Events

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From weekly free lunchtime lectures on cutting-edge tools and ideas, to the ODI Summit with our founders, Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Sir Nigel Shadbolt, we host a range of exciting events

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Upcoming Events

Talk
ODI Fridays: Making music with weather data Fri, 23 Oct 2020, 13:00 Online
- Arts, culture and heritage
Discover the Conditional Orchestra – a web application that converts current weather data into music
Book
Talk
ODI Fridays: Full Fact on why bad information ruins lives Fri, 30 Oct 2020, 13:00 Online
- Arts, culture and heritage
- Data publishing and use
This talk will discuss Full Fact’s work on developing technology to help increase the speed, scale and impact of their – and others’ – fact checking.
Book
Course, Online
Introduction to data ethics and the data ethics canvas (ODI Learning Month) Tue, 03 Nov 2020, 09:30 Online
- Data ethics and privacy
In this two-hour online course, run by our experts, you will be given an introduction to the concept of data ethics, how ethics is addressed in other domains, and how data ethics can be applied to help organisations avoid harmful impacts and increase trust in new products and services.
Course, Online
Introduction to data ethics and the data ethics canvas (ODI Learning Month) Tue, 03 Nov 2020, 16:00 Online
- Data ethics and privacy
In this two-hour online course, run by our experts, you will be given an introduction to the concept of data ethics, how ethics is addressed in other domains, and how data ethics can be applied to help organisations avoid harmful impacts and increase trust in new products and services.
Course, Online
Anonymisation is for Everyone (ODI Learning Month) Thu, 05 Nov 2020, 09:30 Online
- Data ethics and privacy
This two hour course introduces the latest thinking on anonymisation and work through a practical exercise in anonymising data while maintaining utility and minimising risk.
Course, Online
Anonymisation is for Everyone (ODI Learning Month) Thu, 05 Nov 2020, 16:00 Online
- Data ethics and privacy
This two hour course introduces the latest thinking on anonymisation and work through a practical exercise in anonymising data while maintaining utility and minimising risk.
Meetup, Members Event, Summit, Talk
ODI Summit 2020 Tue, 10 Nov 2020, 13:00 Online
- Agriculture and food
- Arts, culture and heritage
- Banking and finance
- Built environment and housing
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Emerging tech and AI
- Geospatial data and mapping
- Health and physical activity
- Humanitarian response
- Innovation
- Open standards and open APIs
- Peer networks
- Policy
- Public service design
- Retail and consumer
- Science and research
- Search and discovery
- Skills and literacy
- Cities
- Startups
- Transport
- Weather, energy and environment
The ODI Summit is our flagship event. We invite people from across the globe to join us and discuss how humanity can harness the power of data in a changing world.
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Datopolis at the ODI Summit 2020 Tue, 10 Nov 2020, 20:00 Online Want to learn about how ecosystems are built around open data? Like board games? Come and join this fun session
Course, Online
Applying Machine Learning and AI Techniques to Data (ODI Learning Month) Thu, 12 Nov 2020, 09:30 Online
- Emerging tech and AI
Learn to apply machine learning and AI techniques to data and discover how ethical frameworks can help you avoid teaching your machines bad habits.
Talk
ODI Fridays: What does the National Data Strategy look like in practice? Fri, 27 Nov 2020, 13:00 Online
- Data infrastructure
- Policy
Book
Course, Online
Open Data in a Day: Online Wed, 02 Dec 2020, 09:45 Online
- Innovation
- Skills and literacy
Learn how to discover, use and describe the benefits of open data, and how it impacts your organisation on this live, instructor-led, online course.

Data as Culture exhibition, Talk

Data as Culture exhibition: Copy That? Surplus Data in an Age of Repetitive Duplication Wed, 05 Feb 2020, 10:00 3rd Floor, 65 Clifton St, Hackney, London EC2A 4JE How ‘true’ is the ‘data you’ and how many versions exist online? Explore at the ODI’s latest Data as Culture exhibition. Copy That? is open to the public by appointment from February 5 – June 30 2020, Monday – Friday, 10 am – 17.00 (booking required)

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