October17
  • Virtual Event

Unlocking Data: Advancing Impact

Financial Inclusion Week 2024

Date & Time
October 17, 20242pm ET
Location

Virtual

Organizer

Center for Financial Inclusion

Website
centerforfinancialinclusion.org

Unlocking Data: Advancing Impact

October 17, 2024 2pm ET
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This session will explore the transformative potential of Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) in unlocking financial data to support public health decision-making, particularly in epidemiology, while ensuring responsible data practices and privacy protection. By addressing key data access challenges, PETs play a critical role in advancing financial inclusion and fostering equitable financial ecosystems. 

We’ll showcase insights from data.org’s Privacy-Enhancing Technologies for Public Health Challenge, featuring awardees from India, Europe, and the US. These real-world examples demonstrate how PETs bridge financial and health sectors, empowering local health officials, such as those in Bogota, Colombia, with valuable data. 

Participants will gain a deeper understanding of how PETs encourage interdisciplinary collaboration and promote responsible data use across sectors to drive social good. 

Speakers

John Derrico

Vice President, Data Strategy

Mastercard

John Derrico is Vice President of Data Sourcing and Emerging Technologies at Mastercard, where he’s responsible for the enterprise data sourcing strategy, working to create the next generation of products and solutions.

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Shubham Kumar

Undergraduate Student in Aerospace and Electrical Engineering

IIT Kanpur

Shubham Kumar is a final-year undergraduate in Aerospace and Electrical Engineering at IIT Kanpur, with a strong interest in machine learning and AI. He worked on ‘Lower Precision Training of Neural Networks’ under Prof. Anima Anand Kumar at Caltech, USA. He also led the ‘Autonomous Underwater Vehicle’ team, where we…

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Salil Vadhan, Ph.D.

Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics

Harvard University

Salil Vadhan is the Vicky Joseph Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, and a Faculty Director of the OpenDP open-source software project. Vadhan’s research in theoretical computer science spans computational complexity, cryptography, and data privacy. His honors…

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