The Competition Next Gen Summit 2025

Bringing together the rising stars of European Competition Law & Litigation to forge networks, discuss experiences and build their own personal brand at an affordable price

12th - 14th February 2025 | Conrad Hotel, Dublin, Ireland

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Agenda

Wednesday 12 February 2025 Thursday 13 February 2025 Friday 14 February 2025

Registration
13:00

Competition Next Gen Committee Welcome
13:55

Nafees Saeed, Partner
Weil (UK)

Ronan Scanlan, Partner
Steptoe (UK)

Shruti Hiremath, Senior Associate
Clifford Chance (UK)

Alessandro Cogoni, Associate
Covington (Belgium)

Maria Rosaria Raspanti, Senior Associate
Pavia e Ansaldo (Italy)

Andrew Leitch, Partner
BCLP (UK)

Ines Bodenstein, Counsel
Gleiss Lutz (Germany)

Petra Carreira, Managing Associate
PLMJ (Portugal)

Naomi Reid , Associate
Herbert Smith Freehills (UK)

Sebastian Wrobel, Senior Associate
Noerr (Germany)

Adele Behles, Associate
Willkie (UK)

Associate to Partner: What Would I Tell My Younger Self?
14:00

A unique discussion between a senior practitioner, junior partner and senior associate covering their career, what worked and what didn’t, and what would they now tell their younger self.

Stijn Huijts, Partner
Geradin Partners (Belgium)

Paul Williams, Senior Associate
Pinsent Masons (UK)

Kiti Karvinen, Counsel
Castrén & Snellman (Finland)

What Private Practice Needs to Know About In-House
14:45

  • In-house perspectives on challenges addressing client needs
  • What advice clients seek in high pressure scenarios
  • Public relations support and working together with multiple departments

Eamonn Cunningham, Associate Legal Counsel
Google

Clare Walker, Competition Law Counsel
JD Sports plc

Viktoria Tsvetanova, Secondee
Natwest (UK)

Networking & Refreshment Break
15:30

Regulator Panel: Jurisdiction and Enforcement Decisions
16:00

Lucilia Falsarella-Pereira, Senior Director, Competition Enforcement
Competition Market Authority (UK)

Úna Butler, Member of the Commission
Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (Ireland)

Chairperson's Summation & Close of Day
17:00

Welcome Drinks Reception
19:00

Registration
09:00

Chairperson's Opening Remarks
09:30

Maria Rosaria Raspanti, Senior Associate
Pavia e Ansaldo (Italy)

Ronan Scanlan, Partner
Steptoe (UK)

Petra Carreira, Managing Associate
PLMJ (Portugal)

Andrew Leitch, Partner
BCLP (UK)

Key Developments in Competition Enforcement
09:40

  • An overview on recent public and private enforcement activity
  • Highlighting procedural trends and innovations
  • How different jurisdictions have adopted or are adopting new enforcement practices

Mark Padley, Associate
Milbank

An In-House View at the Practical Challenges of Navigating Multiple Competition Regimes
10.20

  • Challenges to compliance over multiple jurisdictions
  • Follow-on litigation risk for regulatory action in different jurisdictions
  • The use of evidence from cases in different jurisdictions
  • Handling e-discovery in cross-border investigations

Lís O’Connor, Compliance & Ethics Counsel – Competition Law
Accenture (Ireland)

Seán O’Dea, Senior Corporate Counsel – Competition/Antitrust
ServiceNow

Networking & Refreshment Break
11:05

Workshop Sessions 1
11:25

During the Workshop Sessions today you'll have the opportunity to select your choice of topics from those on offer building an agenda that best suits your practice. Choose from three workshop streams on competition Law and Litigation alongside career advancing personal skills sessions:


Stream A: Path To Partner
Stream B: Litigation Strategy
Stream C: Regulatory Challenges

10 ways to Better Understand your Client

Building a Private
Enforcement Case
 

Exploring the State of
Mergers and
Merger Control: Risks and
Practical Preparation
  • Building relationships and trust with clients
  • Unexpected distressed situations – supporting clients in times of crisis
  • Dealing with pressure from clients
  • Prioritising the legal work
  • Public relations and working together with other departments
  • Perspectives on strategies for bringing a claim
  • Preparing for follow-on when facing public enforcement
  • The types of claims on the rise and decline in Europe
  • A look at recent regulatory activity
  • Key developments and updates in theories of harm
  • The evolving use of remedy tools

Leonia Chesterfield - Of Counsel - RPC (UK)

Paul Williams - Senior Associate - Pinsent Masons (UK)

Tom Hanson - Senior Associate - Dentons (UK)

Christoph Weinert - Partner - COMMEO (Germany)

Eleanore Di Claudio - Managing Associate - Simmons & Simmons (UK)

Alex Evans - Senior Associate - Macfarlanes (UK)

Nafees Saeed - Partner - Weil (UK)

Marie-Luise Heuer - Senior Associate - BLOMSTEIN (Germany)

Paul Stoddart - Principal - RBB Economics

 

Workshop Sessions 2
12:10

Stream A: Path To Partner
Stream B: Litigation Strategy
Stream C: Regulatory Challenges
What You Really Need to Know Being a Partner: Tips for Climbing the Ladder Exploring Competition Collective Redress Throughout Europe

Navigating Market Studies and Market Investigations

 
  • Building your profile
  • Bringing work in and finding where the next case will come from
  • Networking tips and tricks
  • How to pick and choose a mentor or mentee
  • Perspectives from key jurisdictions for collective redress
  • Improving defendant approaches and addressing the risks in class actions cases
  • Claimant opportunities, challenges and strategies across jurisdictions
  • Information sharing/ benchmarking rules and compliance
  • Major areas in which market studies and investigations are being used
  • Defining the theory of harm in a labour market

Charles Whiddington - Partner - Steptoe (Belgium)

Alexander Waksman - Partner - gunnercooke (UK)

Karin Roberts - Partner - Delphi (Sweden)

Mark Crane - Partner - Addleshaw Goddard (UK)

Adele Behles - Associate - Willkie (UK)

Angus Reston - Senior Associate - Freshfields (UK)

Nuno Pires Salpico - Associate - Sousa Ferro & Associados (Portugal)

Camelia O'Brien - Director - AlixPartners

Ronan Scanlan - Partner - Steptoe (UK)

Elin Moen - Partner - BAHR (Norway)

Nuala Canavan - Counsel - Norton Rose Fulbright (UK)

Stefanie Budde - Counsel - Hengeler Mueller (Germany)

Kaushik Krishnan - Manager - Cornerstone Research

 

Networking & Lunch Break
12:55

Workshop Sessions 3
13:55

Stream A: Path To Partner
Stream B: Litigation Strategy
Stream C: Regulatory Challenges
Modes of Working: Debate

Examining Damages Valuation

Exploring Developments in Foreign Subsidies Regulation
  • Approaching legal research
  • Effective delegating and managing workload
  • Keeping up with the latest toolkits and tech?
  • Examining the assessment process for damages across Europe
  • Discussing on the role of expert valuations in litigation across jurisdictions
  • Analysing the uses Court vs Party experts across Europe
  • Foreign subsidies global rise as a hot issue
  • An overview of EC foreign subsidies regulation
  • Processes for foreign investment controls across Europe

Pierre Galmiche - Partner - Aramis (France)

Michael Zymler - Knowledge Lawyer - Competition - Hausfeld (UK)

Sebastian Wrobel - Senior Associate - Noerr (Germany)

Zachery O'Brien - Managing Associate - Mishcon de Reya (UK)

Felix Hammeke - Director - AlixPartners

Leonor Martins Machado - Managing Associate - Morais Leitão (Portugal)

Alessandro Cogoni - Associate - Covington (Belgium)

Elisabeth Lian Haugsdal - Partner - Wiersholm (Norway)

Tialda Beetstra - Senior Associate - Bird & Bird (Netherlands)

Richard Maliniak - Counsel - Nedelka Kubáč advokáti (Czech Republic)

 

 

 

Workshop Sessions 4
14:40

Stream A: Path To Partner
Stream B: Litigation Strategy
Stream C: Regulatory Challenges
From Mentorship to Seeking Sponsorship: Improving Diversity & Inclusion In the Legal World Navigating Cross Border Claims Exploring Challenges Between Sustainability and Antitrust Speaker
  • Empowerment tools – reducing stigma and supporting each other
  • Building diversity at every step of the ladder
  • Leaning into cultural diversity
  • Views from a diversity officer
  • Key regimes bringing cases from foreign jurisdictions
  • Considerations in where and why you take a claim to specific jurisdictions
  • Obtaining evidence from different jurisdictions
  • A need to increase cross-jurisdictional collaboration?
  • Approaches to balancing sustainability and antitrust regulation across Europe
  • Regulatory Positions on Horizontal Guidelines
  • Competitor collaboration and information sharing rules and consideration s
  • Potential pro-competitive benefits of sustainability agreements

Shruti Hiremath - Senior Associate - Clifford Chance (UK)

Lorna Nsoatabe - Partner - Slaughter and May (UK)

Constança Sacoto - Managing Associate - Uría Menéndez (Portugal)

Sofia Falkner - Partner - Hammarskiöld (Sweden)

Natalie Puddicombe - Senior Associate - Travers Smith (UK)

Julia Wiemer - Partner - Kapellmann (Germany)

Claire Shepherd - Associate - Gibson Dunn

 

Networking & Refreshment Break
15:25

Workshop Session 5
15:45

Stream A: Path To Partner
Stream B: Litigation Strategy
Stream C: Regulatory Challenges
Tech in Work: Unravelling the Evolution and Impact Securing Litigation Funding and Examining the Standards for Funding Structures/Returns Across Jurisdictions Navigating Digital Markets Regulation
  • Effectively utilising AI tools in your practice
  • Ensuring harmony with new and existing legal tech
  • Staying up to date with the latest technologies
  • Integrating tools to stay relevant and efficient with your work
  • What challenges do we need to deal with now to deal with gaps in the operating model?
  • Funding arrangements in European member states
  • Examining the use of litigation funding and insurance across jurisdictions
  • Recent decisions on conditional damages-based returns
  • The role of funders at the settlement stage
  • Unpacking key challenges in designation in the EU and UK
  • The state of the DMA a year on from the compliance deadline
  • Early actions from DMCC powers
 

Andrew Leitch - Partner - BCLP (UK)

Naomi Reid - Associate - Herbert Smith Freehills (UK)

Saira Henry - Partner - Dechert (UK)

Liam Heylin - Partner - Mason Hayes & Curran (Ireland)

Ines Bodenstein - Counsel - Gleiss Lutz (Germany)

Vilen Lipatov - Principal - Cornerstone Research

Workshop Session 6
16:30

Stream B: Litigation Strategy
Stream C: Regulatory Challenges
Debate: The Greatest Challenge in Competition Litigation for the Year Ahead Debate: The Greatest Challenge in Competition Regulation for the Year Ahead

Each speaker has 5 minutes to say what they think the main litigation topic will be, with the opportunity for a 30 second rebuttal and then it goes to an audience vote.

 Each speaker has 5 minutes to say what they think the main litigation topic will be, with the opportunity for a 30 second rebuttal and then it goes to an audience vote.

Andrew Leitch - Partner - BCLP (UK)

Ines Bodenstein - Counsel - Gleiss Lutz (Germany)

Petra Carreira - Managing Associate - PLMJ (Portugal)

Naomi Reid - Associate - Herbert Smith Freehills (UK)

Sebastian Wrobel - Senior Associate - Noerr (Germany)

Adele Behles - Associate - Willkie (UK)

Nafees Saeed - Partner - Weil (UK)

Ronan Scanlan - Partner - Steptoe (UK)

Shruti Hiremath - Senior Associate - Clifford Chance (UK)

Alessandro Cogoni - Associate - Covington & Burling (Belgium)

Maria Rosaria Raspanti - Senior Associate - Pavia e Ansaldo (Italy)

 

Close of Day 2 & Time to Change
17:15

Drinks Reception
18:00

Conference Dinner
19:30

Hair of the Dog Morning Refreshments
09:00

Competition Next Gen Committee Welcome Back
09:30

Adele Behles, Associate
Willkie (UK)

Nafees Saeed, Partner
Weil (UK)

Ines Bodenstein, Counsel
Gleiss Lutz (Germany)

Mark Daniel, Counsel
Linklaters (UK)

Keynote: Protecting Your Wellbeing on the Way to the Top
09:35

AI: Navigating Emerging Areas in Competition
10:00

  • Building regulatory structures without stifling AI innovation
  • Direct and indirect impacts of the DMCC and DMA on AI
  • The risk of algorithmic collusion and its Impacts on regulatory investigation and enforcement
  • Theories of harm in the AI space and lessons to be learned from challenges in the wider tech sector

João Vareda, Deputy Head of Unit - DG COMP
European Commission (Belgium)

Shruti Hiremath, Senior Associate
Clifford Chance (UK)

Nick Wolfe, Counsel
Skadden (Belgium)

Norbert Maier, Principal
Cornerstone Research

Networking & Refreshment Break
10:40

Judiciary Roundtable: Perspectives From The Bench on European Actions
11:00

Judge Dr. Gerhard Klumpe, Presiding Judge
Regional Court of Dortmund (Germany)

Marta Campos, Judge
Tribunal da Concorrência, Regulação e Supervisão (Portugal)

What you Need to Know Other than the Law?
12:00

A frank and open discussion on the challenges and underdiscussed requirements of working in antitrust law today.

Mark Bosley, Director
BRG

Next Gen Essay Competition Winner
12:40

Lunch & Committee Summary
12:55

Meet for Networking Activity
14:55

13:00
Registration
13:55
Competition Next Gen Committee Welcome
Nafees Saeed - Partner - Weil (UK)
Ronan Scanlan - Partner - Steptoe (UK)
Shruti Hiremath - Senior Associate - Clifford Chance (UK)
Alessandro Cogoni - Associate - Covington (Belgium)
Maria Rosaria Raspanti - Senior Associate - Pavia e Ansaldo (Italy)
Andrew Leitch - Partner - BCLP (UK)
Ines Bodenstein - Counsel - Gleiss Lutz (Germany)
Petra Carreira - Managing Associate - PLMJ (Portugal)
Naomi Reid - Associate - Herbert Smith Freehills (UK)
Sebastian Wrobel - Senior Associate - Noerr (Germany)
Adele Behles - Associate - Willkie (UK)
14:00
Associate to Partner: What Would I Tell My Younger Self?

A unique discussion between a senior practitioner, junior partner and senior associate covering their career, what worked and what didn’t, and what would they now tell their younger self.

Stijn Huijts - Partner - Geradin Partners (Belgium)
Paul Williams - Senior Associate - Pinsent Masons (UK)
Kiti Karvinen - Counsel - Castrén & Snellman (Finland)
14:45
What Private Practice Needs to Know About In-House
  • In-house perspectives on challenges addressing client needs
  • What advice clients seek in high pressure scenarios
  • Public relations support and working together with multiple departments
Eamonn Cunningham - Associate Legal Counsel - Google
Clare Walker - Competition Law Counsel - JD Sports plc
Viktoria Tsvetanova - Secondee - Natwest (UK)
15:30
Networking & Refreshment Break
16:00
Regulator Panel: Jurisdiction and Enforcement Decisions
Lucilia Falsarella-Pereira - Senior Director, Competition Enforcement - Competition Market Authority (UK)
Úna Butler - Member of the Commission - Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (Ireland)
17:00
Chairperson's Summation & Close of Day
19:00
Welcome Drinks Reception
09:00
Registration
09:30
Chairperson's Opening Remarks
Maria Rosaria Raspanti - Senior Associate - Pavia e Ansaldo (Italy)
Ronan Scanlan - Partner - Steptoe (UK)
Petra Carreira - Managing Associate - PLMJ (Portugal)
Andrew Leitch - Partner - BCLP (UK)
09:40
Key Developments in Competition Enforcement
  • An overview on recent public and private enforcement activity
  • Highlighting procedural trends and innovations
  • How different jurisdictions have adopted or are adopting new enforcement practices
Mark Padley - Associate - Milbank
10.20
An In-House View at the Practical Challenges of Navigating Multiple Competition Regimes
  • Challenges to compliance over multiple jurisdictions
  • Follow-on litigation risk for regulatory action in different jurisdictions
  • The use of evidence from cases in different jurisdictions
  • Handling e-discovery in cross-border investigations
Lís O’Connor - Compliance & Ethics Counsel – Competition Law - Accenture (Ireland)
Seán O’Dea - Senior Corporate Counsel – Competition/Antitrust - ServiceNow
11:05
Networking & Refreshment Break
11:25
Workshop Sessions 1

During the Workshop Sessions today you'll have the opportunity to select your choice of topics from those on offer building an agenda that best suits your practice. Choose from three workshop streams on competition Law and Litigation alongside career advancing personal skills sessions:


Stream A: Path To Partner
Stream B: Litigation Strategy
Stream C: Regulatory Challenges

10 ways to Better Understand your Client

Building a Private
Enforcement Case
 

Exploring the State of
Mergers and
Merger Control: Risks and
Practical Preparation
  • Building relationships and trust with clients
  • Unexpected distressed situations – supporting clients in times of crisis
  • Dealing with pressure from clients
  • Prioritising the legal work
  • Public relations and working together with other departments
  • Perspectives on strategies for bringing a claim
  • Preparing for follow-on when facing public enforcement
  • The types of claims on the rise and decline in Europe
  • A look at recent regulatory activity
  • Key developments and updates in theories of harm
  • The evolving use of remedy tools

Leonia Chesterfield - Of Counsel - RPC (UK)

Paul Williams - Senior Associate - Pinsent Masons (UK)

Tom Hanson - Senior Associate - Dentons (UK)

Christoph Weinert - Partner - COMMEO (Germany)

Eleanore Di Claudio - Managing Associate - Simmons & Simmons (UK)

Alex Evans - Senior Associate - Macfarlanes (UK)

Nafees Saeed - Partner - Weil (UK)

Marie-Luise Heuer - Senior Associate - BLOMSTEIN (Germany)

Paul Stoddart - Principal - RBB Economics

 

12:10
Workshop Sessions 2
Stream A: Path To Partner
Stream B: Litigation Strategy
Stream C: Regulatory Challenges
What You Really Need to Know Being a Partner: Tips for Climbing the Ladder Exploring Competition Collective Redress Throughout Europe

Navigating Market Studies and Market Investigations

 
  • Building your profile
  • Bringing work in and finding where the next case will come from
  • Networking tips and tricks
  • How to pick and choose a mentor or mentee
  • Perspectives from key jurisdictions for collective redress
  • Improving defendant approaches and addressing the risks in class actions cases
  • Claimant opportunities, challenges and strategies across jurisdictions
  • Information sharing/ benchmarking rules and compliance
  • Major areas in which market studies and investigations are being used
  • Defining the theory of harm in a labour market

Charles Whiddington - Partner - Steptoe (Belgium)

Alexander Waksman - Partner - gunnercooke (UK)

Karin Roberts - Partner - Delphi (Sweden)

Mark Crane - Partner - Addleshaw Goddard (UK)

Adele Behles - Associate - Willkie (UK)

Angus Reston - Senior Associate - Freshfields (UK)

Nuno Pires Salpico - Associate - Sousa Ferro & Associados (Portugal)

Camelia O'Brien - Director - AlixPartners

Ronan Scanlan - Partner - Steptoe (UK)

Elin Moen - Partner - BAHR (Norway)

Nuala Canavan - Counsel - Norton Rose Fulbright (UK)

Stefanie Budde - Counsel - Hengeler Mueller (Germany)

Kaushik Krishnan - Manager - Cornerstone Research

 

12:55
Networking & Lunch Break
13:55
Workshop Sessions 3
Stream A: Path To Partner
Stream B: Litigation Strategy
Stream C: Regulatory Challenges
Modes of Working: Debate

Examining Damages Valuation

Exploring Developments in Foreign Subsidies Regulation
  • Approaching legal research
  • Effective delegating and managing workload
  • Keeping up with the latest toolkits and tech?
  • Examining the assessment process for damages across Europe
  • Discussing on the role of expert valuations in litigation across jurisdictions
  • Analysing the uses Court vs Party experts across Europe
  • Foreign subsidies global rise as a hot issue
  • An overview of EC foreign subsidies regulation
  • Processes for foreign investment controls across Europe

Pierre Galmiche - Partner - Aramis (France)

Michael Zymler - Knowledge Lawyer - Competition - Hausfeld (UK)

Sebastian Wrobel - Senior Associate - Noerr (Germany)

Zachery O'Brien - Managing Associate - Mishcon de Reya (UK)

Felix Hammeke - Director - AlixPartners

Leonor Martins Machado - Managing Associate - Morais Leitão (Portugal)

Alessandro Cogoni - Associate - Covington (Belgium)

Elisabeth Lian Haugsdal - Partner - Wiersholm (Norway)

Tialda Beetstra - Senior Associate - Bird & Bird (Netherlands)

Richard Maliniak - Counsel - Nedelka Kubáč advokáti (Czech Republic)

 

 

 

14:40
Workshop Sessions 4
Stream A: Path To Partner
Stream B: Litigation Strategy
Stream C: Regulatory Challenges
From Mentorship to Seeking Sponsorship: Improving Diversity & Inclusion In the Legal World Navigating Cross Border Claims Exploring Challenges Between Sustainability and Antitrust Speaker
  • Empowerment tools – reducing stigma and supporting each other
  • Building diversity at every step of the ladder
  • Leaning into cultural diversity
  • Views from a diversity officer
  • Key regimes bringing cases from foreign jurisdictions
  • Considerations in where and why you take a claim to specific jurisdictions
  • Obtaining evidence from different jurisdictions
  • A need to increase cross-jurisdictional collaboration?
  • Approaches to balancing sustainability and antitrust regulation across Europe
  • Regulatory Positions on Horizontal Guidelines
  • Competitor collaboration and information sharing rules and consideration s
  • Potential pro-competitive benefits of sustainability agreements

Shruti Hiremath - Senior Associate - Clifford Chance (UK)

Lorna Nsoatabe - Partner - Slaughter and May (UK)

Constança Sacoto - Managing Associate - Uría Menéndez (Portugal)

Sofia Falkner - Partner - Hammarskiöld (Sweden)

Natalie Puddicombe - Senior Associate - Travers Smith (UK)

Julia Wiemer - Partner - Kapellmann (Germany)

Claire Shepherd - Associate - Gibson Dunn

 

15:25
Networking & Refreshment Break
15:45
Workshop Session 5
Stream A: Path To Partner
Stream B: Litigation Strategy
Stream C: Regulatory Challenges
Tech in Work: Unravelling the Evolution and Impact Securing Litigation Funding and Examining the Standards for Funding Structures/Returns Across Jurisdictions Navigating Digital Markets Regulation
  • Effectively utilising AI tools in your practice
  • Ensuring harmony with new and existing legal tech
  • Staying up to date with the latest technologies
  • Integrating tools to stay relevant and efficient with your work
  • What challenges do we need to deal with now to deal with gaps in the operating model?
  • Funding arrangements in European member states
  • Examining the use of litigation funding and insurance across jurisdictions
  • Recent decisions on conditional damages-based returns
  • The role of funders at the settlement stage
  • Unpacking key challenges in designation in the EU and UK
  • The state of the DMA a year on from the compliance deadline
  • Early actions from DMCC powers
 

Andrew Leitch - Partner - BCLP (UK)

Naomi Reid - Associate - Herbert Smith Freehills (UK)

Saira Henry - Partner - Dechert (UK)

Liam Heylin - Partner - Mason Hayes & Curran (Ireland)

Ines Bodenstein - Counsel - Gleiss Lutz (Germany)

Vilen Lipatov - Principal - Cornerstone Research
16:30
Workshop Session 6
Stream B: Litigation Strategy
Stream C: Regulatory Challenges
Debate: The Greatest Challenge in Competition Litigation for the Year Ahead Debate: The Greatest Challenge in Competition Regulation for the Year Ahead

Each speaker has 5 minutes to say what they think the main litigation topic will be, with the opportunity for a 30 second rebuttal and then it goes to an audience vote.

 Each speaker has 5 minutes to say what they think the main litigation topic will be, with the opportunity for a 30 second rebuttal and then it goes to an audience vote.

Andrew Leitch - Partner - BCLP (UK)

Ines Bodenstein - Counsel - Gleiss Lutz (Germany)

Petra Carreira - Managing Associate - PLMJ (Portugal)

Naomi Reid - Associate - Herbert Smith Freehills (UK)

Sebastian Wrobel - Senior Associate - Noerr (Germany)

Adele Behles - Associate - Willkie (UK)

Nafees Saeed - Partner - Weil (UK)

Ronan Scanlan - Partner - Steptoe (UK)

Shruti Hiremath - Senior Associate - Clifford Chance (UK)

Alessandro Cogoni - Associate - Covington & Burling (Belgium)

Maria Rosaria Raspanti - Senior Associate - Pavia e Ansaldo (Italy)

 

17:15
Close of Day 2 & Time to Change
18:00
Drinks Reception
19:30
Conference Dinner
09:00
Hair of the Dog Morning Refreshments
09:30
Competition Next Gen Committee Welcome Back
Adele Behles - Associate - Willkie (UK)
Nafees Saeed - Partner - Weil (UK)
Ines Bodenstein - Counsel - Gleiss Lutz (Germany)
Mark Daniel - Counsel - Linklaters (UK)
09:35
Keynote: Protecting Your Wellbeing on the Way to the Top
10:00
AI: Navigating Emerging Areas in Competition
  • Building regulatory structures without stifling AI innovation
  • Direct and indirect impacts of the DMCC and DMA on AI
  • The risk of algorithmic collusion and its Impacts on regulatory investigation and enforcement
  • Theories of harm in the AI space and lessons to be learned from challenges in the wider tech sector
João Vareda - Deputy Head of Unit - DG COMP - European Commission (Belgium)
Shruti Hiremath - Senior Associate - Clifford Chance (UK)
Nick Wolfe - Counsel - Skadden (Belgium)
Norbert Maier - Principal - Cornerstone Research
10:40
Networking & Refreshment Break
11:00
Judiciary Roundtable: Perspectives From The Bench on European Actions
Judge Dr. Gerhard Klumpe - Presiding Judge - Regional Court of Dortmund (Germany)
Marta Campos - Judge - Tribunal da Concorrência, Regulação e Supervisão (Portugal)
12:00
What you Need to Know Other than the Law?

A frank and open discussion on the challenges and underdiscussed requirements of working in antitrust law today.

Mark Bosley - Director - BRG
12:40
Next Gen Essay Competition Winner
12:55
Lunch & Committee Summary
14:55
Meet for Networking Activity

Event Partners

Event Partner

RBB Economics

Sousa Ferro & Associados

Nedelka Kubáč advokáti

Verita
Networking Partner

Berkeley Research Group
Drinks Partner

AlixPartners
Dinner Partner

Cornerstone Research
Supporting Partner

Meet In Ireland

Failte Ireland

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