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SUMMARY:An Introduction to Federated Learning and its Applications in Medi
 cine - Blaise Thomson\, Bitfount
DTSTART:20211130T131500Z
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CONTACT:Mateja Jamnik
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 kvNmw3Q0dqNDVRalZvdz09\n\nMachine learning and artificial intelligence con
 tinue to deliver groundbreaking advances in healthcare\, promising to tran
 sform everything from diagnosis to drug discovery. However academic and cl
 inical researchers alike are currently limited by a lack of access to the 
 most relevant datasets for their research and ML model training\, mostly d
 ue to legitimate privacy concerns. The resulting legal and technical obsta
 cles usually prevent collaborations entirely\, or at best incur months and
  years of complex legal and technical workarounds in order to enable data 
 sharing.\n\nFederated learning\, in combination with other privacy-preserv
 ing ML techniques\, is a leading candidate for eliminating this friction. 
 It enables researchers to gather insights and train models on data which (
 a) remains held at all times by the organisation which owns it\, and (b) n
 ever gets exposed in its raw form. It enables data owners to share the ben
 efits of their data without giving up control or privacy. Bitfount is a po
 werful\, easy-to-use platform for federated AI and data collaboration\, de
 signed to help researchers maximise the impact of their work. In this semi
 nar\, members of the Bitfount team will give a practical introduction to f
 ederated learning\, its position in the array of privacy-preserving ML met
 hods\, how it can be combined with other techniques such as differential p
 rivacy\, secure multi-party computation\, homomorphic encryption and synth
 etic data\, and how these techniques can be applied to solve real-world pr
 oblems today both in academia and in industry.\n\n*BIO:*\nBlaise Thomson i
 s the founder and CEO of Bitfount and is a widely-recognised AI leader\, r
 esearcher and successful entrepreneur. He was the founder and CEO of Vocal
 IQ\, which he sold to Apple in 2015\, subsequently leading their Cambridge
 \, UK engineering office and holding the role of Chief Architect for Siri 
 Understanding. Blaise holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University 
 of Cambridge\, where he was also a Research Fellow\, and is an Honorary Fe
 llow at the Cambridge Judge Business School.
LOCATION:Zoom
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