Trust in the 21st century

Human contact, legislation, and contracts are just a few of the human mechanisms developed over centuries to build trust. Today, in transposing these mechanisms into the digital world, breaches and malicious usage hinders digital progress and technologies.

So what does trust mean in a digital context and what models, methods, and tools do we have at our disposal to build meaningful trust quickly in an AI-driven and remote business world? And what role does artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain, cryptography, and privacy play in the development of trust?

Furthermore, the rapid increase of global collaboration among individuals and corporations on the one side, and the current lack of tools to build trust mechanisms on the other side, presents a gap that we must address today, if we truly wish to harness the tremendous combined power of human and machine intelligence.

Expected speakers :
Elliott Ash, ETH Zurich
Olga Fink, ETH Zurich / WEF Young Scientist
Bryan Ford, EPF Lausanne / Professor of Decentralized and Distributed Systems
Humera Malik, CEO, Canvass Analytics
Joël Mesot, President, ETH Zurich
Carmela Troncoso, EPF Lausanne / Professor of Security and Privacy Engineering
Martin Vetterli, President, EPF Lausanne

Moderator:
Shalini Trefzer, Executive Director World in 2050, Diplomatic Courier

Contact person:
Christina van Ligten, +41 76 503 01 10