Conference: Making A Difference With Data: Sheffield

Friday 10 July 2015
10am - 4pm
Sheffield Town Hall, S1 2HH

Sheffield has a vibrant open data community and a council that is creating the environment and infrastructure to enable the benefits of open data to be realised.  

Making a Difference With Data will showcase what has been achieved so far and set out what more can be practically and realistically done.

This event will engage and energise decision-makers working in or with the council by illustrating the benefits of opening up data, and explaining how, through publishing and promoting open data, better outcomes can be delivered for Sheffield’s residents, businesses, and voluntary and public services. 

As well as highlighting recent local successes, such as the open data publishing platform provided by Socrata at data.sheffield.gov.uk and the Air Quality+ project run by Sheffield’s Better with Data Society, national and international partners are coming to the city to share their experiences and lessons of Making a Difference With Data.  

Who Should Attend?

The event has been designed for strategic policy officers from public and third sector organisations; their delivery partners; service and project managers within Sheffield City Council; information and data officers across Sheffield; and academics and other specialists with an interest in open data.

Programme:

0930 Registration

1000 Welcome (John Curtis, Sheffield City Council)

1005 The Strategic Imperative for Embracing Open Data (John Mothersole, Chief Executive, Sheffield City Council)

1015 Making A Difference With Data: Case Studies from Sheffield and Beyond

Birmingham - Vicky Sargent (Boilerhouse) & Nick Booth (Podnosh)

Doing Data Differently? A Community-Based Approach - Jon Poole (Bath Hacked)

Air Quality+ : End-to-End Open Data Engagement and Beyond - Danny Antrobus & Ian Ibbotson (Better With Data)

1100 Local Government and Policy Context

Why Open Data Matters to Local Government Officers (Tim Adams, LGA)

Connecting Policy to Impact (Ellen Broad, Open Data Institute)

Open Data in Digital Services (Catherine Howe, Capita)

1145  Roundtable / Workshop Introductions

1150 Open Data and Public Sector Transformation

Smart Cities: Connected Transformation and Innovation in Sheffield (Sharon Squires, Sheffield Executive Board)

Sheffield Smart Lab: Addressing Urban Challenges (Mark Saunders, Ferrovial Services)

What Is A Smart City? (Paul Connell, ODI Leeds)

Data-Driven Service Innovation (Jamie Whyte, Trafford Innovation & Intelligence Lab)

Stimulating Data-Driven and Challenge-Led Social Innovation (Ed Parkes, Nesta)

 1300  LUNCH

 1400  Roundtables / Workshops

A Beginner's Guide to Using the SCC Open Data Portal (Rose Mortada, Socrata)

Barriers to Open Data (Vicky Sargent, Boilerhouse)

Creating Engaged Users Through Open Data (Simon Cookson, G2G3 Digital)

Generating Data Insights (Jag Goraya, Better With Data)

Open Data for Democratic Engagement (Catherine Howe, Capita)

Open Data Support and Initiatives in the Council (John Curtis, Sheffield City Council)

Working better with SMEs using open data (Ellen Broad, Open Data Institute)

1500 Roundtable Feedback  

1515 Next Steps

Open Data Culture: Business As Usual (Jag Goraya, Better With Data)

Communicating with Open Data (Eddie Coates-Madden, Sheffield City Council)

1545  Roundup and Concluding Remarks (Aline Hayes, Director of Business Change & Information Solutions, Sheffield City Council)

1600 Close

Details of further speakers as well as interactive workshops and roundtable sessions to follow.

Making a Difference with Data: Sheffield is a collaboration between Sheffield City Council, the Making a Difference with Data initiative, Sheffield’s Better with Data Society, Capita and Socrata.