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SUMMARY:Next steps for location data in the UK - the Geospatial Strategy\, market development\, regulation\, and priorities for research and skills
DESCRIPTION:This conference examines the future for location-based data in the UK – looking at priorities for the UK’s Geospatial Strategy and for developing the geographic data market. \nAreas for discussion include: \nthe UK’s Geospatial Strategy ­- implementation\, impact\, ethics\, regulation and the National Underground Asset Register (NUAR) pilot projects\ndata – priorities for developing the framework\, accessibility and interoperability\nskills – including geospatial apprenticeships\ncommercialisation – supporting the development of location-based data services across the UK\, and potential contribution to the economy \nThe discussion is bringing together stakeholders with key policy officials who are due to attend from the Geospatial Commission; BEIS; the Cabinet Office; DCMS; DfT; HMRC; the HSE; Home Office and the NAO. \nThe agenda: \nDeveloping the UK’s geospatial sector and realising opportunities\nDeveloping a coherent national location data framework\nCase study – lessons learnt from the National Underground Asset Register pilot projects\nTaking forward the UK Geospatial Strategy – improving access to better location data\, and priorities for harnessing and safeguarding the data going forward\nSupporting the development of the skills\, geospatial apprenticeships and capabilities to enable future growth\nResearch and developing the market for geospatial data – future applications\, commercial opportunities and supporting development and uptake \nKey areas for discussion: \nUnlocking the power of location – The UK’s geospatial strategy:\nkey recommendations – assessing measures put forward for supporting growth\, competition and innovation\ndelivery – how to address key challenges for developing and implementing a coherent national location data framework\, and meeting its core objectives of:\npromoting and safeguarding the use of location data\nimproving access to better location data\nenhancing capabilities\, skills and awareness\nenabling innovation\nethics – what should be included in guidelines for the responsible use of location data and technology\, options for enforcement\, and progress on developing a strategy in this area\nimpact – looking at guidance being developed for measuring the economic\, social and environmental value of location data\nregulation – development of a set of harmonised data licences for the use of public sector location data\, which is due by 2021\nlessons from NUAR pilot projects – building trust\, engaging early and defining clear use cases\, and implications for the next phase of the programme and national rollout\nnext steps for development – supporting the development of location-based data services across the UK:\nuse cases – examining how to maximise the potential for location data in areas such as:\nsupporting the future of mobility and next generation transport networks\ndelivering environmental outcomes and the delivery of a national land use framework\nenabling future technologies as identified in the Geospatial Commission’s Future Technologies Review\, including in:\ncameras\, imaging and sensing\, immersive technologies and simulation\nunmanned vehicle systems and drones\, and survey\, measurement and scanning\nartificial intelligence\, smart sensors and internet of things\nkey programmes – priorities for the Geospatial Commission work with Scottish Enterprise and the Scottish Government to develop a new Scottish Geospatial Network Integrator\ncommercialisation – what more might be required from policymakers\, researchers\, and businesses to support work into developing geospatial data and incentivise private sector investment\ndata – what more needs to be done to open up data for development:\nkey programmes – how to maximise the impact of:\nthe Public Sector Geospatial Agreement (PSGA) which provides location expertise to developers and the public sector across Britain\nimproved access to the Ordnance Survey MasterMap\nthe work of the Geo6 and the Data Discoverability programme\ntackling barriers – what is needed to ensure that location data is available\, accessible\, interoperable\, reusable and of high quality\nskills – with the strategy committing to produce a skills demand study to pinpoint specific sectors and roles that need geospatial skills now and in the future\, including:\ngeospatial apprenticeships – assessing progress and next steps for their development in the public and private sectors\ncollaboration – the way forward for fostering effective joint working between the public sector\, academia\, and industry\, drawing together geospatial\, data science\, digital and sector expertise\nresearch – assessing the landscape in relation to geospatial development including:\ninternational relationships – the possible impact of the end to the EU exit transition period on collaboration\, and priorities for the UK in the global geospatial environment\nfunding – whether more is needed from public and private sector sources to support continued research efforts\, and where the priority areas for investment are \nRelevant developments \nUnlocking the power of location: The UK’s geospatial strategy – which sets out plans to develop a coherent national location data framework by 2025\, focused on four main areas:\npromoting and safeguarding the use of location data\nimproving access to better location data\nenhancing capabilities\, skills and awareness\nenabling innovation\nEnhancing the UK’s Geospatial Ecosystem – report by the Geospatial Commission with recommendations focusing on:\nimproving data access and maintaining public trust in location data technologies\ndriving business innovation in geospatial technologies in order to meet the aims of the Geospatial Strategy\nthe Government’s £2m transport location data competition:\nsupporting the development of transport location data to enable smart mobility solutions for future transport\nallocating the winnings across 28 projects under the themes of developing mobility as a service\, boosting capacity\, active travel\, and supply chains\nNational Underground Asset Register Project Update – latest development and findings from the NUAR pilot projects on a digital map of all underground pipes and cables\nbacked by the Geo6: The British Geological Survey\, the Coal Authority\, HM Land Registry\, Ordnance Survey\, the UK Hydrographic Office and the Valuation Office Agency\nNew support to grow the Scottish geospatial sector – moves towards establishing the new Scottish Geospatial Network Integrator to enhance the use of location-based data across Scotland\nThe Public Sector Geospatial Agreement (PSGA)\, which:\nreplaced the Public Sector Mapping Agreement (PSMA) for England and Wales and the One Scotland Mapping Agreement (OSMA) earlier this year\nsets out how the Ordnance Survey provides location expertise to developers and the public sector across Britain\nTech UK’s new Geospatial Data Campaign – which will explore the opportunities and potential benefits from greater use of geospatial data across different industries and sectors\nImproved access to MasterMap data and core location identifiers – announced by the Geospatial Commission alongside the release under an Open Government Licence of core location identifiers\nHow the UK government is transforming the way it shares geospatial data – updates from the Geo6 on project Data Discoverability\, aimed at supporting the unlocking the potential of geospatial data
URL:https://informationmatters.net/event/next-steps-for-location-data-uk-geospatial-strategy/
LOCATION:Virtual Event\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Graph Embeddings for Graph-Native Machine Learning
DESCRIPTION:Join us to understand how you can use graph-native machine learning in Neo4j to make break-through predictions. Previously only accessible to researchers and a very few advanced tech companies\, Neo4j has democratized graph-based ML techniques that leverage deep learning and graph convolutional neural networks. \nMost data science models ignore network structure\, while graphs add highly predictive features to ML models\, increasing accuracy and enabling otherwise unattainable predictions based on relationships. With the recent update to the Neo4j Graph Data Science library\, anyone can take advantage of this state-of-the-science technique to create representations of your graph’s most significant features for new and more accurate predictions with the data you already have. \nIn this session\, we’ll explain our new graph embeddings and demonstrate using the GraphSAGE embedding results with our new ML catalog. We’ll also visualize the predictions of different models using Neo4j Bloom. \nSpeakers:\n• Alicia Frame\, Lead Product Manager for Graph Data Science\, Neo4j at Neo4j\n• Amy Hodler\, Director\, Neo4j Graph Analytics & AI Programs at Neo4j
URL:https://informationmatters.net/event/graph-embeddings-for-graph-native-machine-learning/
LOCATION:Webinar
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SUMMARY:The Decentralized Enterprise and the Future of Work - Webinar
DESCRIPTION: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.
URL:https://informationmatters.net/event/decentralized-enterprise-future-of-work/
LOCATION:Virtual Event\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Deep Learning 2.0 Virtual Summit
DESCRIPTION:5-in-1 online summit: \n\nDeep Learning Landscape Stage\nEnterprise AI Stage\nEthics and Social Responsibility Stage\nGenerative Models Stage\nReinforcement Learning Stage
URL:https://informationmatters.net/event/deep-learning-2-0-virtual-summit/
LOCATION:Virtual Event\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Startup fundraising in 2021: Mattias Ljungman & Alex Wilhelm
DESCRIPTION: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). \nIn 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. \nAs 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. \nThis 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.
URL:https://informationmatters.net/event/startup-fundraising-2021/
LOCATION:Virtual Event\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Gartner: Top 2021 Blockchain Trends
DESCRIPTION: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. \nIn 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. \nSpeaker \nAvivah Litan\, Distinguished VP Analyst\, Gartner Research\nAvivah 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.
URL:https://informationmatters.net/event/gartner-top-2021-blockchain-trends/
LOCATION:Virtual Event\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210126T140000
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SUMMARY:Anatomy of real-time at Paddypower Betfair
DESCRIPTION:About this webinar\nCouchbase 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.
URL:https://informationmatters.net/event/anatomy-of-real-time-at-paddypower-betfair/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210126T090000
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SUMMARY:Ad tech in the UK - data use\, tackling harm\, and latest regulatory and market developments
DESCRIPTION:This conference which will discuss latest thinking on the regulation and use of ad tech in the UK. \nThe 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. \nRelevant developments at a glance: \nFix ‘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\nFacebook 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\nthe 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\nfollowing 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\n“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’\nCDEI publishes review into bias in algorithmic decision-making – recommending:\na mandatory transparency obligation for public sector organisations using decision-making algorithms\nthat organisations should think how they can make sure individuals are treated fairly\, and use data to identify and tackle bias\napplication 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\nthe 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\nProposed amendments to the Broadcasting Code and the Code on the Scheduling of Television Advertising – Ofcom consulting on implementing AVMS provisions going forward\nthe 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 \nThe agenda: \nAd tech – the market and emerging trends\nDistribution and utilisation of data – key issues and developments in real-time bidding\, the use of cookies\, and transfers of data between organisations\nOnline advertising regulation going forward – the progress of the ASA’s More Impact Online strategy\nData use\, regulation and innovation – content and ad targeting\, transparency and responding to regulatory concerns\, and supporting opportunities for growth\nPolicy and regulation across Europe – the impact of the Digital Services Act\, AVMSD enforcement framework and New Consumer Agenda \nPolicy officials attending: \nOur 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.  \nOverall\, 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. \nThis is a full-scale conference taking place online*** \nfull\, four-hour programme including comfort breaks – you’ll also get a full recording and transcript to refer back to\ninformation-rich discussion involving key policymakers and stakeholders\nconference materials provided in advance\, including speaker biographies\nspeakers 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)\nopportunities for live delegate questions and comments with all speakers\na 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\ndelegates are able to add their own written comments and articles following the conference\, to be distributed to all attendees and more widely\nnetworking too – there will be opportunities for delegates to e-meet and interact – we’ll tell you how!
URL:https://informationmatters.net/event/ad-tech-uk-event/
LOCATION:Virtual Event\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:How SPAR Created a CPG Sales Data Exchange with Data Preparation
DESCRIPTION: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! \nComparing 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! \nJoin 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: \n● How SPAR created a strategy to turn data bottlenecks into analytic opportunities\n● What technology\, people and process components were required for success\n● Who utilizes data preparation within SPAR and where it fits in their tech stack
URL:https://informationmatters.net/event/how-spar-created-a-cpg-sales-data-exchange-with-data-preparation/
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SUMMARY:The power of open data: improving experiences for operators and public transport riders - WEBINAR
DESCRIPTION: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. \nZoning 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. \n\nBODS 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. \nIn 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. \nKey learning points\n\nWhat is the UK Bus Open Data Service (BODS) and how will it help data publishers\, data consumers\, and operators?\nWhat are the current and emerging needs of riders and how can operators use open data meaningfully to benefit users of public transport?\nHow can sharing transport data change the rider experience now and in the future?
URL:https://informationmatters.net/event/power-of-open-data/
LOCATION:Virtual Event\, United Kingdom
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