Expert Talk: Christopher Ahlberg (CEO Recorded Future) on predicting change and the future

Nov 15, 2012

Sogeti Labs

“You can’t do linguistics without being biased”

“Understanding the rate of change is very important and you need to have mathematical algorithms that allow you to deal with this”

Christopher Ahlberg is a Swedish-born entrepreneur and computer scientist. He is the CEO and co-founder of Recorded Future, a company that is financed by Google and the FBI, focused on predictive analysis. Ahlberg is also an independent director of Hult International Business School, sits on the board of Swedish software corporation Apptus AB, and holds a board seat at the hedge fund Fina Technologies.

We talked to Christopher Ahlberg about how unbiased data does not exist, how algorithms  are essential to understand the rate of change and how he and his company use the past to predict the future.

Big Data is just a lot of data

Unbiased data does not exist

Algorithms to understand the rate of change

Predicting the future on information from the past

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Sogeti Labs

SogetiLabs gathers distinguished technology leaders from around the Sogeti world. It is an initiative explaining not how IT works, but what IT means for business.

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