Talks Night: Open Data for the Environment

This month, we're looking at how open data is being used around the world, with speakers from academia, government and startups giving a series of short (around 15 mins) talks, showing how people are using it to fight climate change.

After some Q & A for the speakers, we'll be continuing the conversation outside the ODI, in The Fox.

Programme:

7:00 - Open sustainability: can opening up knowledge save the planet?
Jack Townsend, University of Southhampton (http://www.jacktownsend.net/)

7:30 - Doing the sustainability math: can open data help us work out 9 billion divided by 1?
Maya Forstater (http://hiyamaya.wordpress.com)

7:45 - Brief break for refreshments, chatter, mingling, networking

8:00 - Using open data to stimulate energy-efficient behaviour
Seb Junemann & Jamie Young, Homely (http://wearehomely.com/)

8:20 - Two years of open environmental data releases
Tom Chance (http://www.london.gov.uk/), Greater London Authority (http://www.london.gov.uk/)

8:40 Wrap up, and off to the Fox.