On Thursday, May 11, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission hosted a panel to discuss questions relating to the cloud computing industry. As we’ve previously covered, the FTC is currently seeking public comment as part of a Request for Information regarding cloud computing business practices. In part, the goal of the panel was to identify issues the FTC should explore in its RFI.

Participating in the panel were Abby Kearns, a tech executive and board member at Stackpath and Lightbend; Frank Nagle, a professor at Harvard Business School; Salil Deshpande, founder of the venture capital firm Uncorrelated Ventures; Frédéric Jenny, professor emeritus at ESSEC Business School; and Steven Weber, professor at the University of California, Berkeley and partner at Breakwater Strategy.

The discussion covered an array of topics, with a significant focus on the state of competition among cloud computing providers. Below, we highlight key points made by the panelists regarding two other topics: data security and artificial intelligence (AI).

Read the full blog post here on Perkins on Privacy.