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High Level Conference “For a People-centred e-Justice”

High Level Conference “For a People-centred e-Justice”

Programme of the High Level Conference “For a People-centred e-Justice”

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You can access the conclusions, resume of the presentations and vídeos in the eBook produced for the Conference.

 

Programme

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26th APRIL - MORNING

08h30 - 09h00 Welcoming of the guests

OPENING SPEECHES

09h00 - 10h00

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN JUSTICE: TODAY AND TOMORROW

10h00 - 10h20

Speaker: Justice José Cunha Rodrigues - «Justice today and tomorrow: prospects of evolution»

10h20 - 10h35

Orador: Ramin Garagurbanli, President of CEPEJ - «Justice efficiency: What metrics for people-centred Justice? »

10h35 - 10h50

Orador: Juan López Aguilar​, Chair of LIBE Committee, European Parliament - «New technologies and the fair access to Justice»

11h00 - 11h10 Coffee break

11h10 - 11h50

Keynote Speaker: Professor Richard Susskind, President of the Society for Computers and Law - "Online Courts and the future of Justice" + Q&A

11h50 - 12h50 Parallel Session.

Panel Discussion: Digital by default in Courts: challenges and perspectives

Moderator: Mário Belo Morgado, Deputy-Minister of Justice

Panel Participants:

11h50 - 12h50 Parallel Session. Digital by default in Registration and Notary affairs: challenges and perspectives

Moderator: Filomena Rosa, President of Institute for Registers and Notaries, Portugal

Keynote Speaker: Professor Sjef Van Erp, Maastricht University

Participantes:

  • Lionel Galliez, Advisor of the President of the Conseil Supérieur du Notariat, France

  • Jorge Batista da Silva, President of the Portuguese Chamber of Notaries, Portugal

  • Ingmar Vali, eGovernment Expert at Centre of Registers and Information Systems, Estonia

  • Mathias Maurer, IT Consultant for Digital European Affairs at Federal Computing Center, Austria

13h00 - 14h00 Lunch break

 

 

26th APRIL - AFTERNOON

 

EQUAL ACCESS TO JUSTICE: A MULTIDIMENSIONAL PERSPECTIVE

14h00 - 14h20

Keynote Speakers: Angel Gurría, Secretary General of OECD - "Justice for all for a fair and inclusive recovery"

14h20 - 14h45

Keynote Speaker: Professor Trevor Farrow, Osgoode Hall Law School -  «The social return on investment in justice»  

14h45 - 15h15 Power Conversation 1 - Justice in a pandemic: Responding to people’s changing justice needs

Moderator: Maaike de Langen, Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

Panel Participants:

  • Oonagh Buckley, Deputy Secretary General at Department of Justice and Equality, Ireland
  • Wilma van Esch, Head, Rule of Law and Peacebuilding Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Netherlands 
  • Zaza Namoradze, Director, Open Society Justice Initiative's Berlin Office

15h20 - 15h30 Coffee break

15h30 - 16h00 Power Conversation 2 - Justice in a pandemic: Responding to changing justice needs of SME's

Moderator: Tatyana Teplova, Senior Counsellor for Gender, Justice and Inclusiveness in OECD

Panel Participants:

16h00 - 16h40 Power Conversation 3 - Justice for all and sustainable development

Moderator: Maaike de Langen, Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

Panel Participants:

  • Alejandro Alvarez, Director Rule of Law of the United Nations
  • Romina Boarini, Centre for Well-Being, Inclusion, Sustainability and Equal Opportunity, OECD
  • Joe Powell, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Open Government Partnership
  • Emmanuel Crabit, Director - Fundamental Rights and Rule of Law, DG JUST

16h40 - 16h50 Section Closing remarks

Speakers:

  • Tatyana Teplova, Senior Counsellor for Gender, Justice and Inclusiveness in OECD
  • Maaike de Langen, Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

WOMEN IN JUSTICE AND JUSTICE FOR WOMEN

16h50 - 18h00       

Keynote Speaker: Allyson Maynard-Gibson, Former Minister of Legal Affairs Bahamas

Moderator: Anabela Pedroso, Secretary of State for Justice, Portugal

Panel Participants:

  • Marta Santos Pais, UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Violence against Children
  • Nathalie Drouin, Deputy Minister of Justice, Canada
  • Liv Torres, Director of the Pathfinders for Peaceful, Just and Inclusive Societies

18h00 End of the first day

 

27th APRIL - MORNING

08h30 - 09h00 Welcoming of the guests

E-JUSTICE TRANSFORMATION: THE EUROPEAN VISION

09h00 - 09h15

Speaker: Maria Manuel Leitão Marques, European Parliament - "Connecting e-Justice to the European societal challenges"

09h15 - 09h30

Speaker: Alain Pilette, Deputy Director Justice, DG JAI Justice and Home Affairs, Council of the European Union - "e-Justice: Past, Present and Future"

09h30 - 09h45       

Speaker: Frank Woud, E-CODEX Community and External Relations Manager - "e-CODEX Initiatives"

09h45 - 10h00

Speaker: Cristian Nicolau, Head of Unit E-Justice, IT and Document Management, DG JUST - "The Commission Communication on Digitalization: Follow up actions"

10h00 - 10h15

Speaker: Krum Garkov, Executive Director eu-LISA  - "e-CODEX on the field: Implementation perspectives"

10h15 - 10h30

Speaker: Gösta Petri, Deputy Head of Unit E-Justice, IT and Document Management, DG JUST - "Digitalization of Cross-border Judicial Cooperation"

10h30 - 10h40

Speaker: Margarete von Galen, President of the Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe, Germany  - «Supporting the Digitalization of Justice in Europe: the importance for lawyers»

10h40 - 10h50 Coffee break

CONNECTING TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION TO BETTER JUSTICE

10h50 - 11h30

Keynote speaker: Sam Muller, CEO at HiiL - "Why technology matters to make justice systems more people centred"

Panel Participants:

  • Toñis Saar, Secretary General of the Ministry of Justice, Estonia
  • Renko Dirksen, Member of the Board, ARAG SE, Germany 

11h30 - 11h50

Professor Maurits Barendrecht, Director Research & Development at Hill - "What is ‘better justice’:  How can technology support people-centered justice?"

11h50 - 12h40 GAME-CHANGING JUSTICE INNOVATIONS – PARALLEL SESSIONS

Parallel Session 1 - Claiming platforms 

Moderator: Ronald Lenz, HiiL

Panel Participants:

Parallel Session 2 - User friendly contracts 

Moderator: Iran Huffels, HiiL

Panel Participants:

Parallel Session 3 - Online dispute resolution & UX narratives and case management 

Moderator: Borja Gutierrez, HiiL

Panel Participants:

12h45 - 13h00

Speaker: Frank Leyman, Manager International Relations at BOSA

Speaker: Ronald Lenz, Director Justice Accelerator at Hiil

"Parallel Sessions Wrap-up Session"

13h00 - 14h00 Lunch break

 

 

27th APRIL - AFTERNOON

14h00 - 14h30

Keynote Speaker: Gillian Hadfield, Schwartz Reisman Chair in Technology and Society, University of Toronto - "Technology strengthening of justice: What enabling environment? A systems viewpoint"

DIGITAL ETHICS, CYBERSECURITY AND DIGITAL IDENTITY

14h30 - 14h50

Keynote Speaker: Mário Campolargo, Director General at DIGIT-EU 

14h50 - 15h40 Panel Discussion: Cybercrime and the protection of the e-citizens

Moderator: António Gameiro Marques, Director General of the National Security Cabinet, Portugal

Panel Participants:

15h40 - 15h50 Coffee break

15h50 - 16h40 Panel Discussion: Responsible application of Artificial Intelligence: AI for good

Moderator: Arlindo Oliveira, Professor of IST, President of INESC, Portugal

Panel Participants:

  • Virginia Dignum, Wallenberg Chair on Responsible Artificial Intelligence, Umeå University
  • Luciano Floridi, Director of the Digital Ethics Lab of the Oxford Internet Institute
  • Michael O’Flaherty, EU Agency for Fundamental Rights
  • Gregor Strojin, Chair of Council of Europe Ad Hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence - CAHAI

16h40 - 17h00 Closing Remarks

17h00 Closing Speech

17h30 End of the conference