WELCOME COFFEE & REGISTRATION

MINI-PLENARY

Detection and investigative tools: how do we ensure that competition agencies are well-equipped to detect and investigate cartels?

Moderator:
Kristina Srica (Assistant Chief, Chicago Field Office, DOJ Antitrust Division, USA)

Speakers:
Alexey Sushkevich (Director, Department for Antitrust Regulation, Eurasian Economic Commission)
Anton Teslenko (Head, Department for Antimonopoly and Fiscal Control, FAS, Russia)
Flavio Laina (Head of Unit, Unit G.5, Cartels Directorate, DG Competition, European Commission)
María Luisa Tierno (Director of Competition, CNMC, Spain)

Coffee break

BREAKOUT SESSION 7

Hub-and-spoke cases: theories of harm, standards of proof and specific challenges

Moderator:
Sabine Zigelski (Senior Competition Expert, Competition Division, OECD)

Speakers:
İbrahim Şahin (Junior Competition Expert, TCA, Turkey)
André Forte (Head of Unit, AdC, Portugal)
Toshiyuki Nambu (Advisor, Momo-o, Matsuo & Namba, NGA, Japan)
Winnie Ching (Senior Director, Legal and Enforcement, CCCS, Singapore)

BREAKOUT SESSION 8

Detecting bid-rigging: latest developments in screening public procurement data and other methods

Moderator:
Joseph Walser (Deputy Director, Competition Crime & Cartels, CCPC, Ireland)

Speakers:
Ana Amante (Director, Antitrust Department, AdC, Portugal)
Daniel García-Zarza (Assistant Deputy Director, Cartels and Leniency, CNMC, Spain)
Oana Neg (Project Manager – Big Data, Directorate for International Relations and Communication, Romanian Competition Council)

BREAKOUT SESSION 9

Best strategies for reinventing leniency

Moderator:
Casto González-Páramo (Partner, Hogan Lovells, NGA, Spain)

Speakers:
Christopher Mayock (Deputy Head of Unit, Unit G.2, Cartels Directorate, DG Competition, European Commission)
Nick Wilkins (Principal Adviser, Criminalisation – Cartels, Commerce Commission, New Zealand)
Olga Droussioti Papachrysanthou (Senior Officer, Commission for the Protection of Competition, Cyprus)
Ricardo Oliveira (Partner, PLMJ, NGA, Portugal)

Lunch break

PLENARY SESSION 2

What are the most efficient enforcement tools for preventing and combatting anti-competitive agreements?

Moderator:
Ori Schwartz (Head, Competition Division, OECD)

Speakers:
Hideyuki Shimozu (Senior Investigator for International Cartel, JFTC, Japan)
Juliette Enser (Senior Director, Cartel Enforcement, CMA, UK)
Makgale Mohlala (Divisional Manager, Cartels, Competition Commission, South Africa)
Maria João Melícias (Member of the Board, AdC, Portugal)

Coffee break

BREAKOUT SESSION 10

Cartels in labor markets: how to investigate no-poach and other anticompetitive agreements

Moderator:
Victor Meyer (Executive Director of Absolute Monopolistic Practices Investigations (Cartels), COFECE, Mexico)

Speakers:
Jorge Ferreira (Head of Anti-cartel Unit, AdC, Portugal)
Leslie Wulff (Assistant Chief, San Francisco Field Office, DOJ Antitrust Division, USA)
Michael Osborne (Partner, Cassels, NGA, Canada)

BREAKOUT SESSION 11

Fighting cartels together with private enforcement: current state of play and impact on leniency and public anti-cartel enforcement

Moderator:
Megan Gerking (Partner, Morrison & Foerster, NGA, USA)

Speakers:
Jutta Wimmer (Special Unit for Combating Cartels, Bundeskartellamt, Germany)
Sara Estima Martins (Partner, SRS, NGA, Portugal)

BREAKOUT SESSION 12 (AGENCIES ONLY)

How to manage informants and whistle blowers

Moderator:
Tomasz Bagdziński (Director of the Department of Competition Protection, UOKiK, Poland)

Speakers:
Ann Salvatore (Deputy Commissioner, Cartels Directorate, CB, Canada)
Eksteen Maritz (Director of Criminal Enforcement, CCPC, Ireland)
Jan Nuijten (Case Handler, Cartels Directorate, DG Competition, European Commission)
Kelvin Ortiz (Special Agent, FBI, USA)

SOCIAL EVENT AND GALA DINNER

WELCOME COFFEE & REGISTRATION

BREAKOUT SESSION 13 (AGENCIES ONLY)

New means of communication and digital evidence gathering challenges

Moderator:
Haim Arbiv (Head of the Investigations and Intelligence Unit, ICA, Israel)

Speakers:
Fernanda Machado (Head of Anticartel Unit, CADE, Brazil)
Karin Schuiling, Team Manager (Detection and Pipeline, Competition Directorate, ACM, Netherlands)
James Kelley (Special Agent, International Corruption Squad, FBI, USA)

BREAKOUT SESSION 14

Sustainability and cartels: where to draw the redline?

Moderator:
Adrien Giraud (Partner, Latham & Watkins, NGA, France)

Speakers:
Adriana Berbec (Case Handler, Unit G.2, Cartels Directorate, DG Competition, European Commission)
Elise Provost (Senior Case Handler, Investigation Unit, Autorité de la concurrence, France)
Victor Santos Rufino (Partner, Mudrovitsch, NGA, Brazil)

BREAKOUT SESSION 15

Algorithms and collusion: where do we stand?

Moderator:
Nathalie Jalabert Doury (Partner, Mayer Brown, NGA, France)

Speakers:
Lucília Falsarella Pereira (Director, Cartel Enforcement, CMA, UK)
Mirja Schmitz-Hübsch (International Competition Matters, Bundeskartellamt, Germany)
Pedro Caro de Sousa (Competition Expert, Competition Division, OECD)

Coffee break

PLENARY SESSION 3

Cartel enforcement in the next decade: priorities and new trends looking beyond the pandemic

Moderator:
Nur Seda Köktürk (Deputy Head, External Relations and Competition Advocacy Department, TCA, Turkey)

Speakers:
Alan McCarthy (Partner, A&L Goodbody LLP, NGA, Ireland)
Andrea Minuto Rizzo (Head of the International Affairs Office, AGCM, Italy)
Bogdan M. Chiritoiu (President, Competition Council, Romania)
Caní Fernandez (President, CNMC, Spain)
Michal Cohen (Acting General Director, ICA, Israel)

CLOSING REMARKS

Closing remarks:
Ricardo Riesco (National Economic Prosecutor, FNE, Chile)
Margarida Matos Rosa (President, AdC, Portugal)

FAREWELL LUNCH