The annual “Investment Treaty Arbitration Conference” covering the issues of international investment arbitration, organized by the Ministry of Finance of the Czech Republic since 2011, serves as an international forum for the exchange of experience with investment disputes between prominent attorneys and experts in the field of international investment law with their counterparts from the public sector, in particular state counsels representing interests of their respective states in such disputes, for whom the conference is primarily intended.
The conference usually consists of discussion panels intended for state representatives, distinguished arbitrators, academics and attorneys, as well as a series of workshops and practical seminars devoted to the state participants from various jurisdictions. Workshops for state representatives only provide inter alia a platform to exchange experience among the state officials representing their governments in investment disputes.
The conference is attended every year by delegations from various countries, which included in the past Albania, Montenegro, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, Ghana, Georgia, Croatia, South Korea, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Colombia, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Panama, Poland, Portugal, Austria, Romania, United States of America, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and Uruguay.