The future of digital platforms
AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
5th June 2025
5th June 2025
An initiative by Launchworks & Co
Platform Leaders brings together practitioners, academics and policy makers to exchange insights and best practices on the future of digital platforms and ecosystems.
Why Platform Leaders?
Platforms and ecosystems are re-writing the rules of management. New laws, new skills, new management practices are needed. We bring together communities who don’t always talk to each other but in fact, are collectively building the platform economy. Entrepreneurs, policy makers and academics.
Transforming Healthcare with AI and Digital Platforms
Regulation in an Exponential age
Building the AI Infrastructure for Success
Innovation vs Regulation: Europe’s Response to AI and Platforms
The Future of App Stores: Regulation, Innovation & Competition in the App Economy
Keynote with OpenAI Insider Arka Dhar
Platform research in focus: decentralisation and network effects
Fundraising for your platform startup: Insights from the best VCs
Eco-Innovations Unleashed: How BackMarket, Vestiaire Collective and Vinterior Are Shaping the Future of Circular Economy
Payment platforms: innovation at lightning speed
The platform economy: historical impact and future trends
Entering a new era of platform regulation
Platforms powering the circular economy
Generative AI is changing the game for platforms
Platform regulation at a crossroads
The promise of Web3
Platforms and user-centric design
Platforms aiming for net zero
Digital transformation and platforms
Platforms as choice architects
Kiva: a mission driven financial inclusion platform
Designing future-proof platform regulation
Platform Talent: Investing in the Professionals of Tomorrow
Delivery Hero at scale and beyond: CEO Niklas Östberg shares his vision
Digital Platforms: impact and resilience in COVID times
Trust is at the heart of Platform Governance
Platform Leaders Cartoon - 11 July 2024
An illustrated summary of Platform Leaders on 11 July 2024 with live scribing with Liam Callebout.
Keynote Arka Dhar Head of Human Data from OpenAI - 11 July 2024
Arka Dhar, OpenAI Insider is in conversation with Platform Leaders Co-Chair Laure Claire Reillier. They discuss how Generative AI will impact organisations and much more.
Regulation of platforms and AI - 11 July 2024
Fayrouze Masmi Dazi, Andrea Pezzoli and Elodie Vandenhende discuss the challenges of balancing regulation and innovation for platforms and AI.
Platform Leaders Cartoon 7 June 2023
An illustrated summary of Platform Leaders on 7 June 2023 with live scribing from Katie Chappell.
Keynote Prof. Geoff Parker from MIT IDE - 7 June 2023
Geoff Parker, Professor at Dartmouth College & MIT IDE Fellow is in conversation with Platform Leaders Co-Chair Laure Claire Reillier. They discuss how Generative AI will impact platforms.
Platforms and the Circular Economy - 7 June 2023
Elle Tucker, Tom Berry (FARFETCH) and Lucy Peacock (eBay) discuss how platforms can power the circular economy to build sustainable ecosystems.
Platform Leaders Cartoon 7 June 2022
An illustrated summary of Platform Leaders on 7 June 2022 with live scribing from Louise Plantin.
Keynote Frédéric Montagnon from arianee - 7 June 2022
Frédéric Montagnon, Co-Founder and Chairman of NFT platform Arianee in conversation with Platform Leaders Co-Chair Laure Claire Reillier. Frédéric shares his vision of the promise of Web3 and his hopes for the future.
Platform Leaders 2020 x Louise Plantin
Jennifer Schenker (The Innovator), Lucie Basch (Too Good To Go), Peter Windischhofer (refurbed) and Martí Escurell (Bonsai Partners) discuss scaling sustainable platforms.
Platform Leaders 2020 x Louise Plantin
An illustrated summary of Platform Leaders 2020 with live scribing from Louise Plantin.
Platform Leaders 2020 - Platform Impact
This session explores the social and economic impact of digital platforms. Speakers include Jennifer Schenker, Founder and Editor-in-Chief at The Innovator, Professor Arun Sundararajan, NYU, Joe Schorge, Founder and Managing Partner, Isomer Capital and Llibert Argerich, SVP Marketing, Udemy.
Platform Leaders 2020 - Platform Governance
This session explores the governance principles of platforms, the challenges associated with ecosystem management and the importance of trust. Speakers include Azeem Azhar, Founder and CEO, Exponential View, Frédéric Mazzella, Founder and President, BlaBlaCar and Co-president France Digitale, Rob Chesnut, Former Chief Ethics Officer, Airbnb, Author Intentional Integrity and Sasha Michaud, Co-founder & VP Public Affairs, Glovo.
Platform Leaders 2020 - Full Webinar
Platform Leaders 2020: the Future of Digital Platforms. Here is the full webinar with Master of Ceremony Petra Jung, Ecosystem Architect, Launchworks & Co
Full Video - 11 July 2024
Watch the 11 July 2024 full video on the Future of Platforms: AI, Regulation and the App Economy.
The Future of the App Economy - 11 July 2024
This panel, with Ben McOwen Wilson, MD EMEA Google Play, Paulo Trezentos, CEO Aptoide, and Jennifer Schenker, The Innovator explores the emergence of new app stores.
Benoit Reillier Closing Remarks - 11 July 2024
Benoit Reillier, Launchworks CEO, summarises key insights from the 11 July 2024 event on Generative AI, Platform Regulation and the App Economy.
Full Video 7 June 2023
Watch the 7 June 2023 full video on the Future of Platforms: AI, Regulation and the Circular Economy.
Platform Regulation at a Crossroads - 7 June 2023
This panel, with Richard Feasey (CMA), Vanessa Turner (BEUC), Oliver Bethell (Google), Dr. Euan MacMillan (DMU) explores the challenges with new platform regulation.
Benoit Reillier Closing Remarks - 7 June 2023
Benoit Reillier, Platform Leaders Co-Chair and Launchworks CEO, summarises key insights from the 7 June 2023 event on Generative AI, Platform Regulation and the Circular Economy.
Full Video 7 June 2022
Watch the 7 June 2022 full video on the Future of Platforms: Web3, Design and Sustainability.
Designing User Centric Platforms - 7 June 2022
This panel, with Prof. Eric Johnson (Columbia Business School), Elisabeth Costa (BIT), Esra Ozkan (Google) and Andreas Maaløe Jespersen (CMA) explores the challenges of designing user centric platforms.
Benoit Reillier Closing Remarks - 7 June 2022
Benoit Reillier, Platform Co-Chair and Launchworks CEO, summarises key insights from the 7 June 2022 event on Web3, Design and Sustainability.
Platform Leaders 2020 - Introduction
Laure Claire Reillier, COO Launchworks & Co, introduces Platform Leaders 2020.
Platform Leaders 2020 - Platform Regulation
This session explores the challenges associated with the regulation of platforms and ecosystems. Speakers include Lewis Crofts, Editor in Chief, MLex, Professor Michael Jacobides, London Business School, Oliver Bethell, Head of Competition EMEA, Google and Tom Smith, Director of Legal, Competition & Market Authority.
Platform Leaders 2020 - Closing Remarks and Key Insights
Platform Leaders 2020's closing remarks and key insights from Benoit Reillier, CEO Launchworks & Co. Benoit summarises all 3 panels on platform impact, regulation and governance. The session finishes with Louise Plantin's illustrated animations.
Platform Leaders 2020: Highlights
Here are the best bits from Platform Leaders 2020. Some of the key themes addressed were: platform impact, regulation and governance.
The Platform Leaders initiative has been launched by Launchworks & Co to help unlock the power of communities and networks for the benefit of all. All Launchworks & Co experts live and breathe digital platforms and digital ecosystems. Some of their insights have been captured in best-selling book Platform Strategy, available in English, French and Japanese.
The Platform Leaders initiative has been launched by Launchworks & Co to help unlock the power of communities and networks for the benefit of all. All Launchworks & Co experts live and breathe digital platforms and digital ecosystems. Some of their insights have been captured in best-selling book Platform Strategy, available in English, French and Japanese.
