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EU’s Digital Markets Act – an opportunity engine for startups? 
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EU’s Digital Markets Act – an opportunity engine for startups? 

Navigating the digital landscape is like surfing on the waves of innovation, regulation, and compliance. How can individuals and SMEs make the most out of the potential of new EU data regulation and understand the changes brought about by the new rules?

The EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) will curb the power of the biggest technology companies and will in practice benefit small and medium-sized enterprises that compete with the offerings of the digital giants. Only the largest companies of all, the gatekeepers and the services they provide are now subject to the obligations of the Act as of March 2024.  

In short, there are at least three ways in which a business can benefit from the regulation as a user of, or competitor to, a gatekeeper’s services.

  • More alternatives to the digital giants’ services may open, such as the possibility to use custom payment gateways for in-app purchases to circumvent the 15-30% cut the digital giants have so far levied.  
  • Others will also be able to benefit from the data services of a digital giant.   
  • Fairer results from search engines and other recommendation algorithms of digital giants

Join us, as we delve into the opportunities that the DMA has to offer for Startups and venture capitalists!

Agenda

12:30
Registration and welcoming coffee
13:00
Opening remarks: Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra
Kristo Lehtonen
Program director, Fair Data Economy
13:10
Perspectives from the start-up community
Anni Anttonen,
Chief Operating Officer, Maria01
13:20
Keynote: European Commission
Eoghan O’Neill
Platforms Directorate, European Commission
13:45
Panel discussion
Eoghan O’Neill
Platforms Directorate, European Commission 
Jari-Pekka Kaleva
Managing Director, European Games Developer Federation (EGDF)
Karin Godenhielm
Managing Director, Dinolift Oy
Moaffak Ahmed 
Partner, Nordic Makers | Co-founder & Venture partner, Sisu Game Ventures

Moderator: Kristine Alanko
Specialist, Data and Competitiveness, Sitra
14:50
Closing remarks: Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra
15:00
Networking
16:00
Event ends