BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Talks.cam//talks.cam.ac.uk// X-WR-CALNAME:Talks.cam BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Making DLT Happen - Rob Learney (Digital Catapult) DTSTART:20191106T161000Z DTEND:20191106T163000Z UID:TALK133975@talks.cam.ac.uk CONTACT:INI IT DESCRIPTION:The most important asset in the 4th Industrial Revolu tion is data. Who owns the data is the most important question of freedom in the 21st century. Who owns the data has the power not \;just in the economy\, but in politics and society more broadly. The Internet giants h ave captured vast amounts of data and their platforms are impacting electi ons\, freedom of speech and \;exasperating conflicts and \;polaris ation \;around the world. This monopoly power is providing private com panies with little oversight\, the ability to set global policy on fundame ntal human issues. This situation is only going to get worse as the intern et of things collects more and more data and artificial intelligence combi nes it all to predict and manipulate behaviour with increasing accuracy. < /i>

We need an alternative. The solution is to use software th at is open-source\, privacy-protecting\, and peer-to-peer: designed to lim it the concentration of data power. In this talk\, Partner and Head of Res earch Lawrence Lundy from Outlier Ventures\, a UK-based early-stage tech i nvestment firm\, will explore how we can build software to secure individu al freedoms and create a fairer data economy. He will introduce a framewor k they use to assess opportunities which looks at the data value chain fro m production (the IoT and sensor networks) to distribution (cryptography a nd blockchain networks) to consumption (algorithms). Or to use buzzwords\, IoT+Blockchains+AI. \; LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Newton Institute END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR