The last stand of data protection

With the introduction of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), an international, legal framework is to be created. At the same time, the implementation of the new regulations causes many a company quite a headache. However, for Global Topspeaker and futurologist Sven Gabor Janszky, the current debate on data protection has long since become obsolete and is a relic from the past. In his fascinating presentation, he explains why we will want to share our personal data in the future.

We are currently experiencing a radical change in paradigm with regard to data protection - futurologist Sven Gabor Janszky is convinced. His thesis: Citizens don’t want to hide their data, they want to share it – and in the future, they will do so every day. For we already live in a digital age where all of us are constantly interconnected. And so any kind of information, any piece of music, any movie, any commercial is permanently available. An anarchy of supply has been created, an information overload that permanently surrounds every one of us.

At the same time, this flood of data will also allow us to live safer, healthier and consequently longer lives in the future. The Quantified Self movement, where personal data is recorded, analysed and evaluated by means of self-tracking, tremendously supports the development of the pharmaceutical industry. According to Sven Gabor Janszky, most deaths nowadays are being caused by data protection already. An accurate genetic test has no benefit at all, if physicians cannot continuously access it. An innovative, medical examination is not particularly helpful if the results are not interconnected so to draw vital conclusions.

Thanks to Big Data, even accident hazards may soon be decreased considerably: Not only can a multitude of smart sensors detect and evaluate data in real time and react faster while driving autonomously than a human could. In case of a crash, modern cars will also be able to make an emergency call and report the location of the accident to the rescue control centre. Thanks to artificial intelligence, cars of the latest generation will be in the position to communicate with each other directly in case of technical problems, transmit sources of error and automatically remedy them.

In this presentation, jointly analyse our interconnected present with Sven Gabor and take an exciting look at the not too distant future. By then, we will have learned that we will only be able to usefully filter information for our lives if we share our data and our needs and have them analysed by intelligent systems. Nowadays, most people already live this way of life every day: when they use Google, Facebook or payback cards, when they are active in internet communities and when they are pleased that – instead of being flooded with untargeted advertising – they receive advertising specifically tailored to their needs and preferences.

To Sven Gabor Janszky, data protection of the future means that, with one click, a citizen can look at, modify and delete data stored about him.

Contents of the presentation:

Why the data protection law (GDPR) has long since been outdated
Why the handling of data will change considerably in the future
Why citizens will want to share their data instead of hiding it
What opportunities will data-based technologies offer in medicine and traffic
How we will be able to live safer and healthier lives by sharing our personal data

Other lectures by Sven Gabor Janszky

My son, the cyborg - how technology makes humans more human

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2035: How much human tolerates the future?

Digitalisation and automation precede rapidly. Janszky shows a future in which we will live better, healthier and longer, despite those developments – but only if we start to engage. All great and huge promises will become true if we would finally accept that computers are much better in certain subjects than us humans, says Janszky. The general public must lose its fear of data protection to use the benefits of intelligent systems like Big Data and Artificial Intelligence.

working worlds in 2035

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The power of megatrends - strategies for the future

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Living environments in 2030

Sven Gábor Jánszky presents part of the future scenario „Living environments in 2030“ by the 2b AHEAD ThinkTank.

This cross-industry scenario describes an imaginary day in a person’s life in the year 2030. Every year, 200 preselected managers and industry leaders develop this scenario at the Future Congress of „Germany’s most innovative think tank“.

How our values will change in business and society

Management meets value-based future

In his keynote, Global Topspeaker and trend researcher Sven Gábor Jánszky turns the public discussion on the loss of values upside down: Those who mourn the loss of good old values share a misconception that is dangerous to your company and to our country as well! The apocalyptic loss of values among young people does not exist – all the same there is a profound change in values that managers need to recognize and then shape.

IT 3.0: From intelligent clouds to the operating system of our life

For Global Topspeaker and trend researcher Sven Gábor Jánszky, the hype about cloud computing is only the beginning. After the Cloud comes IT 3.0! And this is when the intelligence of smart prognostic will move into the Cloud. It will bring about the most significant conquest of markets of our time.The world's first commercial quantum computer project is now a reality, paving the way for a new era of information processing.

Rule Breaker: how people think whose ideas change the world

The head strategist and leader of the 2b AHEAD ThinkTank, Sven Gábor Jánszky, lets you plunge into the stories behind the most interesting breaches of rules of our time. He takes you on a fascinating journey he himself has experienced in the past two years. For two years, Sven Gábor Jánszky travelled all over Germany to meet the most important rule breakers of the German business world. First, he observed them and later on, he talked openly with them about their lives and strategies.