Mark Warner was invited to participate in the Canadian Competition Bureau Workshop on emerging competition issues in Ottawa on January 19th. The workshop featured speakers from business, academia, the legal community, and government, both domestic and international. Participants discussed disruptive new business models, the implications for competition policy, and how best to incorporate non-price effects into competition assessment.

Mark chaired an Insight Research Canadian Sharing Economy Symposium in Toronto on December 2nd. As a former Acting Legal Director for the Ontario Ministry of Consumer Services, Mark was responsible for prosecutions under the provincial consumer protection laws and regulations. Mark’s experience with online technologies and e-commerce includes: participating in OECD-wide policy work on laws and regulations affecting e-commerce, acting as Chair, ICC Competition Commission Working Party on E-Commerce and Competition Policy, serving as an original ICANN domain name dispute resolution arbitrator for eResolution and WIPO and as Rapporteur of the Hague Conference on Private International Law Commission on Jurisdiction for Torts in Electronic Commerce.