Open Knowledge Conference (OKCon) 2009 will take place next Saturday 28th March – less than a week away!
- where: Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, UCL, London
- when: 28th March 2009, 1030-1830
- home: http://www.okfn.org/okcon/
- register: http://www.okfn.org/okcon/register/
If you plan to attend, and haven’t registered yet – we encourage you to book your ticket now as space is limited!
OKCon 2009: speakers and sessions
There will be two main sessions on ‘open knowledge for development’ and ‘open data and the semantic web’. In addition there will be plenty of open space – which currently includes talks ranging from visualising historical data to public domain fashion. Speakers will include:
- Rufus Pollock, Open Knowledge Foundation
- Jordan Hatcher, Open Data Commons
- Leigh Dodds, Talis
- Jeni Tennison, London Gazette + RDFa
- Tom Scott, BBC
- Mark Charmer, AKVO
- Simon Parrish, Aidinfo
- Vinay Gupta, Appropedia
- David Bollier, OnTheCommons + Author of Viral Spiral
- Sebastian Hellmann , DBpedia
- Hugh Glaser, University of Southampton
- Adnan Hadzi, Goldsmiths + Deptford.tv
- John Dalziel, The Computus Engine
- Julian Todd, Public Whip
- Andrea Rota, Liquid Culture + Yuk Hui, Goldsmiths
- Harry Halpin, University of Edinburgh + W3C
- Humphrey Southall, A Vision of Britain
Full details are available at the programme page and the provisional open space schedule.
Dr. Jonathan Gray is Lecturer in Critical Infrastructure Studies at the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London, where he is currently writing a book on data worlds. He is also Cofounder of the Public Data Lab; and Research Associate at the Digital Methods Initiative (University of Amsterdam) and the médialab (Sciences Po, Paris). More about his work can be found at jonathangray.org and he tweets at @jwyg.
Podcasts? Would love to hear the panel discussions, esp the first, “Open Knowledge for Development”.