The Annual ITA-ASIL Conference
In 1996, ten years after the creation of the ITA, the Advisory Board announced the formation of an Academic Council (AC) “to serve as a link between ITA and some of the most respected law school professors who teach in the field.”  The ITA attracts well known academics and greatly benefits from the involvement of those who teach and write in the field of arbitration.

The Annual Americas Workshop
ITA established its Americas Initiative in 2003 to explore opportunities and develop activities by which ITA could better serve the international arbitration community in Latin America. Since then, ITA has teamed up with leading arbitral institutions and counsel throughout Latin America to offer an annual Americas Workshop, an annual Americas Roundtable for young lawyers and variety of other activities designed to increase awareness and promote excellence in the practice of international arbitration in the region. To date, conferences have been held in Bogotá, Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Panama City, and São Paulo. 

The Americas Workshop is an encore performance of the previous year’s June Workshop in Dallas, which addresses current issues of practice, procedure and policy in transnational commercial arbitration with a Latin American composition. The program customarily includes the a majority of the previous year’s mock arbitration scenes interspersed with expert commentaries, in this manner both explaining and demonstrating the issues addressed. The mock proceedings and commentaries are written, performed and presented by an international faculty of experts that includes many of the foremost arbitrators and arbitration practitioners in the world.  The Workshop is presented simultaneously in English and Spanish.

The Annual Dallas Workshop
The ITA's annual Workshop addresses current issues of practice, procedure and policy in transnational commercial arbitration. The Workshop is presented each June in Dallas and attracts participants from over 11 countries and 17 U.S. states. The program customarily includes several mock arbitration scenes interspersed with expert commentaries, in this manner both explaining and demonstrating the issues addressed. The mock proceedings and commentaries are written, performed and presented by an international faculty of experts that includes many of the foremost arbitrators and arbitration practitioners in the world.

The Annual Roundtable
The three primary young international arbitration organizations join with ITA to present a special program on the eve of the Workshop. The Roundtable includes two substantive panels of young and not-so-young international arbitration specialists and concluded with a networking reception. The Roundtable is designed for arbitrators who are practicing or interested in practicing international arbitration.

The ITA Forum
On the morning following the Workshop, the ITA hosts its invitation-only Friday morning Forum, an informal roundtable discussion on current transnational arbitration issues. The Forum is open to ITA Advisory Board, Academic Council, Board of Reporters, WAMR Board of Editors, Workshop & Roundtable Faculty and special guests.

A special event, the Forum provides the opportunity for members of the ITA Advisory Board to share their considerable experience in transnational arbitration in an informal environment on emerging and important issues of the day. The agenda for this open discussion is determined by the participants.

The work of the ITA is done primarily through its Advisory Board, its Executive Committee and the Academic Council.

Advisory Board
The Advisory Board is comprised of representatives designated by ITA Members. Depending on the level of membership, ITA members may designate multiple representatives on the Institute’s Advisory Board, each of whom is invited to attend, without charge, the annual ITA Workshop, the annual ITA Advisory Board Dinner Meeting later that evening and the ITA Forum (the following morning) - an informal, invitation-only roundtable discussion on current issues in the field.

The ITA Advisory Board meets each June over dinner following the annual Workshop, and is invited to attend the ITA Friday morning Forum, an informal, invitation-only roundtable discussion on the morning after the Workshop. The 2012 Annual Meeting of the Advisory Board will be held June 21, 2012.