3rd Annual W@Competition Conference
Speakers
Join 3rd Annual W@Competition Conference
9:00 – 9:45 Registration & Morning Coffee / Tea
9:45 – 10:00 Conference Co-Chairs’ Welcome Remarks
- Evelina Kurgonaite, Founder & Chair, W@Competition
- Ethel Fonseca, Partner, RBB Economics
10:00 – 10:20 Keynote Address
- Frédéric Jenny, Chairman, Competition Committee, OECD; Professor of Economics, ESSEC Business School
10:20 – 11:40 Panel discussion “Focus on non-horizontal effects – the new normal?
Chair: Ethel Fonseca, Partner, RBB Economics
- Maureen Ohlhausen, Former Acting Chair of the US Fair Trade Commission, Partner, Baker Botts
- Kelig Bloret Dupuis, Head of Competition Legal Department, Essilor International
- Anneleen Straetemans, Global Legal Director, Competition, Anheuser-Busch InBev
- Annemiek Wilpshaar, Deputy Head of Unit, DG Competition, European Commission
- Nell Zhou, Associate Professor, Senior Researcher of Competition Law Center, University of International Business & Economics
11:40 – 12:15 Double-Espresso Talk Demystifying competition enforcement post-BREXIT
- Moderator: Clara Rosales Rosado, Senior Public Affairs Manager, Fipra
- Ann Pope, Senior Director, UK Competition and Markets Authority
- Anna Lyle-Smythe, Partner, Slaughter & May
12:15 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 14:35 Double-Espresso Talk Merger control procedure under Luxembourg lens: what to make of recent rulings?
- Lucia Bonova, Head of Unit, DG Competition, European Commission
- Anne MacGregor, Bureau Chief, Capitol Forum
14:35 – 15:50 Panel discussion Excessive, exploitative, exclusionary? Paid in cash or data? What is the ‘right price’ anyway?
Chair: Pat Treacy, Senior Partner, Bristows
- Bitten Thorgaard Sørensen,Deputy Director General, Danish Konkurrence- og Forbrugerstyrelsen
- Kirsten Edwards-Warren, Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, Compass Lexecon EMEA
- Catherine Higgs, Global Head of Competition Law, GSK
- Annette Schild, Founding Partner, Antitrust Law Schild
- Sibel Yilmaz, Counsel, Linklaters
15:50 – 16:10 Coffee / Tea break
16:10 – 16:45 Double Espresso Talk: Smart use of digital tools: from refinements to restraints
- Nadiah Rutges – Al-Ani, Director, Senior Legal Counsel – Antitrust, Philips International B.V.
- Sabine Zigelski, Senior Competition Expert, OECD
16:45 – 18:00 Panel discussion Discretion and judicial review in competition cases
Chair: Francesca Miotto, Senior Associate, Allen & Overy
- Ingeborg Simonsson, Judge, Stockholm District Court, Patent and Market Court
- Rita Wezenbeek, DG Competition, Head of Unit, European Commission
- Susan Hinchliffe, Global Executive Counsel – Competition Law & Policy, General Electric
- Fiona Carlin, Chair of Global Competition Practice, Baker McKenzie
- Ana Patricia Carvalho, Head of Legal, Nestle Portugal
18:00 Closing Remarks & Drinks Reception