A Rewired Europe: From Dependence to Strategic Power

The 2026 Strategic focus areas reflect this urgency:

• AI Governance & NIS2: Execute compliance frameworks for the AI Act, secure dedicated AI infrastructure budgets, and neutralise cybersecurity vulnerabilities.
• Regulatory Overload: Deploy systems to process the cumulative operational burden of CSRD and overlapping multi-jurisdictional compliance mandates.
• Supply Chain Liability: Construct defensive tactics to mitigate corporate exposure and manage the projected surge in supply chain and ESG-related litigation.
• Digital Sovereignty: Reduce reliance on foreign technological infrastructure and secure corporate data autonomy across European operations.
• Market Integration: Evaluate the 28th Regime and evolving Capital Markets Union frameworks to bypass national red tape and unlock institutional scale.
• Geopolitical Risk: Restructure legal operations to maintain agility amidst sustained global uncertainty and plateauing corporate ESG directives.

Strategic Commercial Dispute Resolution: From Negotiation to Arbitration

We are particularly pleased to draw attention to the session Strategic Commercial Dispute Resolution: From Negotiation to Arbitration led by Caroline Falconer, Secretary General of the SCC Arbitration Institute.

Caroline speaks to the Forum in her capacity as Secretary General of the SCC Arbitration Institute and as General Counsel of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, a combination of roles that affords her a genuinely distinctive vantage point. Few practitioners are better placed to bridge the gap between institutional arbitration expertise and the practical realities facing in-house legal teams.