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Fifth Annual Privacy Identity Innovation Conference Opens Today in Silicon Valley
Fifth Annual Privacy Identity Innovation Conference Opens Today in Silicon Valley
Palo Alto, CA (PRWEB) November 12, 2014
The Privacy Identity Innovation conference (pii2014) opens today at the Crowne Plaza Palo Alto hotel in Silicon Valley. The pii2014 conference brings together more than 250 industry executives, entrepreneurs, marketers, policy experts and privacy professionals to explore where innovation is heading and how to build trust in the data-driven economy.
Now in its fifth year, the annual gathering is the only technology conference of its kind focused on understanding the business and ethics of personal data. The conference kicks off this morning with a discussion about The Information Revolution and the Evolution of Privacy and Identity with leaders from TRUSTe, Forrester Research, Slack and PatternBuilders, followed by a fireside chat between Federal Trade Commission chairwoman Edith Ramirez and POLITICO technology reporter Tony Romm.
Topics at the conference will range from the Quantified Self and facial recognition technologies to mobile advertising and the ethics of big data. Other highlights of the three-day program include a keynote from Enchanted Objects author David Rose about the Internet of Things, interviews with founders of about.me, Secret and Silent Circle, and a discussion between Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board member Jim Dempsey and Apple’s senior director of global privacy Jane Horvath.
There will also be a number of product launches and announcements at the conference, with several startup CEOs delivering on stage presentations as part of the pii2014 Innovator Spotlight and close to 20 companies exhibiting in the pii2014 Technology Showcase.
“It’s been exciting to see more companies get involved in the privacy and identity space over the five years that we’ve been hosting the conference,” said Natalie Fonseca, Privacy Identity Innovation co-founder and executive producer. “The conversation at pii2014 is not only about what regulators can do to improve how personal information is protected – it’s also about how entrepreneurs and industry leaders can offer individuals’ more choices and better solutions for managing their information.”
Other speakers at pii2014 include experts from Box, TRUSTe, Blackphone, Facebook, Ogilvy & Mather, Forrester Research, Microsoft, Metanautix, Neura, AT&T, Adobe, Google, Janrain, Neustar, Wickr, CipherCloud, the Intelligent Car Coalition, the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, the Interactive Advertising Bureau and more than 70 other companies and organizations.
Conference sponsors include Internet Society, Blackphone, Cooley LLP, Perkins Coie, Facebook, TRUSTe, Cocoon, Digital Advertising Alliance, StartMail, the Entertainment Software Rating Board, Personal, Reputation.com, Disconnect, Online Trust Alliance, nugg.ad, W2 Communications and C-PET. More information about the program is available at PrivacyIdentityInnovation.com.
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Privacy Identity Innovation is independently owned and produced by SageScape. Founded in 2003, SageScape is passionate about promoting innovation and exploring how technology impacts, and is shaped by, culture, policy and business. In addition to the annual Tech Policy Summit and Privacy Identity Innovation conferences, SageScape works on leading industry events for a variety of clients–ranging from early-stage startups to top global brands. To learn more, visit PrivacyIdentityInnovation.com. You can also follow us on Twitter at @TechPolicy.
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Open Science Summit 2011: Opening the Door to Innovation
Open Science Summit 2011: Opening the Door to Innovation
Mountain View, CA (PRWEB) August 24, 2011
On October 22-23, an expected 450 individuals will collect at Mountain View’s Computer History Museum, launching an initiative to make science more efficient, collaborative and productive.
No matter whether by sharing analysis data, publishing function to be freely accessible, supplying community access to lab space or collaborating across business, academia & society, men and women across the globe are enhancing science by opening up. Given the magnitude of our world’s unmet challenges, founder Joseph Jackson says “we must grasp this opportunity to embrace open science.” The advent of social networking amongst scientists, elevated public scrutiny and a revolution in computing speed have all had a hand in developing this historic moment.
“Open science represents a diverse type of science. With the advent of huge computational power, there is a new way to do science and that frequently goes hand and hand with openness – and if you go with the standard model, you are ossified.” – Tomas Goetz, Wired.
The Open Science Summit is the initial event of its type, uniting open science advocates of all disciplines: everybody from citizen scientists to academic researchers and multinational corporations. For all their differences, these groups share 1 ambition: to make scientific research far more public, sharable and scalable. Last year’s inaugural event saw over 300 attendees and nationwide media impact. This year, the Open Science Summit proves that Open Science is global and here to remain via the launch of the Open Science Alliance, an official coalition of these several complementary movements. The Alliance will launch a developer’s challenge this Spring, incentivizing students to develop solutions that benefit open science, as nicely as a number of joint publications and advocacy campaigns.
This year, open science has shown promise in crowd-sourcing clinical trials, determining interactions among genome-based and microbe-driven illnesses and even discovering lost loved ones members. This year’s Open Science Summit capabilities a medical research track, exploring 2010-11 innovations and a pitch session where startups will present their contributions to open science collaboration. Confirmed speakers incorporate lately-published Misha Angrist from Duke, Rade Drmanac, founder of Complete Genomics and Victoria Stodden, statistics professor at Columbia.
“Openness by far and away will win out if we actually measure individuals by their accurate contribution,” says Professor Jonathan Eisen. With that in thoughts, the Summit has a track devoted toward new ideas on giving researchers due credit – and due reward – in an open science program. Confirmed speakers for this track include James Love of Understanding Ecology International and David Thomson of UCSF. The summit also supplies two a lot more tracks: 1 dedicated to group issue-solving to address barriers to open science, and the other devoted to youth education and advocacy around opening up. Go to http://opensciencesummit.com for more details.
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