Past Events

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From weekly free lunchtime lectures on cutting-edge data uses and impacts to the ODI Summit with our founders, Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Sir Nigel Shadbolt, we host a range of exciting events each year.

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Friday lunchtime lecture: Defending openness in a post-truth world Fri, 24 Feb 2017, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Public service design
Robert Palmer will explore how the transparency and open data movements can work to defend the gains made to date and continue to make our institutions deliver for us
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Friday lunchtime lecture: How much faith should we have in data? Fri, 10 Feb 2017, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Data infrastructure
ODI CEO Jeni Tennison will look at how complex using data in decision making can be, and how, to get the best result, sometimes we should limit our use of data
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Friday lunchtime lecture: The ups and downs of data journalism Fri, 03 Feb 2017, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE Londonist Editor James Drury will discuss data journalism today and the challenges and opportunities data can present to journalists
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Friday lunchtime lecture: Can open beneficial ownership data help curb corruption? Fri, 27 Jan 2017, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Built environment and housing
Zosia Sztykowski from OpenOwnership will answer the questions and give a sneak peak of the OpenOwnership Register
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Friday lunchtime lecture: Bringing ghost data back from the dead Fri, 20 Jan 2017, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Science and research
Michael Weatherburn will share his insights into the scale of this issue, and discuss how we can recover important data to fill gaps in knowledge
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Friday lunchtime lecture: How can banks keep up with FinTech? ODI Member show-and-tell Fri, 13 Jan 2017, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Banking and finance
- Emerging tech and AI
Anna Krause will explain some solutions, the FinBot platform in particular, and why open source remains a priority for widespread transparency
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Friday lunchtime lecture: Who'll run the law, wo(man) or machine? Fri, 06 Jan 2017, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Data infrastructure
- Emerging tech and AI
Callum Murray sets out what he foresees as the future of machine learning in the legal sector and the open legal data infrastructure that underpins it
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Friday lunchtime lecture: Musical holiday special Fri, 16 Dec 2016, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Arts, culture and heritage
Sound artists David Littler and Alex McLean will demonstrate their musical collaboration, fusing new and old technologies
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Friday lunchtime lecture: Stuff our Labs team have built Fri, 09 Dec 2016, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Emerging tech and AI
- Innovation
The ODI Labs team create state-of-the-art technology tools to help people work better with open data
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Friday lunchtime lecture: Creating an open register – what it takes and why Fri, 02 Dec 2016, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Open standards and open APIs
- Skills and literacy
Paul Downey from the Government Digital Service will share his vision for what open registers can help achieve
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Friday lunchtime lecture: Creating a web of cats Fri, 25 Nov 2016, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Data infrastructure
- Open standards and open APIs
ODI’s Peter Wells explains how a bout of lunchtime whimsy led him to create an open data register of UK government cats
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Friday lunchtime lecture: PopChange – creating access to UK-wide census data Fri, 18 Nov 2016, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE Dr Nick Bearman will talk about the disparate Census geographies of enumeration districts and output areas
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Friday lunchtime lecture: Creative and critical  use of complex networks Fri, 11 Nov 2016, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
Burak Arıkan will present the Graph Commons platform
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Friday lunchtime lecture: Using open data to map Greater Manchester Fri, 04 Nov 2016, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Data infrastructure
- Geospatial data and mapping
- Transport
How an idea for an online interactive map developed from ‘Just a map’ to an integral part of city planning in Manchester
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Friday lunchtime lecture: Responsible data tactics for positive social change Fri, 28 Oct 2016, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE Alix Dunn will talk about the foundations of the responsible data community
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Friday lunchtime lecture: Creating a billion-pound open dataset Fri, 07 Oct 2016, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Data infrastructure
- Innovation
The highs and lows of working with administrative data and what it took to create the most downloaded dataset on data.gov.uk
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Friday lunchtime lecture: Accessible data on every politician in the world Fri, 30 Sep 2016, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Public service design
Hear about the joy and pain of working with politician’s data
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Friday lunchtime lecture: Why joined-up data is a political, not technical, challenge Fri, 23 Sep 2016, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Open standards and open APIs
Tom Orrell will explain the work of the Joined-Up Data Standards project
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Friday lunchtime lecture: What’s the future of construction? Fri, 16 Sep 2016, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Built environment and housing
- Innovation
ntonio Pisano will shed some light on the future of construction in a data-driven future
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Friday lunchtime lecture: Achieving sustainable development data – stories from Argentina, Cape Town and Kenya Fri, 09 Sep 2016, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Peer networks
How data will be crucial to achieving and measuring progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals
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Friday lunchtime lecture: Live coding, algoraves and opening up music algorithms Fri, 02 Sep 2016, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Arts, culture and heritage
ODI Sound Artist in Residence Alex McLean talks about live coding of music and how it’s development over the past 16 years
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Friday lunchtime lecture: How to change the world with some data scrapers and a plan Fri, 29 Jul 2016, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Data infrastructure
- Public service design
- Startups
Ian will explain how open data can be used to counter corruption in public contracting
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Friday lunchtime lecture: Who owns your reputation? Fri, 22 Jul 2016, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Data ethics and privacy
- Retail and consumer
This debate takes place against the backdrop of the (GDPR) and the EU Free Flow of Data initiative
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Friday lunchtime lecture: What is open data anyway? Fri, 15 Jul 2016, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Data infrastructure
We to need define the notions of both ‘open data’ and ‘privacy in datasets’ in our law and policy
Data as Culture exhibition

Data as Culture exhibition: Thinking Out Loud Fri, 15 Jul 2016, 09:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE Thinking out Loud is built around the practice of the 2016 ODI Sound Artist in Residence, Alex McLean, with a group of artists, designers, makers and musicians he has collaborated with.
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Friday lunchtime lecture: Data – our latest weapon in the fight against hunger Fri, 08 Jul 2016, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Agriculture and food
- Health and physical activity
- Humanitarian response
Can open data help us to understand the scale of the problem?
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Friday lunchtime lecture: Data, the citizen and the state Fri, 24 Jun 2016, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Public service design
Paul Maltby, will set out how government is approaching this relationship between the citizen and the state in the use of data
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Friday lunchtime lecture: Data to stimulate your senses Fri, 17 Jun 2016, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Arts, culture and heritage
- Science and research
Giles Lane will talk about the Lifestreams project – which works to express complex datasets into 3D forms
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Friday lunchtime lecture: Meet Grace, a bot to boost your wellbeing at work Fri, 27 May 2016, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Emerging tech and AI
- Health and physical activity
- Startups
For five minutes each day, Grace asks users questions about their challenges, confidence, positivity and how useful they have felt the day has been.
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Friday lunchtime lecture: Opening the cultural archives Fri, 20 May 2016, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Arts, culture and heritage
Richard Leeming talks about the work of the Research and Education Space and that open data could transform the (GLAM) sector.
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Friday lunchtime lecture: A data revolution for international development Fri, 13 May 2016, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Humanitarian response
Rupert Simons, Chief Executive of Publish What You Fund, will give insight into the state of data in international development
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Friday lunchtime lecture: Can technology help us control our personal data? Wed, 11 May 2016, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Data ethics and privacy
- Emerging tech and AI
- Retail and consumer
A discussion about potential ways that design and technology might allow us to control how our personal data is collected, shared and used
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Friday lunchtime lecture: Editing out the gender gap Fri, 06 May 2016, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Data infrastructure
Lucy Crompton-Reid will talk about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects in the context of the gender gap
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Friday lunchtime lecture: What does a good data market look like? Fri, 29 Apr 2016, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Data infrastructure
Join us for a thought debate about how we access, use and share data across organisations to maximise the value of the web of data
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Friday lunchtime lecture: The beauty of quality data Fri, 22 Apr 2016, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Data infrastructure
John Griffin will discuss what makes a good, quality dataset, and we’ll use automated data visualisation to illustrate their power and beauty
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Friday lunchtime lecture: BBC Senior Data Architect on using the Web as a creative medium Fri, 15 Apr 2016, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Arts, culture and heritage
Paul Rissen, Senior Data Architect at the BBC, with a deep dive into the structure of narrative and how data could unlock a new approach to creative expression
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Friday lunchtime lecture: Data infrastructure technology - are blockchains the answer? Fri, 18 Mar 2016, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Data infrastructure
- Emerging tech and AI
ODI Head of Labs Dr James Smith will address: ‘If data is to be infrastructure for society, what does that mean about the technology underlying it? Are blockchains the answer?’
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Friday lunchtime lecture: Being a data magpie Fri, 04 Mar 2016, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Data infrastructure
- Geospatial data and mapping
ODI Senior Consultant Leigh Dodds will explain how to be a data magpie, and find small pieces of data that are shared – whether deliberately or accidentally – in our cities
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Friday lunchtime lecture: Innovating in government from the inside: meet the open data leaders Fri, 26 Feb 2016, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Peer networks
- Public service design
This lecture will include a series of flash talks, allowing the leaders to share their challenges and success stories in applying open data within government to bring about positive outcomes
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Friday lunchtime lecture: Unlocking Shelter’s homelessness data for good Fri, 12 Feb 2016, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Built environment and housing
This talk explores how Shelter is starting out on its open journey: formulating partnerships, developing pilots and starting to explore how opening our data can help more people
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Friday lunchtime lecture: Breathe Heathrow - empowering communities with environmental sensors Fri, 05 Feb 2016, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Emerging tech and AI
- Weather, energy and environment
Yodit Stanton will discuss how the Breathe Heathrow team deployed air quality and noise sensors in the gardens of volunteers who live around Heathrow to collect data that can help measure the environmental impact of the airport
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Friday lunchtime lecture: Using open data to chart government Fri, 29 Jan 2016, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Public service design
Gavin Freeguard, one of the authors of The Whitehall Monitor 2015 annual report, talks us through some of the highlights
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Friday lunchtime lecture: The UK Parliament’s data drive in 2016 Fri, 22 Jan 2016, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Public service design
Zeid Hadi, lead on Parliament’s open data development theme, will focus on what’s ahead
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Friday lunchtime lecture: Open data and the Government Data Programme Fri, 08 Jan 2016, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Public service design
Paul Maltby, Director of Data at the Government Digital Service, will outline the new programme of work to improve the availability, quality and use of government data
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