The Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy at Columbia University is pleased to host a one-day conference bringing together leading scholars, enforcers, policymakers, and practitioners to examine the implications of digital platforms, AI-driven markets, and evolving forms of market power for antitrust and competition policy.
The program is organized around four interrelated themes reflected across the panels: the role of data, compute, and digital infrastructure in shaping competitive dynamics; the application of antitrust to labor markets; the interaction of state, federal, and international enforcement approaches; and the scope and limits of antitrust in addressing potential harms associated with digital and data-driven markets. Through moderated, cross-disciplinary discussions, the conference aims to assess existing tools, explore areas of debate and uncertainty, and consider how competition law and economic analysis may evolve as markets, technologies, and institutional approaches continue to change.