International Swiss Talent Forum
For young people between 18- 23 years – Participation on invitation only!
Find novel and thought-provoking ideas around “building a resilient society”. It’s a chance for you to contribute to shaping the future of your generation. Develop new ideas with your group of international participants in our for you free event. Be part of the next International Swiss Talent Forum in Summer 2022 and join five exciting days with students from all over the world.
Four exciting days in a lavish camp – it’s your turn to find globally relevant solutions.
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International Swiss Talent Forum 2022
Building a New Resilient Society
Building a New Resilient Society
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International Swiss Talent Forum 2022
Overcoming crises has become a pivotal capability: that is what the events of the last years and decades have clearly shown about what we are to expect in the future. Resilience is the ability of a system to ensure its further existence while going through a crisis. It can apply as much to a whole societal system like a nation-state going through a war or social unrest, a company or a whole economical sector coping with the transformation of the workplace and automation, to the individual human being adapting to the new normal as we are going through and beyond the current Covid-19 pandemic. “Building a New Resilient Society” presents challenges at all levels of society. Much more than trying to maintain the status quo, the topic asks us how adversity can be turned into a force to improve for the better. Integrating evolution in the systems’ DNA instead of fighting the elements. Dealing with uncertainty in complex networks of interactions. Join us and explore the future of this highly challenging and exciting topic – we look forward to welcoming you to ISTF 2022!
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Challenges 2021
Challenge 1
Rethinking Surveillance – Privacy as Intellectual Property?
Abstract
Who owns and controls the huge amount of personal data collected continuously? The high value in combination with the virtual nature of personal data is strongly reminiscent of intellectual property (IP). However, personal data does not fit into any of the existing IP categories.
The challenge is to explore, whether or not it would make sense to integrate ownership of information into the IP system, with the objective to ensure a fair balance of interests between data providers and collectors.
Heinz Müller is Patent Expert at the Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property
Challenge 2
Evolving Healthcare Through Digital Trust and Data Sharing
Abstract
Data continues to be a primordial asset and cyber resilience continues to be an elusive goal for society. Evolving healthcare through digital trust and data sharing, shaping the world’s recovery from and ability to anticipate global health events such as the COVID -19 pandemic requires society’s digital trust. The challenge is to determine the role digital trust, data sharing and analysis can play in evolving healthcare for the future.
In this role, Fred leads the Product Cybersecurity Team at Roche Diagnostics, where the team provides strategies, concepts and security services across the Division. The team assumes a key role in the transfer of product security expertise within the Division.
Prior to Roche, Fred worked at Standard Chartered Bank as Global Head, Information and Cyber Security Assurance. He has held various information security roles including at, NYSE, Euronext, Goldman Sachs, SGCIB and Thomson Reuters. Fred is an Alumnus of the Cisco Networking Academy and has served as industry advisor to academia.
Fred has completed undergraduate studies in computer networking; postgraduate studies in information security, forensics, business strategy and law with focus on privacy. Fred holds professional designations including CISSP, CISM, CEH, ISO27001 LI, CIPP /E and CIPM.
Challenge 3
The Ethics of Public Health Surveillance for Preventing Future Pandemics
Abstract
In order to meet governments’ needs for detecting new pathogenic agents such as mutated viruses to protect citizens from respective threats, public health surveillance systems have to be developed. Besides being effective and economic, they need to be ethically sound. The challenge aims at working out the essential moral aspects which have to be taken into account and traded off against each other.
Challenge 4
Purpose-limited applications by design
Abstract
As data-driven approaches become the prevalent basis of applications and services, there is a need for solutions to mitigate the societal consequences that they bring. Regulatory frameworks typically mitigate the purposes for which data can be used at a contractual level, but still leave room for misuse. In this challenge, the goal is to design applications for a smart city in such a way that their purpose is technologically limited by design.
Carmela Troncoso is an Assistant Professor at EPFL (Switzerland) where she heads the SPRING Lab. She holds a Master's degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Vigo (2006) and a Ph.D. in Engineering from the KU Leuven (2011). Before arriving to EPFL she was a Faculty member at the IMDEA Software Institute (Spain) for 2 years; the Security and Privacy Technical Lead at Gradiant working closely with industry to deliver secure and privacy friendly solutions to the market for 4 years; and a pos-doctoral researcher at the COSIC Group.
Carmela's research focuses on security and privacy. Her work on Privacy Engineering has received several awards, such as the CNIL-INRIA Privacy Protection Award 2017. She regularly publishes in the most prestigious Security and Privacy venues. In 2020 she leadled the design of privacy-preserving privacy contact apps, which led Fortune to include her in the list of 40 under 40 emerging leaders in Technology.
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