Events

21/09/2022 — 23/09/2022

Type of event : other-conference

Public and private institutions around the world are facing imminent risk of cyber assault threatening national security, critical assets and business continuity. Now, more than ever, building cyber resilience is an urgent priority for leaders in business and government. The exclusive gathering will unite CEOs, board members, and government to discuss strategies for overcoming new cyber threats. The conversation around cyber risk and business resiliency will address cyber security as a strategic business issue as opposed to just an operational one.

13/09/2022

Type of event : other-conference

La 8ème table ronde philanthropique, organisée par l’Etat de Genève en partenariat avec SwissFoundations et la Fondation Lombard Odier, aura lieu mardi 13 septembre 2022. Cet événement qui aura pour thème Philanthropie à l’ère du numérique : risques et opportunités s’inscrit dans le cycle de rencontres philanthropiques initiées en 2013, organisé conjointement par la direction générale du développement économique, de la recherche et de l’innovation de la République et canton de Genève (DDE), la Fondation Lombard Odier et SwissFoundations.

08/09/2022

Type of event : other-conference

In 2022, the #MITCDOIQ will bring the globally renowned Chief Data Officer & Information Quality Symposium (CDOIQ) hosted at MIT to Europe for the first time, in cooperation with the Competence Center Corporate Data Quality (University of Lausanne – UNIL) and the Swiss Data Science Center (ETH Zurich & EPFL). The CDOIQ Symposium has established itself as one of the most important data events to exchange innovative ideas, best practices and to promote the adoption of the CDO role.

06/09/2022 — 08/09/2022

Type of event : other-conference

The sixth annual conference for research software engineering will take place from Tuesday 6th to Thursday 8th September. C4DT's very own Linus Gasser will be a speaker.

05/09/2022 — 07/02/2023

Type of event : c4dt-course

As an external teacher at HEIG/VD in Yverdon gave an introduction to C++ to 35 students. The course duration was 16 weeks with 12h every week. Half of the time was spent on exercices with the students. The final exercise was a "battle of the bots" where each group of students had to program a bot which fought the other bots.

23/06/2022

Type of event : other-conference

The Opendata.ch/2022 Forum is a conference that offers experts and the curious the opportunity to learn and exchange the newest findings around open data and open knowledge. The forum will take place on June 23rd at the BFH in Bern. With this year’s theme «Open Knowledge, What’s Next?», they will be looking at the future of open data and open knowledge.

09/06/2022 — 10/06/2022

Type of event : other-conference

The 11th FSR Annual Conference is an occasion to take stock of the progress made on the objectives outlined in the EU Data Strategy the Data Governance Act in the network industries. This new regulation will have impact on the various network industries, and at our conference, we will particularly focus on the areas of energy, climate, transport and telecommunications.

07/06/2022 — 09/06/2022

Type of event : other-conference

The International Cybersecurity Forum is Europe’s leading event on digital security and trust issues. Its unique feature is to bring together the entire cybersecurity and “trusted digital” ecosystem: end customers, service providers, solution providers, consultants, law enforcement and government agencies, schools and universities…

29/04/2022 — 08/07/2022

Type of event : c4dt-course

Course given under the GymInf program of swissuniversities by Linus Gasser. Subjects for the course: - why your opinion is worth money - abusive data collection on personal devices - protecting internet connections using TLS - usefulness of blockchains for the decentralization of trust - homomorphic cryptography for secure data sharing - legislation on security and privacy in Switzerland, Europe, and elsewhere

05/04/2022 — 06/04/2022

Type of event : other-conference

By 2025 the total amount of data created, captured and consumed is predicted to reach 175 zettabytes. However, much of that data’s value is being wasted due to distrust, as there is fear that the data would be exposed when used, computed on or shared with collaborators, possibly leading to trade secrets being leaked or data protection legislation fines.

04/04/2022 — 06/04/2022

Type of event : other-seminar

Privacy, security, and regulatory constraints create difficulties for data-driven projects. This includes initiatives involving sensitive data being processed, accessed, monetised, bought, sold, shared, aggregated, or analysed. To unleash the power of sensitive data for these functions, Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) are being deployed by many different sectors. Industries benefiting range from financial services to healthcare to pharmaceuticals to (...)

30/03/2022 11:00 — 17:00

Type of event : c4dt-conference

By joining forces, C4DT and IMI aim to offer a track dedicated to societal issues related to information and technology, at the intersection between media and trust in the digital world.

29/03/2022 09:00 — 15:00

Type of event : c4dt-conference

The track “AI & Healthcare” aims at bringing together researchers from academia, public health, start-ups and industry to share experiences and best practices, to jointly discuss the potential of AI in the transformation of healthcare towards a trustworthy system with improved patient and society outcomes.

28/03/2022 18:15 — 19:30

Type of event : c4dt-conference

The Rule of Law, Democracy and the Future of Europe in the Age of Artificial Intelligence in collaboration with Fondation Jean Monet pour l'Europe and EPFL.

28/03/2022 13:30 — 17:30

Type of event : c4dt-conference

In this track, we explore the role of AI for cybersecurity – its blessing and its curse – and how the private sector, government and academia should collaborate to reduce the threat landscape of AI systems as well as to isolate them with safeguard mechanisms that make it easy to shut down if things start to go wrong.

12/03/2022

Type of event : other-conference

C4DT affiliated Prof. Serge Vaudenay will be a speaker at the Cybercriminality & Cyberdefense conference organised by ForumVenoge on the 12th of March 2022 at Théâtre du Pré-aux-Moines, Cossonay.

07/03/2022 17:15 — 19:00

Type of event : c4dt-conference

Chelsea E. Manning is a technologist and network security expert whose actions showed the world that the conscience of individuals can make urgent change through bravery and determination. She speaks on the social, technological, and economic ramifications of Artificial Intelligence, and on the practical applications of machine learning. She is a vocal advocate for government transparency and queer and transgender rights as @xychelsea on Twitter and through her op-ed columns for The Guardian and The New York Times.

03/03/2022 17:30 — 19:30

Type of event : other-conference

11/02/2022 10:00 — 12:15

Type of event : c4dt-workshop

This C4DT partner workshop will take place online and is by invitation only. For all C4DT partners: Please send us an email if you are interested in participating. This workshop is limited to 20 participants. We still have few "screens" open.

07/02/2022 — 10/02/2022
15:30 — 17:00

Type of event : c4dt-conference

Artificial Intelligence holds great promise for the economy and society. It has also led to the explosion of new ethical challenges, such as biased decision making, filter bubbles, data protection, face recognition, deep fakes and cyber security. During this week we aim to create awareness of the ethical and privacy dilemmas with AI, explored from 4 different angles - business impact, cultural, technological and regulatory. For more information, please click below

09/01/2022 — 15/01/2022

Type of event : other-conference

For the Travel & Connectivity Week at Expo 2020, the Swiss Pavilion is going to look at the mobility sector from the eyes of digitalisation. Matthias Finger, C4DT affiliated Professor, will be moderating the event.

15/11/2021 — 16/11/2021

Type of event : other-conference

Digital Twin technologies are gaining momentum in research and applications in health and industry on an international scale. EPFL and its partners are active in the development of related core technologies and their integrations, for instance via the CIS Research Pillars and DIGIPREDICT.

12/11/2021 — 17/12/2021

Type of event : c4dt-course

Course given under the GymInf program of swissuniversities by Linus Gasser. Subjects for the course: - why your opinion is worth money - abusive data collection on personal devices - protecting internet connections using TLS - usefulness of blockchains for the decentralization of trust - homomorphic cryptography for secure data sharing - legislation on security and privacy in Switzerland, Europe, and elsewhere

10/11/2021 17:30 — 19:30

Type of event : other-conference

EPFL Campus Lecture with Marietje Schaake, President of CyberPeace Institute.