Agenda
Tuesday,June 16 SQUAREMont des Arts, 1000
13:00 Doors Open
14:00 Welcome by Evelina Kurgonaite, ECF Founder & Chair
14:05 Opening Remarks by Anthony Whelan, Director General, European Commission’s Directorate General Competition
14:10 Looking Back to the Future | In Conversation with:
- Mario Monti, Senator, Former European Commissioner for Competition and Prime Minister of Italy
- Olivier Guersent, Former Director General for Competition at the European Commission
- Eleanor Fox, Walter J. Derenberg Professor of Trade Regulation Emerita at New York University School of Law
- Amelia Fletcher, CBE, Professor of Competition Policy, University of East Anglia (Chair)
14:55 Competing for the Future: The Role of State, Industrial Strategy and Competition Policy
- Nadia Calviño, President, the European Investment Bank
- Céline Gauer, Director General, European Commission – DG Energy
- Benoît Cœuré, President, French Autorité de la concurrence
- Cani Fernández Vicién, President, Spanish Comisión Nacional de la Competencia
- Anthony Whelan, Director General, European Commission – DG Competition
- Caroline Buts, Professor in Business and Economics, the Brussels School of Governance, and the Faculty of Social Sciences and Solvay Business School of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Chair)
16:10 From Values to Value | In Conversation with:
- Emanuele Tarantino, Chief Economist, European Commission’s Directorate General Competition
- Marieke Blom, Chief Economist and Global Head of Research, ING Group – Confirmed
- Ana Sofia Rodrigues, Member of the Board, Portuguese Autoridade da Concorrência (Chair)
16:40 Break
17:10 Digital Enforcement Future: Reflections on the First 100 Days | In Conversation with:
- Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye, Chief Technology Officer, the European Commission’s Directorate General for Competition
- Susana Campuzano Fernández, Director for Competition, Spanish Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (Chair)
17:30 Double-Espresso Talk: Enforcing Competition in an Uncertain World
- Andreas Mundt, President, German Bundeskartellamt
- Martijn Snoep, Chairman, Netherlands Autoriteit Consument & Markt
18:00 Past ‘Strategic Awakening’ – Building Tomorrow | In Conversation with:
- William Kadouch-Chassaing, Co-Chief Executive Officer, Eurazeo
- Lucinda Guthrie, Executive Editor, Global Head of M&A and ECM, ION Group (Chair)
Speakers include:
Mario Monti
Nadia Calviño
Olivier Guersent
Céline Gauer
Marieke Blom
Guillaume Loriot
Cani Fernández Vicién
Lady Vivien Rose
Benoît Cœuré
Agenda
Wednesday,June 17 SQUAREMont des Arts, 1000
8:30 Doors open
9:30 Welcome & Opening of Day II
- Evelina Kurgonaite, ECF Chair
9:40 Keynote by Teresa Ribera, EVP, European Commissioner for Clean, Just and Competitive Transition
10:00 Double-Espresso Talk: Beyond the Headlines
- Fiona Scott Morton, Theodore Nierenberg Professor of Economics at the Yale University School of Management and an Adjunct Professor at Yale Law School; Senior Fellow at Bruegel
- Mike Walker, Former Chief Economic Adviser, UK Competition and Markets Authority
10:30 Unlocking Europe’s Digital Potential
- Lena Wallenhorst, SVP Corporate Governance and General Counsel, Zalando SE
- Maria Rocha Barros, SVP and Chief Legal Officer, booking.com
- Sabrina Frank, General Counsel, Idealo
- Lucia Bonova, Head of Unit, Digital Platforms, European Commission’s DG COMP (Chair)
11:30 Competition in Globally Intertwined Markets | In Conversation with:
- Gina Cass-Gottlieb, Chair of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)
- Willard Mwemba, Chief Executive Officer, COMESA Competition and Consumer Commission
- Camila Cabral Pires Alves, Commissioner, Brazilian Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE)
- Ori Schwarz, Head of the OECD Competition Division (Chair)
12:30 Break
14:30 Who Draws the Lines? Single Market, Supply Chains and Competition Enforcement
- Guillaume Loriot, Deputy Director General for Mergers, European Commission’s Directorate General Competition
- Natalie Harsdorf, Director General, Austrian Bundeswettbewerbsbehörde
- Elisabetta Iossa, Acting President, Italian Autorità Garante della Concorrenza e del Mercato
- Ditte Brasso Sørensen, Deputy Director at Think Tank EUROPA
- Bitten Thorgaard Sørensen, Head of Competition Law and Policy Group at Maersk (Chair)
15:45 The Transatlantic Bridges? Shared Values, Changing Realities | In Conversation with:
- Gail Slater, Ex Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice
- Olivier Guersent, Former Director General for Competition at the European Commission
16:15 Break
16:45 Strategic Autonomy, Security, Resilience: Which Role Is for Competition
- Nuno Cunha Rodrigues, President, Portuguese Autoridade da Concorrência
- Aliette Repond-Quint, Former CEO, Defense Electronics – Advisor on Strategic Capabilities & Defense Industrial Ecosystems
- Sander Tordoir, Chief Economist, Centre for European Reform
- Silvia Branca, Team Leader – Legal Affairs, the European Commission’s DG DEFIS EDF Implementation Units
- Damien Gerard, Prosecutor General of the Belgian Competition Authority (Chair)
18:00 The Power Shift | In Conversation with:
- Michael Müller, Chief Financial Officer, RWE AG
- Margarida Matos Rosa, Ex President, Autoridade da Concorrência (Chair)
Speakers include:
Teresa Ribera
Martijn Snoep
Gina Cass-Gottlieb
Jovita Neliupsiene
Michael Müller
Maria Rocha Barros
Andreas Mundt
Willard Mwemba
Lena Wallenhorst
Agenda
Thursday,June 18 SQUAREMont des Arts, 1000
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