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What is a Federated Data Network and How Does it Support Cross-institutional Research?
A federated network is defined as a network that spans across geographical or organizational boundaries. Such a federated network contains interconnected nodes that are operationally independent, yet centrally managed for efficiency and ease of use. A federated data network is
Inken Hagestedt
Article
Apheris 3.4 – Getting better, one release at a time
With today's release, we continue our journey to provide the simplest, most secure solution for building and joining data networks in life science and drug discovery.
Jan Stuecke
Article
Observations from the Drug Discovery Innovation Forum 2024
Pharma and biotech companies often lack enough data within their own organizations, limiting AI model accuracy. Read more about my discussions with pharma leaders at this years Drug Discovery Innovation Forum DDIF on overcoming the data access dilemma.
Eleonor Dobson
Article
Collaborative AI for Pharma
Secure data collaboration brings new capabilities to the pharama and biotech community. Read about applications, use cases and challenges in collaborative settings and how Apheris can help.
Jan Stuecke
Article
Apheris 3.3 – Improved scalability & Federated Logistic Regression
Great news, everyone! We released Apheris 3.3. With prior releases, we set the foundation for two really useful improvements for our users today — derived Datasets and Multi-Gateway Organizations.
Jan Stuecke
News
Apheris joins the Global Alliance for Genomics & Health
We are excited to announce that Apheris has officially joined the Global Alliance for Genomics & Health (GA4GH) as an organizational member.
Jan Stuecke
Guide
Managing Github as code: A DevSecOps approach
Our journey to secure and standardize GitHub repository configurations at Apheris using Infrastructure-as-code.
Alejandro Ortuno
Article
Federated Learning and Data Mesh: how it enhances data architecture
Federated Learning and Data Mesh enable decentralized model training with domain-specific governance. This integration improves data privacy, scalability, and regulatory compliance, addressing limitations of traditional systems in regulated sectors where sensitive data is involved.
Johannes Forster
Article
Data collaboration vs data sharing: Everything you should know
Discover why data collaboration is the future. Explore how federated learning keeps data safe while promoting collaboration without sharing.
Marie Roehm
Article
Apheris 3.2 released - Federated nnUnet & Cox Regression; Simplified Data Science Experience
Apheris Compute Gateway 3.2 provides a simpler way to create federated computations, adds federated nnUnet and cox regression and streamlines the data science experience.
Jan Stuecke
Article
Apheris Compute Gateway - Let's collaborate.
Apheris Compute Gateway 3.0 provides an end-to-end federated analytics and machine learning solution that enables everyone to collaborate securely on highly sensitive data.
Jan Stuecke
News
Apheris Compute Gateway - Let's collaborate.
Apheris Compute Gateway 3.0 provides an end-to-end federated analytics and machine learning solution that enables everyone to collaborate securely on highly sensitive data.
Jan Stuecke
Article
Top 7 Open-Source Frameworks for Federated Learning
Open-source frameworks for federated learning are a great way of getting first hands-on experience. Here are our Top 7 with their respective pro and cons
Jan Stuecke
Article
How privacy-enhancing technologies can help you achieving data privacy in enterprise ML/AI
Discover the power of Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) and why they're crucial for your enteprise ML/AI projects involving sensitive or regulated data. We'll demystify PETs with clear examples, equipping you with the knowledge to make informed decisions on how to best protect your data and enhance your products.
Inken Hagestedt
Article
Federated learning trends: from academic insights to industry applications
In December, the annual NeurIPS conference took place. With the biggest conference in machine learning research happening, I was curious to see what was going on in the world of federated learning. Here are my 5 take-away on how federated learning can be applied in industry today.
José-Tomás (JT) Prieto, PhD
Article
Computational Governance & healthcare data: pioneering new frontiers within regulatory boundaries
Computational governance enables machine learning on European healthcare data.
European hospitals face a unique challenge, balancing complex regulatory frameworks with the need to make valuable data available for research. Computational governance exists as a solution and enables compliant research on health data.
Jan Stuecke
News
Apheris Launches Trust Center, Elevating Security and Data Privacy Standards
The Apheris Trust Center serves as a comprehensive resource for organizations seeking to uphold the highest standards of security and data privacy. It offers guidance and our certifications and attestations, including ISO 27001 and SOC 2, that customers value as essential components to fulfil their compliance obligations.
News
Apheris Achieves SOC 2 Type I Attestation – Reinforcing Our Commitment to Security
Apheris achieves SOC 2 Type I attestation, reaffirming its commitment to data security and privacy, and the comprehensive measures we have implemented to protect sensitive information and ensure the highest level of security.
Article
Navigating the compliance maze in AI development
As AI reshapes many industries, the balance between innovation, security, and compliance has become paramount, especially in regulated sectors.
Article
Governed, secure, and private computational access to federated patient data is revolutionizing healthcare AI
MedTech AI revolution depends on computational access to fine-grained patient data to train enhanced ML models. Apheris provides governed, secure, and private computational access to data for ML, enabling fast and easy FDA approval for new MedTech data products.
Marie Roehm
Article
The EU AI Act: Understanding and Preparing for Compliance
Exploring the EU AI Act, a pivotal regulation addressing AI's multifaceted nature, this blog outlines risk levels, high-risk system requirements, and preparation for compliance. Apheris's solution for various governance, privacy, and security obligations is highlighted, emphasizing a shared commitment to responsible AI.
Robin Röhm
Article
Hey, your data is on mute
Reaching universal agreement on how to regulate AI is impossible. But a carefully designed cyclical process can lead to efficiencies in an enterprise's journey towards trustworthy, accountable, and sustainable AI. In this blog, I navigate the regulation space through the eyes of a data custodian.
José-Tomás (JT) Prieto, PhD
Article
Enlightening Dark Data
There is so much useful data around us. Yet most data is not accessible for machine learning or other large scale analytics. In this article, we will explore why this is and what needs to be in place to enlighten this dark data.
Jan Stuecke
Article
Enabling IP-Preserving Computations on Sensitive Data
Machine learning and AI needs domain-specific data to be trained for its various use cases. Often this data is sensitive and falls under various privacy regulations. In this article we will introduce the Apheris Compute Gateway as a solution for contributing sensitive data to ML projects.
Jan Stuecke
Article
The Rise of Federated Learning: Top 5 Federated Learning Startups
Companies are benefiting from federated learning by being able to access data without privacy and IP risks associated with copying or centralizing data.
Marie Roehm
Article
Delivering maximum social benefit from artificial intelligence (AI): Leveraging its capabilities responsibly
AI safety is not a future problem to solve, it’s a real problem right now. In this blog I'll explain the challenges we face as a society in developing and using AI, and propose some operating principles to help us leverage AI for social good.
Britta Srivas
Article
We have to act now - how to take a responsible approach to sustainability as an organization
The clock is ticking. The time to act on climate change is now. In this blog, I'll take a closer look at practical thoughts on climate thinking and action in organizations.
Michael Höh (PhD)
Publication
AI regulation: Why it needs to come sooner rather than later
"As AI adoption gathers momentum, it is essential we get in front of this generational technology and regulate it in a way that works for everyone – before it is too late."
Robin Röhm
Article
Securing ML Models: Apheris' Contribution to ML Security
Together with the German Federal Office for Information Security we've developed frameworks and recommendations for ML practitioners to help secure ML models and maintain appropriate security measures.
Marie Roehm
Article
Challenges with implementing federated learning
Explore some of the common challenges organizations face when implementing federated learning and key considerations that can help them overcome those challenges and reap the rewards of working with federated data.
Article
Celebrating women's contribution to STEM fields
11 February is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. We interview Evelyn, Data Science Experience Lead at Apheris, and give you an insight into the life of a successful woman in science.
Marie Roehm
News
Apheris achieves top information security certification, ISO 27001
Certification highlights our mission and focus on best practices for federated machine learning and analytics, enabling organizations to securely build and operationalize machine learning and data applications across boundaries.
News
Apheris raises €8.7m to power development of smarter AI and collaboratively solve the world’s biggest challenges
Seed extension round led by Octopus Ventures to drive growth of platform enabling organizations to unlock terabytes of valuable data risk-free
News
Apheris launches platform to unlock data and enable collaboration to solve the world’s biggest problems
The Apheris Platform enables multiple organisations to extract value from each other’s decentralised data sets and overcome regulatory, technical, and commercial challenges.
Article
Apheris' first carbon removal purchases
Our focus on sustainability extends beyond the impact we have on our customers, and our environmentally conscious mindset is at the core of Apheris’ work culture.
Article
7 Myths About Federated Learning
In our daily work as a company that builds a platform for federated and privacy-preserving data science, we are often asked to clarify concepts around federated learning with customers. This article highlights 7 common myths about federated learning (FL) and, using practical examples, shows you exactly why they are misleading.
Marie Roehm
Article
How to Choose the Best Federated Learning Platform
How can you evaluate platforms around emerging technologies like federated learning? This article gives you guidance on what your selection criteria should be.
Marie Roehm
Article
The Three Adoption Stages of Privacy-enhancing Technologies (And Why We Are Stuck on Level Two)
PETs are massively changing how we operate, and how we have to think about the data and AI landscape. Introducing such a game-changer into large enterprises has to be done with the highest precision, and a lot of foresight.
Marie Roehm
Article
7 Value Drivers of Complementary Data - Your Path to Unlocking the Benefits of Federated Data
There is only value in data if it can be used, and if there is appropriate access to that data when it is needed. Learn how you can turn decentralized, federated data into a complementary strategic data asset.
Marie Roehm
Article
What Are Collaborative Data Ecosystems in the Context of PharmaCos?
Collaborative data ecosystems in pharma securely connect life sciences and healthcare data to drive AI-powered insights or advanced analytics on these distributed datasets. They enable shared use of real-world data without exposing sensitive information, overcoming data silos while ensuring privacy and compliance.
Marie Roehm

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