International Swiss Talent Forum
For young people between 18- 23 years – Participation on invitation only!
Find novel and thought-provoking ideas around “rethinking surveillance”. 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 2021 and join four 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.
“The ISTF experience has been nothing short of amazing. The programme has well achieved a fine balance between the provision of information and the opportunity for creativity. It has been an intellectually stimulating and personally fulfilling experience.”
Cassandra, Singapore
Next International Swiss Talent Forum 2021
Swiss Youth in Science unites 70 highly talented and motivated young people in Switzerland, giving them the task to collaboratively find novel solutions for globally relevant issues. The meeting is led by an internationally recognised Topic Leader, typically from academia, and the participants’ work is guided by a group of experts, who challenge participants with a question relevant to a specific aspect of the ISTF main theme. The work of each group is guided by a dedicated coach. To find realistic, culturally appropriate solutions to the globally relevant solution, the ISTF draws participants from more than 25 countries.
The eligibility criteria are listed in the event’s flyer below. In case of further questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Project Leader via e-mail ([email protected]).
Important information regarding COVID-19
Due to the various restrictions regarding the ongoing pandemic in Switzerland and abroad, this year’s edition is adjusted as follows:
- The number of participants is limited to 40.
- There will be only 4 (instead of the usual 5) Challengers.
- The event will be organised at a national level and, exceptionally, we will not send an official invitation to international participants.We hope that the situation will evolve positively in the coming months, allowing us to greet the participants in August.
We look forward to returning to a normal international format starting 2022.
Next International Swiss Talent Forum for Participants
International Swiss Talent Forum 2021
Topic Leader
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.
Dr. med. vet., PhD Christian Moser Nikles 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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