Agenda:

8:30 Doors open

9:15 Co-Chair Welcome Remarks

  • Mette Alfter, Executive Director, Frontier Economics
  • Augustin Reyna, Director General, BEUC

09:25 Double Espresso Talk: The Long-Awaited Art. 102 TFEU Guidelines

  • Massimiliano Kadar, Head of Unit, European Competition Network, European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition
  • Mette Alfter, Executive Director, Frontier Economics

09:55 Market Power, Growth and Innovation

  • Rupprecht Podszun, Dean, Faculty of Law, Heinrich Heine University, Member of the German Monopolies Commission
  • Jörn Eickhoff, Head of Legal Competition & Regulatory, Siemens Energy
  • Matt Ersin, Senior Director, Fastned
  • Sarah Mcgourty, Senior Counsel Antitrust, ABB
  • Vanessa Turner, Partner, O’Melveny & Myers (Chair)

11:00 Break

11:30 The State of the Digital Markets Act | In Conversation with:

  • Alberto Bacchiega, Director, Markets and Cases VI: Digital Platforms, European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition
  • Rita Wezenbeek, Director CNECT.D – Online Platforms Economy, European Commission’s Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology
  • Agustin Reyna, Director General, BEUC (Chair)

12:00  Going Digital: Growth Lever or Problem to Police?

  • Nicholas Banasevic, Corporate Vice President, Global Head of Competition and Market Regulation, Microsoft
  • Philip Marsden, Deputy Chair of the Bank of England’s Enforcement Decision Making Committee; College of Europe, Bruges
  • Eirini Zafeiratou, Vice President, Global Public Policy and Regulation, Bolt
  • Aurélien Mähl, Lead Public Policy, DuckDuckGo
  • Cristina Volpin, Competition Policy Expert, OECD (Chair)

13:15 Closing Remarks

Speakers:

Alberto Bacchiega

Director, Markets and Cases VI: Digital Platforms, European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition
Rita Wezenbeek, Director CNECT.D - Online Platforms Economy, European Commission’s Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology

Rita Wezenbeek

Director CNECT.D - Online Platforms Economy, European Commission’s Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology
Massimiliano Kadar, Head of Unit, European Competition Network, European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition

Massimiliano Kadar

Head of Unit, European Competition Network, European Commission’s Directorate-General for Competition
Rupprecht Podszun, Chair for Civil Law, German and European Competition Law, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Commissioner at the German Monopolkommission

Rupprecht Podszun

Chair for Civil Law, German and European Competition Law, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Commissioner at the German Monopolkommission

Eirini Zafeiratou

Vice President, Global Public Policy and Regulation, Bolt

Philip Marsden

Deputy Chair, the Bank of England’s Enforcement Decision Making Committee; College of Europe, Bruges

Nicholas Banasevic

Corporate Vice President, Global Head of Competition and Market Regulation, Microsoft

Jörn Eickhoff

Head of Legal Competition & Regulatory, Siemens Energy (invited)

Sarah Mcgourty

Senior Counsel Antitrust, ABB

Vanessa Turner

Partner, O'Melveny & Myers
Agustin Reyna, Director General at BEUC - The European Consumer Organisation

Agustin Reyna

Director General at BEUC - The European Consumer Organisation
Mette Alfter, Executive Director, Frontier Economics

Mette Alfter

Executive Director, Frontier Economics

Aurélien Mähl

Lead Public Policy Manager, DuckDuckGo

Matt Ersin

Senior Director, Fastned

Cristina Volpin

Competition Policy Expert at the OECD