DataConnect24 will be taking place next month, from 23 to 27 September. The week-long event will bring together UK public sector data leaders, academics, innovative thinkers, data scientists, data engineers, and AI specialists.
This free event is run ‘for the community, by the community’, and organised by Central Digital & Data Office (CDDO). Now in its fourth year, it aims to up skill, connect and inform public sector data professionals through a series of presentations and panel discussions.
For the first time, DataConnect will offer attendees the opportunity to watch back recorded sessions, network virtually, and attend expo stands.
Last year, over 6,000 data professionals attended DataConnect from multiple cross government departments, universities, institutes and arms length bodies.
This year’s programme
There are already over 40 sessions to choose from and all are aligned to three themes:
- The role of data in AI and digital transformation
- Data sharing: Unlocking access across the system
- Data Governance: Building trust and transparency in data
We’re delighted to see and hear from a diverse range of speakers including from the Met Office, Open Data Institute, Ordnance Survey, GCHQ, Ada Lovelace Institute, Alan Turing Institute, British Council, Cambridgeshire County Council, Greater Manchester Combined Authority, Greater London Authority, Kirklees Council, University of Exeter, Oxford University, Transport for London and the Estonian Government.
In addition to a keynote from CDDO’s Craig Suckling, Chief Data Officer for Government, here’s a taste of some of this year’s sessions:
- Giving ourselves permission to share - a panel discussion with GCHQ. A panel discussion centred on data sharing across government. What have we solved already, and what are the remaining problems? Hosted by Jenny Brooker, the Government's Chief Data Architect, panellists include Mat from GCHQ, Alex Smith, Head of Data Platforms and Security in CDDO, and others
- How to build your first data catalogue - PwC host a panel with Inigo Antolin, British Council; Silviya Chakalova, Regional Evaluation Manager, British Council; Debbie Wilson, Ordnance Survey, and Maddy Lunskey, Product Manager at Department for Business & Trade
- Participatory and inclusive data stewardship panel - Ada Lovelace Institute host a panel with Reema Patel, Research Director and Head of Deliberative Engagement, Ipsos UK; Tim Davies – Research Director, Connected by Data and Vinay Narayan, a Senior Manager at Aapti Institute and a co-lead of the Participatory Data programme with the Open Data Institute
- Storytelling, personas and narratives: strategies for communicating about data - a panel discussion covering data governance in the Met Office, the British Council and GOV.UK - Helen Bartlett, Met Office, Inigo Antolin, British Council and Ganesh Senthi, Data Services, GOV.UK, GDS
You can view the full programme online.
How to attend
To attend DataConnect please register on the conference site, and click ‘add to calendar’ to mark specific sessions in personal calendars.
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