speaking
Digital Forum: What is data and who owns it?
Spoke at the Meat and Livestock Association conference 23 November 2018
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education
Published: Visual Tools for Developing Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Capacity
For the last couple of years I have been working on a book with Selena Griffith, Martin Bliemel and a long list of wonderfully creative and innovative authors from across the globe. Today it has been released for sale in digital and hard copy. Visual Tools for Developing Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration,
education
Visual tools for developing student capacity for cross-disciplinary collaboration, innovation and entrepreneurship
Very happy that our book is finally being published - huge thanks to my wonderful co-conspirators, co-editors and co-authors - Selena Griffith and Martin Bliemel. Visual tools for developing student capacity for cross-disciplinary collaboration, innovation and entrepreneurship -- Common Ground Research Networks, Champaign, IL 2018 "Visual tools for developing
cybersecurity
Info sec, AI and ethics - some thoughts #codemesh
I'm heading off to speak at the CodeMesh Conference in London shortly and I've been thinking about the emerging boundaries between information security, AI and ethics. I will post some thoughts as they evolve. Developers (and others) and ethical approaches We need to help everyone, from
management & leadership
Future proof your career - some tips for women
Spoke at a women in technology conference recently on the topic of how to future proof your career. It might seem strange that I hardly mentioned technology at all in this talk. But the essentials for a long career are mostly outside of technology. Any intelligent person can pick up
data
Ethics in AI
A recent article on the emergence of Artifical Intelligence (AI) as a real thing quoted me on the need for an ethical lens over our AI. I do suspect that this will continue to be something that will need to be discussed as we see AI used for questionable things.
data
Data is the engine of the fourth industrial revolution
"Data is the new resource and we are in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution that is driven by the internet of things. The old fossil fuelled industrial revolutions are in their dying days and we are seeing the birth of a new era that will reshape everything
speaking
Data For Public Good
I've been meaning to share this discussion for ages: from the Constellation Research Conference last year on Data For Public Good. Data data data everywhere but what to do with the deluge? It was a wideranging discussion about how to extract the signal from the noise and ponder
ideas
Some thoughts on digital and data Ethics
The Ethics Centre Humans have been thinking about the moral principles that govern our behaviour or the way in which we conduct ourselves for aeons. We are moving at lightspeed towards a new and exciting future that is built on algorithms, data, and digital technologies. Ethics is an area of
cybersecurity
Data governance and cybersecurity
The connection between data governance and cybersecurity might not be immediately apparent. But if one considers the '5 knows of cyber', it becomes obvious that cybersecurity is all about data, and data is all about information, and we want information to be secure. I use the '5
ideas
Data Governance: 5 Tips for getting started
I've been reflecting on the past year and one big focus area was data governance. Rolling out a data governance program along with an Information Security Management System (ISMS) is a big job for a large and complex organisation, and it is a multi-year project. We are in
future
Future of work and the growth of populist politics
The future of work has been an emerging issue for a long time, and now as automation disrupts traditional employment, it is safe to say that it has emerged. It is becoming increasingly urgent to find a solution for those displaced. We need new ideas and approaches to this problem.