Program and Speakers

17 November (Wednesday)

Welcome coffee and registration (08h45)

Opening remarks (09h45)
Margarida Matos Rosa (President, AdC, Portugal)
Martijn Snoep (Chairman, ACM, Netherlands)
Andreas Mundt (President, Bundeskartellamt, Germany)

Coffee break (10h30)

Breakout sessions (10h45)

Breakout session 1 - Crisis cartels and essential cooperation: lessons learned from the COVID pandemic and an outlook into the future
Moderator: 
Miguel Moura e Silva (Member of the Board, AdC, Portugal)
Speakers:
Andrés Pérez Orduz (Advisor to the Superintendent, SIC, Colombia)
Grant Chamberlain (Cartels Manager, Competition Branch, Commerce Commission, New Zealand)
Mfundo Ngobese (Principal Manager Cartels, Competition Commission, South Africa)
Ruben Maximiano (Senior Competition Expert, Competition Division, OECD)

Breakout session 2 - Ensuring a stronger anti-cartel enforcement through international cooperation
Moderator: 
Michele Pacillo (International Affairs Officer, AGCM, Italy)
Speakers:
Anastasia Dokukina (Deputy Head, Department for International Economic Cooperation, FAS, Russia)
Blake Donald (Assistant Director Competition Enforcement & Cartels, ACCC, Australia)
Johan Ysewyn (Partner, Covington & Burling LLP, NGA)
Leah McCoy (International Counsel, DOJ Antitrust Division, USA)
Monali Pandey (Director, Competition Enforcement & Cartels, ACCC, Australia)

Breakout session 3 (agencies only) - Dawn raids during the COVID pandemic: risks, challenges and opportunities
Moderator: 
Isabel López Gálvez (Deputy Director, Cartels and Leniency, CNMC, Spain)
Speakers:
Ahmet Sağduyu (Junior Competition Expert, TCA, Turkey)
Lisa Schwarz (Senior Case Handler, FCA, Austria)
Vidar Erichsen (Senior Advisor, NCA, Norway)

Lunch break (12h00)

Plenary session 1 - A stronger anti-cartel enforcement for an effective economic recovery post Covid-19 pandemic (13h30)
Moderator: 
Alexandre Cordeiro Macedo (President, CADE, Brazil)
Speakers:
José Manuel Haro (Head, Investigative Authority, COFECE, Mexico)
Manish Kumar (Chief, San Francisco Field Office, DOJ Antitrust Division, USA)
Margarida Matos Rosa (President, AdC, Portugal)
Maria Jaspers (Director, Cartels Directorate, DG Competition, European Commission)

Coffee break (15h00)

Breakout sessions (15h15)

Breakout session 4 - How to bring cartel cases to the public attention: an effective communication with the public to raise awareness and foster compliance
Moderator: 
Giuliana Galbiati (Member of the Office of the President, Autorité de la concurrence, France)
Speakers:
Georgina Laverack (Assistant Director, Cartel Enforcement, CMA, UK)
Gideon Mokaya (Manager, Enforcement and Compliance, Competition Authority of Kenya)
Ina Fey (International Competition Matters, Bundeskartellamt, Germany)
Marcel Meinhardt (Partner, Lenz & Staehelin, NGA, Switzerland)

Breakout session 5 - Ensuring effective deterrence: which criteria should be taken into account when calculating fines?
Moderator: 
Guy Pinsonnault (Partner, McMillan LLP, NGA, Canada)​​​​​​​
Speakers:
Adolfo Wenzel (Litigation Attorney, FNE, Chile)
Daniela Badila (General Director, Competition Council, Romania)
Dervla Broderick (Deputy Director, Competition Enforcement & Mergers, CCPC, Ireland)
Diogo Thomson de Andrade (Interim General Superintendent, CADE, Brazil)

Breakout session 6 - How to make a cartel decision bullet-proof in court?
Moderator: 
Carla Farinhas (Partner, Cruz Vilaça Advogados, NGA, Portugal)​​​​​​​
Speakers:
Augustin Chapuis-Doppler (Legal Service, Autorité de la concurrence, France)
Eduardo Aguilera (Deputy Head, Litigation Division, FNE, Chile)
Sergio Lopez-Rodriguez (Antitrust Lawyer, NGA, Mexico)

18 November (Thursday)

Welcome coffee and registration (08h45)

Mini-plenary - Detection and investigative tools: how do we ensure that competition agencies are well-equipped to detect and investigate cartels? (09h15)
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 (10h30)

Breakout sessions (10h45)

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 (12h00)

Plenary session 2 - What are the most efficient enforcement tools for preventing and combatting anti-competitive agreements? (13h30)
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 (15h00)

Breakout sessions (15h15)

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 (17h30)

19 November (Friday)

Welcome coffee and registration (08h45)

Breakout sessions (09h15)

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 (10h30)

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 (12h15)
Ricardo Riesco (National Economic Prosecutor, FNE, Chile)
Margarida Matos Rosa (President, AdC, Portugal)

Farewell lunch (12h45)