Sep 23–26, 2019

Schedule: Law and Ethics sessions

9:00am–5:00pm Tuesday, September 24, 2019

Location: 1A 06

Data Case Studies

David Boyle (Audience Strategies), Richard Evans (Statistics Canada), Rosaria Silipo (KNIME), Leah Xu (Spotify), Arup Nanda (Capital One), Victoriya Kalmanovich (Navy), Tusharadri Mukherjee (Lenovo), David Boyle (Audience Strategies), Richard Evans (Statistics Canada), Leah Xu (Spotify), Victoriya Kalmanovich (Navy), Moise Convolbo (Rakuten), Martin Mendez-Costabel (Bayer Crop Science), gloria macia (F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG), Gwen Campbell (Revibe Technologies), Moise Convolbo (Rakuten), Muhammed Idris (Capria VC | TeraCrunch)

From banking to biotech, retail to government, every business sector is changing in the face of abundant data. Get better at defining business problems and applying data solutions at Strata. Read more.

1:15pm–1:55pm Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Location: 1E 14

War stories from the front lines of ML

Secondary topics: Ethics, Privacy and Security

Andrew Burt (bnh.ai), Brenda Leong (Future of Privacy Forum), David Florsek (IDEMIA NSS), Alex Beutel (Google Brain), Chris Wheeler (Mastercard)

Machine learning techniques are being deployed across almost every industry and sector. But this adoption comes with real, and oftentimes underestimated, privacy and security risks. Andrew Burt and Brenda Leong convene a panel of experts including David Florsek, Chris Wheeler, and Alex Beutel to detail real-life examples of when ML goes wrong, and the lessons they learned. Read more.

3:45pm–4:25pm Thursday, September 26, 2019

Location: 1E 14

Purposefully designing technology for civic engagement

Secondary topics: BI, Interactive Analytics and Visualization, Ethics

Audrey Lobo-Pulo (Phoensight), Annette Hester (National Energy Board, Canada)

As new digital platforms emerge and governments look at new ways to engage with citizens, there's an increasing awareness of the role these platforms play in shaping public participation and democracy. Audrey Lobo-Pulo, Annette Hester, and Ryan Hum examine the design attributes of civic engagement technologies and their ensuing impacts and an NEB Canada case study. Read more.