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 and Markets

• 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?
• What are the key barriers to international digital trade and how are these being overcome?
• How can regulation be reformed and better connected to business to realise the opportunities of industrial automation?