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
Head of Programme Funding
Cancer Research UK
- Professor David J Hand
Chief Scientific Advisor
Winton
Senior Research Investigator
Emeritus Professor
Imperial College London
- Dr Barry Levethal
Founder, BarryAnalytics Ltd
Chair of Market Research
Society’s Census &
Geodemographics Group
- Professor Nick Luscombe
Chair in Computational Biology
University College London
Senior Group Leader
Cancer Research UK
London Research Institute
- Professor Simon Tavaré
Professor of Cancer
Research (Bioinformatics)
Department of Oncology
Director, Cancer Research UK
Cambridge Institute
- Mr Giles Pavey
Chief Data Scientist
Dunnhumby
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http://www.bigdataconference.co.uk/