
About the Conference:
This year’s conference acknowledges the big data promise: that it will revolutionise science and boost economic success. But all advanced technologies are bound by ethical considerations. Big data, especially that referring to customers, patients, or taxpayers – in short, data referring to humans – have issues of confidentiality and privacy, as well as appropriate use. These issues are bound up with data protection acts, freedom of information acts, and other legal constraints, as well as technical questions about whether anonymity is actually possible in the modern world of social networks and data linkage. To use big data without appropriate safeguards may be unethical, but to fail to use available data to shed light on human problems may also be unethical. The 2016 Big Data Analytics Conference will bring together experts from different application domains and will tackle some of the common challenges faced across these fields.
Conference Organising Committee
 Dr Jamie Meredith Dr Jamie Meredith
 Head of Programme Funding
 Cancer Research UK
 Professor David J Hand Professor David J Hand
 Chief Scientific Advisor
 Winton
 Senior Research Investigator
 Emeritus Professor
 Imperial College London
 Dr Barry Levethal Dr Barry Levethal
 Founder, BarryAnalytics Ltd
 Chair of Market Research
 Society’s Census &
 Geodemographics Group
 Professor Nick Luscombe Professor Nick Luscombe
 Chair in Computational Biology
 University College London
 Senior Group Leader
 Cancer Research UK
 London Research Institute
 Professor Simon Tavaré Professor Simon Tavaré
 Professor of Cancer
 Research (Bioinformatics)
 Department of Oncology
 Director, Cancer Research UK
 Cambridge Institute
 Mr Giles Pavey Mr Giles Pavey
 Chief Data Scientist
 Dunnhumby
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