This two-day conference marks the official launch of the ERC project, bringing together leading researchers and policymakers from around the world to present and discuss key themes of the project and set the agenda for the project's future research and policy impact. 

Day One - 8 May 2026

1:00 pm Welcome

1:30 pm Stephan Waizmann
Algorithmic Learning with Strategic Consumers

2:30 pm Sara Shahanaghi with Julia Salmi
Preemption and Observational Learning

3:30 pm Francesć Dilme with Aaron Kolb
Entry Deterrence with Public Signals: Revisiting the Chain-Store Parado

4:30 pm Leeat Yariv with Fedor Sandomirskiy and Kirill Rudov
Extreme Equilibria: The Benefits of Correlation

 Day Two - 9 May 2026

9:00 am Welcome

9:30 am Gregorio Cruello
Incentives for Collective Innovation

10:30 am Julia Salmi with Daniel Hauser
Private Information about the Game Horizon

11:30 am Lucas Maestri with Doruk Cetemen, Leandro Gorno and Helios Herrera
Regulating Pre-Election Spending: A Dynamic Analysis

12:30 pm Marco Scarsini with Eran Shmaya
Strategic Queing: A Characterization of Optimal Quening Regimes 

1:30 pm Farewell

This event has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation
programme under the European Research Council grant agreement No 101165373.