Hawaii - attend a conference, obtain a tan

Honolulu, Hawaii could be the location for a new kind of insolvency conference in 2016.

IT's early days but Sydney lawyer Paul Fordyce is planning to launch a restructured insolvency conference format that he thinks could blow rival events out of the water.  The fact that he intends staging his conference in Hawaii won't detract from its allure. 

Over a coffee this week Fordyce explained how the three day event would canvass topics in a way radically different to the usual approach which is to run days full of lengthy presentations which he says force speakers to pad out their speeches with unnecessary material.

Under the Fordyce format speakers will address key topics as if they were presenting a TED Talk. Instead of one speaker having to fill an hour on cross-border insolvency law for example, three would be allocated 20 minutes.

The PMF Legal principal said he's negotiating with an eclectic range of potential keynote speakers including Czech economist Tomas Sedlacek who authored the Economics of Good and Evil, Robert J Faris, the Hawaiian District Bankruptcy Judge and Charles Booth, Professor of Law at the University of Hawaii and an expert in Asia Pacific insolvency law.