The abundance of cheap cloud storage and massive compute capabilities has driven an exponential use of personal big data within the insurance industry. Unlocking the value of this data in a compliant manner creates the ideal opportunity for Privacy Enhancing Technologies. In this session, Phil May, Group DPO for Hastings Direct gives his personal view as to the nature of those data protection challenges, and how they might present particular use cases for PETs. In closing, he reviews some of the blockers to adoption and how companies could assist in driving PET adoption.
Phillip May
Group Data Protection Officer
Hastings Direct
Mike Dewar
Vice President Data Science
Mastercard
Dr Michael Dewar is a VP of Data Science in the Crypto and Security Innovation team within Cyber & Intelligence at Mastercard. Dr Dewar has a PhD in complex systems from the University of Sheffield, held postdoctoral positions at Edinburgh and Columbia Universities, and has published widely in the fields of mathematical modelling and machine learning.
Before joining Mastercard, Dr Dewar has held data scientist positions at the social media company bit.ly, and in the R&D Lab at the New York Times. During his time at Mastercard, Dr Dewar and his team have been responsible for creating large-scale financial crime products used by the top UK banks, including the Trace Money Mules, Consumer Fraud Risk and Corporate Fraud Risk products.
• Health Sector
• Financial Sector
• Data Governance
• Legal Requirements
Over the last 3 years, I have been working on streamlining and monetizing external data collaborations in pharma. I want to share with you the challenges I faced, the projects that succeeded and failed, and the immense cultural and trust change that needs to be operated to achieve results.
Claire Clements
Strategic IG Lead
NECS