Australian Arbitration Week

The 12th annual Australian Arbitration Week (AAW) took place in Brisbane from 13-18 October 2024. We were delighted to return to Brisbane, a city that is experiencing an exciting period of growth and development as it prepares to host the Summer Olympics in 2032.

Attendees enjoyed what they have come to expect of AAW, a week of high quality, dynamic and diverse panel discussions complemented by social events to connect and reconnect with friends and colleagues offering the genuine and warm hospitality Australia is known for.

The AAW Welcome Reception celebrated the start of AAW, this year kindly hosted by Corrs Chambers Westgarth. This evening reception once again provided an opportunity to gather and catch up ahead of the week’s substantive sessions.

The well-established lead event of AAW, the ACICA & CIArb International Arbitration Conference, was entitled Powering the Future and Going for Gold: Is Arbitration Ready? The theme looked to the future of arbitration, the opportunities and challenges major sectors, such as energy and construction face, how sports arbitration can propel us forward, and how the fundamental elements of arbitration can be developed to power us into the future.

The AAW Walk and Run for Wellbeing made a return. After a successful launch at AAW 2023 in Perth, attendees joined members of the arbitration community for morning walks or runs through Brisbane.

The ACICA Wing Person Initiative also featured again, an initiative to match arbitration practitioners who are less familiar or just want a boost with those who are more confident with their connections to attend AAW events together.

AAW aims to bring together communities and address issues pertinent to Australia and the wider region with a global lens. AAW travels to a different state each year and was held in Perth in 2023 (view content from AAW2023 in Perth here).

We were pleased in 2024 to return to Brisbane for the first time since 2019.

ACICA