Invited Speakers

Wolfgang Halang

University of Hagen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Title: Not Hackable Computers and Unbreakable Cryptography

Abstract: Almost daily, the media report about bugging affairs, data espionage, hacker attacks and dangers of Internet usage. Charles Babbage and Konrad Zuse, the inventors of the digital computer, would have just laughed about this, as it was impossible to influence their machines from the outside, even if they had been equipped with telecommunication facilities. In this talk it will be shown that, with current technology, all security problems of information technology and digital telecommunication can constructively be prevented to occur. Thus, computers can be built at which hacking attacks categorically bounce off, and data encryption methods can be employed, which render systematic decryption impossible by their very principle, and which are already known for more than a century.

Gerald Eichler

Deutsche Telekom Technology & Innovation Darmstadt, Germany

Title: The Telecommunication Data Cockpit – Full Control for the Household Community

Abstract: Consumers of telecommunication services become more and more aware and concerned of how their data is treated by the provider. Both, the European GDPR and the versatility of new communication-related data use cases drive this challenge. The Data Cockpit MVP is an important step to generate more transparency for private telco customers. It is part of a new 360-degree customer view, which is generated to emphasize the user position in managing telco services and contracts of an entire household. Extensive user research has identified crucial steps to reach use case acceptance, respectively opt-in, by customers as well as key success factors behind building up users' confidence and giving them more control over their data.