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The Decentralized Enterprise and the Future of Work - Webinar
2021-02-02 17:00 - 18:00 (Europe/London) | Virtual Event, United Kingdom
Blockchain is a revolutionary leap forward in technology that will eventually disrupt every industry from supply chain to financial services. In a conversation with business and government leaders, we will discuss the regulatory landscape of digital assets, how blockchain is already changing financial services, and the impact this technology will have on companies in the future.

Deep Learning 2.0 Virtual Summit
2021-01-28 - 2021-01-29 | Virtual Event, United Kingdom
5-in-1 online summit:

Deep Learning Landscape Stage
Enterprise AI Stage
Ethics and Social Responsibility Stage
Generative Models Stage
Reinforcement Learning Stage

Startup fundraising in 2021: Mattias Ljungman & Alex Wilhelm
2021-01-27 18:00 - 19:00 | Virtual Event, United Kingdom
Mattias is the founder and general partner of Moonfire Ventures. He was previously co-founder and partner at Atomico for 13 years. The fund amassed over $2bn in assets under management, where Mattias’s key investments included Supercell ($5bn exit to Softbank), Klarna (valued at $10.65bn), Viagogo (valued over $2.25bn) and Climate Corp ($1.1bn exit to Monsanto).
In 2020, Mattias founded Moonfire, a European seed fund focused on helping founders at the very start of their journeys to create the right foundations for exponential growth.
As a member of the European investment community for close to 20 years, Mattias has been a passionate believer and supporter of the tech ecosystem. He was an early board member of Seedcamp and Firstminute when the funds first launched. In addition, he has sat on the SVB advisory board and was part of the EVCA digital task force.
This talk is moderated by Alex Wilhelm, Senior Editor at TechCrunch. He previously worked for Crunchbase News as Editor in Chief as well as The Next Web, TechCrunch, and Mattermark.

Gartner: Top 2021 Blockchain Trends
2021-01-27 17:00 - 18:00 | Virtual Event, United Kingdom
The events of 2020 fundamentally changed the business landscape. In the wake of this disruption, purely experimental investments have been cut and long-term strategic projects have extended its timetables. By contrast, businesses are continuing and accelerating projects with clear benefits, particularly those that directly address challenges that the pandemic threw into relief.
In this complimentary virtual event, Gartner’s Distinguished VP Analyst Avivha Litan will share critical trends that will emerge in 2021. Join to learn how these shifts will impact your firm’s plan and how you can maneuver to gain a competitive edge.
Speaker
Avivah Litan, Distinguished VP Analyst, Gartner Research
Avivah Litan is a Distinguished VP Analyst in Gartner Research. Ms. Litan is currently a member of the ITL AI team that covers AI and Blockchain. She specializes in AI Risk Management, Blockchain innovation, and how to detect Fake content and goods using a variety of technologies and methodologies. She chairs Gartner’s Blockchain Research Community of analysts covering blockchain, and also helps manage Gartner’s research for Application Leaders across the Applications and Software Engineering group Ms. Litan has a strong background in many aspects of cybersecurity and fraud, including the integration of AI with these domains. This background is useful in her current coverage of securing and protecting AI, and of integrating advanced technologies such as blockchain, IoT and AI to solve specific use cases, such as detecting fake content or goods. Before joining Gartner, Ms. Litan worked as a Director of Financial Systems at the World Bank. She also worked as a journalist and columnist for the Washington Times. She earned her Masters of Science at M.I.T.

Anatomy of real-time at Paddypower Betfair
2021-01-26 14:00 - 15:00 | Webinar
About this webinar
Couchbase NoSQL has started small at Paddypower Betfair. From its early beginnings, as an alternative to our classic relational databases, it has grown into a full blown system that we rely on to deliver great customer experiences. In this webinar we’ll share facts & stats from our daily operations, showing you how we got from problem to solution in a variety of use-cases: creating activity reports for our operational teams, delivering such data when the sizing reaches millions of records and operating dual datacenter clusters.

Ad tech in the UK - data use, tackling harm, and latest regulatory and market developments
2021-01-26 09:00 - 13:00 | Virtual Event, United Kingdom
This conference which will discuss latest thinking on the regulation and use of ad tech in the UK.
The discussion is bringing together stakeholders with key policy officials who are due to attend from DCMS; DIT; HMRC; the CMA; the Cabinet Office; the ICO; the IPO; Ofcom; the Home Office and DHSC.
Relevant developments at a glance:
Fix ‘dysfunctional’ online ads market – recommendations from the Lords Communications and Digital Committee in their report on the future of journalism calling for a system that would require platforms such as Google and Facebook to pay news outlets for use of their content
Facebook to pay UK media millions to license news stories – Guardian reporting the social network reacting to a threatened government crackdown over dominance of online advertising
the Digital Markets Unit – within the CMA working with Ofcom and the ICO on developing and implementing a new statutory code on consumer data and publisher/online platform relationships
following DCMS’s Online advertising – call for evidence; the Online Harms White Paper; the CMA’s Online platforms and digital advertising market study; the ICO Adtech update report; and the ASA’s More Impact Online strategy for 2019-2023
“Powerful tech giants have trampled on UK businesses for long enough” – Secretary of State Oliver Dowden writes article for the Telegraph in which he outlines the new roles of the Digital Markets Unit, and states ‘The Government can be pro-tech without supporting Silicon Valley monopolies in the UK’
CDEI publishes review into bias in algorithmic decision-making – recommending:
a mandatory transparency obligation for public sector organisations using decision-making algorithms
that organisations should think how they can make sure individuals are treated fairly, and use data to identify and tackle bias
application by government of the Equality Act in relation to algorithmic decisions, and an offer of guidance on the legal aspects of collecting data to mitigate bias
the National Data Strategy – from DCMS, aiming to support the use of data in the UK and The future of citizen data systems, the Foresight report which fed into the Strategy and called in part for the UK to take a holistic approach to data system management
Proposed amendments to the Broadcasting Code and the Code on the Scheduling of Television Advertising – Ofcom consulting on implementing AVMS provisions going forward
the recently agreed Trade and Cooperation Agreement with the EU – which outlines plans for the UK’s future relationship with the EU and includes data protection purposes, a transition period of up to six months to enable the European Commission to complete its adequacy assessment of the UK’s data protection system
The agenda:
Ad tech – the market and emerging trends
Distribution and utilisation of data – key issues and developments in real-time bidding, the use of cookies, and transfers of data between organisations
Online advertising regulation going forward – the progress of the ASA’s More Impact Online strategy
Data use, regulation and innovation – content and ad targeting, transparency and responding to regulatory concerns, and supporting opportunities for growth
Policy and regulation across Europe – the impact of the Digital Services Act, AVMSD enforcement framework and New Consumer Agenda
Policy officials attending:
Our forums are known for attracting strong interest from policymakers and stakeholders. Places have been reserved by officials from the DCMS; DHSC; the Department for International Trade; HM Revenue and Customs; the Competition and Markets Authority; the Cabinet Office; the Information Commissioner’s Office; the Intellectual Property Office; Ofcom; and the Home Office.
Overall, we expect speakers and attendees to be a senior and informed group including Members of both Houses of Parliament, senior government and regulatory officials involved in this area of policy, as well as from digital advertising agencies, adtech and martech companies, digital platforms and online businesses, consumer technology companies, software and app developers, data analytics and data handling organisations, companies involved in the development of new technologies such as AI, cyber security and data protection companies, the technology and telecoms industries, organisations and individuals representing the views of consumers and citizens, regulators, together with reporters from the national and specialist media.
This is a full-scale conference taking place online***
full, four-hour programme including comfort breaks – you’ll also get a full recording and transcript to refer back to
information-rich discussion involving key policymakers and stakeholders
conference materials provided in advance, including speaker biographies
speakers presenting via webcam, accompanied by slides if they wish, using the Cisco WebEx professional online conference platform (easy for delegates – we’ll provide full details)
opportunities for live delegate questions and comments with all speakers
a recording of the addresses, all slides cleared by speakers, and further materials, is made available to all delegates afterwards as a permanent record of the proceedings
delegates are able to add their own written comments and articles following the conference, to be distributed to all attendees and more widely
networking too – there will be opportunities for delegates to e-meet and interact – we’ll tell you how!

How SPAR Created a CPG Sales Data Exchange with Data Preparation
2021-01-19 14:00 - 15:00 | Webinar
SPAR is one of the world’s largest food retailers operating more than 13,000 stores in 48 countries across the globe. To understand sales trends, market conditions and the performance of different promotions, SPAR relies on data shared by their retailers and their own ability to analyze that data. You can imagine this isn’t easy!
Comparing data across their vast network of retailers means that SPAR’s analytics team has to standardize data across different languages, currencies, formats and product hierarchies. Talk about a data wrangling challenge!
Join this webinar to learn how SPAR utilized Trifacta’s data preparation platform to turn this massive data headache into a competitive advantage for their business. SPAR’s Head of International Operations, Tom Rose and Lead Data Analyst, Dharshini Manoharan will dig into the following topics during this webinar:
● How SPAR created a strategy to turn data bottlenecks into analytic opportunities
● What technology, people and process components were required for success
● Who utilizes data preparation within SPAR and where it fits in their tech stack

The power of open data: improving experiences for operators and public transport riders - WEBINAR
2021-01-19 14:00 - 15:00 | Virtual Event, United Kingdom
Creating a more connected, collaborative and open approach to transport data will be essential to supporting the long term recovery of public transport across the globe. However, a barrier often associated with the sharing of any form of data is the concern from the information source as to how data consumers will use this data.
Zoning in on the United Kingdom, this webinar introduces the Department for Transport’s Bus Open Data Service (BODS), the new UK regulation that requires Bus Operators to provide timetables, real-time vehicle locations, and ticketing/fare information in a central data depository.

BODS is a real-world case study of a transparent approach to sharing transport data in partnership with mobility services and trip planners for the benefit of riders and agencies, and enables developers to use that data to improve passenger information through different tools and applications.
In the session, Moovit will highlight how it uses open data from source through to public transport users, and West Yorkshire Combined Authority will talk about the benefits their local riders already experience from their approach of embracing open data.
Key learning points

What is the UK Bus Open Data Service (BODS) and how will it help data publishers, data consumers, and operators?
What are the current and emerging needs of riders and how can operators use open data meaningfully to benefit users of public transport?
How can sharing transport data change the rider experience now and in the future?
