The future of digital platforms
AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
13 November 2024
13 November 2024
An initiative by Launchworks & Co
Platforms and their ecosystems are now part of our daily lives. They are redefining the way we work, the way we learn, how we innovate and how we collaborate. As a community of platform leaders, how do we ensure that the full potential of these digital ecosystems is realised for all?
What is Platform Leaders?
Platform Leaders brings together entrepreneurs, policy makers, academics, investors and practitioners to exchange insights and best practices on the future of digital platforms and ecosystems. These communities don’t always talk to each other, yet are collectively building the platform economy. Platform Leaders provides strategic insights into key topics and allow experts to share complementary perspectives to shape the debate so that the potential of digital markets can be unlocked for all.
Agenda
Curious about how to build successful AI infrastructure? Want to know more about regulating in an exponential age? How can platforms help solve the healthcare crisis? Interesting in the latest platform research insights and digital trends for 2025? These are the key topics that we will address on 13 November 2024.
Below are confirmed speakers for 13 November 2024
Laure Claire Reillier
Laure Claire Reillier
Laure Claire Reillier is Co-founder and COO of Launchworks & Co, the leading experts for designing and scaling marketplaces & platforms. Formerly a senior exec at eBay Europe, she has 20 years’ experience in developing, managing and marketing products and services for digital, e-commerce, and platform companies. Laure Claire was appointed in 2019 as one of the 8 experts on digital platforms at the World Economic Forum. She is also the co-author of Platform Strategy: How to unlock the power of communities and networks to grow your business and Mission BlaBlaCar.
Oliver Bethell
Oliver Bethell
Oliver is Head of Competition, Regulatory Engagement & Advisory at Google where he leads a large multidisciplinary and cross functional team covering Policy, Legal, Economists, Product, Eng, Comms.
He was previously in private practice at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in Brussels before moving to Google’s in-house team in London in 2008.
Oliver is a graduate of Oxford University, BPP Law School and King's College. He is a member of the Bar of England and Wales.
Oliver was named Competition Individual of the Year, 2018 (Global Counsel Awards); Competition Individual of the Year, 2018 (European Counsel Awards); and Corporate Counsel of the Year, 2012 (Global Competition Review).
Jennifer Schenker
Jennifer Schenker
Jennifer L. Schenker, an award-winning journalist, has been covering the global tech industry from Europe since 1985, working full-time, at various points in her career for the Wall Street Journal Europe, Time Magazine, International Herald Tribune, Red Herring and BusinessWeek. After leaving BusinessWeek Schenker founded Informilo, a U.K.-based media company that published print magazines about the global tech sector. She is currently the founder and editor-in-chief of The Innovator, a global subscription newsletter about the digital transformation of business (www.innovator.news).
Jennifer was voted one of the 50 most inspiring women in technology in Europe in 2015 and 2016 and was named in Forbes 2018 list of 30 women leaders disrupting tech in France. She has been a World Economic Forum Tech Pioneers judge for 20 years. She lives in Paris and has dual U.S. and French citizenship.
Benoit Reillier
Benoit Reillier
Benoit Reillier specialises in strategy and corporate development for innovative high growth companies and platform businesses/ecosystems. He has been advising the boards and top management teams of many blue chip companies as well as regulators and Governments for more than 20 years. Prior to founding Launchworks Benoit was Director of Economics and Regulation at KPMG where he focused on Telecommunications, Media and Technology clients globally. Benoit is a guest lecturer in a number of top business and engineering schools and is in charge of the executive Platform Strategy module of the HEC Paris MBA. He is a graduate from IMT Business School in Paris and holds Master degrees in Management, Economics and Law. Benoit is also a graduate from Columbia University in New York and London Business School (MBA).
He is the co-author of Platform Strategy: How to unlock the power of communities and networks to grow your business and Mission BlaBlaCar.
Amanda Kamin
Amanda Kamin
A senior corporate reputation specialist with 20 years’ marketing and communications experience, Amanda Kamin is Chief Marketing Communications Officer for Digital Catapult. Having worked in international organisations (Motorola, Visa Europe and VisionFund) and within the UK public sector (Food From Britain) both in agency and in-house roles, she has broad experience across a range of markets and audiences. Amanda is skilled in multichannel oversight, leadership communications and quality content generation.
Amanda’s previous role in VisionFund International’s Senior Executive Team, gave her a deep understanding of the impact of funding for fledgling startups as she supported World Vision’s microfinance arm across 30 markets.
Amanda was also a Trustee of Community Risk Services in Lambeth, the UK’s first council-facilitated insurance offering to community groups and not-for-profits, and a Board Director of the Financial Inclusion Forum. Amanda is currently on the board of the Margaret Pyke Trust, a charity providing sexual health training to medical professionals in the UK and Africa; she is also the Director of the All Aboard Club charity, a not-for-profit that organises events for children with autism and ADHD.
Matthew Braovac
Matthew Braovac
Matthew is a Director in the Digital Markets Unit within the Competition and Markets Authority with particular responsibilities for the DMU’s relationships with other competition agencies and regulators, the operational readiness of the DMU for the UK’s planned pro-competition regime for digital markets and the Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum which brings together the CMA with the ICO, FCA and Ofcom to work collaboratively to improve the coherence of the different regulatory regimes that impact digital markets and build capabilities across its member regulators.
Before joining the CMA, Matthew had a long career in the private sector leading legal, regulatory and public policy teams at Sky and Vodafone. Previously, Matthew trained and practiced as a competition lawyer at a leading City firm.
Dr Charles Armitage
Dr Charles Armitage
Charles is a co-founder and CEO of Florence, a platform that supports healthcare organisations to build a flexible workforce. Florence was founded in 2017 and recently expanded beyond the UK into Europe and North America.
Before starting Florence, Charles was a doctor.
Laura McCracken
Laura McCracken
Laura McCracken is a FinTech and platform veteran with over 25 years of commerce and payments industry experience. She held senior positions at Facebook (Meta), Amazon, Citi, and American Express. Most recently, she was an MD at Accenture, leading the Social Commerce & Payments industry vertical globally.
She currently advises leadership teams of Fintech companies at Launchworks & Co on a wide range of strategic topics including social commerce, marketplace, payment and mobile wallet. She also serves on the board of The Payments Association (TPA) and is an Independent Non-Executive Director at Guavapay.
Having lived in London, Luxembourg, Singapore, New York and Los Angeles and worked across over 30 markets in North America, EMEA, Russia/CIS and Asia Pacific, Laura has a unique international network and views the world through a global lens.
She holds a BS in Accounting from Auburn University and MBA degrees from Columbia and London Business School.
Laurence Levy
Laurence Levy
Laurence Levy is the CEO and Founder of MeditSimple, a healthcare platform that leverages AI and automation to streamline patient care, reducing the time to diagnosis and treatment significantly. Laurence has been leading MeditSimple since April 2019, based in London, United Kingdom.
Laurence started her career in the Financial Services industry. She previously was the Founder of Risk One, Head of Financial Services Practice at Plaut Consulting and a Senior Consultant in the Banking and Insurance Department at KPMG Peat Marwick. She also served as a visiting professor at ESSEC Business School, teaching options pricing theory.
Ruth Cousens
Ruth Cousens
With over 15 years of experience in leading and growing not-for-profit enterprises Ruth is the co-founder and CEO of THIS Labs, a University of Cambridge spin-out that enables successful improvement and innovation in health and care services by harnessing the insight and expertise of the people that use, deliver and influence those services.
At THIS Labs, Ruth leads a multidisciplinary team who collaborate with public, private, and third-sector partners to co-create and test innovative solutions for social impact, using their online platform, Thiscovery.
Ruth holds an MBA from Cranfield School of Management and degrees from Cambridge and Queen Mary, University of London.
Max Beverton-Palmer
Max Beverton-Palmer
Max Beverton-Palmer is Head of Public Policy at NVIDIA.
Prior to joining NVIDIA, Max was Head of Internet Policy at the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. His work focused on building a progressive policy platform around the platform economy, the global governance of tech, content and online harms, and social media regulation. He was previously Head of Digital Policy at Sky, leading policy in the UK and EU on online advertising, internet safety, and online regulation, as well as working with technology and product teams on ethical responsibility of design.
Max started his career at the UK communications regulator, Ofcom, working on broadcast regulation, net neutrality, broadband infrastructure, and spectrum.
Max is also a Policy Fellow at CSaP - Centre for Science and Policy, University of Cambridge.
Verity Egerton-Doyle
Verity Egerton-Doyle
Verity is a partner in Linklaters’ London Antitrust & Foreign Investment Group and co-head of the UK technology sector team and Co-Head of Games and Interactive Entertainment.
Verity has over a decade of experience across advisory, investigatory and transactional aspects of competition law in the EU and the UK, including on vertical and abuse of dominance issues. She is particularly familiar with the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority, having spent time on secondment to the CMA’s mergers group, during which she sat on the CMA’s Mergers Intelligence Committee.
Verity is recognised as a leading commentator on competition and regulatory issues in the tech sector and on forthcoming platform regulation regimes.
