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From free 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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Members Event, Talk
ODI Fridays: Open research – making harmful habits history Fri, 28 Jan 2022, 13:00 Online
- Science and research
How open research practices can help overcome the issues currently affecting the research community
Members Event, Talk
ODI Fridays: Driving sustainable innovation with geospatial data Fri, 14 Jan 2022, 13:00 Online
- Geospatial data and mapping
- Innovation
- Startups
- Transport
- Weather, energy and environment
How the Ordnance Survey and Geovation’s OS Map & Hack used geospatial data to drive sustainable innovation
Members Event, Talk
ODI Fridays: Finding new ways to share digital art Fri, 17 Dec 2021, 13:00 Online
- Arts, culture and heritage
Artists Mateus Domingos, Larisa Blazic, Ailie Rutherford and Shinji Toya discuss the Careful Networks project
Canalside Chat, Members Event, Talk

ODI Canalside Chats – The rise of the Chief Data Officer Mon, 06 Dec 2021, 12:00 Kings Place, Kings Cross Join expert speakers Barry Green and Lisa Allen to discuss the role of the chief data officer
Members Event, Talk
ODI Fridays: Data, art and living systems Fri, 26 Nov 2021, 13:00 Online
- Arts, culture and heritage
ODI Artist in Residence Rohini Devasher and artist/ODI Art Associate Julie Freeman discuss their shared love of nature and data
Talk
ODI Fridays: How the BBC builds public service recommenders with data Fri, 10 Dec 2021, 13:00 Online
- Arts, culture and heritage
- Data ethics and privacy
- Data infrastructure
- Data publishing and use
How BBC Datalab is using collaboration and public service AI to give audience members the most relevant and engaging content
Canalside Chat, Members Event, Talk
ODI Canalside Chats – The healing power of social prescribing Mon, 22 Nov 2021, 12:00 Kings Place, Kings Cross
- Health and physical activity
Expert speakers Dr Marcello Bertotti and Louise Burke discuss data’s role in unlocking the value of social prescribing and relieving pressure on the NHS
Members Event, Talk
ODI Fridays: Data and dealing with the building safety crisis Fri, 12 Nov 2021, 13:00 Online
- Built environment and housing
- Data infrastructure
The role that use of data may have played in the buildup to this crisis and how the continuing lack of data limited the solutions
Talk
ODI Fridays: Data ethics in practice, where are we now? Fri, 05 Nov 2021, 13:00 Online
- Data ethics and privacy
A background of the data ethics work at the ODI and how organisations are making their data ethics practices more mature
Canalside Chat, Talk

ODI Canalside Chats – Algorithms, careers and adjustments: Is the data (and tech) industry getting its boardroom balanced? Mon, 08 Nov 2021, 12:00 Kings Place, Kings Cross Expert speakers Justine Roberts and Professor Judy Wajcman discuss gender in the data and tech industry and whether inequality is being beat