Data sharing - Lausanne Open Data Meetup

What

BSNL / ISCB-RCG Switzerland presents,
Hackuarium presents,

Lausanne Open Data Meetup Special Edition

(This event will be in English)

When

• Thursday 5th November 2015, 7pm
• Practical information: see Open Hackuarium
• Please register here for this event.

Organisers

• Leonor
• Jonathan
• Yann aka shalf

Topics

Biomedical data, medical data transition, ethics and security

Speakers

We are honored to discuss these topics with four important actors in the field that confirmed their participation:

– Jacques Beckmann (Head of Clinical Bioinformatics, SIB)

– Christine Currat (Executive director of the Swiss biobanking platform)

– Manolis Dermitzakis (Professor of Genetics at the Department of Genetic Medicine, UNIGE)

– Jeanne-Pascale Simon (Lawyer at the Unit of Legal Affairs, CHUV)

Target audience

Students, Politicians, Doctors, Data Scientists, Citizens.

Questions to ask/have answers for

• What ethics problematics are at stake with personal medical data?
• What can personalized medicine offer and how do we need to manage data for that?
• How to manage these data and ensure their confidentiality, but to allow access to researchers?
• What is the current state of the infrastructure for these data and the existing tools for researchers?
• How much investment is needed today to support this data tsunami?
• What is the need in (Biomed) Open Data literacy for data scientist/doctors and citizens? How many trained people do we need in the area?
• Can Citizen Science/Biohacking/DIYbio help?