Agenda

Tuesday 12th October, 2021

• How are regulators and policy-makers in China, Europe and the US dealing with common challenges around competition, systemic risk and consumer trust?
• How has the global pandemic accelerated the demand for technology and appropriate regulation?
• What are the primary antitrust initiatives that the EU, China and the US are considering implementing to counter dislocations in the digital economy?
• How do regulators balance encouraging digital innovation, while ensuring inclusive benefits for all and avoiding market distortions?

• How quickly is AI moving towards deep and unsupervised learning, and what regulatory frameworks should be put in place to manage its development for the benefit of industry and society?
• Forecasting the scope and impact of the EU’s new Artificial Intelligence Regulation – how does this overlap with Chinese and US regulatory initiatives?
• How should the complex mechanisms of algorithms be clearly communicated to consumers in order to achieve consent?
• What impact is algorithmic pricing having on competition and how can this be managed?
• How can regulators and legislators mitigate against the potential risks of AI, such as unethical bias and displacement of jobs?

• What is the approach of regulators in the Europe, China and the US towards big tech’s move into fintech?
• What are the core concerns regulators have around the systemic risks arising from new fintech companies?
• Fintech crosses international borders – how can different regulators harmonise their approaches?
• How are regulators in the US, China and Europe responding to the benefits and risks of open finance, for example through the European Commission’s Open Finance Framework?
• Can a global standard in regulating crypto-assets be developed, and if so how?

Panel 4: The Power of Platforms

• Who is clamping down hardest on big tech – China, the US or Europe – and why now?
• How should technology companies and platforms be assessed, defined and categorised, and do regulators have the tools to manage them?
  Will the US repeal Section 230 immunity for tech companies?
• In the context of domestic political norms, how can content be best moderated to avoid misinformation and polarisation of opinions – by people or algorithms?

Panel 5: Navigating the Data Rights Minefield

• How should policy and regulation balance the public benefits of technology with the interests of data protection?

How are China, Europe and the US setting international standards in data governance, and how can different regulators learn from each other’s approaches?

• What are the data regulation issues arising from the growth of industrial IoT and cloud computing?
• How can the need for corporate privacy be balanced with regulatory requirements to access data?

Panel 6: International Cooperation – Building on Shared Interests to Manage the Risks and Benefits of Innovation

• How would regulators like to work together? What are the practical ways they can look to cooperate closely and find shared approaches?
• Where the global digital economy cannot be regulated by any one country, how do regulators deal with areas where they disagree and have different attitudes?
• What are the practical mechanisms by which regulators would like to see structured channels of communication with each other?
• How can regulation be reformed and better connected to business to realise the opportunities of industrial automation?