Agenda (All Times CEST) – Geneva Trade Week

Digital Trade 123

Trade and...

Sustainability

Rebooting the WTO

Rethinking Trade

Friday September, 25

02:00 PM

Speed Networking Session 1: A Pre-GTW Virtual Event

Organizer: Geneva Trade Platform and LeaderLikeYou

60m

Monday September, 28

01:00 PM

Opening Plenary: Rethinking Trade

Organizer: The Geneva Trade Platform

90m

03:00 PM

S1: WTO Dispute Settlement – Where Do We Stand?

Organizer: Gabrielle Marceau (WTO and University of Geneva)

90m

S2: The aftermath of COVID-19: how can regional integration help?

Organizer: TULIP Consulting

90m

S3: Digital Trade and Services Trade – Are They Increasingly the Same?

Organizer: Ernst & Young and TechUK

90m

05:00 PM

S4: Trade and Digital Africa: Innovating for Inclusive and Sustainable Continental Integration

Organizer: CUTS International, Geneva; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ); Africa Trade Policy Centre

90m

S5: Trade Policy and Climate – Which Instruments have the Greatest Potential for the WTO to ‘Build Back Better’?

Organizer: Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs in collaboration with the National Board of Trade

90m

S6: Bridging the Development Divide for a Fully Inclusive Trading System

Organizer: Cato Trade

90m

Tuesday September, 29

09:00 AM

S7: WTO – Back to Basics?

Organizer: The Friends of Multilateralism Group (FMG)

90m

S8: Training Panel: Explaining Trade to a Non-Trade Audience

Organizer: The TradeExperettes

90m

S9: Competition and Innovation in the Digital Age: Pro-Innovation Domestic and International Governance for Digitally-enabled Services

Organizer: Trade and Investment in Services Associates (TIISA); Jean Monnet Network hosted by the Institute for International Trade, The University of Adelaide

90m

10:30 AM

Book Talk: Practical Aspects of WTO Litigation, with editor Marco Tulio Molina Tejeda

Organizer: The Geneva Trade Platform

25m

11:00 AM

S10: How can Blockchain help alleviate the impact of COVID-19 on supply chains? From threat to opportunity!

Organizer: Geneva Macro Labs

90m

S11: Trade, Biodiversity & Natural Resources: What Role for Trade Policy in a New Deal for Nature?

Organizer: UNEP Trade & Environment Hub and UNCTAD

90m

S12: Multilateral Rules on Competition: New or Well Overlooked Old?

Organizer: Higher School of Economics (HSE University), Moscow

90m

01:00 PM

Plenary: Sustainability

Organizer: International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)

90m

03:00 PM

S13: Ensuring Food Security, Sustainably: What Role for Trade?

Organizer: Zurich University of Applied Sciences, FAO and the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)

90m

S14: Beyond Trade Rules – Labor Provisions in Recent RTAs

Organizer: RRH Consultores, S.C.

90m

S15: Leveraging Data for Development

Organizer: Information Technology Industry Council (ITI)

90m

04:30 PM

Ask-the-Expert: Wendy Cutler, Vice President and Managing Director, Asia Society Washington D.C

Organizer: The Geneva Trade Platform

25m

05:00 PM

S16: Trade Facilitation Schemes in the Digital Era: A Women’s Perspective

Organizer: Asociación de Mujeres Aduaneras, A.C

90m

S17: Embracing Plurilaterals – The Brazilian Experience

Organizer: Mission of Brazil to the WTO

90m

S18: Trade After Covid19 – Seeking Protection Without Being Protectionist

Organizer: European Centre for International Political Economy (ECIPE)

90m

Wednesday September, 30

09:00 AM

S19: Trade in Support of Circular Economy, Sustainable Development and Green Recovery Post COVID-19

Organizer: Permanent Mission of Finland to Geneva, Permanent Mission of the Netherlands to Geneva, ITC, the Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra, World Economic Forum, UNECE and Institute for European Environmental Policy

90m

S20: Gastronomy in Tourism Supply Chains: Shrinking the Distance between Farmer and Consumer (Farm to Fork)

Organizer: UNWTO

90m

S21: Collaborating to Rebuild Resilient Innovation Ecosystems – The Role of Tech Hubs

Organizer: International Trade Centre (ITC)

90m

10:30 AM

Book Talk: Fostering Trade in Africa

Organizer: The Geneva Trade Platform

25m

11:00 AM

S22: How can E-Commerce Trade Policy Contribute to Inclusive Development for Disadvantaged or Under-Represented Communities?

Organizer: Inclusive Trade Action Group (Missions of New Zealand, Chile and Canada)

90m

S23: The Future of Subsidy Regulation at the WTO

Organizer: Centre for Trade and Investment Law, New Delhi

90m

S24: Harnessing Trade as a Means for Strengthening Agenda 2030 & the SDGs – The Case of WTO Accession

Organizer: UNECE Economic Cooperation and Trade Division, WTO Secretariat Accessions Division and the Permanent Missions of the Republic of Kazakhstan and Belarus to Geneva

90m

01:00 PM

Plenary: Rebooting the WTO

Organizer: Cato Trade, Global Trade Alert, Bertlesmann Stiftung

90m

02:30 PM

Speed-Networking Session 2: Rebooting the WTO

Organizer: The Geneva Trade Platform and LeaderLikeYou

30m

03:00 PM

S25: WTO Dispute Resolution: A Holistic Approach

Organizer: Women Inside Trade (WIT)