Agenda

9 - 9:10 a.m.

Welcome - L. Rafael Reif, President of MIT Watch video

9:10 - 9:45 a.m.

Keynote - John Podesta, White House Counselor Watch video

9:45 - 10:15 a.m.

State of the Art of Privacy Protection - Cynthia Dwork, Microsoft Research. Watch video View pdf presentation

10:15 - 10:30 a.m.

Break

10:30 - 11:30 a.m.

Panel 1 - Big Data Opportunities and Challenges

• Mike Stonebraker, Adjunct Professor, MIT CSAIL
  “State of the Art of Big Data Technology”
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• John Guttag, Professor, MIT CSAIL
  “Clinical Data: Opportunities and Obstacles”
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• Manolis Kellis, Associate Professor, MIT CSAIL
  “Importance of Access to Large Populations”
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• Sam Madden, Professor, MIT CSAIL
  “Cars, Phones, and Sensors: Mobile Big Data”
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• Anant Agarwal, President, edX
  “Big Data Opportunities for Improving Online Education”
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Panel Chair: Daniela Rus, Director, MIT CSAIL

11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Lunch (all attendees)

12:45 - 1:15 p.m.

Keynote - The Honorable Penny Pritzker, Secretary of the US Department of Commerce Watch video

1:15 - 3:00 p.m.

Panel 2 - Privacy Enhancing Technologies

• Shafi Goldwasser, Professor, MIT CSAIL
  “The Promise of Cryptography: From a General Theory to Applications”
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• Nickolai Zeldovich, Associate Professor, MIT CSAIL
  “Using Cryptography in Data Bases and Web Applications”
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• Vinod Vaikuntanathan, Assistant Professor, MIT CSAIL
  “Computing on Encrypted Data”


• Salil Vadhan, Vicky Joseph Professor, Harvard University
  “Current Developments in Differential Privacy”
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• Daniel Weitzner, Principal Research Scientist, MIT CSAIL
  “Accountable Systems”
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Panel Chair: Shafi Goldwasser, Professor, MIT CSAIL

3:00 - 3:30 p.m.

Break

3:30 - 5:00 p.m.

Panel 3 - Roundtable Discussion of Large-Scale Analytics Case Study Watch video

• Chris Calabrese, Legislative Counsel, American Civil Liberties Union
• John DeLong, Director of Compliance, National Security Agency
• Mark Gorenberg, Founding Managing Member, Zetta Venture Partners
• David Hoffman, Director of Security Policy and Global Privacy Officer, Intel
• Karen Kornbluh, Executive Vice President, Nielsen
• Andy Palmer, Founder, KOA Lab
• James Powell, Chief Technology Officer, Thomson Reuters
• Latanya Sweeney, Professor, Harvard University
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• Vinod Vaikuntanathan, Assistant Professor, MIT CSAIL

Panel Moderator: Daniel Weitzner, Principal Research Scientist, MIT CSAIL

A hypothetical big data privacy case study, presented by the MIT Information Policy Project.

Conclusion and next steps: Maria Zuber, Vice President for Research, MIT Watch video

A reception will follow directly on the close of the conference.