Past events

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

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

Data infrastructure
Emerging tech and AI
Innovation

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

Talk

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

Health and physical activity
Innovation
Startups

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

Talk

ODI Fridays: 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.

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: 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.

Course

Open Data Science: Thursday 26 April 2018 Thu, 26 Apr 2018, 09:15 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Course

Open Data Science: Wednesday 25 April 2018 (Leeds) Wed, 25 Apr 2018, 09:30 ODI Leeds, 3rd Floor, Munro House, Duke Street, Leeds, LS9 8AG

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

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.

Workshop

Publishing data with Octopub - now and in the future Tue, 20 Mar 2018, 10:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Data publishing and use

Join us to see what our Octopub data publishing tool now looks like. We’d love to hear your opinions and needs so we can make future versions and iterations even better and more useful.

Members Event

ODI Members' Evening at Arup Mon, 19 Mar 2018, 16:00 Arup, 8-13 Fitzroy St, Bloomsbury, London, W1T 4BQ

Peer networks

Get to know your fellow ODI Members, discover what they do and catch-up with the latest from the ODI team over a glass of wine at our upcoming open evening at our partners, Arup in Bloomsbury, London.

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.

Course

Open Data in Practice (3 days): Tuesday 27 February Tue, 27 Feb 2018, 09:15 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Skills and literacy

The ODI’s Open Data in Practice course is for those who have experience with open data and have knowledge of the definitions of open data and best practices for publishing open data.

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: 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

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.

Data as Culture exhibition

LMAO 😹 Fri, 26 Jan 2018, 09:00 Open Data Institute, 65 Clifton Street, London, EC2A 4JE

Arts, culture and heritage

😹 LMAO – the funny side of data explored as ODI unveils its latest thought-provoking Data as Culture exhibition

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

Data ethics and privacy
Peer networks

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

Talk

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

Data publishing and use

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

Talk

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

Humanitarian response

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

Talk

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

Built environment and housing
Innovation
Public 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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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