IIC Caribbean Chapter meeting – Empowering Small Island States: Innovations & Regulatory Strategies For a Connected Future
Chapter Meetings
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Date: Thursday 27 – Friday 28 March 2025
Venue: to be confirmed
Location: Rodney Bay, Gros Islet, Saint Lucia
Time: Thursday: 09:00 – 16:30 AST
Friday: 09:00 – 16:30 AST
This meeting provides a collaborative forum for ICT, telecom, and broadcast media regulators, alongside senior managers and decision-makers in business, industry, and government, to exchange ideas, address critical policies, and explore solutions fostering innovation, competition, and public interest.
With a focus on the Caribbean’s unique issues as well as shared realities with small nations, the event highlights strategic challenges in an increasingly converged regulatory landscape and the adoption of transformative technologies.
Discussions will focus on:
This meeting will serve as a platform for constructive dialogue, fostering shared understanding and collaboration to address complex, interconnected regulatory issues effectively.
Registration Fees for delegates
Thursday 27 – Friday 28 March 2025
IIC Caribbean Chapter meeting – Empowering Small Island States: Innovations & Regulatory Strategies For a Connected Future
IIC Members – Free
Non-Members – £65 GBP (excluding VAT *)
*VAT will be applicable for UK registrations only
** Please check eligibility to attend
If you feel the delegate fee may be a barrier to attending this event, please contact us at enquiries@iicom.org
We had a great host and scene setter from Oxera followed by a review of the market context from IIC UK Chair Tim Cowen. Tim referred to the issues identified in the Res Publica report, the Furman Report, Stigler Centre report that preceded the EU Digital Markets Act and the CMA’s 2020 Market Report on Online Markets and Digital Advertising. They identified the following issues:
Ali-Abbas Ali leads Ofcom’s work on Media Plurality and Competition. Over the last ten years he has worked across Ofcom’s competition portfolio, including Post, Telecoms as well as the Media sector. Prior to joining Ofcom he held senior finance posts at BT Group. His career also spans the motor industry, consulting and private equity.
Johan Keetelaar joined Oxera in 2022, and is a member of its senior digital leadership team. He has spent most of his career working in the digital, telecoms and transport sectors, including more than 15 years as a strategic leader in competition and sector-specific regulation. More recently, he worked as a digital practitioner at Meta Inc.
Mr Keetelaar spent more than 15 years at the Authority for Consumers & Markets (the Dutch competition and regulatory authority), as well as one of its predecessors (OPTA) where he was Director Markets, Director of Transport, Telecoms and Post, and Director Competition. He was also a member of BEREC, the group of EU telecom and digital regulators.
Prior to joining Oxera, Mr Keetelaar was the Director of Economic Policy and Head of Connectivity and Access Policy in the EMEA region at Meta Inc. for four years.
Mr Keetelaar holds an MSc. in Econometrics from the University of Amsterdam.
Lynn Robinson became Director General of the International Institute of Communications (IIC), in March 2020.
Lynn is an experienced senior director and trustee / non exec-director, having held key senior leadership positions in the technology, built environment, regulation, accreditation and dental industries. She has extensive experience of professional membership bodies working within the full spectrum including, Regulatory bodies, Industry associations and Chambers of Commerce. Lynn is a well-known and established ambassador in these areas having led on many strategic programmes to aid engagement, growth, retention, change management, stakeholder and political engagement.
An experienced Trustee / Non-Executive Director as Vice Chair at Arnos Vale Cemetery Trust, a unique heritage site in the heart of Bristol (UK), Lynn is also a Trustee / Non-Executive Director at The Bristol and Bath (UK), Parks Foundation.
Reflecting on becoming Director General at the IIC at the outbreak of a pandemic, Lynn said, ‘these last two years have been like no other we have known, with many challenges coming our way. In 2020 we successfully pivoted the organisation through a digital transformation programme to maintain a full schedule of events and by increasing the outputs delivered. Transforming the programme enabled us to continue to deliver the professional service and increase our engagement with IIC members and stakeholder community to remain connected to them through such a difficult time.
As we move through 2022, I am delighted to return to a combined in-person and online programme and to continue to evolve the IIC in to the next phase, with the vision and strategic focus to deliver our objectives and to build on our growth, engagement and retention’.
Sebastian is the Parliamentary and Campaigns Manager at the News Media Association (NMA), the organisation representing over 800 national, regional and local news media publishers in the UK. The NMA has been highly engaged in the development of the new pro-competition regime for digital markets. Sebastian previously led the policy and public affairs work for the Professional Publishers Association, the UK trade association for specialist and magazine publishers. He has also worked on political campaigns and a devolution-focused advocacy group in the North of England.
Chair of the Antitrust practice at Preiskel & Co LLP, Tim Cowen is independently recognised as one of the UK’s leading regulatory and competition lawyers focusing on the Technology Media and Tech sectors. He has vast experience of both in-house and private practice, having been a General Counsel at BT, a former Partner at Sidley Austin, and a member of the Competition Appeal Tribunal. He now specialises in complex second phase merger cases and competition cases in the courts.
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