AKD Partners Digital Strategy Day 2.0

*Please note that, due to limited capacity, attendance will be confirmed by email following registration.

 

29 October 2025 | 9:00 - 14:00 CEST

AKD Partners Brussels
Wolstraat 70
7th floor
1000 Brussels

On 29 October we organise a half-day event AKD Partners Digital Strategy Day 2.0: making simplification and competitiveness in EU digital regulation a success, a high-level discussion on the ongoing simplification of the EU’s digital regulation.

Following our inaugural AKD Partners Digital Strategy Day in 2024, this year’s edition will bring together a distinguished audience of EU policymakers, academics, and industry leaders for an in-depth exchange on the most pressing regulatory challenges in the digital arena. Confirmed participants include representatives from the European Commission, the European Parliament, the OECD, the Centre on Regulation in Europe (CERRE), and the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) - ensuring a balanced, forward-looking debate.

Key themes we will be addressing:

• Competitiveness and simplification in digital regulation - what to expect from the upcoming Digital Omnibus?
• Challenges in implementing the Digital Decade framework and new upcoming Digital Fairness Act
• The interplay of key frameworks such as the GDPR, Data Act, and AI Act
• Strengthening inter-institutional coordination to improve regulatory quality in the digital field

The discussion will be followed by a networking lunch.

We look forward to welcoming you for what promises to be a timely and thought-provoking exchange.

8:30 - 9:15 Registration and light breakfast

9:15 - 9:30 Welcome
Richard Sterneberg, AKD Partners

9:30 - 10:30 EU digital regulation: how will simplification and competitiveness coexist?

• Antonio Capobianco (OECD)
• Michael McNamara (MEP - Renew)
• Rob van Eijk (Future of Privacy Forum - FPF)
• Barbara Scarafia (Amazon)
• Richard Sterneberg (AKD Partners)

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:00 Focusing on future: How to make all the EU 'digital rulebook' work in practice? Plans, enforcement and implementation

• Diarmuid Goulding (Irish Deputy Data Protection Commissioner)
• Martins Prieditis (DG JUST B2, Digital Fairness Act)
• Zach Meyers (Centre on Regulation in Europe - CERRE)
• Elias Papadopoulos (DOT Europe)
• Karolina Walczak (Mastercard)
• Heidi Waem (AKD Partners)

12:00 - 12:25 Briefing session with EDPS
Sebastião Barros Vale (European Data Protection Supervisor - EDPS)

12:30 - 12:45 Key takeaways and closing remarks
Christophe Carugati (Digital Competition)

12:45 - 14:00 Lunch and Networking