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State of Open Con 2023

1:00pm GMT

Panel: Power & Diplomacy: When Open Data and Realpolitik Collide - Emma Thwaites, ODI & Gavin Freeguard, ODI & Fransizka Putz, Wikimedia Foundation St James, 4th Floor

1:35pm GMT

General Best Practices in Open Data - Silona Bonewald, Executive Director, IEEE SA Open & Sarah Womer, Senior Analyst, Plessas Experts Network Inc. & Lisa Allen, Director of Data and Services, Open Data Institu... St James, 4th Floor

2:05pm GMT

Smart Meter Energy Data Repository - Christopher Jackson, CEO and Co-Founder, Advanced Infrastructure St James, 4th Floor

2:35pm GMT

How do we measure success for Open Data in academia? - Lauren Cadwallader, Open Research Manager, PLOS St James, 4th Floor

4:00pm GMT

A vision for a web of net-zero data - Gavin Starks, CEO, Icebreaker One St James, 4th Floor

4:35pm GMT

What does it mean to make open data accessible? - Kevin Lewis, Developer Relations Lead, Directus St James, 4th Floor

5:00pm GMT

Transforming lives with open data - a case study: making physical activity accessible to everyone - Allison Savich, Sports England & Andrew Newman, ODI & Jade Cation, London Sport & Nick Evans, imin St James, 4th Floor

10:00am GMT

Trust me - trust my (open) data: The role of standards in data and data processes - Angela Baker, ODI & Emily Campbell-Ratcliffe, CDEI & Kevin Keith, UK Open Government Network & Sue Daley, TechUK St James, 4th Floor

10:35am GMT

Synthetic Data for AI, and AI for Synthetic Data in Open Source - Fergus Kidd, Emerging Technology Engineer, Avanade & Armando Vieira, Data Scientist, Vamstar St James, 4th Floor

11:10am GMT

Learnings from Navigating Scotland’s Open Data Landscape - Karen Jewell, Data Scientist, Open Data Scotland St James, 4th Floor

11:40am GMT

The Importance of Open Source and Open Source Intelligence Tools and Methodologies for Humanity - Sarah Womer, Senior Analyst, Plessas Experts Network Inc. St James, 4th Floor

1:00pm GMT

Interview with Jimmy Wales - Emma Thwaites, Director of Communication, ODI & Jimmy Wales, Founder, Wikipedia St James, 4th Floor

1:35pm GMT

Open data for life: the importance of data stewardship in the cultural sector - Anne Torreggiani, The Audience Agency & China Williams, Royal Botanical Gardens Kew & Jane Crowe, ODI & Sarah Brown, Collections Trust... St James, 4th Floor

2:10pm GMT

Gaia-X - A European Union for Data Economy - Francesco Bonfiglio, CEO, Gaia-X AISBL Association for Data and Cloud St James, 4th Floor

2:35pm GMT

Scotland’s Open Data: Tech, tables and tools - Jack Gilmore, Techical Lead, Open Data Scotland St James, 4th Floor

2:50pm GMT

Level Up Your Data Lake - to ML and Beyond - Oz Katz, CTO & Co-Founder, Treeverse St James, 4th Floor

4:00pm GMT

Open data for climate action: How collaboration between the public and private sectors can tackle the climate crisis - Josh D'Addario, ODI & Matt Webb, UK Power Networks & Mellissa Tallack, Northumbrian Water... St James, 4th Floor

4:35pm GMT

Flower - An Opensource Federated Learning Framework - Xinchi Qiu, Postgraduate Student, University of Cambridge St James, 4th Floor

5:00pm GMT

Harnessing the power of open source to achieve industry wide data standardisation for capital markets - Chris Rayner, ISLA & Ffion Acland, Goldman Sachs & Gabriele Columbro, FINOS, Linux Foundation & Georgina Jarratt... St James, 4th Floor