Time

Speaker/Panel

8.30AM

Registration and coffee

9AM

Opening Address by Lucinda Creighton TD,
Minister of State for European Affairs

9.30AM

20 years of competition policy: where next?

Moderator:  Mr Ciarán Quigley, Member, Competition Authority

Speakers:    Mr Paul Gallagher, Senior Counsel

                 Mr Declan Purcell, Chairperson, Competition
                 Authority

                 Dr Vincent Power, Partner, A&L Goodbody
                 Solicitors

11.00AM

Coffee/Tea

11.30AM

The link between competition & competitiveness

Moderator: Mr Gerald FitzGerald, Member, Competition
                Authority

Speakers:   Professor John FitzGerald, The Economic and 
                Social Research Institute

                Mr William Kovacic, Member, United States 
                Federal Trade Commission

                Dr Don Thornhill, Chairman, National 
                Competitiveness Council

1PM

Lunch

2PM

Where competition and other policy objectives collide

Moderator:   Ms Isolde Goggin, Member, Competition Authority

Speakers:     Ms Anna Colucci, Head of Strategy and Delivery 
                  Unit, DG Competition, European Commission

                  Mr Colm McCarthy, School of Economics, 
                  University College Dublin

                  Dr John Fingleton, Chief Executive, United 
                  Kingdom Office of Fair Trading

                  Ms Isolde Goggin, Member, Competition Authority

4PM

Conference ends