The OECD Competition Open Day offers every year a unique opportunity to discuss cutting-edge topics recently addressed by the OECD Competition Committee.

The 7th edition will happen on 26 February 2025 in Paris and online to discuss:

• Launch of OECD Competition Trends 2025
• Keynote address by Professor Kathleen Vohs, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota – “Rethinking competition policy and action with behavioural economics and decision-theory”
• Navigating the future with heads of authorities: Confronting emerging challenges in competition
• How should competition policy respond to developments in Generative AI?
• Rethinking the Standard of Proof in competition law: myth or reality?
• Reviewing Cross-border Mergers in the Digital Age: complexities and emerging approaches

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The event is free and open to the competition community and those interested in the work of the OECD on competition, including legal practitioners, government officials, economists, consultants, in-house counsel, regulators, academics, and the media. 

Registration and more information will be available shortly. In the meantime, we invite you to share this save-the-date with colleagues who might be interested in attending or sharing our LinkedIn event with your networks.

Officials from competition authorities attending the Open Day in person will also benefit from two workshops back-to-back with this event on Applying behavioural economics in competition enforcement and Advocating for competitive neutrality in regulation and state support.