A secret meeting is held annually at the posh Steigenberger Wiltcher's hotel to break the world's biggest corporations, known as the Brussels Conference on Antitrust.

The parties are extravagant, security is tight, and the panel discussions are ostentatious when the wealthiest CEOs in the world congregate in the Alps or the Arabian Desert.

And then there's the Brussels Conference on Antitrust, which is akin to an anti-Davos gathering where a rather less glamorous group of influential ...