Cabinet Minister for Law & Justice Harsh Sanghavi, and Minister of State for Law & Justice Kaushik Vekariya.

The programme also features Supreme Court Judges Justice N. V. Anjaria, Justice P. S. Narasimha, Justice K. Viswanathan and Justice Vipul M. Pancholi.

The inaugural day on September 4 will feature a keynote address by Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman, former Judge of the Supreme Court of India.

A session titled “The Post-2015 Amendment Era – Where have we progressed? & The New International Bar Association Guidelines 2024: Conflicts, Disclosure & Arbitration Independence” will feature Justice Tejas Karia of the Delhi High Court, Justice M. R. Shah, former Judge of the Supreme Court, Mihir Thakore and Janak Dwarkadas, both Senior Advocates. Senior Advocate Shalin Mehta will moderate the session.

The day will also feature a session on institutional arbitration practices, with speakers including Ritin Rai, Shashank Garg, Senior Advocate and Court Member, LCIA, Vivekananda Neelakantan, Registrar, SIAC, Vyapak Desai and Khushboo Deshmukh, Deputy Director, South Asia, ICC International Court of Arbitration.

Vijaya Kumar Rajah SC, former Judge of Appeal, Supreme Court of Singapore, former Attorney General of Singapore and Vice President, ICC International Court of Arbitration, will deliver a separate guest speaker address from 2:30 PM to 3 PM on September 4.

On the second day, September 5, Justice L. Nageswara Rao, former Judge of the Supreme Court, will deliver a guest speaker address.

Sessions will focus on investment treaty arbitration, bilateral investment treaties and the future of investor-state dispute settlement, as well as the rules of private international law in international commercial arbitration.

Speakers include N. Venkataraman, Additional Solicitor General of India and Arvind P. Datar, Senior Advocate. Another session will examine the rules of private international law in international commercial arbitration and will feature Vijaya Kumar Rajah SC, former Judge of Appeal of the Supreme Court of Singapore and former Attorney General of Singapore; Darius Khambata, Senior Advocate; Thomas Williams KC; Datuk Professor Sundra Rajoo Nadarajah; Nish Shetty; and Anirudh Krishnan, Advocate.

The concluding day will feature a panel discussion titled “A Judge's Wish List of What the Law Ought to Be”, with Chief Justice Sunita Agarwal of the Gujarat High Court, Justice R.V. Raveendran, Justice A.K. Sikri and Justice A.P. Shah, with Senior Advocate Saurabh Soparkar as the moderator.

Another session will examine the role of technology and artificial intelligence in domestic and international arbitration proceedings. The listed speakers are Nakul Dewan, Senior Advocate and King's Counsel; Baiju Vasani, Barrister and Arbitrator, Twenty Essex; Sameer Jain; Rishab Gupta, Barrister, Indian counsel and New York lawyer; and Aditya Singh, Partner, Singapore, White & Case, with Senior Advocate Devang Nanavati as the moderator.

The valedictory session, titled “What changes must India bring into the arbitration regime?”, will feature Attorney General for India R. Venkataramani.

The event seeks to further GHAC's vision of becoming a premier arbitral institution and to promote efficient, impartial, and technology-enabled dispute resolution mechanisms.

Registration will be conducted online only through the websites of the High Court of Gujarat and GHAC, with registration links available from August 5, 2026. Registration will be on a payment basis and confirmation will be subject to scrutiny and availability of seats.

The programme is open to practicing advocates, law officers/advisers of PSUs, industrial units and associations, law firms, and arbitrators on the panels of other arbitration institutions. Lunch and tea/coffee will be provided, while no accommodation facilities will be available.