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Guest registration

Coffee and tea on arrival

Welcome to Country

Thane Harvey-Gannaway, Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation

Welcome and housekeeping

Luke Woodward, Commissioner, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission

Opening remarks

Professor Simon Wilkie, Dean, Faculty of Business and Economics, Head of Monash Business School

Professor Steven Vaughan, Dean of Monash Law School

Keynote address - Competition in 2025

Gina Cass-Gottlieb, Chair, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission

9:45 – 10:45 am

Keynote - AI and competition policy

Chaired by: Frederic Jenny, Emeritus Professor of Economics, ESSEC Business School, Paris 

Speaker, Keynote: Julian Wright, Goh Keng Swee Professor, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore 

Discussants: 

• Stephen King, Professor, Monash Department of Economics and Commissioner, Productivity Commission 
• Johanna Weaver, Executive Director and Co-founder of the Tech Policy Design Institute

Morning tea

11:15 â€“ 12:35 am

Competition enforcement in the Asia-Pacific region: common issues and challenges

Chaired by: Robert Yezerski SC

Speakers panel:

• Gina Cass-Gottlieb – Chair, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
• Dr Reiko Aoki – Commissioner, Japan Fair Trade Commission
• Dr John Small – Chair, New Zealand Commerce Commission
• Senikavika L. Jiuta – Chief Executive Officer, Fijian Competition and Consumer Commission

Address – The Canadian Competition Reform Agenda

Speaker: Matthew Boswell, Commissioner of Competition, Competition Bureau Canada 

2:00 â€“ 3:20 pm

Merger lessons – the switch to mandatory suspensory merger law in Australia: what we can learn from overseas and the challenges ahead

Chaired by: Morag Bond, General Manager, Mergers Assessments, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission

Address by: Joel Bamford, Executive Director, Competition and Markets Authority (UK)

Speakers panel:

• Matthew Boswell, Commissioner of Competition, Competition Bureau Canada
• Joel Bamford, Executive Director, Competition and Markets Authority (UK)
• Ian Reynolds, Partner, Corrs Chambers Westgarth
• Maria Coppola, Senior Policy and Strategic Advisor, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission

3.50 – 4:50 pm

Embedding economic principles and analysis into merger and competition law decision making

Chaired by: Professor Simon Wilkie, Dean, Faculty of Business and Economics, Head of Monash Business School 

Speakers panel:

• The Hon Justice Michael O’Bryan, Federal Court of Australia, Australian Competition Tribunal (President)
• Dr Philip Williams, Commissioner, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
• Dr Ruth Higgins SC, Barrister, Banco Chambers
• Dr Jill Walker, Member, Australian Competition Tribunal

Reflections and concluding remarks

Associate Professor Chengsi Wang, Monash Department of Economics