This annual half-day conference in London will focus on the current competition landscape, with panels on emerging trends in competition litigation and the challenges presented by algorithmic AI.
Featuring legal professionals, economists, academics, regulators and industry experts working on some of today’s most significant cases, our annual Expert Forum will offer frontline perspectives on rapidly evolving issues in the competition landscape.
You can view video highlights of last year’s lively event here.
Please check this page for updates as new speakers are added to the programme.
Panel 1: Emerging Trends in Competition Litigation
This discussion will address current developments, best practices, and evidential challenges in competition litigation. Panellists will provide a strategic review and forward-looking outlook on the evolving landscape of enforcement and private actions. Topics will include:
- Evidence strategy drivers: How the courts are digesting expert evidence in practice and what legal practitioners can do to optimise the impact of expert evidence in a changing litigation environment
- Complexity drivers: Key factors increasing the intricacy of expert evidence, such as innovative theories of harm and the rising demand for behavioural evidence
- Emerging sectors: The rise of significant cases in previously less scrutinised areas, such as sports and labour markets, and how to manage the unique evidentiary hurdles they present
Featured Speakers
- Ronit Kreisberger KC, Monckton Chambers
- Daniel Piccinin KC, Brick Court Chambers
- Deba Das, Freshfields
- Elisa Mariscal, Cornerstone Research
Moderator: Liam Colley, Cornerstone Research
Panel 2: AI and Pricing Algorithms
AI algorithms can act as a powerful catalyst for market efficiency, but also a potential instrument for collusion. The panel will explore where to draw the line between the use of algorithms as efficiency-enhancing tools and as instruments of illegal collusion. Topics will include:
- Pro-competitive benefits: AI algorithms as enhancers of market efficiency (e.g., supply chains, dynamic pricing, innovation) to boost competition and price transparency
- Collusion risk: Algorithms as ‘facilitating practices,’ supporting tacit collusion via swift, automated retaliation
- Reduced competitive uncertainty: Making rivals’ reactions predictable, thereby reducing the ‘strategic uncertainty’ that is vital to competition
- Legal ambiguity: The blurred line between permissible conscious parallelism and prohibited concerted practice, including in scenarios such as ‘hub-and-spoke’
Featured Speakers
- Francesca Miotto, A&O Shearman
- Thomas Hoe, Amazon
- Emilio Calvano, LUISS Guido Carli
Moderator: Gregor Langus, Cornerstone Research
Please email events@cornerstone.com with questions.
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