Arcep and IRG birthday conference, February 22th, 2017, Paris

SUMMARY
  • 2:15 – 2:30 pm: Introduction

    By Sébastien Soriano, Arcep & BEREC Chairman

  • 2:30 – 3:00 pm: Keynote – Regulation, targeted government intervention for greater economic efficiency By Jean Tirole, Economist, Nobel Prize in economics (2014)
  • 3:00 – 3:15 pm: Testimonial - 20 years of regulation, as seen by a market player By Matthew Kirk, Group External Affairs Director, Vodafone
  • 3:15 – 3:30 pm: Testimonial - 20 years of regulation, as seen by a regulator

    By Alejandra de Iturriaga Gandini, Electronic and Audiovisual Communications Director, CNMC (Spain), IRG & BEREC member
  • 3:30 – 4:30 pm: Debate – And what about tomorrow? Hacking regulation through data

    Generally speaking, digital tools are forcing the State to wrestle with the need to rethink its relationship with citizens and businesses. We expect these digital tools to enable it to expand its ability to take action. How to create the conditions that allow “the multitude” to become involved and stimulate innovation? How to encourage the market to move in the right direction?

    #Experimentation #Data #Crowdsourcing
  • Introductive keynote (3:30 – 3:45 pm) By Nick Grossman, Union Square Ventures General Manager, Author of “Regulation, the Internet Way”
  • Followed by a dialogue (3:45 – 4:30 pm)

    - Laure Lucchesi, Etalab Director (French Prime Minister's task force for Open Data, Open Gov and Data-driven transformation)
    - Primavera de Filippi, Research Fellow at Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University
    - Nick Grossman, Union Square Ventures General Manager
    Moderation: Françoise Benhamou, Arcep board member
  • 5:00 – 5:20 pm: Keynote – What will networks look like 20 years from now ? By William Webb, CEO of Weightless SIG, Director of Webb Search
  • 5:20 – 6:10 pm: Dialogue – Will we need to unbundle algorithms one day?

    The era of opening the telecoms market up to competition is nearing completion: competition exists and unbundling fixed networks has been essential to this transformation. The challenge is no longer to create competition, but to keep it alive and safeguard it. A new era has begun: that of the digital revolution. Newcomers are helping drive the ubiquity of communications. Algorithms are the epicenter of this revolution, so much so that these essential tools are forcing a re-examination of regulation’s position.

    #Regulation #unbundling #Algorithms #Innovation

    An exchange of views between Jacques Stern, Arcep board member, and Cédric Villani, Mathematician, Fields Medals winner (2010)
  • 6:10 – 6:30 pm: Closing keynote – How can regulation pave the way for tomorrow’s internet?

    By Yochai Benkler, Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School and Faculty co-director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University

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    INFORMATION

    In order to celebrate its 20th birthday, Arcep co-organizes with IRG (Independent Regulators Group) an international conference on Wednesday February 22, 2017, in Paris : "RegTech is the new GovTech, revisiting regulation". On the program of debates : economic efficiency of regulation, Internet of tomorrow, algorithms as the epicenter of the digital revolution and new modes of regulation.

    - The Conference Proceedings : Download/ Read
    - The program
    - Speakers Biographies

    The slides of the speakers

    - 20 years of regulation, as seen by a regulator
    By Alejandra de Iturriaga Gandini, Electronic and Audiovisual Communications Director, CNMC (Spain), IRG and BEREC member
    - And what about tomorrow? Hacking regulation through data
    By Nick Grossman, Union Square Ventures General Manager, Author of “Regulation, the Internet Way”
    - What will networks look like 20 years from now?
    By William Webb, CEO of Weightless SIG, Director of Webb Search
    - How can regulation pave the way for tomorrow’s internet?
    By Yochai Benkler, Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School and Faculty co-director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University

    Arcep and IRG celebrate their 20th birthday

    On the occasion of its 20th anniversary, Arcep publishes a birthday brochure in order to retrace the progress made and to highlight the major issues currently and to come.

    - 1997- 2017: 20 years of regulation : Read/Download
    - Presentation of the Independent Regulators Group (IRG)
    - The fruit of 20 years of regulation: key facts and figures (PDF)