Independent Directors

The Optional Firm

Speaker(s)

Yifat Aran

Discussant(s)

Katja Langenbucher
Session 2 – VC-backed Startups between Private Ordering and AI

Moderator(s)

Giovanni Strampelli
Are Alternative Investments Essential for Well-Functioning Capital Markets?

Speaker(s)

Geneviève Helleringer

Discussant(s)

Edmund Schuster
Generational Conflict in Business and Society

Speaker(s)

John Morley

Discussant(s)

Wolf-Georg Ringe
Session 1 – Private Markets: A Cross-sectoral View

Moderator(s)

Jill Fisch
Welcome and Introduction

Speaker(s)

Rainer Haselmann
16 Jun 2026

Patents That Work for a Living

Jarrad Harford

Qiyang He

Buhui Qiu

Innovation

R&D

Competition

Value

Performance
05 Jun 2026

Corporate Templates in the EU Inc. Proposal: Their Limitations and Why They Matter for European VC-backed Startups

Luca Enriques

Tobias Tröger

Casimiro Nigro

Company Law

Regulation

Startups

Venture capital

Contracts
Law Series

02 Jun 2026

Regulating DeFi Platforms

Gina-Gail Fletcher

Veronica Root Martinez

Steven L. SchwarczDuke

Technology

Banking

Regulation
Controllers Unbound with Lucian Bebchuk and Kobi Kastiel

The Voice of Corporate Governance

27 May 2026 | 15 mins

By:

Lucian Bebchuk

,

Kobi Kastiel

,

Jeff Mahoney
Matteo Gatti on Corporate Governing

Business Scholarship Podcast

28 May 2026 | 31 mins

By:

Matteo Gatti

,

Andrew Jennings
Episode 8: A theory of socially responsible investment

Financing a Sustainable Future

29 May 2026 | 37 mins

By:

Tom Gosling

,

Martin Oehmke