Challenges of distributed systems: ensuring data traceability and ownership

<!--HTML--><p>Condensation Data System, CDS for short, is an open-source technology providing a complete data system for collaborating with distributed data while ensuring its security. Its implementation provides automatic conflict resolution, data integrity, and end-to-end security by design. The project led to a Swiss-based startup supported by EPFL and the TrustValley accelerator. The technology was implemented by EPFL teacher Thomas Lochmatter and promoted by Alex Mouradian, one of his former engineering students. Today, Condensation's team would like to share with the CERN its knowledge concerning secured and distributed data systems.</p><p><strong>Agenda</strong></p><ul><li><span style="color:#3d85c6;">Why data distribution</span>: We will give a brief introduction on the genesis of the project and explain how we came up with the Condensation solution.</li><li><span style="color:#3d85c6;">Working with immutable data</span>: We will explain the fundamental concepts of Condensation technology. We will focus on:</li></ul><blockquote><ul><li>How immutable data structures facilitate data distribution</li><li>The synchronisation we developed to work with such structures</li><li>The encryption layer that secures the data from end to end</li></ul></blockquote><ul><li><span style="color:#3d85c6;">Applied use-cases</span>: we will describe concrete situations and systems where Condensation can be used.</li><li><span style="color:#3d85c6;">Open-sourcing road map</span>: We will explain the next steps in the journey of our open-source project.</li><li><span style="color:#3d85c6;">Q&amp;A</span></li></ul><p><strong>About the speakers</strong></p><p><span style="color:#3d85c6;">Thomas Lochmatter</span><br><span style="color:#3d85c6;"><i>Author of Condensation</i></span><br>Communication systems engineer from the EPFL, he holds a PhD in robotics. He has more than 20 years of experience in the industry in developing&nbsp; applications, connected objects, and data analysis. Over the past 10 years, he has also been teaching programming, scientific computing, and system security at EPFL. He is the author of Condensation and&nbsp; manages the core technology.<br><br><span style="color:#3d85c6;">Lou Locci</span><br><span style="color:#3d85c6;"><i>Responsible for teaching and education</i></span><br>Lou is an Bioengineer from EPFL with a strong background in computer&nbsp;science. She has experience in Bioinformatics and data-analysis, and currently works as a software developer for enterprise web applications.&nbsp;At Condensation, she is responsible for teaching and education with a commitment to popularizing concepts.</p>