All the Law curriculum teaches you about data is how to protect your own data from Evil. Meanwhile the general consensus is that stories are more influential than data. This has been demonstrated a number of times, including 1980 at the University of Michigan. More recent research in a 2007 study conducted at Carnegie Mellon University found that donors explicitly give more to story-only appeals compared to data-only appeals. Despite this, whilst working subsequently as a PR manager I experienced that people were obsessed with my law background, and decided that the most exciting thing for me to do would be to draft the data protection sheet for customers.

Slides can be found here: https://buff.ly/2AvJ5eR Visit the conference website to learn more: www.datanatives.io Stay Connected to Data Natives by Email: Subscribe to our newsletter to get the news first about Data Natives 2017: http://bit.ly/1WMJAqS About the Author: Thomas Poetter, Founder & CEO of Compris Technologies AG, graduated in computer science from the University of Kaiserslautern with artificial intelligence and computational linguistics as key focus areas. Working with DFKI (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence) during his studies, Thomas was one of the first entrepreneurs who received in 1998 a 2 years' startup stipend from the Fraunhofer society, in his case from the Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE).

TRACK 1: THE BUSINESS OF TECH Innovations driven by technology You'll hear from booming industries such as GovTech, HealthTech and AutoTech. Here's your chance to meet the data–powered innovations that are changing business and society. TRACK 2: TECH TRENDS The technologies driving innovation From Big Data, Machine Learning, to AI and IoT, you'll hear presentations on the technologies driving innovation, to gain a better understanding of the data–driven technology ecosystem."

A longer version of this article appeared in Recode two years ago, before Amazon Echo, Tesla Autopilot, Google Photos and the AI hype. Since then, it has inspired a conference that is now a yearly event, and we're all becoming data natives (or at least really well-assimilated data immigrants). A few years ago, YouTube was abuzz with viral videos of toddlers pinching magazines with their fingers as they would an iPad. These children were heralded as members of a new generation of digital natives: People who grew up surrounded by computers, shaped by always-on technology and the Internet. We are now witnessing a new revolution -- that of data natives who expect their world to be "smart" and seamlessly adapt to their taste and habits.