Stage #1 - Forum 2026

Kayvan Hazemi-Jebelli (Kay) is Vice President for Europe at the Chamber of Progress, based in Brussels. Kay previously worked as Competition & Regulatory Counsel to the Computer & Communications Industry Association, and has over a decade’s experience working as a competition lawyer in private practice, in the European Commission Directorate-General for Competition, as a visiting researcher at King’s College London, and as Senior Legal Counsel at a leading UK media and communications company. Before that, he worked as a computer engineer. Kay received his B.Sc. in Computer Science & Engineering from UCLA, his J.D. from the University of the Pacific, and his LL.M. in Competition Law from King’s College London. Kay enjoys teaching and knowledge sharing, and has lectured on competition law and policy in several universities, in Europe and the US. He also started a podcast on European tech policy. Kay has been passionate about technology ever since his dad brought home an x286 based PC in the 80s. He grew up in Silicon Valley and learned to build computers in high-school (which he then sold on the internet, in the 90s). When he’s not working to help all people benefit from technological leaps, he enjoys visiting museums, live music, and walking in nature.