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  ODI Fridays Online: Using data science – lessons from the social sector Fri, 03 Apr 2020, 13:00 Online

  • Covid-19
  • Data publishing and use
  • Public service design

  Find out why data science as a powerful tool for food banks, anti-corruption groups, and children’s hospices and more
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  Online ODI Fridays: The making of DoxBox trustbot Fri, 20 Mar 2020, 13:00 Online only

  • Arts, culture and heritage
  • Data ethics and privacy

  Alistair Gentry talks through the background and development of the hot pink tech drag fake AI who loves to find out who and what you trust online
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  ODI Fridays: Vicarious – the emotional impact of data Fri, 06 Mar 2020, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

  • Arts, culture and heritage

  Described by The Times as ‘the world’s only Thrill Engineer’, performance artist Brendan Walker will give a broad overview of his creative digital projects from the last 20 years
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  ODI Fridays: Narratives and nuance – creative ways to engage 'the people' in data issues Fri, 14 Feb 2020, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

  • Data publishing and use
  • Policy

  In this lecture, Anna Scott will talk through creative approaches to engaging people in data issues – from illustrated reports to artworks, games to shadow puppets
• Talk
  

  ODI Fridays: Monitoring equality in public services – the value of protected characteristics Fri, 31 Jan 2020, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

  • Data publishing and use
  • Geospatial data and mapping
  • Public service design

  This talk explores a new report written by the ODI and funded by the Legal Education Foundation, explaining the problem digital services face, and explores how the issue can be tackled by service designers, regulators and further research
• Data as Culture exhibition, Talk
  

  Data as Culture exhibition: Copy That? Surplus Data in an Age of Repetitive Duplication Wed, 05 Feb 2020, 10:00 3rd Floor, 65 Clifton St, Hackney, London EC2A 4JE

  • Arts, culture and heritage
  • Data infrastructure
  • Data publishing and use

  How ‘true’ is the ‘data you’ and how many versions exist online? Explore at the ODI’s latest Data as Culture exhibition. Copy That? is open to the public by appointment from February 5 – June 30 2020, Monday – Friday, 10 am – 17.00 (booking required)
• Members Event, Talk
  

  Data sharing for growth, trust and efficiency (Leeds) Wed, 04 Mar 2020, 16:00 ODI Leeds, Duke Street, #3rd Floor, Leeds, LS9 8AG

  • Data ethics and privacy
  • Data publishing and use

  Data sharing in the private sector is notoriously difficult. Learn from the businesses that have made it work – and as result, have become trailblazers in their sector
• Members Event, Talk
  

  Data sharing for growth, trust and efficiency (London) Wed, 11 Mar 2020, 16:00 Open Data Institute, 3rd Floor, 65 Clifton Street, Shoreditch, London, EC2A 4JE

  • Data ethics and privacy
  • Data publishing and use

  Data sharing in the private sector is notoriously difficult. Learn from the businesses that have made it work – and as result, have become trailblazers in their sector.
• Meetup, Members Event, Talk
  

  Private view: Copy That? Surplus Data in an Age of Repetitive Duplication Tue, 04 Feb 2020, 17:45 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, 3rd Floor, London, EC2A 4JE

  • Arts, culture and heritage

  Please join us for drinks and nibbles at the private view of the 2020 art exhibition Copy That? Surplus Data in an Age of Repetitive Duplication. Copy That? is open to the public by appointment from February 5 – June 30 2020, Monday – Friday, 10 am – 17.00. To book your visit email [email protected]
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  ODI Fridays: The poetry of data with Mr Gee Fri, 28 Feb 2020, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

  • Arts, culture and heritage

  Mr Gee will share how he’s combined his love of classic poetry with data to find his own unique interpretation of the world
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  ODI Fridays: Becoming London's first Chief Digital Officer Fri, 27 Mar 2020, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE Theo Blackwell shares what it’s like to be dropped into a role which carries with it so many city-wide expectations, the challenges, and why London needed him in the first place
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  ODI Fridays: The problem with using open source for building humanitarian tools Fri, 17 Jan 2020, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

  • Humanitarian response

  Ushahidi’s lead designer Eriol Fox will share how they’ve been working out how open source design can work for humanitarian aid
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  ODI Fridays: How housing data benefits Scrooge and hurts Bob Cratchit Fri, 20 Dec 2019, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

  • Built environment and housing

  Martin Boyd from the pioneering charity Leasehold Knowledge Partnership describes the long history of flawed housing data and why that always benefits Scrooge and hurts Bob Cratchit
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  ODI Fridays: Untangling your secret data architecture Fri, 13 Dec 2019, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

  • Data infrastructure
  • Data publishing and use

  Simon Worthington from Register Dynamics will explain how to find the architecture, untangle it and make it useful for everyone – including why doing it saves you time and money and lets new innovation happen
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  ODI Fridays: How the NSPCC protects the data of users online Fri, 01 Nov 2019, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

  • Data ethics and privacy

  Learn about the NSPCC’s data ethics journey to ensure all interactions support their work to safeguard children
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  ODI Fridays: Is open data dead? Fri, 15 Nov 2019, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

  • Data infrastructure
  • Policy

  Mike Rose will discuss his hypothesis that open data as an outcome is dead and we need to refocus how we approach open data going forwards
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  ODI Fridays: AI in the NHS – reinventing the eye exam Fri, 08 Nov 2019, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London

  • Emerging tech and AI
  • Health and physical activity

  Could ophthalmology be first branch of medicine to be fundamentally reinvented through the application of artificial intelligence?
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  ODI Fridays: Can we please stop talking about AI for health? Fri, 29 Nov 2019, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

  • Emerging tech and AI
  • Health and physical activity

  Machine learning is revolutionising healthcare provision and delivery, but are we doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past?
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  ODI Fridays: Dance datafication – gains and losses Fri, 04 Oct 2019, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

  • Arts, culture and heritage

  Contemporary dance is responding to the latest technology advances. Hear examples from these projects and explore the ownership, humanising technology, safeguarding intangible heritage and a reflection on the potential loss of certain practices
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  ODI Fridays: The role of open data in delivering Bristol’s new Smart City Strategy Fri, 18 Oct 2019, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

  • Public service design
  • Cities

  Marius and Steve from Bristol City Council will be talking about city’s innovative approach to open data, with a focus on air quality data
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  ODI Fridays: My day job, and data Fri, 12 Jul 2019, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

  • Skills and literacy

  Get an overview of the skills that are involved when working with data to help you identify where your strengths are and what you can do to improve them
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  ODI Fridays: Opening up the UK’s public authorities Fri, 27 Sep 2019, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

  • Data infrastructure
  • Data publishing and use
  • Public service design

  The UK’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) was enacted at the start of the century, and is a central plank of the UK’s openness agenda. Arguably if FOI hadn’t happened, there would be no open data
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  ODI Fridays: Digital mental health: finding signals, respecting noise and dealing with uncertainty Fri, 05 Jul 2019, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

  • Data ethics and privacy

  In this talk, Dr Becky Inkster will discuss some of the challenges and opportunities when working in the field of digital mental health
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  ODI Fridays: How can we colour in data for every building in London? Fri, 28 Jun 2019, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE Colouring London is an open data platform, designed by University College London, to collect, collate, visualise, and make accessible, fifty categories of statistical data, for every building in London
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  ODI Fridays: How the GLA is tackling London's cultural infrastructure crisis Fri, 14 Jun 2019, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

  • Arts, culture and heritage

  The Greater London Authority shares how it’s is using data to understand, protect and the grow cultural infrastructure of London
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  ODI Fridays: Will Safetytech save lives? Fri, 24 May 2019, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

  • Built environment and housing
  • Emerging tech and AI
  • Innovation
  • Cities

  Statistics from the International Labour Organisation illustrate an urgent picture: Every day, 6,300 people die as a result of occupational accidents or work-related diseases: more than 2.3 million deaths per year. This talk explores if Safetytech could be the answer
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  ODI Fridays: The State of Open Data – Histories and Horizons Fri, 07 Jun 2019, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London EC2A 4JE

  • Data infrastructure
  • Data publishing and use
  • Public service design
  • Skills and literacy

  Join Mor Rubinstein, Tim Davies and Carla Bonina to explore the insights gained and the challenges still to be overcome from the The State of Open Data – Histories and Horizons book as open data enters its second decade
• Meetup, Members Event, Talk
  

  Building Trust in How Organisations Use Data (in Leeds) Thu, 27 Jun 2019, 16:00 ODI Leeds, 3rd Floor, Duke Street, Leeds, LS9 8AG

  • Data ethics and privacy

  Trust can take a lifetime to build but only seconds to break and nowhere is that more true than with personal data. This ODI Members Meetup (with others welcome) invites you to listen to interesting lightning talks delivered by a panel of passionate people from diverse industries
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  ODI Fridays: Can technology help reinvent national archives for the 21st Century? Fri, 17 May 2019, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Stree, London, EC2A 4JE

  • Arts, culture and heritage
  • Innovation
  • Public service design
  • Search and discovery

  This talk reflects on a two year collaboration between the ODI, the University of Surrey and the National Archives in creating technology to improve trust in digital archives
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  ODI Fridays: Developing linked data for the people, by the people Fri, 03 May 2019, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London EC2A 4JE

  • Data infrastructure
  • Data publishing and use

  OpenDataSoft will describe why it is important that more people can link their data together, and the impact this can have on the usage of their data 
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  ODI Fridays: Truth, trust and technology Fri, 11 Oct 2019, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London EC2A 4JE

  • Arts, culture and heritage
  • Data ethics and privacy
  • Data infrastructure
  • Emerging tech and AI
  • Innovation

  With “Big tech” is seen as the catalyst, or even the source, of a wave of  distrust in truth and institutions, this talk explores the role of technology in creating and maintaining trust
• Meetup, Members Event, Summit, Talk
  

  ODI Summit 2020 Tue, 12 Nov 2019, 08:30 Kings Place

  • Agriculture and food
  • Arts, culture and heritage
  • Banking and finance
  • Built environment and housing
  • Data ethics and privacy
  • Data infrastructure
  • Data publishing and use
  • Emerging tech and AI
  • Geospatial data and mapping
  • Health and physical activity
  • Humanitarian response
  • Innovation
  • Open standards and open APIs
  • Peer networks
  • Policy
  • Public service design
  • Retail and consumer
  • Science and research
  • Search and discovery
  • Skills and literacy
  • Cities
  • Startups
  • Transport
  • Weather, energy and environment

  The ODI Summit is the Open Data Institute’s flagship event covering critical issues around data and its role and impact – both positive and negative
• Meetup, Members Event, Talk
  

  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 service design
  • 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
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  ODI Fridays: Can data improve health and safety performance at work? Fri, 22 Nov 2019, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London EC2A 4JE

  • Emerging tech and AI
  • Health and physical activity

  How data and AI is changing the way we manage workplace risk and  how Discovering Safety are using data and analytical tools to generate new insight and solutions
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  ODI Fridays: How the Co-op applies data ethics to the design of new products and services Fri, 10 May 2019, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

  • Innovation
  • Public service design
  • Retail and consumer

  To achieve their vision to be trusted with data by their customers, learn how the Co-op have practically applied data ethics to their planning around new products and services
• Meetup, Members Event, Talk
  

  Sharing engineering data for the public good event: why is it important? Tue, 07 May 2019, 10:00 Prince Philip House, 3 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5DG

  • Built environment and housing

  This event will gather people and organisations from across the engineering sector to discuss why sharing data is integral to creating a safer world for everyone
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  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
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  ODI Fridays: Creating better services for people Fri, 08 Mar 2019, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

  • Public service design

  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
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  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
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  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.
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  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
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  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 service design
  • 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.
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  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
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  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 service design

  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?
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  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
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  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 service design

  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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
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  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 service design

  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
  

  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
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  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
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  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 service design
  • 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 service design

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

  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 service design

  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
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  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
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  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 service design

  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 service design
• 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 service design

  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 service design

  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 service design

  Robert Palmer will explore how the transparency and open data movements can work to defend the gains made to date and continue to make our institutions deliver for us
• 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 service design

  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 service design
  • 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 service design

  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
• 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 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?’
• 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

  • 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
• 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 service design

  This lecture will include a series of flash talks, allowing the leaders to share their challenges and success stories in applying open data within government to bring about positive outcomes
• 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 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 
• 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 service design

  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 service design

  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 service design

  Paul Maltby, Director of Data at the Government Digital Service, will outline the new programme of work to improve the availability, quality and use of government data