DATE: Wednesday, 6 August 2025
VENUE: Gilbert + Tobin, Level 35, Tower Two, International Towers, 200 Barangaroo Avenue, Barangaroo
TIME: 12.00 pm – 2.00 pm AEST
A light lunch will be served from 12.15 to 12.30 pm
The Digital Platform Regulators Forum (DP-Reg) is a key initiative between Australia’s four independent regulators with primary responsibility for regulating digital platforms. Through DP-Reg, the ACCC, ACMA, eSafety Commissioner and Privacy Commissioner collaborate with the aim of ensuring Australia’s digital economy is a safe, trusted, fair, innovative and competitive space. Over the time since its initial establishment in May 2022, DP-Reg has produced a number of papers and submissions, on topics as diverse as LLMs and MFMs and their use in generative AI, to the harms and risks of algorithms. This work has a lasting impact on the formulation of Australia’s public policy outcomes and the coherent treatment of digital platforms regulatory issues. This event will provide these four regulators with the opportunity to reflect on the past twelve months and also to provide the audience with details of their upcoming work plans.
A light lunch will be provided from 12.15 pm with the event starting at 12.30 pm sharp.
Confirmed Speakers:
Gina Cass-Gottlieb – Chair, ACCC
Gina Cass-Gottlieb commenced her 5-year appointment as Chair of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) on 21 March 2022.
Before she joined the ACCC Gina was a senior and founding partner of Gilbert and Tobin’s competition and regulation team. Gina has over 25 years’ experience advising on a large number of merger, competition and regulatory matters in Australia and New Zealand. She is widely recognised as one of Australia’s leading competition and regulatory experts.
Gina was appointed by the Commonwealth Treasurer to the Reserve Bank of Australia’s Payments System Board in 2013 and re-appointed in 2018. The Payments System Board is the regulator of access to payment systems. Gina was also a member of the Financial Regulator Assessment Authority from September 2021 to March 2022, when she commenced as Chair of the ACCC.
Gina has received numerous accolades from Chambers Asia Pacific, Legal 500 Asia Pacific, Who’s Who Legal, Lawyers Weekly Awards, Beaton Client Choice Awards and Best Lawyers Australia, for her competition and legal expertise.
Gina was a Fulbright Scholar at UC Berkeley from 1986 to 1987, majoring in US competition law, financial institutions regulation and securities regulation.
Gina is the first female Chair of the ACCC since it was established as an independent statutory authority in 1995.
Nerida O’Loughlin – Chair, ACMA
Nerida O’Loughlin was appointed Chair and Agency Head of the Australian Communications and Media Authority from 14 October 2017 for five years. Nerida was reappointed in 2022 for an additional two years, and reappointed for a further three-year term from October 2024.
Prior to joining the ACMA, Nerida was Deputy Secretary in the Australian Department of Communications and the Arts providing policy advice across telecommunications, broadcasting, online content and the arts. Nerida has also been responsible for major projects in the communications portfolio, including leading the Digital Television Switchover Program. Over her career, Nerida has also held senior positions in the Victorian and Commonwealth Governments, predominantly across the technology and cultural sectors.
Nerida is an Associate Member of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. In 2019, Nerida was awarded an Australian Public Service Medal in the Queen’s Birthday honours for outstanding public service.
Julie Inman Grant – Australian eSafety Commissioner
Julie Inman Grant is Australia’s eSafety Commissioner. In this role, Julie leads the world’s first government regulatory agency committed to keeping its citizens safer online. ?
The Commissioner’s career began at the US Congress in Washington, DC before joining Microsoft, where Julie spent 17 years in various corporate affairs roles. At Twitter, she set up the company’s policy & philanthropy programs across Australia, New Zealand & Southeast Asia and drove APAC-wide Government Relations for Adobe.
As Commissioner since January, 2017, Julie has overseen significant increases in the eSafety office’s budget, increased staffing levels and launched innovative programs such as the Safety by Design and Women in the Spotlight initiatives. Ms. Inman-Grant has established herself as a nimble and anticipatory regulator, establishing the innovative tech trends horizon scanning program in 2020.
Julie serves on the Advisory Board of the Technology Policy Design Centre. She served as co-founder and inaugural chair of the Global Online Safety Regulators Network and is a long-serving Board Member of the WePROTECT Global Alliance. She also serves on the World Economic Forum’s Global Coalition for Digital Safety; represents Australia on the Global Partnership for Action on Gender-Based Harassment & Abuse and serves on France’s Laboratory for Women’s Rights Online. Julie was recently deemed one of the top 150 women in the global cyber profession for the third year running.
More information can be found at www.esafety.gov.au.
Carly Kind – Privacy Commissioner, OAIC
Carly Kind commenced as Australia’s Privacy Commissioner in February 2024 for a 5-year term.
As Privacy Commissioner, she regulates the handling of personal information by entities covered by the Australian Privacy Act 1988 and seeks to influence the development of legislation and advance privacy protections for Australians.
Ms Kind was previously the inaugural director of the UK-based Ada Lovelace Institute, a research institute focussed on the ethical and societal impacts of data and AI.
She has worked with the European Commission, the Council of Europe, numerous UN bodies and a range of civil society organisations.
Ms Kind has a Masters of Science, International Relations (Hons) from the London School of Economics, a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice, and a Bachelor of Arts (International Relations) (Hons) and Bachelor of Laws from the University of Queensland.
The discussion will be moderated by
Rebecca Dunn – Partner, Gilbert + Tobin
Rebecca Dunn is a partner in Gilbert + Tobin’s Tech+IP group specialising in Intellectual Property.
She is an experienced intellectual property litigator who has worked on some of the leading copyright cases in Australia. In addition to copyright, her focus is on trade mark litigation, Australian Consumer Law litigation and defamation.
She advises clients across industries including health care, media and entertainment in relation to the multiple legal issues associated with branding. Rebecca has particular expertise in the online space in relation to copyright, consumer law, social media, privacy, data protection and defamation.
She has worked on a variety of enforcement matters for both national and international clients including the film and music industries. Ms Dunn has litigated cases in the Supreme and Federal Courts and at appellate level in the NSW Court of Appeal, the Full Federal Court and the High Court of Australia.
Ms Dunn is the current President of the Communications and Media Law Association, a member of the Copyright Society of Australia and the Intellectual Property Society of Australia and New Zealand.
Ms Dunn has a Bachelor of Law (First Class Honours) from the University of Sydney and a Bachelor of Arts (Communications Studies) from the University of Newcastle. Rebecca was admitted as a solicitor in 2005. Rebecca also has a Masters of Research in issues relating to social media law and democracy.
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