Public Events

The Power of Data | LSE Festival Event
17 June 2023

Speakers: James Fransham, data journalist, The Economist; Alexandra Gomes Research Fellow, LSE Cities; Angela Spatharou Senior Partner and the EMEA Leader, Healthcare & Life Sciences, IBM Consulting.

Chair: Ken Benoit, Director of the Data Science Institute and Professor of Computational Social Science in the Department of Methodology, LSE

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How Web 3.0 Technology and Data Policy Combine to Promote Data Sovereignty, Privacy, and Trust

25 May 2023

Speakers: Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web; Ken Benoit, Director of the Data Science Institute and Professor of Computational Social Science in the Department of Methodology, LSE

Chair: Minouche Shafik, President and Vice Chancellor of the London School of Economics and Political Science

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Follow the Science? Data, Models and Decisions in the 21st Century
24 January 2023

Speakers: Professor Diane Coyle, Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge; Dr Stephanie Hare, Researcher, broadcaster and author focused on technology, politics and history; Dr Erica Thompson, Senior Policy Fellow in Ethics of Modelling and Simulation at the LSE Data Science Institute, funded by a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship.

Chair: Baroness Minouche Shafik, President and Vice Chancellor of the London School of Economics and Political Science. 

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Data Science and the Future of Social Science
21 September 2022

Data science has revolutionised the social sciences at the same time as industries and academia are being transformed by the availability of big data, coupled with massive increases in computing power.

Speakers: Caroline Gorski, Chief Executive, R² Factory at Rolls-Royce; Ming Tang, Chief Data and Analytics Officer, NHS England; Professor Helen Margetts OBE FBA, Professor of Internet and Society at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford; Dr Stefan Hunt, Chief Data and Technology Insights Officer, Competition and Markets Authority .

Chair: Ken Benoit, Director of the Data Science Institute and Professor of Computational Social Science in the Department of Methodology, LSE

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AI in Sport: An Overview
24 March 2022

How is data used in sport and what can AI do? How do teams, media and betting firms use data to reconstruct performance? To make the best decisions, tell the best stories or make the best predictions in sport, teams, media and betting firms are looking to use more granular data to better reconstruct player and team performance.

Speaker: Patrick Lucey PhD, Chief Scientist, Stats Perform

Chair: Ken Benoit, Director of the Data Science Institute and Professor of Computational Social Science in the Department of Methodology, LSE

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Automation Era - How will technology reshape business and how does it change how people work today?
03 February 2022

Across industries and sectors, machines are increasingly augmenting and replacing human labour. Will machine learning technologies result in mass job losses, a dramatic skill shift in the labour market, or enable people to engage in more fulfilling and creative work?

This event explores questions such as how hyper automation has taken place, how automation is used in the business world and how it can inject new life into global economies

Speaker: Angela-Sophia Gebert, Academic Alliance Manager, Celonis

Chair: Professor Leslie Willcocks, Emeritus Professor of Work, Technology and Globalisation, Department of Management, LSE

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Building Resilience Through Data Centricity
2 February 2021

Speaker: Jacky Wright, Chief Digital Officer and Corporate Vice President, Microsoft US

Chair: Ken Benoit, Director of the Data Science Institute and Professor of Computational Social Science in the Department of Methodology, LSE

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