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 will co-host 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 will bring 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 will feature 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.

Agenda forthcoming

To curate the research talks, we solicited expressions of interest as submissions of either extended abstracts (with results in time for presentation), complete manuscripts, or published research papers. Research talks at the conference will be short (20 minutes plus Q&A) and should illuminate and stimulate dialogue about the practical application of research findings to policy enforcement. The academic portion of the conference will feature a variety of disciplines. Research talks will address the following topics:

• Empirical analysis of the impacts of digital regulation, enforcement actions, and changes in firm behavior on markets and consumers
• Observational or experimental results addressing any aspect of existing or potential competition interventions in the markets listed above
• Analyses of competitive, business, or technical aspects related to platform data, data sharing, privacy, user interface design, or choice architecture
• Analyses of institutional and legal structures affecting enforcement
• Cross-jurisdictional comparisons and learning

Conference timeline:

• Submissions due: December 6
• Speakers notified: December 20
• Initial attendee invitations to be sent: December 20
• Conference dates:  February 6-7

Please reach out to the organizers with questions or suggestions.