The Research Training Group Digital Platform Ecosystems (DPE) at the University of Passau, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), hosted the first DPE Forum in 2024, a conference that aims to provide a venue for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to share and discuss their latest research on digital platform ecosystems. The DPE Forum is unique in its interdisciplinarity, bringing together academics and professionals of digital platform ecosystems from backgrounds in management, marketing, information systems, economics, communication science, and adjacent disciplines.
Please find below the distinguished keynote lectures and panel discussions.
Keynote speaker:
Marshall Van Alstyne
Allen and Kelli Questrom Professor in Information Systems, Boston University
Keynote speaker:
Martin Selmayr
Scientific Director of the Center for European Law, University of Passau
Visiting Professor at the Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law, University of Vienna
Former Secretary-General of the European Commission
Panelists:
Pinar Ozcan University of Oxford
Marshall Van Alstyne Boston University
Sebastian Wismer German Federal Cartel Office
Moderator: Jan Krämer University of Passau
Panelists:
Elizabeth J. Altman University of Massachusetts Lowell
Don Lange Arizona State University
Kelly D. Martin Colorado State University
Moderator: Tim Quigley University of Georgia
