W@Competition Conference 2.0: Is Disruptive Competition Disrupting Competition Enforcement?
Speakers
Join W@Competition Conference 2.0 Is Disruptive Competition Disrupting Competition Enforcement?
8:30 – 9:00 Registration
9:00 Chair’s Welcome Remarks
- Evelina Kurgonaite, Founder & Chair, W@Competition
9:15 – 09:40 Keynote Address
- Johannes Laitenberger, Director General, DG Competition, European Commission
09:40 – 11:00 The true reach: exploring the outer orbit of competition law
Chair:
- Aoife White, Competition Correspondent, Bloomberg
Panellists:
- Céline Gauer, Director, DG Competition, European Commission
- Renata Hesse, Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell
- Annemieke Tuinstra, Senior Economist, Dutch Autoriteit Consument & Markt
- Anneleen Straetemans, Global Legal Director, Competition, Anheuser-Busch InBev
- Prof. Dr. Anna Gerbrandy, Chair of Competition Law, Europa Institute Utrecht University School of Law
11:00 – 11:15 Protecting disruptive innovation – from blind spots to overenforcement?
- Cristina Caffarra, VP, Head of Competition Europe, CRA
11:15 – 11:30 Coffee/tea break
11:30 – 11:45 Fitting the [regulatory] box
- Gail Levine, Head of Regulatory Affairs US, Uber
11:45 – 13:00 Innovative merger control: in tune or ahead of the times?
Chair:
- Francesca Micheletti, Head of Merger Control Coverage, PaRR
Panellists:
- Birthe Pahnans, Deputy HoU, DG Competition, European Commission
- Natalie Harsdorf, Deputy Managing Director, Austrian Bundeswettbewerbsbehörde
- Catriona Hatton, Partner, Baker Botts
- Ethel Fonseca, Partner, RBB Economics
- Egle Gudelyte Harvey, VP, Acting Head of Group Regulatory and Privacy, Telia Company
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 14:15 Disruptive concepts and misconceptions – an enforcer’s take
- Bitten Thorgaard Sorensen, Deputy Director General, Danish Competition and Consumer Authority
14:15 – 15:35 Big, unique, private, connected… data and competition
Chair:
- Pola Karolczyk, Senior Associate, Sidley Austin
Panellists:
- Birgit Krueger, Head of the General Policy Division, German Bundeskartellamt
- Beatriz de Guindos, Senior Advisor to the Chairman, Spanish Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia
- Dr Romina Polley, Partner, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
- Grania Holzwarth, Legal Counsel, Deutsche Telekom
- Adina Claici, Director, Copenhagen Economics
15:35 – 15:55 Coffee/tea break
15:55 – 16:10 Come innovation – disruptive and not: switching gears and pressing on
- Maria João Melícias, Member of the Board, Portuguese Autoridade da Concorrência
16:10 – 17:25 Enforcing competition law today: rules of the game
Chair:
- Raluca Marian, Senior Associate, Norton Rose Fulbright
Panellists:
- Sarah Cardell, General Counsel, UK Competition and Markets Authority
- Maria Jaspers, HoU, DG Competition, European Commission
- Teresa Vecchi, Legal Service, European Commission
- Fiona Carlin, Partner, Global Head of Competition Practice, Baker McKenzie
17:25 – 17:50 Meet W@Competition Drivers
17:40 Closing Remarks & W@CompetitionBlog Launch Drinks