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  • Symposium on international digital trade

  • Thursday 4 June 2026

  • 9.30am - 4.00pm

  • London campus

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Symposium on international digital trade

Technology and Policy Developments (IDTTP 2026)

Join us in person for the 2nd Symposium on International Digital Trade to explore the latest trends and insights!

Digital technologies are reshaping how goods and services are created, sold, and delivered across borders. Digital services and cross-border data flows are growing rapidly and are becoming a major force in global trade. At the same time, traditional paper-based processes are no longer fit for purpose in a world that demands speed, efficiency, transparency and trust.

The symposium aims to explore the latest developments at the intersection of technology and policy in the space of international digital trade. This second edition of the symposium seeks to bring together scholars and practitioners from various disciplines and regions to exchange ideas and share knowledge on the latest policy and technology developments in digital trade.

Guest speakers

Sarah Green

Sarah GreenProfessor Sarah Green was Law Commissioner for Common and Commercial Law at the Law Commission of England and Wales from 2020 to 2024. Her work included the Electronic Trade Documents Act 2023, the Arbitration Act 2025 and the Property (Digital Assets etc) Act 2025. She also advised the government on smart contracts and reviewed the law on intermediated securities.

In 2022, she was placed on the Women in Fintech Power List and on Bloomberg’s ‘Who to Watch Crypto List’. In 2023, she won both the International Chamber of Commerce’s Award for the Individual Who Has Made the Greatest Contribution to the Digitalisation of Trade and the Outstanding Achievement Award at the British Legal Technology Awards.

Sarah is now an Independent Arbitrator and Mediator specialising in crypto and blockchain Disputes at Newmans Row, Professor of Private Law at the University of Bristol, and a consultant to D2 Legal Technology. She is a member of T3i Partner Network, and also a member for several national and international taskforces, including UK Jurisdiction Taskforce, the International Jurisdiction Taskforce, The Digital Commonwealth, LegalUK, and the Trade Digitalisation Taskforce. Sarah Green is an advisor to the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on blockchain technologies. She has written books and articles on subjects such as blockchain, smart contracts, digital assets and intermediated securities, and her work has been cited extensively in parliament, across several jurisdictions in appellate courts, and in the US Congress.

Emmanuelle Ganne

Emmanuelle GanneEmmanuelle Ganne is Chief of Digital Trade and Frontier Technologies at the World Trade Organization (WTO), where she coordinates policy discussions, negotiations, research and technical assistance on digital trade, AI and other frontier technologies. Prior to this, she has held several roles at the WTO, including as WTO Lead on micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), as Counsellor to Director-General Pascal Lamy, and in the Accessions Division, where she assessed trade policies of governments wishing to join the WTO and advised them on how to improve their business environment. Ms Ganne is a Yale World Fellow and the author of a 2018 book entitled ‘Can Blockchain Revolutionize International Trade?’. She regularly speaks on digital trade and emerging technologies and has received awards for her work in trade digitalisation and blockchain.