Smarter Cities and Urban Living
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In conjunction with Venturefest Bristol & Bath (http://venturefestbristolandbath.com/) February's BathCamp will be all about smarter cities and urban living.
Our talks for the night are...
Playable Cities
Clare Reddington, Playable Cities Bristol
Playable Cities (https://www.playablecity.com/cities/bristol/), a project that emerged from the Watershed's Pervasive Media Studio in 2012, uses creative technologies to playfully rethink public space. Clare will be showing us some of the projects they've produced to help us interact with our environment in whole new ways.
Making Cities Better with Open Data
Leigh Dodds and Mark Owen of Bath:Hacked
Over the last few years more and more open data projects have take off around the world, opening up formally closed silos of useful information so that it can be used to make our cities better places to live, to inform better decision making and make improve our every day lives. The Bath:Hacked (https://www.bathhacked.org/) project was one of the early movers and has been very successful. Leigh will giving us a tour of some of the interesting open city data projects around the country, a look at the Bath:Hacked have been up to, and what they have planned for the future (and how you can be involved). Mark will be talking about the technology behind one of those projects.
Fast Food, Fast Technology
Ben Paul of Just Eat
Nothing says "urban living" quite like fast food, and while the likes of Google have been working on autonomous cars, the folks at Just-Eat (https://www.just-eat.co.uk/) have been focused on a much more important task, autonomous pizza delivery (no, really). Ben will be telling us all about their robotic delivery system that's already rolling its way around parts of London. They've also been hard at work making it even easier to order, with smart technology that integrates with your connected home. Ordering a curry might give us all a small foretaste* of the connected future we can expect in a few years from now.
Schedule: We plan to start the talks at 7pm sharp. The doors will be open from 6pm so come in an grab a drink before we kick off. Please let me know what your preferred refreshment is when you RSVP so that we will be well supplied.
Code of Conduct: BathCamp has a Code of Conduct (https://www.meetup.com/BathCamp/pages/20642967/Code_of_Conduct/). In short, "Be nice, or go home".
This month's BathCamp is supported by the marvelous folks at VentureFest Bristol & Bath (http://venturefestbristolandbath.com/)
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- pun very much intended.