Data Summit in Edinburgh hears data will ‘unlock brighter future’ with BrightAct

Data will ‘unlock a brighter future’ if it is used ethically and secures public trust, a tech conference heard yesterday in Edinburgh.

Data Summit, the annual event hosted by the The Data Lab, spearheaded the sector’s efforts to offer society a ‘new hope’ post-Covid-19, as 600 delegates at the city’s international conference centre.

Elinor Samuelsson and Sofie Wahlström, founders of Swedish start-up BrightAct, who talked about their trial of a new platform that uses data to combat domestic violence, which costs the EU £185bn annually.