The Competition & Growth Conference
Unleashing Prosperity
In January 2025, the UK government replaced the chair of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), signaling a shift toward a more growth-oriented competition policy. This move, part of Labour’s broader economic agenda, has sparked intense debate about how competition enforcement can coexist with fostering innovation and growth, particularly in transformative sectors like artificial intelligence (AI) and digital markets.
The conference, "Competition & Growth: Unleashing Prosperity", organized by The George Washington University and hosted in London at the University of East London, brings together leading competition regulators, enforcers, antitrust scholars, practitioners, and in-house counsels to address this critical challenge.
The conference aims to explore how competition authorities can promote fair markets while supporting economic dynamism in an interconnected, AI-driven world.
It will examine the evolving role of competition policy in supporting industrial strategies, facilitating mergers that drive growth, and regulating rapidly evolving digital markets. Conference participants will include leading regulators, in-house counsels, and practitioners in the United Kingdom. The conference is a unique opportunity to engage with key stakeholders at a critical time for the development of competition rules in the United Kingdom.
