Hacks/Hackers November Meetup

The November meet-up is here complete with some extra-warming speakers at our cosy Twitter lair.

SPONSOR

Drinks this month are brought to you through the generosity of Freelancer (https://www.freelancer.com/), the world's largest freelancing, outsourcing and crowdsourcing marketplace with over 13 million users who have posted over 6.5 million jobs worth over £1 billion.

WANT TO SKIP THE WAITING LIST?

This month we're experimenting with a few, limited "queue-jumping" paid-for passes.

Buy your pass here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hackshackers-november-meetup-tickets-13962380857

The idea - suggested by community members - helps you skip the waiting list and helps us raise some funds to expand the work of Hacks/Hackers London.

SPEAKERS

1. Tom Whitwell, @TomWhitwell (https://twitter.com/TomWhitwell), digital strategy consultant (http://tomwhitwell.tumblr.com/)and former head of digital at The Times.

"Why bother?"

Tom will talk about answering the rarest question in most newsrooms and boardrooms; 'Why are we doing this?'

2) Mustafa Al-Bassam, @musalbas (https://twitter.com/musalbas), former member of LulzSec and volunteer at Privacy International

When The Guardian was ordered by UK security services to destroy classified documents they had obtained from Edward Snowden, the demand came with some surprising requests.

GCHQ were not just interested in hard drives nor did they destroy whole devices. An examination of the targeted hardware by Privacy International, with cooperation from the Guardian, has found the whole episode to be more troubling and puzzling than previously believed.

Mustafa will explain this work; what they found and the unexpected ways we're being tracked.

LIGHTNING TALK

William Owen, @wdowen (http://twitter.com/wdowen), is founding partner and strategy director at Made by Many, a product innovation consultancy and the authors of ITV News’ digital news service.

He’ll be talking about ‘Why?’ and a little bit of ‘What?’ and ‘How’ ITV News and Made by Many created two news apps in 9 weeks.

Daniella Afeltra, @daniellaafeltra (https://twitter.com/daniellaafeltra) is Programme Director and Lead Instructor at Forensic Outreach, a online destination for crime and forensic science information.

She will be talking about the launch of a new platform which, Forensic Outreach hopes, will be useful to hacks and hackers alike.

Martin Stabe, @martinstabe (http://www.twitter.com/martinstabe) head of interactive news at the FT.

Sarah Saunders, Logan Symposium for the Centre of Investigative Journalism at the Barbican