The last five years have seen a growing interest in performing statistical research and machine learning modelling using distributed but linked data sets through federated architectures. In this talk we will cover :
 

• What is federation and how does it differ from traditional meta analysis?
• How does it work today?
• How could it work in future and what would this enable?
• What are the challenges to solve for federated analytics and federated learning?

We are very lucky to be joined by some of the leading UK experts on federation architecture and it's challenges:
 
Dr Rob Baxter - National Digital Infrastructure Technical Lead, DARE UK at Health Data Research UK (HDR UK)
Rob spent 29 years working with world-class supercomputing and data facilities and services for science and business with EPCC at the University of Edinburgh and is the author of the comprehensive and superb DARE UK Federated Architecture Blueprint (read here) 
 
Dr Pete Barnsley Head of Special Projects, The Francis Crick Institute
Pete spent over 30 years developing and scaling national infrastructure at BT Openreach, working as Data and Analytics Director, and honorary lecturer at St Andrews University and has been supporting the world leading research at the Francis Crick Institute for the last 5 years where he has been publishing federated architecture approaches (read here)
 
Dr Blaise Thomson, CEO and Co-founder of Bitfount,
Blaise was previously at Apple as the Chief Architect for Siri Understanding where he worked with the federated learning systems developed for on device analysis. Now CEO at Bitfount, the federated data platform, accelerating research, clinical trials and AI model distribution. He was previously the founder CEO of VocalIQ, which he sold to Apple in 2015, and Research Fellow at Cambridge University.