Panel: Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs)

Panel: Technology and Financial Stability

Panel: Opportunities and Risks of AI in Financial Services

Coffee Break and Networking

Panel: Crypto Regulation

Panel: Digital Transformation of the Automotive Industry

Panel: Applications and regulation of industrial data

Panel: Shared Learnings between Industry and Government

Panel: How Governments can Support the Tech Sector

Panel: Emerging Technologies and Innovation

Coffee Break and Networking

Panel: Challenges of Misinformation in the Digital Age

Panel: Regaining Trust in Government and Technology

Panel: Shared Learnings between Government and Technology

Keynote Addresses

Panel 1: Grasping the Opportunities and Threats of AI and Digital Transformation

• What should governments be focusing on now, from the next Working Programme of the European Commission to other jurisdictions?
• How should tech regulation and implementation balance the risks and opportunities of AI adoption and digital transformation
• Fostering innovation and adoption: which industry sectors face the greatest opportunities and challenges?
• Ensuring a human-centred and equitable approach to AI adoption
• Addressing the intellectual property rights issues around generative AI

Panel 2: Internet Governance: Protecting Societies and Consumer Rights:

• Safeguarding net neutrality, user well-being and internet freedom
• Fairness: regulating dark patterns and personalised pricing
• Tackling the societal threat of disinformation and establishing ethical boundaries in the era of deepfakes
• Virtual worlds: avoiding past mistakes while envisioning an integrated and immersive future

Coffee Break and Networking

Panel 3: Driving Digital Transformation and Innovation

• Harnessing critical and emerging technologies responsibly
• Industry perspectives on regulatory needs for innovation
• Comparing macroeconomic approaches to promoting competitiveness, investment and innovation across jurisdictions

Panel 4: Making Tech Legislation Work in Practice

• What are the challenges in implementing the new wave of tech legislation: the AI Act, DSA and DMA?
• Regional harmonisation: how is implementation and enforcement going to happen in the same way across Europe?
• Lessons from the experience of GDPR: how can we avoid overstretching DPAs

Lunch & Networking

Panel 5: Rising up to the Challenge: Competition vs. Competitiveness

• Antitrust: global and industry perspectives on competition policy – what can different jurisdictions learn from each other’s approaches to anticompetitive behaviour?
• Pro-growth: How can regulatory and macroeconomic policies boost competitiveness and address market concentration?
• What is the role of investment in “levelling up” the global tech landscape, and how can this be achieved?
• What’s the role of “big tech” in enabling other players to thrive?

Panel 6: Data Governance and Privacy in the Digital Era

• Impact of new regulations on Data Protection Authorities
• What next for the European Data Spaces?
• Regulating access to data and addressing the challenges of AdTech

Coffee Break and Networking

Panel 7: Where Sectors Meet: Technology-Specific vs Vertical Regulations

• Cross-sector insights into digital transformation and the role of the technology industry
• Implementation: how new technology-specific regulations impact industries differently
• Leveraging regulatory frameworks across sectors: lessons from healthcare, financial services, and high-risk industries
• Promoting collaboration and innovation while ensuring compliance in regulated environments

Panel 8: International Alignment on Technology Regulation

• In a multipolar world, where can we build global benchmarks and international regulatory alignment?
• Learning from different jurisdictions and regional alliances (BRICS; Transatlantic; ASEAN and more)
• Balancing trade rules with privacy protection
• Ensuring technology neutrality in trade agreements
• Fostering competition in a multipolar world: challenges and opportunities

Conference Close

Welcome Address

Vera Jourova

Gabriela Ramos

Panel 1: Innovation and Regulation – Getting the Balance Right

• Harnessing the Opportunity: Identifying where AI and digital technologies can bring the greatest good.
• Addressing Common Concerns: Identifying shared challenges among governments and industry worldwide.
• Finding the Balance: How can governments, industry and civil society work together worldwide to maximise benefit and minimise risk.

Prof. Ahmet Yozgatlıgil

Kilian Gross

Aakash Guglani

Mira Burri

Networking Break

Panel 2: Internet Regulation: Order in the New Frontier

• Regional Approaches: Comparing and contrasting diverse national strategies for safeguarding internet user rights.
• Self-Regulation in the Digital Age: Examining how platform companies are taking proactive measures to regulate their activities and protect users.
• DSA and OSA Implementation: What impact are the incoming regulations having on companies and what is the role of cross-border regulatory coordination?

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

Camilla Bustani

Adv Collen Weapond

Networking Break

Panel 3: Rethinking Data Protection

• Cultural Perspectives on Privacy: Understanding how attitudes toward personal privacy vary across cultures.
• Global Consensus on Data Access: Exploring common ground on when governments and law enforcement access personal data.
• Addressing Security Concerns: The impact of international data flows on security and proposing mitigating strategies.
• Assessing GDPR's Ongoing Relevance: Evaluating the effectiveness of GDPR and responses of global data protection regulations.
• Navigating Tech Legislation: Understanding the impact of DSA, AI Act, and other regulations on data protection.
• Evolution of DPAs: Exploring the changing role of Data Protection Authorities in the current regulatory landscape

Katherine Harman-Stokes

Tine A. Larsen

Cecilia Alvarez Rigaudias

Isabel Simpson

Natascha Gerlach

Networking Break

Panel 4: AI Governance: Risks and Opportunities

• Balancing Risks and Rewards: Identifying the significant risks and opportunities associated with AI and the effectiveness of legislation in addressing them
• Compliance in AI Implementation: Considerations for aligning with emerging AI regulations
• Global Treaty on AI Governance: Exploring the feasibility and implications of a binding international treaty

Dragos Tudorache

Yordanka Ivanova

Dr. Anna Christmann

Laurent Gobbi

Nicolas de Bouville

Networking Break

Keynote Fireside Chat

Elizabeth Kelly, Director, U.S. Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute (in conversation with Ben Avison, Conference Director, RAID)

Elizabeth Kelly

Panel 5: Driving digital transformation fairly and responsibly

• Which industries are changing the fastest now, and what does this mean for business, government and society?
• What are regulators doing to ensure the benefits of digital transformation are widely felt?
• What can policymakers can do to boost competitiveness while upholding trust, transparency and accountability?

Werner Stengg

Magali Durieux

Dr. Miriam Stankovich

Alexandre Roure

Dea Markova

Networking Break

Panel 6: Children first: how to handle privacy, consent and age assurance

• Cross-Jurisdictional Insights: Learning from different jurisdictions' approaches to safeguarding children and young people
• Mitigating Risks for CYP: Assessing the greatest risks and strategies employed by regulators and platform companies
• Roles and Responsibilities: How different players in the ecosystem can approach children’s rights in a progressive and harmonised manner

Anja Wyrobek

Fred Langford

Jennifer Dolan

Andy Phippen

Lisa Robinson

Networking Break

Panel 7: Financial Services: Blueprints for Global Regulation and Adoption?

• Leveraging Achievements: How lessons from financial regulation can inform global technology regulatory frameworks
• Challenges for Financial Stability: Identifying and addressing the significant challenges ahead and achieving regulatory alignment
• Central Bank Digital Currencies: Overcoming barriers to adoption and ensuring a coordinated global approach

Karmela Holtgreve

Costanza Iacomini

Alain Otaegui

Jannah Patchay

Closing Remarks