29th Annual Communications and Competition Conference 2018 | International Bar Association (IBA) | 11 June 2018 | Principe di Savoia, Piazza della Repubblica, 17, 20124 Milano MI, Italy

Now in its 29th year this must attend event will once again bring together regulators, in house counsel and leading practitioners from Europe, the USA and other jurisdictions around the world to explore current trends and debate the hottest issues in communications and competition law.

A conference presented by the IBA Communications Law Committee and the IBA Antitrust Committee.

Topics include:
• Antitrust and regulatory joint roundtable
• Antitrust and regulatory challenges raised by the digital economy
• Merger trends in the digital sector
• Sharing infrastructure in fixed and mobile networks
• Competition issues of spectrum allocation
• Interrelationships between content, device and networks
• Disruptive innovation, opportunity or antitrust and regulatory nightmare?
• Data economy, anything new under the sun?
• Privacy, personal data and social networks

2018 Speakers

Martin Ballantyne
Legal Director, Ofcom, London

Alejandra de Iturriaga Gandini
Director for Telecommunications and Audio-visual Sector, CNMC, Barcelona

Barry Nigro
Deputy Assistant Attorney General, US Department of Justice, Washington DC

Andrea Pezzoli
Director General for Competition, Italian Competition Authority, Rome

Rita Wezenbeek
Head of Unit, DG COMP, Brussels

Grania Holzwarth
Legal Counsel, Deutsche Telekom, Brussels

Matt Hunt
Managing Director, AlixPartners, London

Professor Marc Ivaldi
Research Director, EHESS, Toulouse

Zoltan Marosi
Oppenheim Law Firm, Budapest

Blaise Soury-Lavergne
Head of Mobile Spectrum, ARCEP, Paris

Inno Genna
Vice President, MVNO Europe, Brussels

Patricia Helanow
General Counsel, Stokab, Stockholm

Diane Mullenex
Pinsent Mason, London

Philippe Vogeleer
Head of Advisory, Vodafone, London

Irina von Wiese
Antitrust Director, GSM Association, London

Antonio Capobianco
Senior Competition Law Expert, OECD, Paris

Giovanni Cerutti
General Counsel and Chief Risk Officer, NTT DATA EMEA; Board Member of ECLA (European Company Lawyers Association), Milan

Julio Faura
Head of R&D, Santander Bank; Chairman, Alastria, Madrid Cyril Ritter Policy Officer, DG COMP, Brussels

Claudio Tesauro
BonelliErede, Rome

Michael Reynolds
Allen & Overy, Brussels; Honorary Life Member of IBA Council and Association

Jacques Steenbergen
President, Belgian Competition Authority, Brussels

Professor Serge Gijrath
Professor, IT and Telecommunications, University of Leiden, Lieden

Sandro Gleave
Reporting Officer, Bundeskartellamt, Bonn

Tim Lamb
Competition Counsel, Facebook, London

Gabriella Muscolo
Commissioner, Italian Competition Authority, Rome

Andrea Appella
Deputy General Counsel – Europe & Asia, 21st Century Fox, London

Cristina Caffarra
Head of Competition Europe, Charles River Associates, Brussels

Yaron Dori
Covington & Burling, Washington DC

Jeffrey A Eisenach
Managing Director and Co-Chair, Communications, Media and Internet Practice, NERA Economic Consulting, Washington DC

Frank Röhling
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Berlin

Moderators:

Laurent De Muyter
Jones Day, Brussels; Conference Coordinator, IBA Communications Law Committee

Samantha Mobley
Baker McKenzie, London; Vice Chair, IBA Antitrust Committee

Marc Reysen
RCAA, Frankfurt; Co-Chair, IBA Antitrust Committee

Anne Vallery
WilmerHale, Brussels; Co-Chair, IBA Communications Law Committee

Blanca Escribano
CMS Albiñana & Suárez De Lezo, Madrid; Vice Chair, IBA Communications Law Committee

Kyriakos Fountoukakos
Herbert Smith Freehills, Brussels; Secretary, IBA Antitrust Committee

Munesh Mahtani
Senior Competition Counsel, Google, London

Jana Pattynová
Pierstone, Prague; Newsletter Officer, IBA Communications Law Committee

Blanca Escribano
CMS Albiñana & Suárez De Lezo, Madrid; Vice Chair, IBA Communications Law Committee

Angela Flannery
Holding Redlich, Sydney; Asia Pacific Regional Forum Liaison Officer, IBA Communications Law Committee

Thomas Janssens
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Brussels; Senior Vice Chair, IBA Antitrust Committee

Ilene Gotts
Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, New York; North American Regional Representative, IBA Antitrust Committee

Vittorio Noseda
Nctm, Milan; Secretary, IBA Communications Law Committee

2018 Sponsors

HEADLINE SOCIAL EVENT SPONSOR:
• AlixPartners

ASSOCIATE CONFERENCE SPONSOR:
• NERA

CONFERENCE SUPPORTERS:
• BIICL British Institute International and Comparative Law
• International Law Office
• LEXOLOGY