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Chairman's Message

Zhen Yang
President of NJUPT

I would like to express my appreciation to ITU for selecting Nanjing University of Posts and
Telecommunications as the host of Kaleidoscope 2017, a conference which addressed a topic of
critical importance to our future as society.

Data is becoming the key to smart governance, supporting the delivery of citizen-centric public
services. Data-driven insight will enable efficiency gains in every industry sector. Advances in data
science will continue to unlock major breakthroughs in research. We saw all of these possibilities in
the papers presented at Kaleidoscope 2017: Challenges for a data-driven society.

The Kaleidoscope 2017 Technical Programme Committee, chaired by Kai Jakobs of RWTH Aachen
University in Germany, selected 23 papers from the 63 submissions received from 22 countries. The
committee selected papers on the basis of double-blind reviews with the help of almost 80
international experts. The committee also took on the challenging task of identifying candidate papers
for awards. I offer my sincere thanks to all reviewers and members of the Technical Programme
Committee for their generous contribution of time and expertise.

Kaleidoscope 2017 featured two distinguished keynote speakers. Jianhua Zhang, Professor of Beijing
University of Posts and Telecommunications, China, gave a talk on data-driven future wireless
communication. Fei-Yue Wang, Professor of Chinese Academy of Science and Secretary-General of
the Chinese Association of Automation, spoke on emerging trends in autonomous driving in China.

In addition to selected papers, Kaleidoscope 2017 hosted one invited paper authored by Liu Duo,
President of China Academy of Information and Communication Technology (CAICT)) on the legal
challenges most relevant to our modern data-driven society.

Considering the state of today’s technology and the extraordinary possibilities appearing on the
horizon, Jules Verne’s corner at this year’s Kaleidoscope conference focused on the “Quantum
revolution”. Yuao Chen, professor of the University of Science and Technology (USTC), China,
introduced his experience as the Leader of the Beijing-Shanghai Quantum Communication Project
and highlighted its main achievements.

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