The 5th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud

Newcastle University is delighted to organise and host the 2023 Data Science Perspectives—Multidisciplinary PhD Conference, aimed at PhD students from across the entire Turing Institute network. Our primary aim in offering this conference is to facilitate network and community building among early-career researchers in data science and AI research areas, whilst also providing an opportunity to share research, build future collaborations and benefit from professional development activities.

Industry leaders and practitioners show how data is shaping their respective industries and sub-industries – with the goal of sharing knowledge and applications that can be transferred cross-industry. The program will feature industry-specific data experts speaking to innovative applications and models being leveraged by their individual industries, with the goal of sharing transferable knowledge and techniques that data scientists and executives can apply in their own respective industries.

No one doubts that data is the gold of the XXI century. The annual growth of the data analytics market was valued at over 240 billion U.S. dollars in 2021, according to Statista. The expectations are to increase the market value to over 650 billion U.S. dollars by 2029. However, only 19 percent of Fortune 1000 companies say they established a data culture in their organisations while becoming a data-driven company is essential to succeed.

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.