Data Science Perspectives - Multidisciplinary PhD Conference

The Marketing Analytics & Data Science (MADS) conference is back for our annual reunion, and this year is all about making connections. Join us at MADS 2022 to reconnect with industry leaders for networking and idea sharing, connect cross-functional teams to improve efficiency, connect data across siloes, connect with solutions partners to drive growth, and connect the end user to a personalized data experience.

The data lakehouse is the future for modern data teams seeking to innovate with a data architecture that simplifies data workloads, eases collaboration, and maintains the flexibility and openness to stay agile as a company scales. The Databricks Lakehouse Platform realizes this idea by unifying analytics, data engineering, machine learning and streaming workloads across clouds on one simple, open data platform. In this session, learn how the Databricks Lakehouse Platform can meet your needs for every data and analytics workload, with examples of real-customer applications, reference architectures and demos to showcase how you can create modern data solutions of your own.

Welcome to the online Unicorn Battles Software & Services + Data management – part of the World Largest Startup Pitch Contest where famous international VCs and Business Angels meet extraordinary startups from all over the world!

In her new book Trafficking Data: How China is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty, Aynne Kokas looks at how technology firms in the two largest economies in the world, the United States and China, have exploited government policy (and the lack thereof) to gather information on citizens. Kokas argues that US government leadership failures, Silicon Valley's disruption fetish, and Wall Street's addiction to growth have fueled China's technological goldrush. In turn, American complacency yields an unprecedented opportunity for Chinese firms to gather data in the United States and quietly send it back to China, and by extension, to the Chinese government. This talk examines the governance challenges presented by data trafficking and proposes potential pathways to improved data governance to protect national sovereignty and democracy.