Big Data and Ethics (GDPR will also be dealt with)

THE 21ST CENTURY WILL BE ETHICAL OR THERE WON'T BE A 22ND ONE. GDPR IS THE KICK IN THE ASS WE NEEDED TO START A NEW ERA.

Location and time : Thursday 15 June 2017, 6:30 pm-8:30 pm at DigitYser, Boulevard d'Anvers 40, 1000 Brussels

AGENDA

• Introduction by Pierre-Nicolas Schwab (RTBF)

• Michael Ekstrand (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mdekstrand/) (Boise State University, Idaho, USA) : "Responsible Recommendation". Michael will be our special guest. He gave a very noticed speech at the RecSys conference held at MIT in Boston in 2016 and will share his views on the subject with us.

• Pierre-Nicolas Schwab (https://www.linkedin.com/in/pnschwab/) (RTBF) : "How GDPR is paving the way for more ethical algorithms"

• Jochanan Eynikel (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jochananeynikel/) (Etion) : "Beyond the bloody math. On the ethics of autonomous technology"

• Leenke De Donder (https://www.linkedin.com/in/leenkededonder/) (FourSevens) : "Deceiving Data visualization: how to screw it up in the end"

• Toon Borré (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tborre/) (TriFinance) : "Data & ethics: One ring to bind us all?"

• Thomas Carette (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomascarette/) (Axa) : "Data ethics in the retail financial sector: status update"

THE STORY

Following the success of the diSummit a team has initiated the theme of this meetup where data and ethics will be discussed. We hope this is only the first of a series on this important topic.

First discussions at diSummit included presentation by Pierre-Nicolas (https://www.linkedin.com/in/pnschwab/) on his work on ethical recommendation systems at RTBF (see here (http://www.intotheminds.com/blog/en/data-innovation-summit-2017-big-data-for-greater-good/)).

For those interested to read about Big Data and ethics, check out these articles :

• How recommendations work at Meetup (http://www.intotheminds.com/blog/en/big-data-and-ethics-how-recommendations-work-at-meetup-com/)

• Are we leaving in the matrix ? (http://www.intotheminds.com/blog/en/are-we-living-in-the-matrix/)

• Big Data : here's the next revolution (http://www.intotheminds.com/blog/en/big-data-heres-the-next-revolution/)

• Artificial intelligence: why we need respectful algorithms (http://www.intotheminds.com/blog/en/artificial-intelligence-why-we-need-respectful-algorithms/)

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