BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-// BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:19700329T010000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:19701025T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:Isaac Newton Institute Seminar Series SUMMARY:Making DLT Happen - Rob Learney (Digital Catapult) DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20191106T161000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20191106T163000 UID:TALK133975AT URL: DESCRIPTION:The most important asset in the 4th Indus trial Revolution is data. Who owns the data is the most important question of freedom in the 21st ce ntury. Who owns the data has the power not \;j ust in the economy\, but in politics and society m ore broadly. The Internet giants have captured vas t amounts of data and their platforms are impactin g elections\, freedom of speech and \;exaspera ting conflicts and \;polarisation \;around the world. This monopoly power is providing priva te companies with little oversight\, the ability t o set global policy on fundamental human issues. T his situation is only going to get worse as the in ternet of things collects more and more data and a rtificial intelligence combines it all to predict and manipulate behaviour with increasing accuracy.

We need an alternative. The solu tion is to use software that is open-source\, priv acy-protecting\, and peer-to-peer: designed to lim it the concentration of data power. In this talk\, Partner and Head of Research Lawrence Lundy from Outlier Ventures\, a UK-based early-stage tech inv estment firm\, will explore how we can build softw are to secure individual freedoms and create a fai rer data economy. He will introduce a framework th ey use to assess opportunities which looks at the data value chain from production (the IoT and sens or networks) to distribution (cryptography and blo ckchain networks) to consumption (algorithms). Or to use buzzwords\, IoT+Blockchains+AI. \;< /span> LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Newton Institute END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR