Agenda
Interested in speaking? Contact Rebecca Bird at Rebecca.Bird@Centellic.com.
Thursday, February 4, 2027
Registration and networking
GCR welcome remarks
Chairs’ opening remarks
Keynote address
The new era of CMA enforcement
• What have we learnt about the CMA’s priorities, enforcement strategy, and use of its enhanced powers?
• The 4Ps in practice and their influence on the CMA’s approach
• Undertakings, settlements, and negotiated outcomes: when can they offer an alternative to formal enforcement?
• Fines and consumer redress: emerging policy and practice around penalties, remediation, and outcomes
Networking break
Testing the boundaries – the role of the courts in consumer enforcement
• Appeal rights under the DMCC Act and their potential impact on challenges to CMA enforcement decisions
• What can the courts’ approach, including the implications of the Emma Sleep judgement, tell us about the evolving boundaries of consumer enforcement?
• Is there a future role for a consumer class actions regime, and what would this mean for businesses and consumers?
Rethinking contract terms – unfair terms and the new rules on subscriptions
• Unfair terms in the spotlight: what can businesses take from the CMA’s approach and previous cases?
• What will the new subscription contract rules mean in practice?
• How should business prepare to ensure they are compliant with the new requirements?
Networking lunch
Fireside chat - the CMA and business in conversation
The true cost of a click – pricing in plain sight
• How the interaction between advertised prices, dynamic pricing models and optional extras is creating new risks in highly competitive consumer markets
• Navigating delivery fees, booking charges, and other unavoidable charges
• Where do the trickiest compliance questions around additional charges arise?
Networking break
Regulating the age of AI consumers
• Fake reviews, manipulated ratings and AI-generated testimonials: what are the emerging risks for online trust and transparency?
• AI-powered rankings and recommendations and their growing influence over what consumers see and choose
• What does the rise of AI agents mean for purchasing decisions, choice and accountability?
• Are existing consumer protection frameworks fit for purpose?
• Can regulators’ enforcement tools keep pace with increasingly sophisticated AI-systems?
Chairs’ closing remarks








