Chaired by Antonio Bavasso, Allen & Overy LLP, UK

Keynote address: Ed Richards, Chief Executive, OFCOM, UK

Confirmed speakers:

Andrea Appella, News Corporation, UK

Simon Bishop, RBB Economics, UK

Cristina Caffarra, Charles River Associates, UK

Christian Ewald, Federal Cartel Office, Germany

Pablo Ibanez-Colomo, London School of Economics, UK

Krzysztof Kuik, DG Competition, European Commission, Belgium

Jorge Padilla, Compass Lexecon, Spain

Dave Poddar, Allen & Overy LLP, Australia

Andrea Prat, London School of Economics, UK

Simon Priddis, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, UK

Ted Shapiro, Motion Picture Association, Belgium

Alison Sprague, FTI Consulting, UK

Yih-Choung Teh, OFCOM, UK

Tommaso Valletti, Imperial College London, UK

Thibaud Verge, French Competition Authority, France

Stephen Wisking, Herbert Smith LLP, UK

08.30 Registration and coffee

09.00 Chairman's opening remarks

09.10 Keynote address

09.30 Competition enforcement in pay-TV: Incumbency, content and platform foreclosure and emerging technology issues

• Foreclosure or incumbency theories
• Wholesale mandatory offer remedies
• Exclusivity in content acquisition
• Content owners' perspective
• New technologies and platform access

11.00 Coffee break

11.20 Territorial exclusivity after Murphy

• The ECJ position
• Can the Coditel case law still apply?
• Does the judgement apply to other types of content?
• Does the judgement apply to the internet?
• Relationship with IP rights
• Impact on economic models

12.50 Lunch

14.00 Recent developments in international merger control and remedies

• EC
• France
• Germany
• Australia

15.30 Tea break

16.00 Plurality regime: is there a need for reform in the UK?

• Issues under consideration
• The current UK regime
• Is there a need for reform
• Measuring plurality
• How does the UL regime compare with positions elsewhere in the EU

17.30 Closing remarks and close of conference.