In Code We Trust

October 8th and 9th 2018

For the past eighteen years PR agency Edelman has been measuring World Wide Trust levels. The 2017 version of their trust barometer showed a Total Meltdown of trust in corporations and institutions while at the same time the trust in technology continues to be remarkably high.

 

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Overview

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One explanation for putting so much trust in tech, is the high expectations people have about future technological breakthroughs. There's so much that remains to be desired: from self-driving cars to frictionless shopping experiences. But will technology be able to live up to those expectations or are we in for a massive disillusion?

Trust is defined as a confident relationship with the unknown. But we're far from comfortable looking at the unknown future. We clearly see how trust is shifting from the institutional hierarchies towards the network economy. Every organization is at risk of being disrupted by a more trusted version of itself. Organizations like Tripadvisor, Amazon and Airbnb are using reviews and ratings to organize our trust. But at the same time, they are so successful at monetizing their platforms, that trust is becoming a monopoly. Can we trust markets where so much power is in the hand of just a few companies?

And while trust is steadily shifting, our perception of what is real and what is not continues to be disrupted. Facebook, Twitter and Google have primarily based their business models on advertising. These so-called attention merchants are massively publishing clickbait content and fake news to draw us in. Can we really put our trust in their code organizing our lives while losing grip on the truth?

So we should reconsider how to organize trust in a sustainable manner. Can we distribute trust in technology-based solutions such as the token economy, autonomous intelligent systems and self-organizing platforms? Are we trust-ready for the next digital waves, for instance in biotechnology? What are our options really and what should we take into consideration before we decide who and what to trust?

Agenda

Day 1, October 8th 2018

10:30-11:15
State of the Art sessions 1
Stefan Ek, CEO Sogeti, Michiel Boreel, CTO Sogeti

Menno van Doorn, Research Director SogetiLabs
          Pierre Hessler, Capgemini Fellow and Chairman’s delegate

          Towards Distributed Trust
          Sander Duivestein, Analyst SogetiLabs VINT

          IBM – Good Tech versus Bad Tech
          
Tom Rosamilia, SVP IBM Systems & Technology

          Roundtable Debate 

What is trust Anyhow
          Arjan Postma, Rebel with a cause

          An Excursion into The Dark Net
          Jamie Bartlett, author and tech blogger

          Roundtable Debate

 Trusting Technology
          
Andrew Keen, Author and Silicon Valley commentator

          Forum discussion; An easy fix to the Crisis of Trust?

Day 2, October 9th 2018

08:30
TRUSTING BEHAVIOR

An Easy Fix to the Crisis of Trust
          Menno van Doorn

          CodeFever 
          Katelijne Duerinck

          Freedom of Attention
          James Williams, Philosopher, University of Oxford

TRUSTING MANAGEMENT

          The Taylor Bathtub – Dealing with complexity
          Niels Pflaeging, Author and Management Exorcist 

 Intelligent Experience
          Neil Smith, App Innovation Partner Lead EMEA, Microsoft

          Gaining Control  Sovereign Identity with Blockchain
          John McLean, VP, WFSS & Blockchain Labs Services and Garage, Industry Platform, IBM

          Breaking The Crisis of Trust: Taking A Stand for Tech for Good
          Ray Wang, Principal Analyst, Founder and Chairman Constellation Research

          Closing Remarks

Speakers

Jamie Bartlett is an author and tech blogger for The Spectator and Director of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media for Demos in conjunction with The University of Sussex. In 2014 he released a book entitled The Dark Net, discussing the darknet and dark web in broad terms, describing a range of underground and emergent subcultures, including social media racists, cam girls, self harm communities, darknet drug markets, cryptoanarchists and transhumanists. In 2017 he published the book 'Radicals' about fringe political movements including transhumanism, psychedelic societies and anarcho-capitalism. He also presented the two part BBC2 series 'The Secrets of Silicon Valley'. In 2018 he published the book 'The People Vs Tech'. Jamie’s main topics are cyber security and privacy online, new political movements, social media research and analysis, and internet cultures.

 

Our youngest generation are digital millipedes, they use devices and applications as if they were born with them. Codefever is a young non-profit organization that wants to make creators of these intensive users. Learning to program is the basic competence of the future, which is why Codefever wants to organize programming lessons for children aged 7 to 15 years. With their own unique lessons, children are taught the most important basic insights in a cool way.

 

 

Andrew Keen

Andrew Keen was among the earliest to write about the dangers of the Internet to our culture and society. Keen’s new book, How to Fix the Future, based on research, analysis, and Keen’s own reporting in America and around the world, showcases global solutions for our digital predicament. Keen identifies five broad strategies to tackle the digital future: competitive innovation, government regulation, consumer choice, social responsibility by business leaders, and education. How to Fix the Future has been called “the most significant work so far in an emerging body of literature…in which technology’s smartest thinkers are raising alarm bells about the state of the Internet, and laying groundwork for how to fix it”

John McLean is the VP, Global Engagement Executive for IBM’s Blockchain Labs. Prior to this John was VP WebSphere Connectivity and Integration Development. Blockchain is an emerging technology trend that has the potential to innovate, change and disrupt a broad range of industries, initially being lead by the financial services industry. This is a rare technology that is being lead by industry business leaders who wish to understand how Blockchain will impact their companies and business networks. John has a clear POV on Blockchain and how its Shared Ledger technology can be applied in business scenarios.

 

Arjan Postma is an unconventional thinker. He operates in the twilight zone of business and creativity, culture and structure, past and present. It his my mission to help you see, feel, discover new frames & perspectives. His personal approach in such projects is to research-through-development tapping into in the undercurrents of our society. He loves to engage in dialogue, read, write, speak but most of all to work on projects. Making shit happen. Hence, you only get some sense of what is going on if you are willing to dive deep, to explore these uncharted territories, to experience the unexpected and above all, to learn! 

Tom Rosamilia is Senior Vice President of IBM Systems. He has global responsibility for IBM server and storage systems and software as well as the company's global Business Partner organization.

 

 

 

A fun and diverse 20+ years in technology spanning industries such as Aerospace, Defense, Automotive, Engineering, Finance and Healthcare. Worked internationally ranging from small consulting firms and start-ups, through to the world’s largest technology companies from Process Re-Engineering, Mobile and AI.  Previously at IBM leading their EMEA Mobile deployment practice, then moved to the hyper growth San Francisco based Mobile technology start-up Xamarin that was acquired by Microsoft in 2016. Now part of the Global Black Belt team, we help customers and partners build capability to deliver immersive user experiences for their customers and employees infused with A.I.

R "Ray" Wang (pronounced WAHNG) is the Principal Analyst, Founder, and Chairman of Silicon Valley based Constellation Research, Inc. He's also the author of the popular business strategy and technology blog "A Software Insider’s Point of View". With viewership in the 10's of millions of page views a year, his blog provides insight into how disruptive technologies and new business models such as digital transformation impact brands, enterprises, and organizations. Wang has held executive roles in product, marketing, strategy, and consulting at companies such as Forrester Research, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, and Johns Hopkins Hospital.

James Williams is an author and technology critic. He worked at Google for over ten years, where he received the Founder’s Award, the company’s highest honor. Subsequently he earned a PhD from the University of Oxford, where his work focused on philosophical and ethical questions involving user attention and persuasion in technology design. In 2017 he received the inaugural Nine Dots Prize, a major international literary award, which led to the publication of his first book, ‘Stand Out of Our Light: Freedom and Resistance in the Attention Economy,’ which The Observer has hailed as ‘a landmark book.’ A frequent commentator on technology issues in the media, James is also a co-founder of the Time Well Spent campaign, has been a visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge, and is a consultant for companies, nonprofits, and governments.