DMA and Beyond Conference

On February 6-7, 2025 in Washington, DC, the Knight-Georgetown Institute (KGI) and the Yale Tobin Center’s Digital Economy Project co-hosted DMA and Beyond, a policy and research conference exploring the lessons, challenges, and opportunities of competition regulation and enforcement in digital markets.

As the EU’s Digital Markets Act completes its first year of required compliance, regulatory authorities, the tech industry, and consumers are gaining experience and seeing early results from the application of the DMA. At the same time, an active docket of tech antitrust litigation pursued by state and private actors in the US is combining with regulatory shifts in the UK, South Korea, Australia, and elsewhere to spur novel approaches to stimulating competition in the tech sector. The next several years will be crucial in determining whether new regulations and new paradigms of enforcement will lead to meaningful change in the markets that shape information production and consumption globally.

DMA and Beyond brought together researchers, policy experts, regulators, industry, and civil society representatives to gain a shared understanding of the latest research, analysis, and experiences with direct applicability to tech competition regulation and enforcement. The conference featured a mix of research talks and policy discussions focused on the markets for search, advertising, social networking, mobile platforms and app stores, messaging, and AI-powered consumer services.

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