International Conference on Data Processing and Applications

This year's PASS Data Community Summit is more than a conference – it's a homecoming. Reconnect with old friends, build new relationships, gain new skills, and get the world-class training you need to take that next step in your data career.

Year 2032. What will keep digital leaders of today relevant 10 years from now? What will allow these companies to stay ahead of the competition and make better, precise decisions? How should they leverage the use of data for accelerating their sustainability goals? This event will unpack answers and insights to such questions and more by experts within the field and experienced thought leaders from companies across the Nordic region.

On October 26 and 27 you will be able to present your news and strategies together with more than 250 leading exhibiting companies in the market and more than 250 Keynote Speakers who will interact with more than 8,000 professional visitors.

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.