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Theme

This year’s theme is 'Discussions on dynamic markets and legislative reform'.

Date and location

  • Date: Thursday 30 October 2025
  • Location: Park Hyatt, Melbourne (in person only)

Ticket prices

  • Individual booking: $850 per ticket
  • Group booking: $750 per ticket

Registrations have now closed

Registrations for the ACCC/Monash University Australian Competition Summit 2025 have now closed.

If you need any assistance or further information, please contact us at acccevents@accc.gov.au .

Summit program, speakers and panellists

Learn more about the program, speakers and panellists in the Summit program ( PDF 1.85 MB )

Summit program

Time Session and speakers
8:15 – 8:50 am

Guest registration

Coffee and tea on arrival
8:50 – 9:00 am

Welcome to Country

Thane Harvey-Gannaway, Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation
9:00 – 9:05 am

Welcome and housekeeping

Luke Woodward, Commissioner, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
9:05 – 9:20 am

Opening remarks

Professor Simon Wilkie, Dean, Faculty of Business and Economics, Head of Monash Business School

Professor Steven Vaughan, Dean of Monash Law School
9:20 – 9:45 am

Keynote address - Competition in 2025

Gina Cass-Gottlieb, Chair, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission

9:45 – 10:45 am

Keynote - AI and competition policy

Chaired by: Frederic Jenny, Emeritus Professor of Economics, ESSEC Business School, Paris 

Speaker, Keynote: Julian Wright, Goh Keng Swee Professor, Department of Economics, National University of Singapore 

Discussants: 

  • Stephen King, Professor, Monash Department of Economics and Commissioner, Productivity Commission 
  • Johanna Weaver, Executive Director and Co-founder of the Tech Policy Design Institute
10:45 – 11:15 am 

Morning tea

11:15 – 12:35 am

Competition enforcement in the Asia-Pacific region: common issues and challenges

Chaired by: Robert Yezerski SC

Speakers panel:

  • Gina Cass-Gottlieb – Chair, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
  • Dr Reiko Aoki – Commissioner, Japan Fair Trade Commission
  • Dr John Small – Chair, New Zealand Commerce Commission
  • Senikavika L. Jiuta – Chief Executive Officer, Fijian Competition and Consumer Commission
12:35 – 1:35 pm Lunch
1:35 – 2:00 pm

Address – The Canadian Competition Reform Agenda

Speaker: Matthew Boswell, Commissioner of Competition, Competition Bureau Canada 

2:00 – 3:20 pm

Merger lessons – the switch to mandatory suspensory merger law in Australia: what we can learn from overseas and the challenges ahead

Chaired by: Morag Bond, General Manager, Mergers Assessments, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission

Address by: Joel Bamford, Executive Director, Competition and Markets Authority (UK)

Speakers panel:

  • Matthew Boswell, Commissioner of Competition, Competition Bureau Canada
  • Joel Bamford, Executive Director, Competition and Markets Authority (UK)
  • Ian Reynolds, Partner, Corrs Chambers Westgarth
  • Maria Coppola, Senior Policy and Strategic Advisor, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
3:20 – 3:50 pm Afternoon tea

3.50 – 4:50 pm

Embedding economic principles and analysis into merger and competition law decision making

Chaired by: Professor Simon Wilkie, Dean, Faculty of Business and Economics, Head of Monash Business School 

Speakers panel:

  • The Hon Justice Michael O’Bryan, Federal Court of Australia, Australian Competition Tribunal (President)
  • Dr Philip Williams, Commissioner, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
  • Dr Ruth Higgins SC, Barrister, Banco Chambers
  • Dr Jill Walker, Member, Australian Competition Tribunal
4.50 – 5:00 pm

Reflections and concluding remarks

Associate Professor Chengsi Wang, Monash Department of Economics 
5:00 pm Event close

Speakers and panellists

  • Gina Cass-Gottlieb, Chair, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
  • Luke Woodward, Commissioner, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
  • Matthew Boswell, Commissioner of Competition, Competition Bureau Canada
  • Dr Reiko Aoki, Commissioner, Japan Fair Trade Commission
  • Dr John Small, Chair, New Zealand Commerce Commission
  • Senikavika L. Jiuta, Chief Executive Officer, Fijian Competition and Consumer Commission
  • Joel Bamford, Executive Director, Competition and Markets Authority, UK
  • The Hon Justice Michael O’Bryan, Federal Court of Australia, Australian Competition Tribunal (President)
  • Frederic Jenny, Emeritus Professor of Economics, ESSEC Business School, Paris
  • Julian Wright, Goh Keng Swee Professor of Economics, National University of Singapore
  • Stephen King, Professor, Monash Department of Economics and Commissioner, Productivity Commission
  • Johanna Weaver, Executive Director and Co-founder of the Tech Policy Design Institute
  • Ian Reynolds, Partner, Corrs Chambers Westgarth
  • Professor Simon Wilkie, Dean, Faculty of Business and Economics, Head of Monash Business School
  • Professor Steven Vaughan, Dean of Monash Law School
  • Robert Yezerski SC, Banco Chambers
  • Dr Philip Williams, Commissioner, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
  • Dr Ruth Higgins SC, Barrister, Banco Chambers
  • Dr Jill Walker, Member, Australian Competition Tribunal
  • Associate Professor Chengsi Wang, Monash Department of Economics
  • Morag Bond, General Manager, Mergers Assessments, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
  • Maria Coppola, Senior Policy and Strategic Advisor, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission

Contact

acccevents@accc.gov.au