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TIME
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PROGRAMME
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8.30am
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Registration
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9.00am
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Welcome Address
Mr. Aubeck Kam, Chairman, Competition Commission of Singapore
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9.10am
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Keynote Address
Launch of Handbook on E-Commerce and Competition in ASEAN
Mr. Lim Hng Kiang, Minister (Trade), Ministry of Trade & Industry
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9.40am
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Opening session
Mr. Damian Kassabgi, Head of Public Policy, Asia Pacific, Uber
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10.00am
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Morning Tea Break
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10.30am
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Panel 1 - Disruptor or Disrupted – The application of competition law in the new economy
Summary: Innovation (technology, business models) are creating new markets and disrupting existing ones. This session examines the effects of disruption through case examples and the application of competition law in disrupted markets.
Discussant: Professor Wong Poh Kam, Professor, NUS Business School & Director for NUS Entrepreneurship Centre, National University of Singapore
Moderator: Mr. Lee Cheow Han, Assistant Chief Executive (Legal & Enforcement), Competition Commission of Singapore
Panellists:
- Professor Wong Poh Kam
- Ms. Kala Anandarajah, Head of Competition & Antitrust and Trade Practice, Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP
- Ms. Annabella Ng, Government Affairs Manager, Grab
- Mr. Siddharth Shanker, General Manager, Deliveroo Singapore
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11.45am
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Panel 2 - Big Data – What’s the big deal?
Summary: Discussion on the use of big data as an asset/tool to innovate, the need to factor in the impact of big data by competition authorities in enforcement, cognisance of big data and possible competition issues from perspective of private companies and regulators. CCS will also share some of its findings from its latest big data paper.
Moderator: Ms. Ng Ee Kia, Assistant Chief Executive (Policy, Business & Economics), Competition Commission of Singapore
Panellists:
- Mr. Ken Chia, Principal, IT & Communications, Global Trade & Commerce and Competition Practice Groups, Baker McKenzie.Wong & Leow
- Mr. Lam Chee Kin, Managing Director & Head, Group Legal, Compliance and Secretariat, DBS Bank Ltd
- Associate Professor Dr. Burton Ong, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore
- Mr. Shintaro Ueda, Deputy Director, Economic Affairs Bureau, Japan Fair Trade Commission
- Mr. Yeong Zee Kin, Deputy Commissioner, Personal Data Protection Commission
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12.50pm
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Lunch – B1 Supreme Court Auditorium
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2.00pm
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Panel 3 - Thinking out of the box: market studies, regulatory sandboxes and the design of competitive markets
Summary: Dialogue session on how regulators together with the industry can leverage on alternative tools to better understand markets and facilitate competitive markets through policy design.
Moderator: Dr. Tan Hi Lin, Director (Policy & Markets), Competition Commission of Singapore
Panellists:
- Emeritus Professor David Parker, Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield University UK
- Mr. Lim Chong Kin, Director, Head of Competition & Regulatory Practice Group, Drew & Napier LLC
- Ms. Anna Wu, Chairperson, Competition Commission Hong Kong
- Mr. Eugene Toh, Director, Pro-Enterprise Division, Ministry of Trade and Industry
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3.05pm
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Panel 4 – Fundamental Solution or Band-Aid stop gap - competition law remedies in a changing world
Summary: Discussion of the application of remedies available to enforcers and the innovative solutions proposed by companies to achieve pro-competitive outcomes and address competition concerns of competition authorities.
Discussant: Emeritus Professor Richard Whish QC Honoris Causa, King’s College London
Moderator: Mr. Herbert Fung, Director (Business & Economics), Competition Commission of Singapore
Panellist:
- Emeritus Professor Richard Whish QC Honoris Causa
- Mr. Daren Shiau, Head of Competition & Antitrust Practice, Allen & Gledhill LLP
- Ms. Jeanne Pratt, Senior Deputy Commissioner of Mergers & Monopolistic Practices Branch, Canadian Competition Bureau
- Mr. Saswata Mukherjee, General Counsel, Unilever Asia Private Limited
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4.10pm
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Afternoon Tea Break
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4.40pm
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Panel 5 – Compliance and enforcement within Singapore and across jurisdictional boundaries
Summary: This session provides an inside view on how enforcers in various jurisdictions, including Singapore consider competition issues and how companies can navigate their way through different jurisdictional competition rules and design their corporate compliance. Given the action of global companies’ can have a multijurisdictional impact, the session also discusses how enforcers work together and also tap on other forms of cooperation between them to address cross border competition issues.
The session will also cover the latest competition law developments in Singapore that companies and practitioners should be aware of, including CCS’s revised Guidelines (December 2016).
Moderator: Mr. Harikumar Pillay, Director (Enforcement), Competition Commission of Singapore
Panellists:
- Mr. Deepak Acharya, Director & Associate General Counsel, Proctor & Gamble Singapore
- Ms. Ameera Ashraf, Partner, Head of Competition & Regulatory Practice, WongPartnership LLP
- Mr. Gerald Singham, Senior Partner, Head of Competition Law Practice Group, Dentons Rodyk & Davidson LLP
- Mr. Richard Fleming, General Manager of the Australian Capital Territory Enforcement Branch, Australia Competition and Consumer Commission
- Mr. Deswin Nur, Head of International Cooperation Division, Commission for the Supervision of Business Competition Indonesia
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5.50 pm
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Future Directions in Competition Law
Closing Address by Mr. Toh Han Li, Chief Executive, Competition Commission of Singapore
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6.00pm
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End of Conference
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