openTech

OpenTech 2013

18th May 2013

from UKUUG, the ODI and friends

Sponsored by
 ODI

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OpenTech 2013 Draft Schedule

Please note that the order of speakers within any session will be decided on the day, and no implication of ordering should be implied here.

In the bar: visionOntv's Mobile Reporting studio. New: OKFN workshop in room 3E, 1:30-3:30pm

Hashtags: #opentech #A1 - for Session 1 in Stream A. Drop #opentech for space if needed.

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Stream A — Main Room (1st Floor) Stream B — Malet Suite (2nd Floor) Stream C — Seminar Room (3C/D, 3rd Floor)
10:00am Doors Open
10:45am Session 1

#opentech #A1

  • Electromagnetic Field: Tales From the UK's First Large-Scale Hacker Camp
  • Prescribing Analytics
Audio

#opentech #B1

  • ORG 2013: Naked Citizens
Audio

#opentech #C1

  • Farmification - the joystick factory
  • House on Github
  • The Constitutional Excerpts Project
Audio
click on a talk to see its abstract here
11:40am Session 2

#opentech #A2

Government Digital Service
  • GOV.UK
  • How We Didn't Break the Web.
Audio

#opentech #B2

Code or Codex...
  • Writers Centre Norwich
  • School of Data
  • The Children's Republic of Shoreditch
Audio

#opentech #C2

Answering questions...
  • ...about corporate structures
  • ...about government spending
  • ...about legislation
Audio
click on a talk to see its abstract here
12:30 Lunch
1:30 Session 3

#opentech #A3

Bill and Gavin
  • The 'State of the Intersection' address
  • Beyond Open Data
Audio

#opentech #B3

Using hardware
  • Unix FPGA - Beyond just Finance
  • Raspberry Pi - debian interfaces
  • Raspberry Pi - how you can help
Audio

#opentech #C3

  • Tricks we learnt designing a community interest company for personal data
  • Sense and non-sense of a personal information security standard
Audio
click on a talk to see its abstract here
2:30 Session 4

#opentech #A4

Design for the Common Case
  • Tiny Data
  • Bribing MPs with Crowdsourcing *Satire* (probably)
  • The Domain Logic of Direct Action
Audio

#opentech #B4

Thinking Differently...
  • Silence and Thunderclaps
  • Thinking Pictures (video)
  • 1080s - the 300seconds project
Audio

#opentech #C4

Travel and Trains
  • Open Rail Data - Two Years On
  • Five types of rail data we still need to level the playing field for #opendata applications
  • Better Infrastructure Through Open Data
Audio
click on a talk to see its abstract here
3:30 Break
4:00 Session 5

#opentech #A5

... and make things
  • /dev/fort: you can build it in a week (even if you get caught in a blizzard)
  • NHS Hackday
  • Bethnal Green Ventures
Audio

#opentech #B5

  • Big Data for Real People
  • Doing Good With (open) Data
  • What do Open Sensor Networks mean for citizen science?
Audio

#opentech #C5

  • Politics, Programming, Data and the Drogulus
  • Scaling the ZeroMQ Community
  • The Cleanweb Movement
Audio
click on a talk to see its abstract here
5:00 Session 6

#opentech #A6

  • The STEMettes
  • FOSSbox
  • Practical Diversity
Audio

#opentech #B6

Privacy 2013
  • medConfidential
  • Digital Arms Trade
  • the remnants of the Communications Data Bill
Audio

#opentech #C6

  • CheapSynth
  • Repair, don't despair! Towards a better relationship with electronics
Audio
click on a talk to see its abstract here
6:00 Close

Thanks to session chairs: Kathryn Corrick, Mark O'Neill, Michelle Brook, Bill Thompson, Hadley Beeman, Nick Halliday, Kimball Johnson, Alasdair Kergon, and Rain Ashford.

The bar will remain open until 10pm or people stop drinking; whichever happens first. Thomas Stewart will be coordinating a PGP keysigning session in the bar at lunchtime.

Slides and references are being posted on the lanyrd page. Audio will follow here.

OKFN workshop, 1:30-3:30, Room 3E:

The Open Knowledge Foundation invites you to drop-in and find out more about the work we’re doing to build a vibrant digital commons and how we’re harnessing the power of open data to help build a better world. Come and get started with the School of Data, or for the more advanced, find about the LinkedUp Challenge, and play with open and linked datasets for education. http://www.okfn.org http://www.schoolofdata.org http://linkedup-project.eu.

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