Sep 23–26, 2019

Alasdair Allan
Director, Babilim Light Industries

Alasdair Allan is a director at Babilim Light Industries and a scientist, author, hacker, maker, and journalist. An expert on the internet of things and sensor systems, he’s famous for hacking hotel radios, deploying mesh networked sensors through the Moscone Center during Google I/O, and for being behind one of the first big mobile privacy scandals when, back in 2011, he revealed that Apple’s iPhone was tracking user location constantly. He’s written eight books and writes regularly for Hackster.io, Hackaday, and other outlets. A former astronomer, he also built a peer-to-peer autonomous telescope network that detected what was, at the time, the most distant object ever discovered.

Sessions

5:25pm–6:05pm Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Location: 1E 10/11

Executive Briefing: Making intelligent insights at the edge—The demise of big data?

Executive Briefing and best practices, Strata Business Summit

Secondary topics: Data, Analytics, and AI Architecture, Privacy and Security

Alasdair Allan (Babilim Light Industries)

The arrival of a new generation of smart embedded hardware may cause the demise of large-scale data harvesting. In its place, smart devices will let us process data at the edge and extract insights without storing potentially privacy and GDPR infringing data. Join Alasdair Allan to learn why the current age where privacy is no longer "a social norm" may not long survive the coming of the IoT. Read more.