Andreas Weigend is one of the world’s leading experts on data and social networks. The former Chief Scientist at Amazon.com is an expert in big data, consumer behavior and social-mobile technologies. He is convinced that we can no longer hide anything, because people create digital traces by living.

After studying physics in Germany and Cambridge, Andreas Weigend completed his doctorate on neural networks at Stanford University. During his time as Chief Scientist at Amazon, he analyzed Amazon’s user data and was involved in the development of the company’s data strategy and innovation culture.
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As a member of the Federal Government’s Digital Council, he demands that
data monopolists such as Amazon, Facebook and Google must make the data they use commercially available to everyone. Andreas Weigend sees data as the global capital of our digital age. He is the author of the
book “Data for the People”, in which he describes what Silicon Valley is doing with our data and what fundamental data rights he believes we need.