Talks

Increasing trust in data: could 'data trusts' help? Mon, 15 Apr 2019, 12:00 The RSA (Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce), 8 John Adam Street, London, WC2N 6EZ

Agriculture and food
Arts, culture and heritage
Banking and finance
Data ethics and privacy
Data infrastructure
Data publishing and use
Emerging tech and AI
Geospatial data and mapping
Innovation
Open standards and open APIs
Public administration services
Science and research
Search and discovery
Cities
Transport
Weather, energy and environment

Could data trusts help to increase data sharing while retaining trust from both people and organisations? Join our event to find out what we discovered when we tested the idea of developing data trusts in the real world

Talk

ODI Fridays: With great personal data comes great anonymity Fri, 05 Apr 2019, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Data ethics and privacy
Data infrastructure

Companies across the world think they’re effectively anonymising data about people, but what if someone could reidentify who these people are? Discover the risks and learn about the ODI’s plans to help organisations mitigate those risks

Talk

ODI Fridays: Creating better services for people Fri, 08 Mar 2019, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Public administration services

In an increasingly complex world, Maia Tarling-Hunter and Vimla Appadoo from FutureGov use human stories and data to create better and simpler services in our communities

Talk

ODI Fridays: How ODI Leeds discovered that bad transport is impacting the Birmingham economy Fri, 22 Mar 2019, 13:00 ODI Leeds, 3rd Floor Munro House, Duke St, Leeds, LS9 8AG

Data infrastructure
Transport

For the past year ODI Leeds used Transport for The West Midlands’ open API to track over 50 million bus departures in and around Birmingham, and have made a surprising discovery

Talk

ODI Fridays: Regulating for responsible technology – is the UK getting it right? Fri, 29 Mar 2019, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 3rd Floor, 65 Clifton St, London EC2A 4JE

Data ethics and privacy

Jacob Ohrvik-Stott from Doteveryone discusses where the digital regulation debate is heading and outlines Doteveryone’s proposals for an Office for Responsible Technology.

Talk

ODI Fridays: Open data that has changed the world Fri, 01 Mar 2019, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 3rd Floor, 65 Clifton St, London EC2A 4JE In this talk Dr Dave Tarrant will attempt to cover as many stories as he can to demonstrate how open data is now ubiquitous and an essential part of the world we live in

Talk

ODI Fridays: We need to talk about data (and how to avoid feeling like an imposter) Fri, 01 Feb 2019, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Data ethics and privacy
Data infrastructure
Data publishing and use
Emerging tech and AI
Innovation
Public administration services
Skills and literacy

Simon Buillmore will discuss his own experience of imposter syndrome, and will share how data literacy can help by giving you a starting point that relates more to your own context and needs.

Talk

ODI Fridays: Using data to support citizen-centric sustainable urban development in Tanzania Fri, 25 Jan 2019, 13:00 Open Data Institute, Floor 3, 65 Clifton St, London, EC2A 4JE

Data infrastructure
Cities

How communities employ data-driven approaches to address urban sustainability issues in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Talk

ODI Fridays: How to meaningfully engage the public in complex decision making Fri, 30 Nov 2018, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Public administration services

How do you meaningfully engage the public in decision making when there are many factors at play, complex constraints and different options for policy and service delivery?

Talk

ODI Fridays: How personal data portability could grow the UK economy Fri, 07 Dec 2018, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Data ethics and privacy

This lecture highlights the findings in a foundational piece of analysis by Ctrl-Shift of the economic opportunities for the UK economy of personal data mobility, the market challenges and a framework to design for trust

Talk

ODI Fridays: The smart home – not smart enough or too smart? Fri, 14 Dec 2018, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Built environment and housing
Emerging tech and AI
Cities

Based on her book ‘Smarter Homes: how technology will change your home life’ author and designer Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino will speak about the relationships between people and technological advancements that have shaped our home lives and what this latest trend of ‘smart homes’ tells us about the future

Talk

ODI Fridays: How the Cabinet Office is highlighting racial disparity Fri, 09 Nov 2018, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Data publishing and use
Public administration services

Zamila Bunglawala will be presenting the world’s first website to detail all Government data by ethnicity, published and unpublished, highlighting disparities between ethnic groups

Talk

ODI Fridays: How the BBC is using data to upskill local journalists Fri, 16 Nov 2018, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Arts, culture and heritage
Data publishing and use
Science and research
Skills and literacy

The BBC is seconding journalists from the regional press into the BBC to work with journalists in a shared data unit, which is already generating agenda-setting stories through the UK

Talk

ODI Fridays: Maps that save lives Fri, 23 Nov 2018, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Geospatial data and mapping

In a humanitarian emergency, maps save lives. Johnny Henshall will introduce what MapAction do, how they work and his experiences of being a volunteer for them

Talk

ODI Fridays: Routing around malfunction – can the financial system ever be open? Fri, 08 Feb 2019, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Banking and finance

Dean Buckner, a retired specialist at the Bank of England, explains how the secretive nature of regulation threatens, rather than supports, the stability of the financial system

Talk

ODI Fridays: Exploring trust and distrust of public information through art Fri, 02 Nov 2018, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Data ethics and privacy

Artist Alistair Gentry will talking about his research project for the ODI, an interactive performance artwork about trust and distrust of publicly accessible information

Talk

ODI Fridays lunchtime lecture: Data sharing to transform public service delivery Fri, 05 Oct 2018, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Public administration services

The Reform team will be presenting the findings of their report ‘Sharing the benefits: how to use data effectively in the public sector’, published this summer

Meetup, Members Event, Talk

Goldfish with lightbulb idea graphic, swimming in water with backdrop of grey fish

How to transform a whole sector Thu, 01 Nov 2018, 16:00 The Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton St, London, EC2A 4JE

Emerging tech and AI
Innovation

Hear from the brave organisations who have already made, or are in the process of making a drastic changes in their sector

Talk

Illustration: shadow people images and colourful drawings

ODI Fridays lunchtime lecture: Adapting to the needs of modern data and intelligence work Fri, 14 Sep 2018, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Innovation
Peer networks

This lecture will share how the Tech Nation are approaching modern data teamwork, covering everything from the work pipeline to open data practices

Talk

ODI Fridays lunchtime lecture: Universal access to (all) knowledge Fri, 28 Sep 2018, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Public administration services
Science and research
Search and discovery

Hear Carl Malamud of Public Resource share his efforts to make knowledge more broadly available on the Internet.

Talk

ODI Fridays: How data science is transforming government Fri, 06 Jul 2018, 13:00 The Open Data Institute

Emerging tech and AI
Public administration services

Hear how data science can save the government over £500M, and how to support data science teams and build their capacity

Talk

ODI Fridays: AI monopolies and the growing trend of data restriction Fri, 22 Jun 2018, 13:00 Open Data Institute 65 Clifton Street London EC2A 4JE

Data infrastructure
Emerging tech and AI
Innovation

How do we prevent data being siloed, unintended encoded bias and the dangers of creating a state where the AI market is only shared by a small number of organisations?

Talk

ODI Fridays: Getting the nation active with open data Fri, 18 May 2018, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Health and physical activity
Innovation
Startups

Most people recognise that physical activity is good for you, but why is it so hard to find relevant information about what opportunities are available in your local area? We believe open data is a part of the answer, alongside innovation and creating a common language via a data standard

Talk

ODI Fridays: Bad data (and how to fix it) Fri, 04 May 2018, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Data publishing and use

Bad data is everywhere. A lot of time is spent fixing these issues, instead of actually analysing the data. In this talk, you’ll hear about Good Tables, a tabular data validator that is able to check for issues

Talk

ODI Fridays: How local services are being transformed with open data Fri, 11 May 2018, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Public administration services

When data is used effectively it can affect how we pay our tax, draw pensions and get our bins collected. Find out about our latest project to improve services by publishing more open data.

Members Event, Summit, Talk

ODI Summit 2018 Tue, 20 Nov 2018, 08:45 Kings Place The ODI Summit 2018 will explore the intersection of data’s value across sectors – from commercial business to public services, the arts to charities

Talk

ODI Fridays: Find, analyse and use government statistical data Fri, 29 Jun 2018, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Data publishing and use

Do you work with data in government, provide it to government or use government data? Hear from ONS and Swirrl about their work on a project that aims to support you in finding, understanding and using government statistical data

Talk

ODI Fridays: Seeing Around Corners Fri, 27 Apr 2018, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE In this emotive talk, author Graham Hogg shares his frontline experience of leading teams in Afghanistan and how connecting decision making to data enabled teams to adapt and overcome challenges.

Talk

ODI Fridays: Why can't I find data? Fri, 23 Mar 2018, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Data publishing and use

In this lunchtime lecture Laura Koesten and Emilia Kacprzak, PhD students working on the WDAqua project, will describe why data on the web is still so hard to find. They will discuss how we can help people find and make sense of data, by improving the experience of data search and summarising datasets.

Talk

ODI Fridays: Where the suits meet the sneakers Fri, 09 Mar 2018, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE Friday lunchtime lectures are for everyone and are free to attend. You bring your lunch, we provide tea and coffee, an interesting talk, and enough time to get back to your desk.

Talk

ODI Fridays: Securing data flows post-Brexit Fri, 02 Mar 2018, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Banking and finance
Data infrastructure
Public administration services

ODI Fridays are free lunchtime lectures for everyone. You bring your lunch, we provide tea and coffee, an interesting talk, and enough time to get back to your desk.

Talk

Friday lunchtime lecture: Capitalising on open banking Fri, 23 Feb 2018, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Banking and finance

Jamie from Bud will share insights and practical product information on how to deliver more value to customers and compete in this new world of open banking.

Talk

Friday lunchtime lecture: Where is Open Banking now? Fri, 17 Nov 2017, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Banking and finance

Friday lunchtime lectures are for everyone and are free to attend. You bring your lunch, we provide tea and coffee, an interesting talk, and enough time to get back to your desk

Talk

Friday lunchtime lecture: Empty homes and house prices: is there a relationship? Fri, 24 Nov 2017, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE Friday lunchtime lectures are for everyone and are free to attend. You bring your lunch, we provide tea and coffee, an interesting talk, and enough time to get back to your desk.

Talk

Friday lunchtime lecture: Can't find the right code? Explain yourself! Fri, 19 Jan 2018, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE Friday lunchtime lectures are for everyone and are free to attend. You bring your lunch, we provide tea and coffee, an interesting talk, and enough time to get back to your desk.

Talk

Friday lunchtime lecture: The local authority that went 'guerrilla' Fri, 19 Jan 2018, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE Friday lunchtime lectures are for everyone and are free to attend. You bring your lunch, we provide tea and coffee, an interesting talk, and enough time to get back to your desk.

Talk

Friday lunchtime lecture: Data as a creative material Fri, 02 Feb 2018, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Arts, culture and heritage

Friday lunchtime lectures are for everyone and are free to attend. You bring your lunch, we provide tea and coffee, an interesting talk, and enough time to get back to your desk.

Talk

Friday lunchtime lecture: Hidden in plain sight (by the ODI artist in residence) Fri, 26 Jan 2018, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Arts, culture and heritage

Friday lunchtime lectures are for everyone and are free to attend. You bring your lunch, we provide tea and coffee, an interesting talk, and enough time to get back to your desk.

Talk

Friday lunchtime lecture: How open data revolutionised London transport Fri, 09 Feb 2018, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Transport

Friday lunchtime lectures are for everyone and are free to attend. You bring your lunch, we provide tea and coffee, an interesting talk, and enough time to get back to your desk.

Talk

ODI Fridays: The Tech Nation report, and the politics of making it open Fri, 20 Apr 2018, 13:00 ODI Leeds, 3rd Floor Munro House, Duke Street, Leeds, LS9 8AG Friday lunchtime lectures are for everyone and are free to attend. You bring your lunch, we provide tea and coffee, an interesting talk, and enough time to get back to your desk.

Talk

Friday lunchtime lecture: What's the future of open data? Fri, 03 Nov 2017, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Data infrastructure
Humanitarian response
Startups

AI Expert Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt will be discussing the future of open data

Talk

Friday lunchtime lecture: Better organisation identifiers through a decentralised list of lists Fri, 01 Dec 2017, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Data infrastructure
Data publishing and use
Open standards and open APIs
Search and discovery

Tim Davies will explore the creation and use of org-id.guide, a collaboratively created register of organisation identifier lists

Talk

Friday lunchtime lecture: Data protection in developing countries Fri, 13 Oct 2017, 13:00 14:00

Data ethics and privacy
Peer networks

This discussion will present the challenges to developing and enforcing data protection legislation

Talk

Friday lunchtime lecture: Rob's comedy bots Fri, 06 Oct 2017, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Data publishing and use

Rob Manuel will show you how it works and make you want to make your own horrible bots since, as Rob says, frankly it’s more fun than doing anything you’re meant to be spending your time doing

Talk

Friday lunchtime lecture: Opening data in closed societies Fri, 29 Sep 2017, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Humanitarian response

Small Media will share the challenges faced and the strategies pursued in promoting open data in Iran and other closed societies

Talk

Friday lunchtime lecture: How we made 2.1 million homes appear Fri, 15 Sep 2017, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Built environment and housing
Innovation
Public administration services

Martin and Sebastian, explain how the unreliable data came about and how this has meant until recently many of our housing policies have been predicated on entirely false assumptions

Talk

Friday lunchtime lecture: Is open data and journalism a match doomed to fail? Fri, 08 Sep 2017, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Data publishing and use

In 2015, Jonathan Stoneman wrote a working paper “Does Open Data Need Journalism?” to show how things were slowly changing

Talk

Friday lunchtime lecture: Brexit and open government in the UK – 11 months of May Fri, 14 Jul 2017, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Public administration services

Talk

Friday lunchtime lecture: Making governments work better with open data Fri, 07 Jul 2017, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Public administration services

From real estate in Estonia to search and rescue in Ireland, find out how the OpenGovIntelligence project aims to use open data to improve the way government works

Talk

Friday lunchtime lecture: Measuring the entire charity sector Fri, 30 Jun 2017, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Humanitarian response

CEO and Co-founder of SoGive, Sanjay Joshi, will talk about the challenges of creating a suitable data structure for something that is intrinsically hard to quantify

Talk

Friday lunchtime lecture: How you (yes, you!) can contribute to open data Fri, 23 Jun 2017, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Transport

Whether you’re interested in music or maps, comics or comets there are ways that we can all contribute directly to the creation of some unique open datasets, says Leigh Dodds

Talk

Wednesday lunchtime lecture: Opening up White House data Wed, 14 Jun 2017, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE Come join Matt Laessig, COO and co-founder of data.world, as he talks about the open data in government movement in the United States.

Talk

Friday lunchtime lecture: The tenacity of building a business from FOI and open data Fri, 09 Jun 2017, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Banking and finance

Gavin Chair was seeking to create a data service offering all entrepreneurs access to quality business intelligence usually only affordable to corporations

Talk

Friday lunchtime lectures: Live code as open data Fri, 02 Jun 2017, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE In conversation with curator-in-residence Hannah Redler Hawes, sound artist Alex McLean will present some of the outcomes of his residency at ODI HQ

Talk

Friday lunchtime lecture: Using data to scrutinise decision-making Fri, 26 May 2017, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE Jamie Whyte will look at how linked data can be used to support this level of scrutiny

Talk

Friday lunchtime lecture: Open your effing data Fri, 19 May 2017, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE Peter Wells discusses whether data can be used to make better decisions about swearing

Talk

Friday lunchtime lecture: Using open data to understand the causes of genetic birth defects Fri, 12 May 2017, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Science and research

In the spirit of open data, the project has made all its data freely available, to encourage collaboration and, ultimately, lead to better understanding of genetic disease

Talk

Friday lunchtime lecture: Mapping the open source landscape Fri, 05 May 2017, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE Ben Nickolls takes a look at the techniques Libraries.io uses to ‘map the open source landscape’

Talk

Friday lunchtime lecture: Using, improving, and creating new open data Fri, 28 Apr 2017, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Data infrastructure

Tom Forth will share what it has achieved, and how ODI Leeds is creating more

Talk

Friday lunchtime lecture: Making open data happen in local government Fri, 31 Mar 2017, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Innovation
Public administration services

Lucy Knight will share how her team at Devon County Council got to grips with open data through training, trying cheap tools and making critical friends

Talk

Friday lunchtime lecture: Transforming charitable giving with open data Fri, 24 Mar 2017, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Humanitarian response

Rachel Rank, will focus on 360’s progress so far, including challenges and lessons learned

Talk

Friday lunchtime lecture: opening up the Science Museum Fri, 17 Mar 2017, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Arts, culture and heritage
Science and research

This lecture will present the outcomes from a hack day held in February to bring together technologists, designers and creatives to experiment with how this open data could be used

Talk

Friday lunchtime lecture: How startups are transforming big business Fri, 10 Mar 2017, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Innovation
Startups

Cathy White will discuss how creating ecosystems of startups and large organisations can lead to game-changing innovations across sectors

Talk

Friday lunchtime lecture: From private art collections to open culture Fri, 03 Mar 2017, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Arts, culture and heritage

Jo Pugh will look at tax exempt art, Britain’s most obscure public art collection and ask what’s the future for open culture

Talk

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 administration services

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

Talk

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

Talk

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

Talk

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

Talk

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

Talk

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

Talk

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

Talk

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

Talk

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

Talk

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

Talk

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

Talk

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

Talk

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

Talk

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

Talk

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

Talk

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

Talk

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 administration services

Hear about the joy and pain of working with politician’s data

Talk

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

Talk

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

Talk

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

Talk

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

Talk

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 administration services
Startups

Ian will explain how open data can be used to counter corruption in public contracting

Talk

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

Talk

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

Talk

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?

Talk

Friday lunchtime lecture: Why should the arts collide at CERN? Sat, 11 Nov 2017, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Arts, culture and heritage
Science and research

What does a curator add to a highly scientific and technological environment?

Talk

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 administration services

Paul Maltby, will set out how government is approaching this relationship between the citizen and the state in the use of data

Talk

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

Talk

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.

Talk

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.

Talk

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

Talk

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

Talk

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

Talk

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: 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: 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 administration services

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 administration services

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 administration services

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 administration services

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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