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About the Conference

This Conference examines the possibilities embedded in commercial contracting and Proactive Law for acquiring competitive advantage. It provides a forum to discuss how to vigilantly single out, reclaim, and seize these potentials for future success.

Commercial contracting in today’s global markets is a multifaceted area. This Conference will bring together Finnish and international experts, both practitioners and researchers, in the field. During this Conference commercial managers, project managers, in-house counsel, academic researchers and trainers of future managers and lawyers will hear success stories, discuss strategies, and seek order in the sometimes chaotic tangle of business and legal rules, preferences and practices and different corporate cultures and professional dialects.

Submission of Abstracts: Notice, extended deadline - March 15, 2007

The conference consists of

I Plenary Sessions by invited internationally renowned speakers, among them:

Proactive Law at Its Best; Beyond Rules and Compliance Edward Dauer, Professor and Dean Emeritus, University of Denver

From Tangible to Intangible Offerings; the Goals and Roles of Contracting
Session Chair: Tim Cummins, Executive Director, IACCM

II Thematic Panels with invited experts in each thematic field

Contracts as Management Tools Session Chair: Matti Urho, Partisan Oy

Securing ICT Outsourcing Success through Proactive Law Session Chair: Cecilia Magnusson Sjöberg, Professor of Law and Informatics, Stockholm University

Contracting Policies, Principles and Rules – Do They Work?
Session Chair: Ralf Lindbäck, Wärtsila Corporation, Director of Legal Affairs, Services business

III Paper Sessions

Submissions are invited from all areas and aspects of contracting and Proactive / Preventive Law. The Academic Committee particularly welcome papers discussing and introducing issues and current and innovative themes in contracting in today’s business forms such as the partnership, network, and lifecycle models, as well as in the governance mechanisms and other aspects of successful collaborative project design and management. Practitioners’ papers are welcome as well!