Are you curious about fairness in digital markets and artificial intelligence?

If so, make sure to send your abstract to FIDMA: Fairness in Digital Markets and Artificial Intelligence upcoming annual conference on 18 March 2026. 

This year’s theme explores fairness in digital markets and AI across three key areas.

  1. Foundational questions: Fair digital markets, ideology and discourse on digital fairness, and cross-disciplinary insights on transparency, accountability, and fairness.
  2. Policy priorities: Fundamental rights in the digital age, digital sovereignty, AI and platform regulation amid geopolitical tensions, and dark patterns in online design.
  3. Specific issues: Fairness in the DMA, DSA, and AI Act, standardisation and compliance, fair algorithmic pricing, and FRAND terms in digital markets.

Keynote speakers

  • Prof. Jörgen Hettne, Judge at the General Court of the European Union (TBC)
  • Prof. Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell, Full Professor of Commercial Law at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, President of the European Law Institute, and Director of the Chair AI: Foundations & Frontiers

Practicalities

For more information please follow the link below. Deadline for call for papers is 30 November 2025, abstracts to be sent to Behrang Kianzad.

Second annual conference FIDMA

Hosts

The conference is made possible by a grant from the Centre for European Research at Lund University and Lund University Centre for Business Law, ACLU, (the Foundation for Support of ACLU Activities and its donors, as well as Sparbanken Skåne and its owner foundation Sparbanksstiftelsen Finn) and is supported by the Department for Global Political Studies at Malmö University, AI Lund and Nova School of Law in Lisbon.

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