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From weekly free Friday lunchtime lectures on how open data is impacting different parts of our society, to our annual ODI Summit, featuring talks by our founders, Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Sir Nigel Shadbolt, we host a wide range of events every year.

Upcoming talks

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: How to create an open culture Fri, 08 Jun 2018, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Innovation
- Skills and literacy
Is your organisation adopting a ‘modern’, user driven and agile approach? Do you want to build trust with your users, peek behind the curtain and see how and why they make decisions? This talk will help you to understand the importance of openness to achieve these things.
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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.
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
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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
- Peer networks
- Personal data and privacy
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
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
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
- 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
- Personal data 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
- 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
Talk 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
Talk 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
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?’
Talk 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
- Emerging tech
- Personal data and privacy
- 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
Talk 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
Talk 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
Talk 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
Talk 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
- 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
Talk 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
Talk 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
Talk 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

Recent talks

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.
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
- Peer networks
- Personal data and privacy
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
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
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
- 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
- Personal data 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
- 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
Talk 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
Talk 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
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?’
Talk 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
- Emerging tech
- Personal data and privacy
- 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
Talk 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
Talk 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
Talk 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
Talk 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
- 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
Talk 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
Talk 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
Talk 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