September 2023

Hello everyone,

I wanted to update you on our Synthetic Data Summit, which will be held on 30th November of this year in London, UK. On the agenda you will see the presenters who will be there. I will highlight a few below.

Paul Comerford from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, Giuseppe D’Aquisto from the Italian data protection authority. They provide the regulator perspectives on synthetic data. As a new privacy enhancing technology that is gaining rapid adoption, understanding the regulatory landscape is critical.

Puja Myles from MHRA will present the work she and her team have been doing on creating synthetic datasets from the CPRD data, a large primary care database. Jonathan Pearson will provide an overview of the experiences at NHSX with the generation and application of synthetic data within a large health system.

In addition, we will have a number of life sciences companies presenting their experiences with generating and applying synthetic data for internal and external use cases.

We are not limiting the discourse to privacy use cases, though. The presentations by Puja Myles and Lamin Juwara from the University of Ottawa will talk about data augmentation and bias mitigation as additional applications.

You can register here: https://bit.ly/44zkSm6

Best regards,

Khaled

Highlights

Our next training course on Practical De-identification Methods for Health Data will be held on 23rd and 24th October in NYC. This will be the last course for the year. We have not decided on a schedule for 2024. Therefore, this is a good opportunity to learn about contemporary de-identification techniques that are consistent with best practices and the recent ISO standard, and go through hands-on exercises to demonstrate them.

Additional details are available from here:

https://bit.ly/3qU1O49

Reports & Articles

1. We recently announced a partnership between Replica Analytics and Aridhia. This partnership combines the FAIR analytics platform from Aridhia with our synthetic data software to provide an integrated, secure, and privacy preserving managed solution for collaborative health analytics. You can read the press release here: https://bit.ly/465TcX8

Events and Conferences

1. As noted above, the agenda for the Synthetic Data Summit is taking shape with some fantastic speakers. The summit will be held in London on 30th November at the IET London: Savoy Place. There are three themes that will be covered: current use cases in the life sciences industry, regulation of synthetic data, and future / emerging use cases. The details about the event are here: https://bit.ly/44zkSm6
2. On 24 and 25 October the European Congress on the Protection of Health Data will be held in Paris, and Shane O’Meachair from our team will be presenting on synthetic data generation and its applications. To get more information and to register, please go here: https://bit.ly/3ZopQkM
3. At the start of November, I will be presenting at the GCC eHealth Conference in Dubai in the sessions on AI and on health data privacy. A key topic that I will be talking about is how much data is really needed to train machine learning models and how to get it. You can get more information here: https://www.gccehealth.org/

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