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ALGORITHMS BEFORE TWO COMPETITION AUTHORITIES

Algorithms in front of the French and German competition authorities

6 November 2019 · École nationale d'administration, Paris · IMPACT

On 6 November 2019 the Autorité de la concurrence and the Bundeskartellamt held a joint conference at the ENA in Paris, and Tarry Singh sat on the business panel.

Five panellists seated behind the ENA conference table under a screen listing the speakers and moderator, with German, European and French flags to the right and an Autorité de la concurrence banner behind.

The conference was called Algorithms and it ran for one day, Wednesday 6 November 2019, at the École nationale d'administration, 2 avenue de l'Observatoire, in the sixth arrondissement of Paris. The Autorité de la concurrence and the Bundeskartellamt organised it jointly. German, European and French flags stood behind the panel table. The card on the lectern read Les algorithmes, Paris, 6 novembre 2019.

Tarry Singh sat on the business panel as CEO of deepkapha.ai, alongside Marie Cheval of Carrefour Group, Armin B. Cremers of the University of Bonn and Fraunhofer IAIS, and Oliver Wagner of Eurowings. Etienne Pfister, chief economist at the Autorité de la concurrence, moderated. The question projected on the screen behind them was a business one: what companies apply algorithms to, which types are actually in use, and what the future uses might be.

The deepkapha.ai material argued for independence in three parts. Run models on decentralised European machines instead of shared public clouds. Build from scratch instead of reusing someone else's models, so a client's own features stay inside the client's model. Watch what happens when an industry converges on a small number of algorithms and prices turn transparent to everyone at once. The deck named the outcome it feared: digital cartels that nobody sets out to form.

The argument came out of delivery work. The company was building dental diagnostics with Charité, had built a breast cancer detection model with EPOS Health Management, and described projects across banking, retail, healthcare and telecom. That was the vantage point in the room, a builder of the models the two authorities had convened to discuss.

FROM THE FIELD · 06 FRAMES
A speaker at the lectern bearing the Les Algorithmes card, four panellists seated at the ENA table, and the title slide giving the date of 6 November 2019 and the two organising authorities.
A speaker at the lectern bearing the Les Algorithmes card, four panellists seated at the ENA table, and the title slide giving the date of 6 November 2019 and the two organising authorities.
The same session seen from the audience, a panellist speaking with a raised hand while attendees sit taking notes on the right of the frame.
The same session seen from the audience, a panellist speaking with a raised hand while attendees sit taking notes on the right of the frame.
Tarry Singh standing behind the ENA panel table in front of the conference title slide, which gives the organisers, the date and the venue address.
Tarry Singh standing behind the ENA panel table in front of the conference title slide, which gives the organisers, the date and the venue address.
Elevated view of the panel table and part of the audience, with the programme slide listing the four speakers and the moderator legible on the screen.
Elevated view of the panel table and part of the audience, with the programme slide listing the four speakers and the moderator legible on the screen.
Three participants standing at the ENA panel table in front of a slide reading Réaction, with the ENA branding on the table front.
Three participants standing at the ENA panel table in front of a slide reading Réaction, with the ENA branding on the table front.
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Autorité de la concurrenceBundeskartellamtÉcole nationale d'administration (ENA)
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