About the Event:
Datacloud Europe is one of the key events on the digital infrastructure industry calendar. Infrastructure Masons contributed high quality content and thought leadership at the conference with our iM Panel, iM Local Edition, and awarding the industry’s 1st diversity award – iM Diversity Champion Award.
The Panelists:
Dean Nelson (iM Founder and Chairman), Curt Belusar (iM End User Advisory Council) and Dr. Julie Albright (iM Board Member) participanted in a discussion of how the unprecedented growth in digital infrastructure has influenced society. Topics included the opportunities and threats as digital infrastructure expands and underpins every aspect of human life.
- Dean Nelson: iMasons Founder and Chairman with deep infrastructure experience from senior leadership roles at Uber and eBay.
- Curt Belusar: iMasons End User Advisory Council member providing an end-user perspective with hyperscale engineering experience.
- Dr. Julie Albright: An iMasons Board Member and Digital Sociologist specializing in the societal impacts of technology.
Panel Topics:
Can the Center hold?
Data Centers run counter to the decentralization trend – they are very centralized. Eventually everyone will be their own node in a peer to peer consensus based network. Can the Center hold in the context of the rising demand for a no latency life?
Truth and lies in a connected world
Centralized services have fallen short in terms of highly personalized relevancy and trust- we see this with Facebook’s algorithms that try to serve all users and their human clean-up efforts requiring an increase from 7500 to over 20000 hired content moderators. In the relentless march toward automation, is “human in the loop” still necessary as a check and balance to bad actors in the system?
