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On November 10th, , Head of Big Data Ecosystems for Business and Society at the ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� of Amsterdam and Managing Director of Big Data Analytics at KPMG, gave a talk on the challenge of managing the algorithms that are having an increasing influence on our society. 

Sander highlighted the highly complex challenges for our society as algorithms play an increasingly important role. On one hand, we must develop our data software to avoid unwanted complexity or a loss of security. On the other hand we must also consider the implications that these changes have for our fundamental concepts of trust and privacy. These changes need not be threatening, however. Putting a solid foundation for responsible application of data analysis would provide us with a future full of interesting opportunities.

You can find a link to Sander's presentation

Bio

Sander Klous holds a PhD in High Energy Physics and worked on a number of projects for CERN, the world’s largest physics institute in Geneva. He received several grants and awards related to high performance distributed computing and has numerous publications in this area. He contributed to the research of the ATLAS experiment that resulted in the discovery of the Higgs Boson (Nobel prize 2013). Currently Sander Klous is Partner at KPMG in the Netherlands where he leads the data and analytics practice and is professor in Big Data Ecosystems at the ľ�ϸ���Ӱ�� of Amsterdam. His best-selling book “We are Big Data” about the future of our information society was runner-up in the management book of the year election of 2015 and is published in Dutch and English.