Risk Roundup

Joanne Pransky, Robotics Industry Ambassador and World’s First Robotic Psychiatrist participates in Risk Roundup to discuss Societal Impact of Robotics.

Technology has always played an essential role in human work, progress, and advancement. From the very first stone ax to the artificial intelligence-driven robots today, as technology has advanced with years, so have we, the humans.

With the advances in technology, machines that were increasingly working alongside humans, or for humans, have come a long way and have started working on their own. Thus, the way, we humans live and do things today and the coming tomorrow is changing fundamentally.

Artificial Intelligence is driven by automation that has begun to transform entities across nations: its government, industries, organizations, and academia (NGIOA). However, the real question is whether we humans are ready and prepared for the fundamental transformation brought on by artificial intelligence and whether the fundamental transformation makes social and economic sense.

Understanding whether Artificial Intelligence, Robots, and Robotics bring positive benefits require structured evaluation. When we evaluate AI-based Robots, we are already witnessing companion robots for elderly care, service robots for personal and domestic use, and many more categories that seem to be on the way.

While there are reports that have shown that robots can have a very positive impact on elderly care, there are also many reports that forecast a large number of human jobs becoming obsolete.  Even as some studies are already underway to understand the effects of artificial intelligence on human society in general; its effects on the economy, industries, businesses, security, war, and peace need to be properly evaluated.

Time is now to talk about the Societal Impact of Robotics and Robots!

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Joanne Pransky is a Robotics Industry Ambassador and World’s First Robotic Psychiatrist.

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Machine Learning Based Market Forecasting
Machine Learning on Insurance Data to Predict Hospitalization
Future of Work – Battle between Human Work Force and Machine Work Force
Machine Learning Bias – An Existential Risk
Understanding Cognitive Computing
Cloud Powered Artificial Intelligence Platform
Blockchain & Machine Learning Based Content Platform
Powering Collective Human Intelligence
Collective Intelligence
Collective Machine Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence based Healthcare System
Machine Learning for Medical Diagnosis
Science of Intelligence – Human Intelligence to Computational Intelligence
How will Deep Learning Disrupt Financial Sector?
Social Media Based Predictive Analytics
Credit Scoring using Machine Learning
Cancer Detection to Credit Lending – Intelligent Machine Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Advances in Artificial Intelligence – Human and Non-Human Gesture and Action Recognition
Financial Industry Moves Towards Artificial Intelligence Based Machines
Man-Machine Interaction – Communicating with Computers
Machine Intelligence Impact on Human Society
The Rise of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence driven Cyber-Security
Advances in Artificial Intelligence – Human and Non-Human Gesture and Action Recognition
Agricultural Robots
Computational Intelligence & Security Risks
Business Logic Monitoring and Automation
Enterprise Digital Intelligence Risks – Need for Smarter Search Tools

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Nikolay Danev, Founder of BitCrime, based in Sofia, Bulgaria participates in Risk Roundup with Jayshree Pandya to discuss Cyber Underground and Deep Web.

What is commonly known as the World Wide Web is categorically just the visible surface of a network of connected computers. Beneath this visible surface of a global network of connected computers is enormous, and a mostly unmapped network of connected computers called the Deep Web.

When we make an effort to identify, evaluate and understand the segment of the connected computers that are not indexed or mapped, and are not searchable by traditional search engines, many questions arise about its very existence. The questions and their answers point us to the biggest concern of the Deep Web, which is perhaps its rapidly growing marketplaces. What happens in those marketplaces that are a cause of concern? It is important to identify, understand and evaluate that.

There is a growing concern that what happens in Deep Web, Deep Web forums, and Deep Web marketplaces has real-world implications for not only individuals but entities across nations: its government, industries, organizations, and academia (NGIOA) in cyberspace, geospace, and space (CGS). Why is that so? Is it because most of the products and services that are commonly offered in the deep underground are not ethical and legal? Maybe!

While for criminals it answers a need of their CGS requirements in the underground world, the many faces of complex CGS crimes that originate in the Deep Web and because of Deep Web are becoming a cause of great concern to each and every one of us across nations.

Since the Deep Web is expected to be involved in a lot of social and economic developments that will be vital in the coming years, from a security perspective, this is a critical risk that needs to be addressed and managed with caution.

Now is the time to understand Cyber Underground and Deep Web!

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Nikolay Danev is the Founder of BitCrime and is based in Sofia, Bulgaria. Living in Sofia, Bulgaria, Nikolay has participated in many different start-ups and has worked as “a risk analyst” in different companies, creating and maintaining their risk platforms.

Nikolay has over 10 years of experience in the cyber security field and understands very well the importance of new technologies.

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Marc Stein, CEO at Underwrite and Principal at Artificial Intelligence Capital Management participates in Risk Roundup to discuss Intelligent Machine Applications of Artificial Intelligence.

Nations: its government, industries, organizations, and academia (NGIOA) are going through the next wave of digital disruption that is driven largely by Artificial Intelligence (AI).

There are numerous reports that Artificial Intelligence has convincingly penetrated into general applications across NGIOA. From medical diagnosis to stock trading, and robot control to remote sensing, thousands of Artificial Intelligence applications have already been getting deeply embedded in the infrastructure of individuals and entities across NGIOA.

These are just some examples. As we go forward, entities across NGIOA will surely go beyond basic tasks like computing data and collecting metrics to developing more intelligent algorithms to strengthen some of the most important operational, tactical, and strategic technologies and initiatives. This is expected to impact and change not only technology but also business, management, and governance models in cyberspace, geospace, and space.

What does all this mean? It means that, if the decision-makers across NGIOA are not thinking about Artificial Intelligence, Machine-based learning, Deep Learning, and Intelligent Machines now, then they run the risk of their initiatives, products, services, and businesses being undoubtedly disrupted in the coming years.

Intelligent machines are here, and the question is whether we the individuals and entities across NGIOA are prepared for what is to come. Time is now to talk about Intelligent Machine Applications of AI.

For more please watch the Risk Roundup Webcast or hear the Risk Roundup Podcast

Marc Stein is the “CEO at Underwrite” and “Principal at Artificial Intelligence Capital Management” and is focused on practical applications of artificial intelligence to solve real-world problems.

His current focus is on the development of better tools to predict financial risk, especially in credit transactions, and the development of improved diagnostic methodologies for cancer detection by applying machine learning ensemble techniques to a state model of genetic expression.

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Machine Learning Based Market Forecasting
Machine Learning on Insurance Data to Predict Hospitalization
Future of Work – Battle between Human Work Force and Machine Work Force
Machine Learning Bias – An Existential Risk
Understanding Cognitive Computing
Cloud Powered Artificial Intelligence Platform
Blockchain & Machine Learning Based Content Platform
Powering Collective Human Intelligence
Collective Intelligence
Collective Machine Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence based Healthcare System
Machine Learning for Medical Diagnosis
Science of Intelligence – Human Intelligence to Computational Intelligence
How will Deep Learning Disrupt Financial Sector?
Social Media Based Predictive Analytics
Credit Scoring using Machine Learning
Advances in Artificial Intelligence – Human and Non-Human Gesture and Action Recognition
Financial Industry Moves Towards Artificial Intelligence Based Machines
Man-Machine Interaction – Communicating with Computers
Machine Intelligence Impact on Human Society
The Rise of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence driven Cyber-Security
Advances in Artificial Intelligence – Human and Non-Human Gesture and Action Recognition
Agricultural Robots
Computational Intelligence & Security Risks
Business Logic Monitoring and Automation
Societal Impact of Robotics
Enterprise Digital Intelligence Risks – Need for Smarter Search Tools

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Prof. Fabio Cuzzolin, Head of Artificial Intelligence and Vision at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, United Kingdom participates in Risk Roundup to discuss Advances in Artificial Intelligence – Human and Non-Human Gesture and Action Recognition.

How would we define and describe a man-machine or a machine-machine interface and why is it relevant to understanding Artificial Intelligence? Mediator between humans (and non-human users) and machines, a man-machine or machine-machine interface, is basically a system that takes care of the entire human-non-human communication process.

It is responsible for the delivery of the machine or computer knowledge, functionality, and available information, in a way that is compatible with the end user’s communication channels, be it human or non-human. It then translates the user’s (human or non-human) actions (user input) into a form (instructions/commands) that are understandable by a machine.

When increasingly complex Artificial Intelligence-based systems, products, and services are rapidly emerging across nations, the necessity for a more user-friendly man-machine or machine-machine interface is becoming increasingly necessary for their effective utilization, and consequently for the success that they were designed for.

Artificial Intelligence has come a long way. Over the years, graphical user interfaces, audio-based interaction, speech synthesis, and understanding, natural languages, direct manipulation, multimodal interaction dialogues, ergonomics as well as human factors evaluation have all contributed to the evolution of more powerful, more complex, and more demanding man-machine and machine-machine user interfaces.

Having said that, as traditional computers give way to tablets, smartphones, the internet of things, the internet of nano things, and more, the need for symmetric communication between, we the humans and non-humans and different forms of computers (non-humans: AI-based Robots and more) is becoming absolutely essential.

Advances in Artificial Intelligence have reached a point where different forms of computers or machines are not just receivers of human instructions but collaborators. When Artificial Intelligence-based computers, machines, or robots are now able to harness a full range of natural modes that include language, gesture, facial and other expressions and actions that are hands-free and non-visual are becoming more important than ever.

Time is now to talk about Advances in Artificial Intelligence – Human and Non-Human Gesture and Action Recognition and related risks!

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Fabio Cuzzolin was born in Jesolo, Italy. He received the laurea degree magna cum laude from the University of Padova, Italy, in 1997 and the Ph.D. degree from the same institution in 2001, with a thesis entitled “Visions of generalized probability theory”.

During his doctoral term, he worked at the Autonomous Navigation and Computer Vision Laboratory at the University of Padova.

He has been a researcher in the Image and Sound Processing Group of the Politecnico di Milano in Milan, Italy, and postdoc with the UCLA Vision Lab at the University of California at Los Angeles, California. He was Marie Curie fellow with the Perception project at INRIA Rhone-Alpes, Grenoble.
He is with the Department of Computing of Oxford Brookes University since September 2008. He is a Reader there since September 2011 and has taken on the role of Head of the Artificial Intelligence and Vision research group in September 2012.

His research includes computer vision applications like gesture and action recognition, object pose estimation, and identity recognition from gait. His main field of investigation remains, however, that of generalized and imprecise probabilities. In particular, he has formulated a geometric approach to uncertainty measures, focusing mainly on the probabilistic approximation problem, and studied the notion of independence of sources from an algebraic point of view.

He is the author of some 80 peer-reviewed publications, published or under review, including 2 monographs, 3 book chapters, 16 journal papers (+ 6u/r), 9 chapters in collections. He is a member of IEEE since 2001, and a member of the Society for Imprecise Probabilities and Their Applications, a member of the Board of Directors of the Belief Functions and Applications Society (BFAS), and was part of the Technical Programme Committee of some 50 international conferences.

He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems and of the IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems.

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Machine Learning Based Market Forecasting
Machine Learning on Insurance Data to Predict Hospitalization
Future of Work – Battle between Human Work Force and Machine Work Force
Machine Learning Bias – An Existential Risk
Understanding Cognitive Computing
Cloud Powered Artificial Intelligence Platform
Blockchain & Machine Learning Based Content Platform
Powering Collective Human Intelligence
Collective Intelligence
Collective Machine Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence based Healthcare System
Machine Learning for Medical Diagnosis
Science of Intelligence – Human Intelligence to Computational Intelligence
How will Deep Learning Disrupt Financial Sector?
Social Media Based Predictive Analytics
Credit Scoring using Machine Learning
Cancer Detection to Credit Lending – Intelligent Machine Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Financial Industry Moves Towards Artificial Intelligence Based Machines
Man-Machine Interaction – Communicating with Computers
Machine Intelligence Impact on Human Society
The Rise of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence driven Cyber-Security
Advances in Artificial Intelligence – Human and Non-Human Gesture and Action Recognition
Agricultural Robots
Computational Intelligence & Security Risks
Business Logic Monitoring and Automation
Societal Impact of Robotics
Enterprise Digital Intelligence Risks – Need for Smarter Search Tools

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Tyson Macaulay, a Chief Technology Officer and a Chief Security Strategist participates in Risk Roundup to discuss 4G/5G Wireless and the Internet of Things Security.

The market demand for the change in wireless networks is coming at a neck-breaking pace as the internet of nano things to the internet of things is rapidly becoming a way of being and a way of life.

Wireless networks are growing in importance, necessity, and demand. In the coming years, wireless networks will need to handle mobile computing and communications needs of not only individuals and entities across nations: its government, industries, organizations, and academia (NGIOA), but also billions of internet of things, internet of everything, and internet of nano-things devices and machines across cyberspace, geospace and space (CGS).

From smart city sensors to smart homes, smart autos, smart healthcare, smart enterprises, and more, there is a growing need for fast and ubiquitous network access that connects cyberspace, geospace, and space.

As we the humans navigate our way towards supporting a 4G or 5G connected CGS world, the ongoing and emerging, complex security risks will likely become a cause of great concern. The time is now to take the security risks of 5G infrastructures seriously into consideration. The time is now to talk about 4G/5G Wireless and the Internet of Things Security and related risks!

For more please watch the Risk Roundup Webcast or hear the Risk Roundup Podcast

Tyson Macaulay is a veteran of the information security industry with 23 years of experience, spanning most industry verticals and critical infrastructure.

Recent positions include Chief Technology Officer – Telecommunications at Intel and Chief Security Strategist at Fortinet. These roles involved international business strategy, corporate development (M&A), technical leadership, media, and speaking events.

Prior to these roles, Tyson was a Security Liaison Officer at Bell Canada from 2005 to 2012. From 2001 to 2005 he was Director of Risk Management for the U.S. defense contractor Electronic Warfare Associates (EWA) and founded General Network Services an Ottawa-based security firm in 1996. He began his career as an Internet Consultant in 1993.

Tyson has been a security researcher and lecturer since the beginning of his career with a personal syllabus of four books, dozens of periodical publications and international standards contributions, and two registered patents in security. Tyson continues to support the development of engineering and security standards through the International Standards Organization (ISO), the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), and the Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO).

Risk Group is a leading strategic security risk research and reporting organization.

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Securing Internet of Things (IoTs) in a Post Quantum Computer Era
Securing the Internet of Things using Blockchain Convergence
The Convergence of Blockchain and Internet of Things
Emerging Technologies Geopolitics
Internet of Things to Internet of Everything
Will Blockchain Secure the Internet of Things
The Outcome Economy Unleashing the Potential of Internet of Things
Embracing the Internet of Things
Complex Security Challenges of Critical Infrastructure Protection
Securing The Internet of Things (IoT)
What is Internet of Things
Automotive Cyber- Security Risks
Securing Internet of Things : Government Readiness

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Prof. L. Alfredo Grieco, the author of more than 100 scientific papers published in international journals, Editor in Chief of the Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (Wiley), and Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular, participates in Risk Roundup to discuss the Internet of Things to Internet of Everything.

Along with the ever-changing definition, nature, and objectives of computers, the continued evolution toward cheaper processors and faster networks has enabled a shift from desktop workstations to laptops, tablets, smartphones, to everyday connected objects, called the “Internet of Things” and now towards “Internet of Everything”.

Due to the rapid evolution towards the Internet of Everything (IoE), there is growing excitement that it will bring nations the next industrial revolution because of the way it will change the way, we the people, will live, work, entertain, shop, and travel, as well as how nations: its government, industries, organizations, and academia (NGIOA) will interact with each other within and across nations in cyberspace, geospace, and space (CGS).

When physical objects in geospace and space become embedded with sensors and gain the ability to communicate through cyberspace, the new information and communication networks fundamentally change the way each NGIOA operates and does things in CGS.

We humans now live in a time where the value and competitiveness of individuals and entities across NGIOA can be enhanced significantly as they take a step forward to take advantage of these new innovative capabilities to get the most value from IoT and IoE devices and the data it generates.

As decision-makers across NGIOA see the vast potential of the IoE ecosystem, they are identifying new growth opportunities by adding digital services and innovations to their current product/service mix and capitalize on the opportunity to sell new digital offerings.

We have reached a time where those NGIOA that hesitate to benefit from the advances of the Digital Global Age could be quickly outsmarted by existing and emerging competitors. Time is now to talk about the Internet of Things (IoT) to the Internet of Everything (IoE).

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About the Guest

L. Alfredo Grieco received the Dr. Eng. degree (with honors) in electronic engineering from “Politecnico di Bari,” Bari, Italy, in October 1999 and the Ph.D. degree in information engineering from “Università di Lecce,” Lecce, Italy, in December 2003.

From January 2005 to October 2014, he held an Assistant Professor position at the “Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica e dell’Informazione, Politecnico di Bari”. From March to June 2009, he has been a Visiting Researcher with INRIA (Planete Project, Sophia Antipolis, France), working on the topic of Internet measurements.

From October to November 2013, he has been a Visiting Researcher with LAAS-CNRS (Toulouse, France) working on Information-Centric Networking design of M2M systems. From November 2014, he holds an Associate Professor position in Telecommunications at Politecnico di Bari (DEI).

He authored more than 100 scientific papers published in international journals and conference proceedings of great renown that gained more than 2000 citations. His main research interests include congestion control in packet-switching networks, quality of service in wireless networks, Internet multimedia applications, Internet of Things, Information-Centric Networking, and Internet measurements. He serves as Editor in Chief of the Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (Wiley) and as associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (for which he has been awarded as top associate editor in 2012).

He has been constantly involved as a member of the Technical Program Committees of many prestigious IEEE conferences. Within the Internet Engineering Task Force (Internet Research Task Force), he is contributing (as the author of RFC 7554) new standard protocols for industrial IoT applications based on the IEEE 802.15.4e Time Slotted Channel Hopping (new standard architectures for tomorrow ICN-IoT systems). Starting from 2016 he is a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE VTS.

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Securing Internet of Things (IoTs) in a Post Quantum Computer Era
Securing the Internet of Things using Blockchain Convergence
The Convergence of Blockchain and Internet of Things
Emerging Technologies Geopolitics
4G/5G Wireless and Internet of Things Security
Will Blockchain Secure the Internet of Things
The Outcome Economy Unleashing the Potential of Internet of Things
Embracing the Internet of Things
Complex Security Challenges of Critical Infrastructure Protection
Securing The Internet of Things (IoT)
What is Internet of Things
Automotive Cyber- Security Risks
Securing Internet of Things : Government Readiness

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Jason Kent, Vice President, Web Application Security Product Management at Qualys, participates in Risk Roundup to discuss Web Application Security.

As the World Wide Web (WWW) has brought a quiet revolution that is impacting individuals and entities across nations: its government, industries, organizations, and academia (NGIOA) in cyberspace, geospace, and space (CGS), evaluating web application security becomes fundamental.

When any revolution comes with a potential of fundamental transformation, managing its security risks, both tactical as well as strategic, becomes a critical necessity. With the transformative potential World, Wide Web brings to individuals and entities across NGIOA in the way they communicate, it is becoming increasingly clear that it has brought them, not only much-needed connectivity across CGS but also an explosion in information sharing capabilities through social networking, between individuals and entities across NGIOA.

As individuals and entities across NGIOA take a step forward in how they communicate, interact, socialize, manage, govern, conduct business and deliver digital products and services, there is a need for caution. This is largely due to the fact that the world wide web, web infrastructure, websites, and web applications have been, or are becoming more vulnerable to security challenges.

Due to this, evaluating the security risks of web applications is now a growing necessity across NGIOA. Along with the security of the web applications themselves, there is also a need for more focus on the security of the underlying computer network, operating systems, host servers, and databases.

Web application security vulnerabilities could compromise not only the financial situation, and viability of their current initiatives, but also the security, survival, and sustainability of any individual or entity across NGIOA. With millions of cyber-attacks happening annually, cyber-crime is already a real threat to anyone using computers, smartphones, tablets, the Internet of things, and other gadgets and machines on the web. Time is now to talk about web application security.

For more please watch the Risk Roundup Webcast or hear the Risk Roundup Podcast

Jason Kent is Vice President, Web Application Security Product Management at Qualys. Prior to that, he held technical security positions at Veracode, BlueCoat, Aruba, and Verizon.

Through more than a decade of dedicated AppSec experience, he has established expertise in AppSec PenTesting, AppSec program architecture, and AppSec tools. His efforts helping Fortune 500 companies to maintain continuous security and compliance spans Application Security, Infrastructure Security, Wireless, and Physical Security.

Jason has spoken at conferences such as ISC2 Security Congress, Northeastern OWASP events, and Qualys at RSA and Black Hat. A US Navy Submarine Force Veteran, Jason is also passionate about putting security people together with their stakeholders.

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Thomas Bennett, Executive Chairman, CEO Mentor, Incubator Venture Capitalist, and a Board Member participates in Risk Roundup to discuss why Corporate Boards need Cyber-security Expertise.

Do Corporate boards need cyber-security expertise? What is the role and function of a corporate board?

One of the key functions of corporate boards has historically been to balance risk against the ability to generate revenue and profit. Everything has risks and risks are inevitable. It is the ability to take risks that give individuals and entities across nations: its government, industries, organizations, and academia (NGIOA), the possibility of progress and advancement.

Irrespective of individuals or entities across NGIOA, progress, and advancement are all about risk-taking. But when risk transcends individuals, initiatives, businesses, industries, borders, nations, societies, and human existence, taking timely and relevant risk initiatives is a necessary forward-looking move.

Cyberspace has brought complex, chaotic, and challenging times for each individual and entity across NGIOA: large and small, public or private in cyberspace, geospace, and space (CGS). As cyberspace is deeply embedded across each component of an NGIOA, its crowded interconnections have caught everyone off guard.

Irrespective of NGIOA, cyber breaches are seemingly becoming a new norm and cyber-security is no longer an IT problem. The digital global age has made cyber-security everyone’s problem. When cyber-security has become everyone’s problem, the board needs to begin by understanding what exactly is a cyber-security risk and how does cyberspace and cyber-security risks change their traditional corporate board roles and responsibilities.

From information security, network security, data security to strategic security, understanding, and expertise around security risks coming from cyberspace and because of cyberspace in geospace and space is now becoming an absolute survival necessity—even for boards.

While, keeping up with the complex, rapidly evolving risks from cyberspace, geospace and space is a complex challenge, understanding what is at risk is even a bigger challenge. Time is now to talk about why corporate boards need cyber-security expertise.

For more please watch the Risk Roundup Webcast or hear the Risk Roundup Podcast

Tom Bennett has been an Incubator Venture Capitalist, CEO, Board Director, and entrepreneur with a track record of taking venture-backed startups from concept to market leadership into profitable liquidity events.

He is a nationally recognized domain expert in both offensive and defensive cyber-security across all aspects of the kill chain. Tom has previously held high Department of Defense security clearance and has worked with multiple agencies on national cyber-security defense and operations initiatives.

Currently, Tom is an operational independent board director for cyber-security leaders Dragos Security and ThreatSTOP. He was previously the independent board director for Cylance where he remains on the board of advisors and served as Executive Chairman for Veracity Security Intelligence. Tom is also a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) and the American College of Corporate Directors (ACCD).

An avid outdoor athlete, Tom is a lifelong skier, surfer, and (more recently) kiteboarder, and has competed in 3 Molokai2Oahu paddleboard races. An Architect in a previous life, he designed a 32-story office building and a corporate headquarters for a Fortune 500 company (both still standing). Tom lives with his wife and family in the mountains near Park City, UT.

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Samir Vasawada, Co-Founder and CEO of Artificial Intelligence labs based in San Francisco, CA. participates in Risk Roundup to discuss Financial Industry Move Towards Artificial Intelligence Based Machines.

As humans across nations seem to be on the brink of an Artificial Intelligence Arms Race, it seems the Financial Industry is also moving towards Artificial Intelligence-based Machines.

It seems that the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not new–as we have witnessed artificial narrow intelligence (ANI) in use for a long time. While, from cars to phones, from thermostats to emails, and from games like checkers to chess, the ANI system has been in use for a very long time, more advanced ANI systems are also being widely used across various industries like finance, military, and manufacturing.

As the AI arms race intensifies across nations: its government, industries, organizations, and academia (NGIOA), intelligent non-human machines continue to develop rapidly. There are visible signs that the Finance industry is keeping up with the AI race and has taken a decisive step forward in moving away from man towards machines for many important tasks.

As a result, the role of humans is obviously diminishing as the world of Finance is moving towards AI-based machines. When the role of humans is facing an existential threat, it is important to evaluate the critical security risks each one of us faces across NGIOA not only today but also in the coming tomorrow. Time is now to understand risks emerging from Artificial Intelligence.

For more please watch the Risk Roundup Webcast or hear the Risk Roundup Podcast

Samir Vasawada is the Co-Founder and CEO of Artificial Intelligence labs based in San Francisco, CA.

Risk Group is a leading strategic security risk research and reporting organization.

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Machine Learning Based Market Forecasting
Machine Learning on Insurance Data to Predict Hospitalization
Future of Work – Battle between Human Work Force and Machine Work Force
Machine Learning Bias – An Existential Risk
Understanding Cognitive Computing
Cloud Powered Artificial Intelligence Platform
Blockchain & Machine Learning Based Content Platform
Powering Collective Human Intelligence
Collective Intelligence
Collective Machine Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence based Healthcare System
Machine Learning for Medical Diagnosis
Science of Intelligence – Human Intelligence to Computational Intelligence
How will Deep Learning Disrupt Financial Sector?
Social Media Based Predictive Analytics
Credit Scoring using Machine Learning
Cancer Detection to Credit Lending – Intelligent Machine Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Advances in Artificial Intelligence – Human and Non-Human Gesture and Action Recognition
Financial Industry Moves Towards Artificial Intelligence Based Machines
Man-Machine Interaction – Communicating with Computers
Machine Intelligence Impact on Human Society
The Rise of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence driven Cyber-Security
Advances in Artificial Intelligence – Human and Non-Human Gesture and Action Recognition
Agricultural Robots
Computational Intelligence & Security Risks
Business Logic Monitoring and Automation
Societal Impact of Robotics
Enterprise Digital Intelligence Risks – Need for Smarter Search Tools

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Robert Fleming, Founder, and President of BlackSquare Technologies participate in Risk Roundup to discuss Encryption Driven Data Security.

Since digital data is the life force of a digital global age, the ever-increasing digital data breaches are becoming a growing complex problem for each individual and entity across nations: its government, industries, organizations, and academia (NGIOA). Encryption-driven data security brings nations hope for the digital global age.

From the minor breaches to major breaches, and low profile attacks to high profile attacks; data breaches, data theft, and data manipulation are practically becoming everyday affairs across nations. As of today, there doesn’t appear to be an easy way to halt this growing surge of cyber-attacks from anywhere for data at rest or data in transit.

While data security faces its unique security challenges in cyberspace, it is also an issue for geospace. With the amount of digital data ever-expanding and exploding across NGIOA, knowing what the true value and impact of the cybersecurity breaches are is a complex challenge.

Irrespective of personal data, corporate data, government data, big data, or IoT data, no individual or entity across NGIOA can go forward without encryption-driven data security. The time is now to evaluate Encryption driven data security.

For more please watch the Risk Roundup Webcast or hear the Risk Roundup Podcast

Robert Fleming is the Founder and President of BlackSquare Technologies.

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