SAFE-DEED

THREE DECADES @ THE CROSSROADS OF IP, ICT AND LAW
2019-10-04 08:30 - 19:30 (Europe/Vienna) | Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
The Centre for IT & IP Law is a research center at the Faculty of Law of the University of Leuven (KU Leuven). We are known internationally for our expertise in the areas of data privacy and information security law, new media and communications law, information rights management, intellectual property rights, legal and ethical dimensions of ehealth and artificial intelligence.
CiTiP is a research center with a long tradition. Started as two separate centers, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Law and ICT (ICRI) and the Centre for Intellectual Property Rights (CIR), we joined the forces in 2014 to better face the complex challenges of the new digital age. Since then we have raised many great academics and worked with many brilliant scholars.
On 4 October we will celebrate three decades of our work at the crossroads of IP, ICT and Law with a celebratory conference. We will be joined by academia super stars Prof. Karen Yeung, Prof. Reto Hilty and Prof. Luciano Floridi, as well as many other renowned speakers coming from inside and outside CiTiP. We invite all our friends and collaborators to join us on this joyous occasion.
Check out the Event webpage here.

NIEDERÖSTERREICH-DATE MIT BIG DATA EXPERTEN
2019-10-03 17:30 - 19:30 | FH St. Pölten, Matthias Corvinus-Straße 15, St. Pölten, 3100, Austria
EINLADUNG ZUR WORKSHOP-KONFERENZ
Der Verein zur Förderung der Datenwirtschaft und der Optimierung von Datentechnologien
lädt alle Stakeholder herzlich ein zum
NIEDERÖSTERREICH-DATE
MIT BIG DATA Experten
unter dem Thema: „WELCHEN VORTEIL BIETEN DATENMÄRKTE FÜR IHR UNTERNEHMEN?“
SICHERHEIT UND DATENSOUVERÄNITÄT
DATENQUALITÄT UND INTEROPERABILITÄT
TECHNOLOGIEN UND INNOVATIONEN
Marlies Temper, Studiengangsleiterin, Data Science and Business Analytics, FH St. Pölten
Data Science und Business Analytics: Willkommen an der FH St. Pölten

Peter A. Bruck, Geschäftsführer und wissenschaftlicher Gesamtleiter, Research Studios Austria Forschungsgesellschaft – RSA FG
Datenökonomie und Datensouveränität: Welchen Profit gibt es aus der Bewirtschaftung von Daten?

Allan Hanbury, Professor für Data Intelligence, TU Wien
Datenmärkte: Wozu brauchen Unternehmen Datenhandel?

Mihai Lupu, Studiodirektor, Research Studio Data Science der RSA FG,
Data Market Austria: Was ist das Technologieangebot für Niederösterreich?
Günter Tschabuschnig, CIO, ZAMG, Wien
Digitale Infrastruktur: Braucht es schnelle Rechner für den Datenhandel?

Thomas Lampoltshammer, Zentrum für E-Governance, Donau-Universität Krems
Zukunft Datenökonomie: Was nutzt die öffentliche Verwaltung an Daten?
FH St. Pölten und Donau-Uni Krems sind Gastgeber und freuen sich, Sie in entspannter Atmosphäre begrüßen zu dürfen, um gemeinsam zukunftsweisende Ideen und Neuigkeiten im Datenhandel zu diskutieren.
Anmeldungen bitte unter office@dataintelligence.at
www.dataintelligence.at
Die EInladung zum Download finden Sie hier

Handeln mit Big Data. Vom Technologie-Schowcase zur Profitablen Wertschöpfung
2019-09-18 | Festsaal BMVIT-Bundesministerium für Verkehr, Technologie und Innovation, Radetzkystraße 2, Wien, 1030, Austria
DATA MARKET AUSTRIA -DMA

Das DMA-Konsortium lädt Sie zu einem spannenden und informativen Nachmittag sowie einer anschließenden Networking Party gemeinsam mit DIO sehr herzlich ein!
Alle Infos zur Konferenz finden Sie hier: https://conferences.dataintelligence.at/
Die Teilnahme an der Konferenz ist kostenlos. Jetzt gleich hier anmelden.
Mihai Lupu from RSA FG will attend the conference.

9th IFAC Conference MIM 2019 on Manufacturing Modelling, Management and Control
2019-08-28 - 2019-08-30 | Berlin School of Economics and Law / Lichtenberg Campus, Alt-Friedrichsfelde 60, Berlin, 10315, Germany
Digital, Resilient and Sustainable Manufacturing 4.0
Digitalization, resilience, and sustainability shape current and future trends in manufacturing modelling, management, and control. The aim of MIM 2019 is to bring together researchers and practitioners in industrial engineering, manufacturing, operations research, supply chain management, and computer science to present and discuss emerging topics in modern manufacturing modeling, management, and control. MIM’2019 will follow a rich tradition of previous IFAC conferences and symposia in Manufacturing and Logistics held in Germany. MIM’2019 will focus in particular on the most innovative methods proposed in the last few years in the context of digitalization, risk management, and resilience in production and logistics systems in the 21st century.
The conference will cover all topics related to design, implementation and operation of modern manufacturing systems in digitalization era, including (but not limited to) the following:

Analytics, optimization and machine learning in manufacturing and supply chains
Control of manufacturing processes
Digital supply chain
Data-driven applications in manufacturing
Design and reconfiguration of manufacturing systems
Facility planning and materials handling
Industry 4.0
Blockchain applications in manufacturing and supply chains
Digital manufacturing networks and smart operations
Artificial intelligence applications to manufacturing
Inventory control, production planning and scheduling
Risk management, resilience and flexibility
Logistics, supply chains and networks
Supply network dynamics and control
Control theory applications to production systems and supply chains
Operations and supply chain simulation
Sustainable manufacturing
Business analytics for manufacturing systems
Market responsive supply chains
Enterprise modelling, integration and networking
Information, systems, control and interoperability
Information management for the Net-Enterprise
Modeling, simulation, control and monitoring of manufacturing processes
Robotics in manufacturing
Intelligent manufacturing systems
Intelligent transportation
Service oriented architecture for production management and control
Knowledge management in production
Fostering innovation in manufacturing
Monitoring, diagnosis and maintenance of manufacturing systems
Complex adaptive systems and emergent synthesis in manufacturing
Web-enabled manufacturing control and wireless automation
Design for reusability
Maintainability, reliability, safety and dependability of production systems
Quality management
Virtual reality
Sensor networks, ubiquitous computing, active identifiers, wireless communication in manufacturing
Distributed systems and multi-agents technologies
Discrete event systems in manufacturing
Simulation technologies
Operations research
Probabilistic models in industrial plant control
Industrial and applied mathematics for production

We are looking forward to welcoming you to MIM 2019 in Berlin!
Prof. Dr. Dmitry Ivanov (General Conference Chair)
Prof. Dr. Alexandre Dolgui (IPC Chair)
Prof. Dr. Harald Gleißner (NOC Chair)
Infineon will attend the conference.

Data Science International Summer School
2019-08-16 - 2019-08-24 | Predeal, Romania
The Data Science Summer School is organized for the second time in Romania by the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, with the support of the International Relations Office, the Faculty of Cybernetics, Statistics and Informatics, and the Faculty of Finance and Banking, together with renowned specialists from the USA and Norway.
Goal
The goal of the summer school is to familiarize students with relevant state of the art topics in data science. The program will cover fundamentals of data science and focus on the following key data science topics:

Data Analytics and statistics
Machine learning
Text processing
Data management and visualization

The program will consist of a combination of lecture-style talks introducing various data science paradigms and methods, hands-on sessions, and student projects.
The summer school aims to have a practical orientation, with Python and Jupyter Notebooks being used to exemplify many of the topics covered at the summer school.
At the end of the summer school, the students are expected to have an understanding of key paradigms used in data science and be able to practically apply them in data science projects.
Prerequisites

Familiarity with computer programming and basic knowledge about Python, interest in working with data, enthusiasm, and willingness to learn new things!
Basic knowledge of linear algebra, probability theory, knowledge representation would be useful, though not strictly necessary.
English, at least B2 (according to European language levels – Self Assessment Grid)
In order to ensure a sufficient level of knowledge, the Summer School is aimed at prospective students with at least a Bachelor’s Degree.

Mihai Lupu from RSA FG will be teaching at the Summer School!

Big Data Value PPP
2019-06-26 - 2019-06-28 | National Library of Latvia, Mūkusalas iela 3, Riga, LV-1423, Latvia
After the great success of the first edition of the BDV PPP Meetup last year in Sofia (Bulgaria), the Big Data Value PPP is happy to announce the celebration of a new edition of this event in Riga (Latvia), from 26 to 28 June.
The chosen venue to host the event is the National Library of Latvia, a magnificent building considered among the greatest cultural projects of the 21st century in Latvia.
Similar to last year, the meetup will include an open day with plenary and parallel sessions, keynotes and speeches from representative actors both at local and European level that will share their insights about data driven and AI based innovation, and a day more focused on the implementation of the strategy of the PPP, with workshops and other activities organized by the PPP stakeholders.
The event is co-organized by the Big Data Value Association and the BDVe project, with the collaboration of the rest of BDV PPP projects, and the local support of the Latvian company Tilde.
Yannis Markopoulos from ForthNet and Noreen Berger from Know-Center will attend the conference.

EURO 2019 - 30th EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON OPERATIONAL RESEARCH
2019-06-23 - 2019-06-26 | University College Dublin (UCD), Dublin, Ireland
The program you can find here
Infineon will attend the conference.

Theory and Practice of Multi-Party Computation (TPMPC) 2019
2019-06-17 - 2019-06-20 | Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Tel-Aviv, 5290002, Israel
TPMPC 2019 will be held at Bar-Ilan University (in the Tel Aviv area) from June 17 to June 20. Transportation will be provided from some select Tel Aviv hotels to Bar-Ilan in the morning and back at the end of the day, for those interested in staying in Tel Aviv.
More details will be posted on this page as we get closer to the event.

Registration
The registration fee for TPMPC 2019 is $150 (USD). Please register at the TPMPC 2019 registration page.

Venue
The exact location of the workshop is in the Nanotechnology Building (building number 206) at Bar-Ilan University (map). Please note that photo ID (passport or drivers license) is needed to enter the campus.

We recommend staying at a hotel in Tel-Aviv; we will provide transportation to the conference at Bar-Ilan and back every day.

We have a special rate at the Atlas hotel chain for the Yam, Tal by the Beach, Melody and Shalom & Relax hotels. The prices per night including breakfast are: 730NIS-single and 780NIS-double at the Yam hotel; 800NIS-single and 870NIS-double at Tal by the Beach and at Melody (100NIS more for a superior room); and 840NIS-single and 930NIS-double at Shalom & Relax (100NIS more for a superior room).
Please make your booking via https://www.atlas.co.il and use the Promo Code TPMPC2019.

For those who wish other options, the Hilton, Carlton and Grand Beach hotels are in the area.

Buses will pick participants up from the Tal by the Beach and Shalom & Relax hotels every morning, and will return participants there at the end of every day. (Note that all of the above hotels are close to these two pick-up points.) The buses will leave approximately 1 hour before the talks begin each day. Exact times will be given closer to the workshop, and to those who sign up for the bus.

Program
The full workshop program appears here. In order to see more details regarding the speakers and co-authors, see the lists of invited speakers and contributed talks below.

Confirmed Invited Speakers

Marina Blanton (University at Buffalo, USA): Efficient Building Blocks For Secure Computation Based On Secret Sharing
Elette Boyle (IDC, Israel): Beaver Meets FSS: Secure Computation with Preprocessing via Function Secret Sharing
Ran Canetti (Tel-Aviv University, Israel and Boston University, USA): Fully Deniable Encryption and Multiparty Computation
Ivan Damgård (Aarhus University, Denmark): Communication Lower Bounds for Statistically Secure MPC, with or without Preprocessing
Shai Halevi (IBM T.J. Watson, USA): Compressible FHE with Applications to PIR
Marcella Hastings (University of Pennsylvania, USA): Lessons From A Survey Of General-Purpose Frameworks For Secure Multi-Party Computation
Yehuda Lindell (Bar-Ilan University, Israel): Two-Thirds Honest-Majority MPC for Malicious Adversaries at Almost the Cost of Semi-Honest
Tal Malkin (Columbia University, USA): Garbled Neural Networks are Practical
Arpita Patra (Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India): The Round Complexity Landscape of Secure Computation
Thomas Schneider (Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany): Private Function Evaluation – From Functions to Data to Code

4th IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy
2019-06-17 - 2019-06-19
Since 1980, the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy has been the premier forum for presenting developments in computer security and electronic privacy, and for bringing together researchers and practitioners in the field. Following this story of success, IEEE initiated the European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P), which is organized every year in a European city.
The 4th EuroS&P edition will be held on June 17-19, 2019 in Stockholm, at the KTH main campus.
For more information see: https://www.ieee-security.org/TC/EuroSP2019/index.php
Sebastian Ramacher from TU-Graz, Institute of Applied Information Processing and Communications, will attend the conference.

Annual Privacy Forum 2019
2019-06-13 - 2019-06-14 | LUISS University, Viale Romania 32, Roma, 00197, Italy
Electronic communication networks and interconnected digital services have become ubiquitous as they have permeated every fold of everyday life. At a time when automated profiling and electronic surveillance have become commodities, citizens and businesses alike may face limitations and threats when they have personal data processed or seek to protect their privacy on the internet or when using general communication services. Limitations in the transparency, the functionality and interconnectivity of online and communication services increases the risk of having personal data processed out of control of any accountable person or organization or simply becoming exposed to all sorts of privacy threats.

The recalibrated legal framework in the EU as manifested by the promulgation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is key in an effort to better control the processing of personal data. Additionally, the forthcoming Regulation on Privacy and Electronic Communications is expected to give new impetus to the way privacy is protected in electronic communications. Even the best legislative efforts cannot keep up to speed with the pace of innovative technology and business models that challenge the way personal data is processed and privacy is protected across the EU and beyond; therefore, examining what is at stake and where threats thereto originate from becomes of paramount importance.

LS Tech will attend the conference.

Safe-DEED plenary
2019-05-27 - 2019-05-28 | Eurecat Barcelona, 72, Carrer de Bilbao, Barcelona, Catalunya, 08005, Spain
The Safe-DEED team meets again on 27 and 28 of May, this time in Barcelona, at Eurecat, to discuss the status of the projects and the steps forward.

2nd International Data Science Conference 2019
2019-05-22 - 2019-05-24 | Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Urstein Süd, Puch bei Hallein, 5412, Austria
Organizations have moved already from the rigid structure of classical project management towards the adoption of agile approaches. This holds also true for software development projects, which need to be flexible to adopt to rapid requests of clients as well to reflect changes that are required due to architectural design decisions. With data science having established itself as corner stone within organizations and businesses, it is now imperative to perform this crucial step for analytical business processes as well. The non-deterministic nature of data science and its inherent analytical tasks require an interactive approach towards an evolutionary step-by-step development to realize core essential business applications and use-cases.

The 2nd International Data Science Conference (iDSC 2019) brings together researchers, scientists, and business experts to discuss means of establishing new ways of embracing agile approaches within the various domains of data science, such as machine learning and AI, data mining, or visualization and communication as well as case studies and best-practices from leading research institutions and business companies.
The RSA FG will attend this conference.

Kick-off Workshop: InDI - Industrial Data Initiative
2019-04-03 13:00 - 16:00 | Business Upper Austria, Hafenstraße 47-51, Linz, 4020, Austria
Motivation
Aufbauend auf Szenarien der Industrie 4.0 fokussieren wir uns auf den Aspekt der zugrundeliegenden Daten. Es geht um maschinennahe Datengewinnung aus Produktion und Betrieb, um Datentransfer, Analytics, neue datengetriebene Service- und Betriebsmodelle und um neue unternehmensübergreifende Wertschöpfungsketten mit starkem Digital-Anteil.
Dabei kommt es neben technischem Know-how vermehrt auch auf “weichere” Faktoren an, wie Datensouveränität, Trust, das rechtlich-vertragliche Umfeld, und natürlich auf Geschäftsmodelle.
Im Rahmen der InDI wollen wir vertrauensvolle Plattformen für den Erfahrungsaustausch und fürs Experimentieren schaffen und konkrete Kooperationsprojekte initiieren.
Damit digitale Innovation real wird.
Zielgruppe
Alle, die das Potenzial der Datenfülle in ihren Industrieunternehmen besser nutzen und so zum nachhaltigen Erfolg ihres Unternehmens im digitalen Zeitalter beitragen möchten.
Agenda

Impuls: Industrial Data Space – die Basics (Tbc)
World-Café 1 “Themen”
World-Café 2 “Formate”
Förderoptionen: in Richtung konkrete Kooperation
Modalitäten & Nächste Schritte

Gebühren
Die Teilnahme am Kick-off ist kostenlos, eine Anmeldung jedoch erforderlich. Die Teilnehmerzahl ist begrenzt!

Anmeldeschluss
03.04.2019

Towards Value-Centric Big Data: Connect People, Processes and Technology
2019-04-02 09:30 | IMEC-SMIT-VUB, Boulevard de la Plaine 9, Etterbeek, Brussels, 1050, Belgium
The need for privacy-preserving technologies grows continuously with information systems becoming increasingly networked within organisations and civil society, and datasets getting larger and more heterogeneous. However, although many big data solutions affect society as a whole, privacy-preserving technologies are integrated into them only to a limited extent.
When taking a closer look at the situation, one notices quickly that there is a rather low demand for big data solutions that help protect privacy. It seems that users and citizens are blinded by the benefits they get in return for their personal data and that operators can well live with the current situation.
It would be important to embed security and privacy features based on these technologies in big data solutions. The technologies would have to be configured to provide a high level of privacy protection by default. While current research offers strong solutions, these solutions are rarely used in practice.
There is a strong need to consider people, process and technology at the same time when it comes to making value-centric big data a reality.
This e-SIDES workshop aims to gather all actors whose work and active engagement can promote responsible research and innovation in the field of big data paving the way to design and deploy the next generation of big data solutions.
This event is a key opportunity not only for people from science, industry and politics but also for representatives of civil society organisations to contribute to the debate on how big data solutions can be developed and used in a responsible way, protecting societal values to the greatest possible extent.
The workshop will be highly interactive and call for attendees’ contribution to the discussion. The morning session will be dedicated to high level keynote speakers and presentations, while the afternoon session will host the knowledge café “towards responsible big data”.
Preliminary Workshop Agenda
Morning Session 09.30-12.00
09.30 Registration and welcome coffee
10.00 Opening and introduction
10.10 “You’re monitoring my what…?!” – Balancing privacy against enhanced security outcomes. – Duncan Brown, EMEA Chief Security Strategist, Forcepoint
10.30 e-SIDES presentation: The community paper on RRI guidelines for big data: why we need it and how we can work together
10.45 Big Data Value PPP projects presentations
11.30 Keynote presentation (TBD)
11.50 Morning session Q&A
12.00 Networking Lunch
Afternoon Session 13.00-16.00
13.00 Knowledge café: towards responsible big data
15.00 Knowledge café reporting to the plenary and open discussion
16.00 End of workshop
Registration is free but mandatory
If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact us info@e-sides.eu or saguzzi@idc.com
Alessandro Bruni from KU Leuven will be representing Safe-DEED!

AI Law & Ethics Conference
2019-02-28 09:00 - 18:30 | Martin’s Klooster Hotel, Onze-Lieve-Vrouwstraat 18, Leuven, 3000, Belgium
Through the looking glass of AI platforms: Between global governance and techno-regulation?
The Centre for IT & IP Law is organizing a conference on AI Law & Ethics on the 28th of February.
The advancement in data science, together with the growing availability of data have contributed to the flourishing of inter-operable platforms, where AI is increasingly used. The conference will focus on the multilevel legal and ethical challenges regarding the impact of consumer and industrial platforms on consumers, contributors and end-users.
The increasing availability of these data by platforms risks creating potential power asymmetries between individuals and companies with a consequential lowering of individual legal protections.
The conference moves from the assumption that the interoperability of these platforms should be ensured not only at a technical level but also at a legal and ethical one.
The conference aims to explore whether this could be obtained through a commonly agreed (global) governance model that can ensure a ‘sustainable’ evolution of these platforms.

Pricing & Revenue Management Summit 2019
2019-02-22 07:45 - 16:30 | Boston Consulting Group, Ludwigstrasse 21, München, 80539, Germany
Take this opportunity to talk to Infineon about Lead-based Pricing and Multi-party Computation!

Description: Annual conference of the GOR working group „Pricing & Revenue Management“ to support the exchange between research and practice.
Both technology oriented firms and management oriented firms will be in the focus of this year’s discussion.

More info: http://www.gor-ev.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Einladung_AG-Sitzung-PRM_2019.pdf
