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Forum Overview
Dates: October 22 - 24, 2025
Location: Sussex, United Kingdom
The Steering Committee welcomes a distinguished, pan-EU/UK group of up to 48 senior policy and regulation executives within digital firms and preeminent technology advisors, including seasoned lawyers and public affairs experts, to discuss the regulatory policy, competition law, and litigation environment surrounding digital-first businesses.
Using candid, seminar-style discussion, the group explores the real-world impacts of digital platform regulation and evolving legislatures.
2024 Steering Committee
Committee Co-Chairs

Robin is a Partner at Oxera with more than 15 years’ experience, specialising in competition economics and quantifying damages. He leads Oxera’s work on disputes and damages quantification as co-chair of its Litigation and Arbitration practice. He led the Oxera team that worked on the 2009 study commissioned by the European Commission to set out the methods used to quantify antitrust damages; this study formed the basis of the Commission’s own guidance to national courts in 2013. He has provided training to judges and lawyers from various EU member states on competition economics. He has a wide range of experience in competition-related disputes, mergers, and abuse of dominance investigations, working on cases in the UK, Ireland, the USA, the Netherlands and Germany. He has acted for both claimants/applicants and defendants/respondents in these matters. Robin has worked on more than 40 damages quantification cases. In particular, he was the testifying expert in the UK’s first application for a class action: Dorothy Gibson vs Pride Mobility, in the Competition Appeal Tribunal. He is listed in The International Who’s Who of Competition Lawyers & Economists. Robin has published in peer-reviewed journals such as Global Competition Litigation Review and the Competition Law Journal, and has acted as a reviewer for articles in the Journal of Economic and Financial Sciences and the Journal of Antitrust Enforcement.

Anselm Rodenhausen joined Video Games Europe in November of 2023 as Vice President Legal and Policy. Anselm joins from Zalando where he headed up the antitrust law team in Berlin, responsible for the group’s competition and distribution law matters in 25 markets. Prior to this, he focussed on the digital sector in different positions: as a lawyer/Principal Associate in the Brussels office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, representing telecoms, platforms and tech companies; and as a Legal & Policy Officer with the European Commission (DG CONNECT) helping to develop the Commission’s Digital Single Market strategy. Anselm has published articles on a number of legal aspects of the digital world and holds a PhD in law from the University of Muenster.
Committee Members


He is advising Oracle on mergers and acquisitions, distribution and licensing, competition compliance and antitrust investigations by competition authorities worldwide. He has represented Oracle on its most important acquisitions in the last 15 years (including Oracle/Siebel, Oracle/BEA, Oracle/Sun, Oracle/Netsuite and Oracle/Cerner) and in the Microsoft antitrust cases before the European Commission and the European courts.
Dimos holds a BA Hons. in Jurisprudence, a BCL in European and Comparative Law and an MPhil in Competition Law from Oxford University.



Stephen Kinsella OBE is founder of Clean Up The Internet, a UK non-profit campaigning for action to address the harm caused by fake and anonymous social media accounts, whose work was instrumental in securing the inclusion of a "user identity verification duty" in the Online Safety Bill. A competition lawyer by background, he's previously been Managing Partner of Herbert Smith’s Brussels office and global head of antitrust at Sidley, and is currently a Senior Advisor at Flint Global. Stephen is also a founder of public interest legal project Law For Change. In 2024 Stephen was recognised by the Law Society with a "Legal Hero" award "for his exceptional contributions to legal practice and social justice".



Forum Directors

Shlayane holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology from Carleton University in Ottawa, ON.
Prior to joining the Cambridge team, she has developed a robust expertise in the event industry having orchestrated a diverse range of events from intimate gatherings to large-scale corporate functions. Shlay has successfully managed events for clients such as Fashion Bomb Daily, SickKids, Pinterest, and more showcasing her ability to handle complex logistics and creative challenges with ease.
Outside of the office, Shlay enjoys spin class, reading by the beach, and endless karaoke nights with her family.
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