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Murat Sönmez: Data is basically information that a thing-a car-generates, or a device, or data about you.

If you can collect data from sensors on the environment we live in, if you can collect data about your lifestyle-you need to exercise, what you eat-and collect data on genetics, we can pool that.

Dan Patterson: Now that we know what data is, when we isolate it-with this rise of nationalism, we might have splinter nets, we might have isolated data lakes.

How do we service them? How do we cater to them? In order to address this opportunity and the problem, we need to combine different datasets, but Japanese data is not sufficient.

The data policies are getting in the way, so the regulators are waking up to the fact that, 'Hang on a second; if we want to improve things that matter to us, we need to find a way to share data.

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