Does regulation kill innovation?

Join us for a morning exploring the interplay between regulation, innovation and business culture. Does regulation kill innovation? Or can an innovative but compliant business culture thrive?

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Agenda

8:30 Arrivals and registration

9:00 Welcome from Giles Crown

9:05 Keynote speech from Lord Clement-Jones, CBE

9:20 The Taylor Wessing view. How do we see regulation for innovation, and how can you best achieve a compliant but innovative culture?

• Siân Skelton will moderate a panel of international Taylor Wessing experts including Alison Dennis, Giles Crown, Charlotte Witherington and Dr Markus Böhme exploring our insights into the regulatory landscape across our core areas of technology, digital, life sciences, financial services and energy, the approach of the regulators in those areas to their regulatory responsibilities, and how businesses can achieve a compliant but innovative culture, navigating risks whilst maximising opportunities particularly around regulatory change. 

10:20 Break

10:30 Does regulation kill innovation? 

• Parham Kouchikali will moderate our panel of key regulators and other experts who will explore whether regulation aids or stifles innovation and the challenges faced in different sectors, particularly how regulators should go about balancing effective regulation with wider policy issues of achieving economic growth and making the UK an attractive place for entrepreneurial and fast growth businesses. He will be will be joined by Aidan Christie KC, 4 Pump Court, Ed Richards, previously CEO of Ofcom, and Alex Fell, Chief Executive of the Prescription Medicines Code of Practice Authority (PMCPA).

11:30 Closing comments from Giles Crown

11:35 Networking

12:00 Close