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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.

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