Opportunities and challenges of the digital revolution
The digital revolution presents enormous opportunities and challenges to virtually all players in the modern society.
Businesses need to understand and embrace digital transformation. Consumers may enjoy personalised services but also risk their privacy being compromised. Policymakers and regulators face the difficult task of how to rein in powerful big techs without discouraging innovation and investment.
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) Chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb and Federal Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury Dr Andrew Leigh will headline our two-day conference bringing together experts from academia, industry, and government to discuss these challenges and opportunities.
Monash Business School’s new Digital Lab, with the USC Initiative on Digital Competition at the USC Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, is proud to present its first conference on March 16-17 2023.
Day 1 of this conference features cutting-edge academic research covering various topics relevant to the digital economy such as communication and search, licensing, platform competition, and regulation.
Day 2 of the conference has a practitioner focus with panelists from industry (Google, Meta, etc.), government (ACCC, Productivity Commission), and academia to discuss regulation of tech platforms, digital transformation, and the entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Day 2 Keynote speakers
Gina Cass-Gottlieb, Chair, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)
Ms Cass-Gottlieb started her five-year appointment as Chair of the ACCC on 21 March 2022.
She is the first female chair of the ACCC since it was established as an independent statutory authority in 1995.
Before she joined the ACCC Ms Cass-Gottlieb was a senior and founding partner of Gilbert and Tobin’s competition and regulation team. She has over 25 years’ experience advising on a large number of merger, competition and regulatory matters in Australia and New Zealand. She is widely recognised as one of Australia’s leading competition and regulatory experts.
Ms Cass-Gottlieb was appointed by the Commonwealth Treasurer to the Reserve Bank of Australia’s Payments System Board in 2013 and re-appointed in 2018. She was appointed to the Financial Regulator Assessment Authority in September 2021.
She has received numerous accolades from Chambers Asia Pacific, Legal 500 Asia Pacific, Who’s Who Legal, Lawyers Weekly Awards, Beaton Client Choice Awards and Best Lawyers Australia, for her competition and legal expertise.
Ms Cass-Gottlieb was also a Fulbright Scholar at UC Berkeley from 1986 to 1987.
Dr Andrew Leigh, MP, Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury
Dr Leigh is the Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury, and Federal Member for Fenner in the ACT.
Prior to his election in 2010, Dr Leigh was a professor of economics at the Australian National University. He holds a PhD in Public Policy from Harvard, having graduated from the University of Sydney with first class honours in Arts and Law. Dr Leigh is a past recipient of the Economic Society of Australia's Young Economist Award and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences.
His books include What's the Worst That Could Happen? Existential Risk and Extreme Politics (2021) and Fair Game: Lessons From Sport for a Fairer Society and a Stronger Economy (2022).
Conference programs
This event features collaboration from the Centre for Commercial Law and Regulatory Studies, Faculty of Law, and the Monash Data Futures Institute, Monash University.
Co-organisers:
Chongwoo Choe (Monash University), Daniel Sokol (University of Southern California)
Event Details
- Date:
- 16 March 2023 at 9:00 am – 17 March 2023 at 5:00 pm
- Venue:
- Day 1 - Monash University Caulfield campus, Building H, Level 9, Room 914; Day 2 - Monash Conference Centre, Level 7, 30 Collins St, Melbourne VIC.
- Categories:
- Digital Lab; General
Description
The digital revolution presents enormous opportunities and challenges to virtually all players in the modern society.
Businesses need to understand and embrace digital transformation. Consumers may enjoy personalised services but also risk their privacy being compromised. Policymakers and regulators face the difficult task of how to rein in powerful big techs without discouraging innovation and investment.
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) Chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb and Federal Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury Dr Andrew Leigh will headline our two-day conference bringing together experts from academia, industry, and government to discuss these challenges and opportunities.
Monash Business School’s new Digital Lab, with the USC Initiative on Digital Competition at the USC Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, is proud to present its first conference on March 16-17 2023.
Day 1 of this conference features cutting-edge academic research covering various topics relevant to the digital economy such as communication and search, licensing, platform competition, and regulation.
Day 2 of the conference has a practitioner focus with panelists from industry (Google, Meta, etc.), government (ACCC, Productivity Commission), and academia to discuss regulation of tech platforms, digital transformation, and the entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Day 2 Keynote speakers
Gina Cass-Gottlieb, Chair, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)
Ms Cass-Gottlieb started her five-year appointment as Chair of the ACCC on 21 March 2022.
She is the first female chair of the ACCC since it was established as an independent statutory authority in 1995.
Before she joined the ACCC Ms Cass-Gottlieb was a senior and founding partner of Gilbert and Tobin’s competition and regulation team. She has over 25 years’ experience advising on a large number of merger, competition and regulatory matters in Australia and New Zealand. She is widely recognised as one of Australia’s leading competition and regulatory experts.
Ms Cass-Gottlieb was appointed by the Commonwealth Treasurer to the Reserve Bank of Australia’s Payments System Board in 2013 and re-appointed in 2018. She was appointed to the Financial Regulator Assessment Authority in September 2021.
She has received numerous accolades from Chambers Asia Pacific, Legal 500 Asia Pacific, Who’s Who Legal, Lawyers Weekly Awards, Beaton Client Choice Awards and Best Lawyers Australia, for her competition and legal expertise.
Ms Cass-Gottlieb was also a Fulbright Scholar at UC Berkeley from 1986 to 1987.
Dr Andrew Leigh, MP, Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury
Dr Leigh is the Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury, and Federal Member for Fenner in the ACT.
Prior to his election in 2010, Dr Leigh was a professor of economics at the Australian National University. He holds a PhD in Public Policy from Harvard, having graduated from the University of Sydney with first class honours in Arts and Law. Dr Leigh is a past recipient of the Economic Society of Australia's Young Economist Award and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences.
His books include What's the Worst That Could Happen? Existential Risk and Extreme Politics (2021) and Fair Game: Lessons From Sport for a Fairer Society and a Stronger Economy (2022).
Conference programs
This event features collaboration from the Centre for Commercial Law and Regulatory Studies, Faculty of Law, and the Monash Data Futures Institute, Monash University.
Co-organisers:
Chongwoo Choe (Monash University), Daniel Sokol (University of Southern California)