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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.

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Recent talks

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Friday lunchtime lecture: Data infrastructure technology - are blockchains the answer? Fri, 18 Mar 2016, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Data infrastructure
- Emerging tech and AI
ODI Head of Labs Dr James Smith will address: ‘If data is to be infrastructure for society, what does that mean about the technology underlying it? Are blockchains the answer?’
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Friday lunchtime lecture: Can technology help us control our personal data? Wed, 11 May 2016, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Data ethics and privacy
- Emerging tech and AI
- Retail and consumer
A discussion about potential ways that design and technology might allow us to control how our personal data is collected, shared and used
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Friday lunchtime lecture: Being a data magpie Fri, 04 Mar 2016, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Data infrastructure
- Geospatial data and mapping
ODI Senior Consultant Leigh Dodds will explain how to be a data magpie, and find small pieces of data that are shared – whether deliberately or accidentally – in our cities
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Friday lunchtime lecture: Innovating in government from the inside: meet the open data leaders Fri, 26 Feb 2016, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Peer networks
- Public service design
This lecture will include a series of flash talks, allowing the leaders to share their challenges and success stories in applying open data within government to bring about positive outcomes
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Friday lunchtime lecture: Unlocking Shelter’s homelessness data for good Fri, 12 Feb 2016, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Built environment and housing
This talk explores how Shelter is starting out on its open journey: formulating partnerships, developing pilots and starting to explore how opening our data can help more people
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Friday lunchtime lecture: Breathe Heathrow - empowering communities with environmental sensors Fri, 05 Feb 2016, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Emerging tech and AI
- Weather, energy and environment
Yodit Stanton will discuss how the Breathe Heathrow team deployed air quality and noise sensors in the gardens of volunteers who live around Heathrow to collect data that can help measure the environmental impact of the airport
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Friday lunchtime lecture: Using open data to chart government Fri, 29 Jan 2016, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Public service design
Gavin Freeguard, one of the authors of The Whitehall Monitor 2015 annual report, talks us through some of the highlights
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Friday lunchtime lecture: The UK Parliament’s data drive in 2016 Fri, 22 Jan 2016, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Public service design
Zeid Hadi, lead on Parliament’s open data development theme, will focus on what’s ahead
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Friday lunchtime lecture: Open data and the Government Data Programme Fri, 08 Jan 2016, 13:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE
- Public service design
Paul Maltby, Director of Data at the Government Digital Service, will outline the new programme of work to improve the availability, quality and use of government data