Storyology preview at Hacks/Hackers Brisbane

Next month the annual Storyology (https://storyology2016.sched.org/) conference is being held in Sydney, but this month for Hacks/Hackers Brisbane we've gathered together as many of the Queensland based Storyology speakers as possible to give us a sneak peak at their presentations.

6:00pm Arrive / Socialise / Grab a drink

6:30pm Lightning talks
→ Matthew Liddy: Basic Excel skills for data starters
→ Renee Barnes: The latest research from journalism scholars
→ Simon Elvery: ABC NewsBot reporting for duty

7:00pm More socialising / Drinks / Food

7:30pm
→ Interview: Dennis Atkins will preview his Storyology event in a discussion about podcasting, new technologies and new journalistic forms in political reporting.
→ Panel (i.e. audience) discussion: How to use personalisation and interactivity to make data-heavy stories on dry topics engaging and shareable for a bigger audience impact.

8:00pm Close / Socialise

Sponsors

Hacks/Hackers is supported by a number of wonderful sponsors. Our presentation partner hub4101 (http://www.hub4101.com/) provides event support and does a great job of promoting innovation, creativity and digital technology in the 4101 postcode (http://www.hub4101.com/map/).

We're very pleased to have sponsorship for this event from ThoughtWorks (https://www.thoughtworks.com/) (who provide food and drink) and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (http://www.abc.net.au/) (who provide our venue).

If you have any other questions or suggestions for this event or to make 2016 a great year for Hacks/Hackers Brisbane, please don't hesitate to get in touch.

You can email us ( simon@elvery.net or d.angus@uq.edu.au ) or get in touch via Twitter (@hackshackersbne (https://twitter.com/hackshackersbne)).