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Jennifer L. Schenker
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| Getting their research peer reviewed and published in a respected scientific journal has long been the gold standard for scientists. But too often this process fails to truly advance science because no one else can access or interrogate the underlying data and build on it, argues neuroscientist Sean Hill.
“We need to use this data to build the next iteration of science,” he says. “ The fact that we can’t is a major barrier. Every year, billions of dollars in research value are lost because scientific data is difficult to find, access, and reuse. In fact, most scientific data disappears after only a few years. That drives me crazy. We have to change this and find a scalable way to solve the problem.”
To address this, Hill co-founded Senscience, the AI-driven initiative behind Frontiers’ new FAIR² Data Management service, launched on March 3. Its mission is to make research data AI-ready, aligned with Responsible AI principles, and structured for deep scientific reuse. The goal is to enable open-source science and ultimately help the pharmaceutical and other industries find and leverage AI-ready research data, he says. |
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Who: Dr. Anna Zeiter is Chief Privacy Officer and Vice President for Privacy, AI & Data Responsibility at eBay and a board member of eBay Marketplaces GmbH, the holding company of eBay’s international business. She has served as a board member of the world’s largest privacy organization, the International Association of Privacy Professionals, since 2020.
Topic: How to leverage the latest advances in AI responsibility.
Quote: "We adopted binding corporate rules to adopt European privacy rules (GDPR) very early and globally because we wanted to do the right thing and gain the trust of our customers. We are doing the same with the EU AI Act. I have worked at eBay for 10 years and can say that I can’t think of any situation where we couldn’t innovate or couldn’t do what we wanted to do because of these two EU laws."
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| India’s Next Big Innovation Labs (NBIL), a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, specializes in 3D bioprinting platform technology that is enabling innovations such as 3D bioprinting of corneal tissue and organ-on-a-chip.. Supported by investments from the Government of Karnataka, India’s Department of Biotechnology, Lockheed Martin, TATA Trusts, and Merck Group, it aims to advance tissue engineering and cell biology research with its TRIVIMA bioprinting platform, developed in partnership with Microsoft to enhance AI-enabled bioprinting.
NBIL’s vision is to leverage the convergence of AI with science, engineering and medicine to eliminate animal testing in cosmetics and pharmaceuticals and to develop personalized bio-printed tissues and organs for clinical transplantation. |
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| Amount of value Europe could have unlocked if there had been a more even representation of women-led deep tech companies at the exit stage (both IPO and non-IPO) in the last decade, according to a new gender and diversity index funded by the European Innovation Council. The index, which was compiled by the GENDEX project and released this week, found that women-led companies account for over 11% of the value raised at non-IPO exists in the past decade, despite accounting for only 0.6% of total non-IPO exits completed in that time. Only 22% of European deep tech companies are led by women. Companies let by men secured 1.8X the funding women-led companies did between 2014-2024; and once funding is secured women-led companies receive less favorable terms than teams led by men, according to GENDEX.
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The chairman of Airbus and others are championing the Strategic Protection and Advanced Resilience Technology Alliance for European defense (SPARTA for short). The goal is to set up major armaments programs, based around new technologies and sovereign intra-European procurement.
Finland's VTT and IQM announced the first 50 qubit quantum computer developed in Europe. It is now available for business and research use. , opens new t |
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| The Innovator's Editor-in-Chief Will Be Moderating At The Following Events: Hello Tomorrow Global Summit March 13-14, Paris, France Sparks Innovation Summit, March 28, Tel Aviv, Israel |
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