Introduction
Spirited conversations that bring world-leading experts together from a variety of backgrounds to discuss issues of critical interest where data science, artificial intelligence and the real world collide. Sponsored by The Alan Turing Institute, the National Innovation Centre for Data (NICD) and Newcastle Data.
About the event
Join us in-person in Newcastle at the award-winning Catalyst Building theatre, or virtually from the comfort of your own home, for a series of five Data Debates starting in April and running throughout 2022. The Debates are aimed at the general public and engage with complex questions with real-world relevance, including decision-making, artificial intelligence, the workforce of the future, health, data, and fairness.
Catch up on the previous series of Data Debates, a collaboration between The Alan Turing Institute and the British Library.
Agenda
Health is one the most exciting and challenging application areas for data science and artificial intelligence.
Data-driven healthcare represents a paradigm shift for medicine, with huge potential for personalised, preventive healthcare and for early interventions. This is enabled by the progressive integration of digital health records with multi-omics data and medical imagery, as well as with self-monitoring data coming from personal wellness wearables—and all alongside advances in our capacity to manage, analyse and extract insights from the data at scale.
However, these technologies also bring new and old challenges to the fore, around privacy, ethics, and ownership of personal information. In this Northern Data Debate, our panel of experts unpacks the latest developments, and debates the myriad promises and challenges that surround innovations in healthcare and data.
Our compere for the evening will be Herb Kim, CEO Thinking Digital.
The full panel includes...
Nic Palmarini, Director of the National Innovation Centre for Ageing
Professor Alex Frangi, Director of Research and Innovation, Leeds Institute for Data Analytics and Scientific Director, Leeds Centre for HealthTech Innovation
Dr. Janis Wong, Postdoctoral Research Associate (ethics), Public Policy programme, The Alan Turing Institute
Hermina Ely, Cluster Engagement Manager, Health and Social Care Tech, Dynamo North East CIC
Vaishnavi Khullar, CEO, Monitor Analytics
17:00 - Drinks reception
18:00 - Panel debate
19:30 - End
