What's Mine is Yours: the Ethics of Big Data Ownership

Dylan Field is a student at Brown University. Last summer, Dylan was a data mining / analytics intern at LinkedIn. He was previously a research assistant to danah boyd at Microsoft NERD. In the summer of 2009, he worked as a developer for Indinero (YC ‘10). During high school, Dylan interned for O’Reilly Media.

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Lucian Lita is the Director of Analytics at BlueKai, the largest marketplace for data, built with fairness, transparency and consumer control in mind. At BlueKai, he leads a team of engineers, scientists and analysts, leveraging big data analytics, scalable algorithms, and predictive modeling to turn data into products. Prior to BlueKai, Lucian lead the patient data search engine and information extraction efforts in the Siemens Knowledge Analytics group. Lucian holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon, where he focused on applied machine learning.

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Jud Valeski is co-founder and CEO of Gnip, a real-time data portability software initiative. From client-side consumer facing products, to large scale back-end infrastructure projects, he has enjoyed working with technology for over twenty years. He’s been a part of engineering, product, and M&A teams at IBM, Netscape, onebox.com, AOL, and me.dium. He has played a central role in the release of a wide range of products used by tens of millions of users worldwide.

Beginning his career as a Smalltalk intern in IBM’s logistics department, Jud built cost optimization & modeling software and ported desktop apps to IBM’s intranet. From there he joined Netscape Communications and worked on the networking and cookie components of the browser.

After integrating Netscape Gecko across AOL’s entire client-side software suite, he wanted to experience life on other side of the socket. Before transitioning to server-side architecture, he negotiated the spin-out of Mozilla from AOL. Jud then drove the migration of AOL from its proprietary back-end framework to standards based web technologies.

Jud pursues big ideas that have the potential to change large scale behavior. He lives passionately in Boulder, CO with his wife and two children.

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Tim O’Reilly is the founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media. His original business plan was “interesting work for interesting people,” and that’s worked out pretty well. He publishes books, runs conferences, invests in early-stage startups, urges companies to create more value than they capture, and tries to change the world by spreading and amplifying the knowledge of innovators.

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