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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

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Recent talks

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ODI Fridays: Can open data turn rubbish into resources? Fri, 11 Dec 2020, 13:00 Online
- Retail and consumer
- Weather, energy and environment
Sophie is the COO and Co-Founder of Dsposal, will lift the dustbin lid on the murky world of waste data
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ODI Fridays: What does the National Data Strategy look like in practice? Fri, 27 Nov 2020, 13:00 Online
- Data infrastructure
- Policy
What is the National Data Strategy going to look like in practice? Bill Roberts from Swirrl will highlight concrete examples of best practice and innovation
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ODI Fridays: Building an open data standard for reusable packaging Fri, 09 Oct 2020, 13:00 Online
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Retail and consumer
Reath are building an open data standard for reusable packaging to promote a common understanding of what data should and could be tracked
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ODI Fridays: Full Fact on why bad information ruins lives Fri, 30 Oct 2020, 13:00 Online
- Arts, culture and heritage
- Data publishing and use
This talk will discuss Full Fact’s work on developing technology to help increase the speed, scale and impact of their – and others’ – fact checking.
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ODI Fridays: The BFI on weaponising the filmography Fri, 25 Sep 2020, 13:00 Online
- Arts, culture and heritage
The BFI’s creation of a national filmography of feature films answers questions that traditional research can’t
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ODI Fridays: Maintaining the archive for the world's largest museum complex Fri, 16 Oct 2020, 15:00 Online
- Arts, culture and heritage
Hear from the team responsible for capturing the history of the world’s largest museum complex
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ODI Fridays: Startup diversity – what isn’t measured doesn’t change Fri, 18 Sep 2020, 13:00 Online
- Data infrastructure
- Policy
Is it truly possible to achieve diversity in tech without an acknowledgement of the importance of data collection across all demographics?
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ODI Fridays: Making music with weather data Fri, 23 Oct 2020, 13:00 Online
- Arts, culture and heritage
Discover the Conditional Orchestra – a web application that converts current weather data into music
Meetup, Talk
Exploring data institutions: trustworthy, sustainable access to data Wed, 16 Sep 2020, 09:00 Online
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
- Emerging tech and AI
- Innovation
- Policy
Join us for this online event to learn more about our work and hear from organisations building and advancing the cause of data institutions from around the world
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ODI Fridays: Why haven’t simulation and digital twins delivered… yet? Fri, 17 Jul 2020, 13:00 Online
- Data infrastructure
- Emerging tech and AI
Dr David McKee, CEO of Slingshot Simulations explores why simulation and digital twins have yet to deliver