Speakers and chairmen's profiles & abstracts

• Carlo Batini The Social Value of Big Data
• Gabriele Beccaria Chair
• Emanuele Borgonovo Chair
• Massimiano Bucchi Why Technology is not enough: Innovation, society and culture
• Alessandro Curioni Cognitive Computing and the Future of Science
• Derrick de Kerckhove Connected Intelligence in Scientific Research
• Albert Farrugia Delivery of care to patients with chronic diseases – facilitation through digitization
• Alfonso Fuggetta Big data: challenges and opportunities
• Ariane Götz Democracy in the digital age – Challenges and chances for political participation
• Sheila Jasanoff Bodies and Selves in the Age of Osiris
• Paul Kersey Ensembl: Structuring Knowledge for Biomedical Application
• Gary King Big Data is Not About the Data!
• Sabina Leonelli Integrating Biological, Biomedical and Environmental Data: The Impact of Digital Technology on Research
• Patrizia Nanz Democracy in the digital age – Challenges and chances for political participation
• Pier Giuseppe Pelicci Chair
• Lucio Pinto Chair
• Tony Pridmore Image-based Plant Phenotyping - Computer Vision From Lab to Field
• Carlo Ratti Senseable Cities
• April Rinne Beyond The Sharing Economy: Rethinking Trust, Transparency & Transactions
• Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli The Wonders and Threats of the Instrumented World
• Michael Seewald Using Big Data and Real World Evidence to Improve Health Outcomes – Industry Perspective
• Massimo Sideri Chair
• Giuseppe Testa Digitising life
• Chiara Tonelli Chair