Capitol Forum Conferences

The Capitol Forum regularly hosts virtual and in-person events featuring our editorial staff and distinguished guests who are subject matter experts in the topics we cover. If you have questions about an upcoming event or would like to propose an event topic, please contact editorial@thecapitolforum.com

Upcoming Conferences

The Rise of Health Care Platforms

Thu, May 15, 2025 | 11:00 am EST

On Thursday, May 15th at 11a.m. EDT, The Capitol Forum will host Jonathan Kanter, former Assistant Attorney General for the Department of Justice, and Martin Gaynor, Carnegie Mellon University professor and former Director of the Bureau of Economics at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. Jonathan and Martin will discuss their recent paper, “The Rise of Health Care Platforms.”

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Join us to learn more about:

  • Antitrust scrutiny in health care.
  • Patterns of consolidation and power emerging among a small number of large health care conglomerates and platforms.
  • How policymakers can evaluate the influence of multisided health care platforms, not just their individual services.

Speakers:

Jonathan Kanter

Former Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice

Martin Gaynor

Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

Former Director of the Bureau of Economics, U.S. Federal Trade Commission

Teddy Downey

Executive Editor, The Capitol Forum

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Safelite Group’s Market Dominance and Alleged Self-Preferencing

Fri, May 16, 2025 | 11:00 am EDT

On Friday May 16th at 11am EDT, The Capitol Forum will host Gary Hart to discuss auto glass giant Safelite’s business conduct that led to the recently reported Department of Justice investigation.

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Join us to learn more about:

  • Safelite Group’s alleged self-preferencing
  • The barriers that independent auto glass shops face when trying to get customers
  • The current enforcement landscape and how Safelite may face scrutiny from several agencies

Gary Hart Bio

Gary Hart is a seasoned executive, technologist, and entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience driving innovation and operational excellence across the automotive aftermarket—especially in the automotive glass repair and replacement sector. He is the founder of eDirectGlass, a groundbreaking SaaS platform, and currently serves as Executive Director of the Independent Glass Association, leading industry advocacy and reform. Gary has launched multiple successful startups, developed pioneering claims and imaging technologies, and remains a recognized thought leader and speaker. His expertise spans strategy, technology, compliance, and business development, with a passion for empowering independent businesses and creating sustainable industry impact.

Speakers:

Gary Hart

Founder, eDirectGlass

Executive Director, Independent Glass Association

Krista Brown

Correspondent, The Capitol Forum

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Proposed Remedies in the Google Antitrust Case

Wed, May 21, 2025 | 11:30 am EST

On Wednesday, May 21 at 11:30am EDT, The Capitol Forum will host Cristian Santesteban, Eamon Kelly, and Josh Gray to provide context and discuss takeaways from the Google Antitrust Case.

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Join us to learn more about:

  • Judge Brinkema’s opinion through the lens of Section 2 enforcement and Google’s litigation history.
  • How to think about damages in the unique framework of monopolization of the Ad Tech stack.
  • The new remedy proposals, as well as their economic and practical considerations.

Cristian Santesteban Bio

Cristian founded RedPeak in 2010 after working at Compass Lexecon (and its predecessors) for almost a decade. In his career, Cristian has worked on some of the most important mergers and antitrust cases of the last two decades, involving firms such as AT&T, Intel, and Comcast. His experience in litigation consulting spans both defense and plaintiff cases and a broad range of antitrust issues, including monopolization, class certification, price fixing, mergers, and damages. He has particular industry expertise in digital platforms, financial markets, semiconductors, media, telecom, biomedical products, food products, commodities, among others.

Eamon Kelly Bio

In 2022, Eamon and his colleagues were recognized with the American Antitrust Institute Outstanding Antitrust Litigation Achievement Award for their work against Apple representing a class of app developers. Eamon was also appointed as co-lead counsel for a class of developer plaintiffs, favorably settling their antitrust claims against Google.

Eamon is a first-chair trial lawyer. He represents plaintiffs and defendants in commercial matters ranging from patent and trade secret disputes to investor, partner, and customer-contract disputes, and insurance coverage and recovery cases. He excels in framing and resolving cases, charting a path from the complaint to resolution, whether through negotiated settlement or at trial.

Josh Gray Bio

Joshua Gray is an antitrust litigator with experience balanced between government service and private practice. His insight into antitrust law and federal agency policy stems from two stints at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and two decades in private practice handling government investigations and antitrust litigation.

Following a federal clerkship, Josh started his antitrust career during the Clinton administration as an attorney-advisor to progressive FTC Chairman Robert Pitofsky. During a second time at FTC under the Obama administration, he worked extensively on dominant firms in the Digital Economy.

As a staff attorney in the FTC’s Bureau of Competition’s Anticompetitive Practices Division, he investigated and litigated antitrust conduct cases, deposed senior executives, and managed expert witnesses through discovery and trial.

Speakers:

Cristian Santesteban

Founder and CEO, RedPeak

Eamon Kelly

Partner, Sperling Kenny Nachwalter

Josh Gray

Partner, Sperling Kenny Nachwalter

Teddy Downey

Executive Editor, The Capitol Forum

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Past Conferences

To learn more about topics from past Capitol Forum conferences, visit our Transcripts page where we post full text transcripts from past events.