Keynote exploring both long-standing challenges and emerging priorities in competition and antitrust policy. Key themes will include mergers and acquisitions, market concentration, and potential structural remedies.

Artificial intelligence, particularly generative AI, is transforming economies, industries, and creative sectors at a pace few could have anticipated. These technologies bring unprecedented opportunities for innovation, economic growth, and societal benefit. Yet, at the same time, they raise important questions for the adequacy and adaptability of existing competition and intellectual property (IP) frameworks both here, in the United States, as well as across the international arena. 

Given this, this session will explore the intersection of competition policy and IP law in shaping the global economy. Panellists will explore consolidation trends, vertical integration, and strategic partnerships among leading players, while also considering how antitrust enforcement, cross-border cooperation, and legal adaptation can help sustain open, dynamic, and innovative markets. With different jurisdictions and regions taking divergent approaches, the discussion will also consider whether international convergence is possible, and what this means for the future of AI governance.

Technological leadership has long anchored the U.S’ economic strength and global standing. Now, amid intensifying geopolitical rivalry, the reach of major global firms and their advanced technologies is perhaps more deeply intertwined than ever with national priorities and strategic interests around the world.

Accordingly, this session will explore how breakthroughs in sectors such as semiconductors, AI, and cloud infrastructure are shaping market dynamics and driving global regulatory agendas. Panellists will consider how domestic competition policy intersects with broader foreign policy objectives, global approaches to regulation in strategically significant markets, and the extent to which antitrust enforcement can support both innovation and resilience in a fragmented global environment. With international perspectives, speakers from outside the U.S. will also reflect on the weight of American technological leadership, as well as on efforts underway in other regions to balance, complement, or curb its influence.