Archive for the 'Events' Category
February 28, 2017
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has announced that it will be hosting its third FinTech Forum on March 9th – on the topics of artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain. According to the FTC, it will hold two panels: one on the benefits and risks to consumers as AI is adapted to financial services; and the second considering potential consumer implications of blockchain and its new applications.
January 5, 2016
I am pleased to be a guest speaker at the CSAE (Canadian Society of Association Executives) Trillium Chapter’s 2016 Winter Summit in Burlington on February 4th. I will be co-presenting an interactive seminar on the Competition Bureau’s new approach to competition compliance for associations together with Mark Katz (Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP) and Nadia Brault, Director of Compliance at the Competition Bureau’s Competition Promotion Branch.
October 18, 2014
I am pleased to be a guest speaker at the Canadian Society of Association Executives’ (CSAE) National Conference 2014 in Niagara Falls this fall (October 29-31). I will be co-presenting with Mark Katz of Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg, the co-author of our competition law and associations book. Below is an overview of our seminar.
June 24, 2014
Yesterday and today the American Antitrust Institute (AAI) announced a call for entries for its AAI 2014 Antitrust Enforcement Awards and posted audio sessions from its 2014 Annual Conference on the theme of efficiency within antitrust analysis.
April 25, 2014
Information about an interesting new competition law and associations webinar come into my inbox this morning entitled: Antitrust Risks for Trade Associations and Members: Ensuring Compliance Amid Intensive Federal Scrutiny. Given that I work with many associations, I thought I would post the details. While this particular webinar is US-based, many of the same issues and compliance strategies are the same in Canada. Strafford is also an excellent CLE provider (and no I have not been paid to say that!)
March 17, 2014
The deadline for papers for the OECD’s “Competition Policy Challenge No. 1” is March 31, 2014. The competition, which was first announced late last fall and closes at the end of this month, was launched as the first in a multi-part competition policy paper competition, open to young researchers and PhD-level students.
December 20, 2013
My friends over at the Institute of Competition Law have announced their annual Antitrust Writing Awards & Ranking for 2014. This annual and very fine competition, sponsored by the Institute of Competition Law (publisher of Concurrences Journal), will be held on March 25, 2014 and their Antitrust Writing Awards Editorial Committee is presently selecting papers published or accepted for publication in 2013.
Templates/precedents and checklists to run promotional contests in Canada
Templates/precedents and checklists to comply with Canadian anti-spam law (CASL)
