Arthur Gwagwa
Doctoral researcher, Utrecht University Ethics Institute
Arthur Gwagwa
Doctoral researcher, Utrecht University Ethics Institute
Arthur is a doctoral researcher at Utrecht University Ethics Institute. His research focuses on anti-domination approaches in new frontier technological and data relationships between the Global North and China on the one hand and the Global South on the other.
Audrey Tang
Digital Minister of Taiwan
Audrey Tang
Digital Minister of Taiwan
Audrey Tang is Taiwan’s digital minister in charge of MoDA (Ministry of Digital Affairs).
Audrey is known for revitalising the computer languages Perl and Haskell, as well as building the online spreadsheet system EtherCalc in collaboration with Dan Bricklin.
Ben Goldacre
Director, Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science
Ben Goldacre
Director, Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science
Ben is a doctor, academic, writer, and broadcaster. He trained in medicine at Oxford and UCL, in psychiatry at the Maudsley, and in epidemiology at LSHTM.
Distinguished Professor Genevieve Bell
Director of the School of Cybernetics, Australian National University
Distinguished Professor Genevieve Bell
Director of the School of Cybernetics, Australian National University
Distinguished Professor Genevieve Bell AO FTSE FAHA is a renowned anthropologist, technologist, and futurist. She completed her PhD in cultural anthropology at Stanford University in 1998 and is best known for her work at the intersection of cultural practice and technology development.
Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta
Head of Public Policy, ODI
Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta
Head of Public Policy, ODI
Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta is Head of Public Policy at the Open Data Institute.
Dr Nick Pyenson
Curator of fossil marine mammals, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History
Dr Nick Pyenson
Curator of fossil marine mammals, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History
Dr Nick Pyenson is the curator of fossil marine mammals at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC.
Dr Ross Parry
Director, Institute for Digital Culture, University of Leicester
Dr Ross Parry
Director, Institute for Digital Culture, University of Leicester
A Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and former Tate Research Fellow, Ross is one of the founding Trustees of the Jodi Mattes Trust – for accessible digital culture.
Duccio Piovani
Lead Data Scientist, United Nations World Food Programme
Duccio Piovani
Lead Data Scientist, United Nations World Food Programme
Duccio Piovani is a theoretical physicist with a PhD in Applied Mathematics who has always been interested in using maths to study and understand the properties of systems.
Emma Thwaites
Director of Communication and Marketing, ODI
Emma Thwaites
Director of Communication and Marketing, ODI
Emma manages ODI communications, and works with journalists, commentators and armchair enthusiasts to build wider understanding of open data.
Felicity Burch
Executive Director, Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI)
Felicity Burch
Executive Director, Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI)
Felicity is the Executive Director of the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation (CDEI).
Gavin Starks
CEO, Icebreaker One
Gavin Starks
CEO, Icebreaker One
Gavin helps solve complex, multidisciplinary, collective-action challenges. He has co-created over a dozen organisations: building multidisciplinary teams fit for a digital age to explore the impact of data on business, society and culture.
Harmony Johnson
Vice-President, Indigenous Wellness & Reconciliation at Providence Health Care
Harmony Johnson
Vice-President, Indigenous Wellness & Reconciliation at Providence Health Care
Harmony is the Vice-President-Indigenous Wellness & Reconciliation at Providence Health Care and operates a consulting business providing strategy, advisory, and project leadership services in Indigenous human rights, governance, data sovereignty, and issues of anti-Indigenous racism and discrimination.
Ian Pay
Head of Data Analytics and Tech, ICAEW
Ian Pay
Head of Data Analytics and Tech, ICAEW
Ian joined the ICAEW as Head of Data Analytics and Tech in March 2022, looking at the role that analytics and technology solutions play in the profession, and supporting the ICAEW’s members in their exploration and development of knowledge around technology.
Jack Hardinges
Head of Programmes, ODI
Jack Hardinges
Head of Programmes, ODI
Jack is Head of Programmes at the ODI. He is responsible for developing programmes of work around emerging data topics, building multi-disciplinary delivery teams and establishing partnerships with other organisations.
Joseph Wilk
Digital Artist
Joseph Wilk
Digital Artist
Joseph Wilk is an artist exploring automative forms of expression that utilise new interfaces to work *with* alternative bodies.
Josh D’Addario
Principal Consultant, ODI
Josh D’Addario
Principal Consultant, ODI
Josh is the Principal Consultant at the ODI, responsible for leading consulting and advisory delivery at the ODI and building and growing strategic partnerships with commercial partners, government agencies and the third sector, through designing and delivering impactful, mission-aligned projects.
Justin Gillis
Director, Generation Investment Management
Justin Gillis
Director, Generation Investment Management
Justin Gillis is a director at Generation Investment Management, in London, in charge of producing that firm’s annual Sustainability Trends Report.
Keoni Mahelona
CTO, Te Hiku Media
Keoni Mahelona
CTO, Te Hiku Media
Keoni (kanaka maoli) is the Chief Technology Officer at Te Hiku Media and a leading practitioner of indigenous data sovereignty.
Kevin O’Neil
Director of New Frontiers, The Rockefeller Foundation
Kevin O’Neil
Director of New Frontiers, The Rockefeller Foundation
Kevin O’Neil is Director of New Frontiers at The Rockefeller Foundation, where he leads a team that seeks to convert big ideas into practical action through research, convening, and catalytic grantmaking.
Kweilin Ellingrud
Global Institute Director, McKinsey
Kweilin Ellingrud
Global Institute Director, McKinsey
Kweilin is a McKinsey Global Institute Director and Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company. She has led numerous research efforts including on the Future of Work post COVID-19 and gender and racial equality (Power of Parity).
Lisa Allen
Director of Data & Services, ODI
Lisa Allen
Director of Data & Services, ODI
Lisa is a data professional and has led many data teams in the public sector in the UK. She has experience across various data disciplines including open data, data protection, data transformation, and developing data strategies and frameworks to implement data governance.
Louise Burke
Managing Director, ODI
Louise Burke
Managing Director, ODI
Louise is the ODI’s Managing Director and leads the team to deliver on the organisation’s mission and vision. Having joined the ODI in 2012 Louise previously held roles as chief finance officer and chief operating officer.
Mr Gee
Data Poet, Dreamer & Radio Presenter
Mr Gee
Data Poet, Dreamer & Radio Presenter
Mr Gee is a veteran of the UK’s Spoken Word scene, and is well known as the “Poet Laureate” on Russell Brand’s SONY award-winning Radio show.
Patrick Huang
CEO and Founder, Starfish Digital
Patrick Huang
CEO and Founder, Starfish Digital
Patrick Huang is CEO and Founder at Starfish Digital, the corporate banking data connectivity platform. Patrick drives both vision and business strategy as a thought leader with 24 years of financial service expertise transforming businesses through technology.
Robert Barbour
Group Data and Insights Director, Travis Perkins
Robert Barbour
Group Data and Insights Director, Travis Perkins
Rob Barbour is the Group Data and Insights Director for Travis Perkins Plc; the UK’s largest distributor of building materials to the building and construction industry. He leads data governance, Data Engineering, Analytics and Data Science capabilities within the Group’s Finance Function.
Rohini Devasher
ODI Artist in Residence 2021 - 2022
Rohini Devasher
ODI Artist in Residence 2021 - 2022
Rohini Devasher is an artist and amateur astronomer based in Delhi, India. Her practice spans film, drawing and printmaking, mapping the strangeness of time and space.
Sir Nigel Shadbolt
Executive Chair & Co-founder of the ODI
Sir Nigel Shadbolt
Executive Chair & Co-founder of the ODI
Sir Nigel Shadbolt is Executive Chair of the Open Data Institute, which he co-founded with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, and is one of the UK’s foremost computer scientists.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Inventor of the World Wide Web & Co-founder of the ODI
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Inventor of the World Wide Web & Co-founder of the ODI
A graduate of Oxford University, Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing while at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory, in 1989.
Stuart Coleman
Director of Business Development, ODI
Stuart Coleman
Director of Business Development, ODI
Stuart is the Learning and Business Development Director at the ODI. He is passionate about opportunities for people across society to use technology, data and machines to learn new skills and shape a better future.
Su Kahumbu
Social Technovator, Founder of iCow
Su Kahumbu
Social Technovator, Founder of iCow
Su Kahumbu, is a Tech-innovator, passionate farmer and Ankole breeder recognised as a pioneer in the organic sector in Africa.
Volker Buscher
Chief Data Officer, Arup
Volker Buscher
Chief Data Officer, Arup
Volker is Arup’s Chief Data Officer. He is responsible for developing the data solutions to support Arup wide automation, services and products.
Prof Irene Ng
CEO, DataSwift
Prof Irene Ng
CEO, DataSwift
Irene is an academic and a serial entrepreneur, running her own family office from the U.K. Her early businesses included the turnaround of SA Travel group, pioneering cruising in Southeast Asia and building a cruise business into a $3b annual turnover.
Jennifer Pougnet
Global Data Policy Strategy Lead, Roche
Jennifer Pougnet
Global Data Policy Strategy Lead, Roche
Jennifer has served in large-scale public health systems in Canada implementing
Electronic Medical Records as well as developing and implementing both operational and
legislative health policy and strategy.
Electronic Medical Records as well as developing and implementing both operational and
legislative health policy and strategy.
Bernadette Hyland-Wood
Co-lead, Responsible Data Science Program, Queensland University of Technology Centre for Data Science
Bernadette Hyland-Wood
Co-lead, Responsible Data Science Program, Queensland University of Technology Centre for Data Science
Bernadette Hyland-Wood is a researcher at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane Australia. Her research examines the political and social life of data.
Dr Ranjitha Puskur
India Representative, International Rice Research Institute
Dr Ranjitha Puskur
India Representative, International Rice Research Institute
Dr. Ranjitha Puskur leads the research program on ‘Gender and Livelihoods' at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and is IRRI’s Representative to India.
Ece Özdemiroğlu
Environmental Economist & Founder of Eftec
Ece Özdemiroğlu
Environmental Economist & Founder of Eftec
Ece Özdemiroğlu FRSA is the Founder and CEO of eftec (Economics For The Environment Consultancy), the business she set up in 1992 after completing her Masters in Environmental Economics and Natural Resource Management at University College London.
Kate Bell
Head of Rights, International, Social & Economics, The Trades Union Congress
Kate Bell
Head of Rights, International, Social & Economics, The Trades Union Congress
Kate Bell is the Head of the Rights, International, Social and Economics department.
The Department leads the TUC's work on boosting employment rights, promoting social and economic policies that benefit working people, and building international solidarity.
The Department leads the TUC's work on boosting employment rights, promoting social and economic policies that benefit working people, and building international solidarity.
Adam Freeman-Pask
Olympic Athlete & Head of Digital Innovation, Sport England
Adam Freeman-Pask
Olympic Athlete & Head of Digital Innovation, Sport England
Adam is part of Sport England’s Innovation and Digital team, which focuses on supporting our sector with applying innovation and digital to develop solutions that help people who are least active.
Nobukhosi Zulu
Human Rights, Feminist Legal Practices and Gender and the law practitioner
Nobukhosi Zulu
Human Rights, Feminist Legal Practices and Gender and the law practitioner
Nobu is a Tedx speaker and experienced human rights advocate based in South Africa with a demonstrated history of working in legal practice and research with special focus on access to and protection of information and constitutionalism
Dylan Baker
Research Engineer, Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR)
Dylan Baker
Research Engineer, Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR)
Dylan Baker is a research engineer at the Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research institute. Dylan's work broadly focuses on machine learning ethics, particularly how it relates to data labour, classificatory systems, and identity.
Tim O'Reilly
Founder, CEO and Chairman, O’Reilly Media
Tim O'Reilly
Founder, CEO and Chairman, O’Reilly Media
Tim O'Reilly is the founder, CEO and Chairman of O’Reilly Media, and a partner at early-stage venture firm O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV).
Levi-Craig Murray
Strategic Manager of Indigenous Data, The University of Melbourne
Levi-Craig Murray
Strategic Manager of Indigenous Data, The University of Melbourne
Levi Murray is an Aboriginal man of Wakka Wakka and Kubi Kubi descent. Murray is an expert health strategist with over sixteen years of cross-sector knowledge translation experience in Health and Education.
Molly Webb
Founder, Energy Unlocked
Molly Webb
Founder, Energy Unlocked
18 years market acceleration & advocacy for global innovation in tech, climate change, smart cities and energy, in partnership with companies and cities at The Climate Group and UK think tank Demos.
Ben Kobren
Head of Communications and Public Policy, Neeva
Ben Kobren
Head of Communications and Public Policy, Neeva
Ben Kobren is the head of policy and communications at Neeva, the user-first, private and ad-free search engine.
Dr Angela Coulter
Chair, Health Data Research UK Public Advisory Board
Dr Angela Coulter
Chair, Health Data Research UK Public Advisory Board
Dr Angela Coulter chairs the Public Advisory Board of HDR UK. She is a UK-based health policy analyst and researcher, with special interests in patient and public involvement.
Hayden Sutherland
Founder, Open Transport Initiative
Hayden Sutherland
Founder, Open Transport Initiative
Hayden Sutherland is a strategist, technologist, start-up investor and transport & mobility data specialist.
Tania Nadarajah
Paralympian
Tania Nadarajah
Paralympian
Tania is a former Paralympic para-archer who competed for Great Britain from 2014 until her retirement from international sport in 2021.
Dr Neil Ebenezer
Medical Technologist Specialist, Department for International Trade
Dr Neil Ebenezer
Medical Technologist Specialist, Department for International Trade
A member of the DataTAB, Dr Neil Ebenezer joined the Department for International Trade as a Medical Technologist Specialist last year to develop and implement the global strategy for medical technologies across inward investment and exports.
Astha Kapoor
Co-founder, Aapti Institute
Astha Kapoor
Co-founder, Aapti Institute
Astha is the co-founder of Aapti Institute, a Bangalore based tech and society research firm.
Irene Graham
CEO, ScaleUp
Irene Graham
CEO, ScaleUp
Barry Lloyd
Parasport, British Paralympic Association
Barry Lloyd
Parasport, British Paralympic Association
Barry joined the British Paralympic Association in July 2021, just ahead of the build up to the Tokyo Games.
Negussie Efa Gurmessa
National Lead for Ethiopia, CABI
Negussie Efa Gurmessa
National Lead for Ethiopia, CABI
Negussie Efa is a research scientist and Programmes Manager with CAB
International.
International.
Marcus Bartley-Johns
Asia Regional Director for Government Affairs & Public Policy, Microsoft
Marcus Bartley-Johns
Asia Regional Director for Government Affairs & Public Policy, Microsoft
Marcus is Asia Regional Director for Government Affairs and Public Policy for Microsoft. He works with Microsoft’s teams and the company’s stakeholders across the region to advance public policies for trusted, responsible and inclusive digital transformation.
Ravi Shankar
GIS Head, WHO GIS Centre for Health in the Data, Analytics and Impact for Delivery unit
Ravi Shankar
GIS Head, WHO GIS Centre for Health in the Data, Analytics and Impact for Delivery unit
Ravi Shankar is the GIS lead for the WHO GIS Centre for Health in the Data, Analytics, and Impact for Delivery unit after serving for many years as the GIS Technical Officer at the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI).
Prof Susan Mollan
Deputy Data Officer, INSIGHT
Prof Susan Mollan
Deputy Data Officer, INSIGHT
Tomas Sanchez Lopez
Director Data Curation and Open Data
Tomas Sanchez Lopez
Director Data Curation and Open Data