The Stanford Computational Antitrust Project is delighted to announce the launch conference for its fifth Annual Report. The French Autorité de la concurrence will kindly host us in Paris on 17 September 2026, from 4:00 to 5:30 pm CET. A reception will follow until 6:30 pm. The conference will be held in English, and will also be accessible on Zoom.

The fifth report, which will be made available during the event, gathers contributions from 30 antitrust agencies. Each describes the computational tools it has designed, tested, or put into use over the past year.

Two developments run through this year’s edition. Language models have moved out of the productivity toolbox and into case work. Agencies have also started running experiments on algorithmic collusion rather than commenting on it. Thibault Schrepel and Alba Ribera-Martinez will present the tendencies in the report and highlight what competition agencies, practicing lawyers, and researchers should know about the use of computational tools in antitrust.

Yann Guthmann, Head of the Digital Economy Unit at the Autorité de la concurrence, and Elodie Vandenhende, Deputy Head of the Digital Economy Unit, will also present the French contribution and the work behind it. Teodora Groza, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tübingen, will follow. Twenty minutes will be reserved for questions from the room and from participants joining online.

Program

• 4:00 pm, opening remarks, Thibault Schrepel
• 4:05 pm, presentation of the fifth Computational Antitrust Worldwide report, Thibault Schrepel and Alba Ribera Martínez
• 4:30 pm, the activities of the Autorité de la concurrence, Yann Guthmann
• 4:45 pm, Elodie Vandenhende, Autorité de la concurrence
• 4:55 pm, Teodora Groza, University of Tübingen
• 5:05 pm, questions
• 5:25 pm, the next five years, Thibault Schrepel and Alba Ribera Martínez
• 5:30 pm, reception

Registration

Registration is open over here.

Seating in the room is limited. Every registration will be placed on a waiting list. We will come back to you in the coming days to confirm your attendance. Registration for the Zoom session is not capped.