Programme & Agenda — UNBOUNDED™ 2026 Barcelona

Day One Boardroom Sessions · Plenary · Track Sessions · Evening Wrap

Thursday, 14 August 2026

Closed-Door Institutional Sessions · Private Boardrooms

08:00

30 min

Founding Partners Session — Business & Legal Group

Boardroom A · Closed Door

Private alignment session for founding institutional partners. Partner strategy, cross-referral architecture, and programme continuation planning.

WONE Global · World Law Alliance · ForMark Global

Dr. John-Paul Monck

WONE Global

Kris Seyen

Consey Legal

Roberto Gilardino

WONE Global

Peter S. Johnson

Advisory

Morning Coffee

08:30

30 min

Morning Coffee · All Arriving Delegates

All Delegates

Welcome coffee as delegates arrive. Boardroom B session commences simultaneously.

Main Foyer · Hyatt Regency Barcelona

Closed-Door — Dispute & Jurisdictions Group

09:00

30 min

Founding Partners Session — Dispute & Jurisdictions Group

Boardroom B · Closed Door

Private alignment session for neutrals, arbitration, and jurisdictions institutions. Panel structuring, role allocation, and dispute infrastructure development.

TheNeutrals.org · UniOne · International Jurisdictions Council

Thomas P. Valenti

Arbitration Counsel

Nancy J. Njuhi Kamau

Arbitrator & Mediator

Michael Quartermain

Dispute Specialist

Andrzej Zacharzewski

Zacharzewski & Partners

Opening Plenary · All Delegates · Main Hall

09:30

60 min

Opening Plenary — Director's Note: Why This Convergence Exists

All Tracks · Plenary Hall

Formal opening of UNBOUNDED™ 2026 Barcelona. Institutional heads address the full room. The founding group is introduced. The three disciplines take their shared stage for the first time.

Main Plenary Hall · Grand Ballroom

Dr. John-Paul Monck

Opening Address

Kris Seyen

Institutional Address

Josep Figueras

WLA Address

Why Cross-Border Professionals Need One Shared Stage — Not Separate Silos

The Six Institutions: What Each Brings and How They Align

The Founding Group: What Barcelona 2026 Formally Constitutes

10:30

30 min

Morning Coffee Break & Structured Networking

All Delegates

Designed cross-track introduction moment. Delegates from all three summits mix. Facilitated by the curatorial team.

Foyer & Terrace · Hyatt Regency

Track I — World Cross-Border Business Summit · 60 min · 4 Speakers

11:00

60 min

Cross-Border Business Decisions: Where Strategy Meets Jurisdictional Reality

Track I · Business & Advisory

How commercial decisions actually function when they cross jurisdictions — the gap between strategy as planned and strategy as executed when regulatory, tax, and advisory realities collide.

Plenary Hall · Business & Advisory Stage

Kevin McSharry

CEO, Circle Advisory — Ireland

Anant Bhatia

Bhatia & Bhatia CA — India

Prijumon Dominic

Dominic & Partners — UAE

George A. Sarpong

Tax & Audit — Ghana

What governance quietly fails before a business breaks — patterns from practice

The India-EU FTA: implications for cross-border advisory and tax structuring

Cross-border accountancy: new structures, new regulatory risks

When strategy and jurisdictional reality collide: practitioner case evidence