Address: London College of Communication, Elephant and Castle, London SE1 6SB

Time: 10:00 – 13:00

Maps function as lenses through which we perceive the world and are central to our understanding of a place. By emphasising personal, participatory and qualitative forms of data, this workshop seeks to make maps more collaborative, open and inclusive artefacts.

During the workshop, participants will engage in a data walk, where we will collectively observe and map the sensory environment around us. The objective is to explore the diverse and subjective nature of sensory encounters and using mapping as a means to meaningfully reconnect with our shared spaces. Following the group data walk, a collective mapping exercise will facilitate discussions on the subjectivity of maps and representations of a place, and the collective narratives they shape.

The workshop aims to surface the intangible aspects of a place and associate them with our subjective, personal experiences. We hope for the participants to leave with a broader notion of what qualifies as data, a renewed connection to their sensory environment and how it shapes their lived experience of the city.

This event is suitable for a general audience

Address: City Hall, Committee Room 2&3, Kamal Chunchie Way, London, E16 1ZE

Time: 10:00 – 11:45

As part of London Data Week, The Greater London Authority is running an event with Policy in Practice to showcase data-led benefit take-up campaigns commissioned by The Mayor of London and run in partnership with Policy in Practice.

The campaign began its first phase in February 2023 focusing on Pension Credit uptake, securing over £8 million a year for pensioners across the capital. Supported by Age UK London, the initial phase of the campaign saw over 8,000 eligible Londoners in 17 boroughs receive letters inviting them to claim Pension Credit. The Pension Credit campaign is now in its second phase with 23 London boroughs participating.

The campaign is the first of its kind, with local authorities across the capital joining forces to better the lives of residents through proactive outreach and income maximisation.

Pilot campaigns are also underway in selected London boroughs focusing on Healthy Start, Attendance Allowance and Free School Meals enrollment.

There will be a panel discussion and Q&A led by the Policy in Practice campaign team, partners such as Age UK London as well as leading local authorities involved in this project. The event will be followed by a tea and coffee networking session.

This event is suitable for policymakers, charities and NGOs and local residents

Address: AutogenAI, 123 Pentonville Road, N1 9LG

Time: 13:30 – 15:00

The voluntary sector are delivering vital services to the community but keeping track of that impact and showcasing it effectively can be challenging. We’ve designed a free platform to help you keep track of your impact and show it off effectively! We’ll be using this workshop to help get you set up and send you away with a custom URL that can be easily shared with funders and the public.

*Attendees will be required to bring their own laptops in order to participate

This event is suitable for charities and NGOs 

Address: Online (Zoom)

Time: 16:00 – 17:00

Recent advances in AI have led to increased awareness and uptake of AI tools to enhance decision making and the delivery of services, including within the public sector. But there are also concerns about the biases in the underlying data, the explainability or trustworthiness of AI models and the lack of accountability mechanisms. One way to address some of these risks is by involving the public in the design, evaluation and oversight of AI systems.

During this webinar, participants will learn about the opportunities to introduce participation into their data science/AI projects drawing on Nesta’s Participatory AI approach. We will draw on case studies, including our experience developing AI tools for disaster response, and introduce future use cases relevant for the public sector. There will be opportunities to ask questions throughout.

This is aimed at people working with data across the public sector who are interested in using AI but want to do it responsibly. For example, you might be responsible for technology procurement in the NHS, leading data projects in local government or developing policy for AI assurance.

This event is suitable for public sector data practitioners

Address: Bush House SE 2.10, King’s College London, Strand campus, 30 Aldwych, London, WC2B 4BG 

Time: 17:30 – 19:30

Are you curious about the hidden stories of your community? In this interactive workshop, we’ll discover how ONS (Office for National Statistics) open-access census data can unlock the secrets of places and communities, at a local level, using spatial mapping tools.

We’ll explore a mystery area of London through its data alone, and use it to construct a collective image of the area and its community. Where is the picture incomplete? What data is missing? What worries or delights you about this place? What would you want to examine, with what evidence base?

Finally, we’ll reveal the location and compare it to our data-driven portrait. We will use it to collectively discuss data and place, which voices are missing, and how we/they can be represented. We hope you’ll come away with a vision of a place where citizens are empowered around data, their data rights and decision-making around data.

This workshop is open to everyone – no technical expertise required!

This event is suitable for a general audience and aimed at community groups, local residents and civil service professionals.

Address: Online (Zoom)

Time: 18:30 – 19:30

This London Data Week, join DataKind UK and a panel of charity leaders for a fascinating discussion about how data use can maximise your organisation’s impact. While our panellists’ organisations share a focus on educational equity, they face very different goals and challenges, from improving membership to assessing wellbeing.

By learning how to use data more effectively through one of our programmes, they were all able to draw out insights, overcome sticking points, and work through operational challenges to better achieve their purpose.

They will discuss the differences between their data collection, explore how a range of data techniques and approaches can be applied to tackle a broad spectrum of issues, and consider why cross-sector collaboration is vital.
Come along to learn more about what data can do for your third sector organisation and be inspired by real world examples!

The panel will be led by DataKind UK, and feature a discussion between:

• Peyman Owladi, CTO, Leaning with Parents
• Lindsey MacDonald, CEO, Magic Breakfast
• Tom Shirley, Director, Illustrating Impact
• Amanda Vernalls, Head of Research & Insight, Youth Sport Trust
• Joana Matos, Systems Data Insight Lead, Parentkind

Starting at 6.30pm, the discussion will be about 45 minutes with 10-15 minutes for Q&A at the end.

This event is suitable for third sector and public sector data professionals.

Address: Pinsent Masons, 30 Crown Pl, Earl St, London EC2A 4ES

Time: 9:30 – 11:30

London consistently ranks as one of Europe’s ‘smartest’ cities, but what does smartness look like in our city today? How is data already being used to solve problems and drive inclusive growth?

At this roundtable, held as part of the 2nd London Data Week and hosted by BusinessLDN and Pinsent Masons, we will bring together industry experts to explore how data-driven solutions are can help to revolutionise planning, transport and sustainability in the capital. We will hear from BusinessLDN members on a range of different projects, from improving air quality, to how AI could be used to make the most of vacant high street spaces and places, to how data trusts can help with food supply chains.

This event is invitation only with a few general interest tickets available. If you are interested, please contact the email listed in the registration page to express interest.

This event is suitable for data leaders and data champions.

Address: Online

Time: 10:00 – 12:00

Welcome to the official Data Time TV webinar for London Data Week!

Join us as we discuss the role of data in art, culture and sport; and debate how ordinary people can get involved in decisions about data and AI. Also – test your knowledge against our studio panellists in fun data-related quizzes, as we present an edition of our celebrated Data Game. And if that is not enough we’ll be showing Alan Warburton’s hugely popular film – ‘The Wizard of AI’.

So whether you’re a data aficionado – or just data curious – join us for a fun-packed date with data. At a laptop near you.

This event is suitable for anyone

Address: Great Hall, King’s College London, Strand Campus, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS

Time: 10:00 – 16:00

The event is an interactive workshop organised by grassroots AI researchers from across Africa that focuses on how good AI language models like ChatGPT are in global Languages, with a focus on six African languages: አማርኛ (Amharic), Hausa, Northern Sotho (Sepedi), Kiswahili (Swahili), Yorùbá (Yoruba), and isiZulu (Zulu).

The day will be split into two halves:

• The morning will be a technical overview of challenges in the domain covering cutting-edge research with lightning talks from leading researchers
• The afternoon will be an interactive workshop including demos of models and breakout sessions focused on how language communities can help shape the development of AI systems and address critical ethical considerations.

This event is suitable for AI researchers and practitioners and community members from low resource language communities, especially those who speak አማርኛ (Amharic), Hausa, Northern Sotho (Sepedi), Kiswahili (Swahili), Yorùbá (Yoruba), and isiZulu (Zulu).

Address: Nesta, 58 Victoria Embankment, London EC4Y 0DS

Time: 14:30 – 16:00

This interactive workshop aims to explore how public sector organisations can work with citizen science data to address policy priorities, related to, for example, climate adaptation, health and social care or achieving urban sustainability targets. The session will provide an introduction to citizen science and case studies of existing initiatives where data has been used by municipalities, governments or public bodies. Participants will work through design activities to identify opportunities for using citizen science data in their work, and explore practical tips introducing these approaches into their institutional processes.

This is a hands-on workshop for local authorities, public sector organisations and anyone interested in working with citizen science data, which aims to provide participants with practical tools, resources and skills using citizen science in their work.

This event is suitable for anyone with an interest in citizen science data

Address: British Council, 1 Redman Place, London, E20 1JQ. Nearest station is Stratford Station (Accessible via Jubilee, Elizabeth, DLR, Central and Overground lines)

Time: 16:15 – 19:45

Are you a teenager interested in the fascinating world of artificial intelligence and coding? Join British Council’s AI experts for an exciting workshop designed to introduce you to the basics of AI, chatbots and programming. 

In this event, we’ll recreate a classic arcade game using ChatGPT, a large language model, before putting your pitching skills to the test with the chance to demo your game and win prizes.

No prior experience or knowledge is required – just bring your curiosity and enthusiasm! 

Agenda: 

4:15-4:30pm – Registration at the British Council reception 

4:30-5:15pm – Brief of the task from our instructors, group allocation and introductory exercises (introduction to ChatGPT, Jupyter Notebook interface, Python libraries, how to build/test a game) 

5:15-6:00pm – Main task Part 1 (building one of four pre selected game types with the assistance of one instructor per 3 students) 

6:00-6:30pm – Refreshment break 

6:30-7:00pm – Main task Part 2 (testing game and writing the final pitch) 

7:00-7:45pm – Final pitch, demos and prizes (5 mins per group and prizes) 

Please note: Minimum age to participate is 13, due to ChatGPT minimum sign-up age.

Please bring your own laptop, as we cannot guarantee we’ll be able to provide one on the day, and may only be able to provide one for a few participants.

Please create your own free ChatGPT account to use during the workshop. An account can be created here.

This event is suitable for 13-14 year olds, however older students are welcome up to the age of 16.

Address: King’s Cross

Time: 17:00 – 18:30

This is an interactive participatory data ‘walkshop’ for community engagement officers, designers, participatory researchers, or anyone working in local government or public services who has to communicate about data in creative ways. The data walk aims to engage participants in a lively dialogue around citizen science data, prompted by observations of different aspects of the city, and citizen science project sites, as we walk around them. Participants can expect to take away inspiration and reflections on the ways in which citizen science data can have greater impact. Come with an inquisitive mindset, comfortable footwear, and be prepared to talk about your experiences of collecting or using citizen science data with those around you.

The walk will start from Kings Cross and last for about an hour, to maximum an hour and half. Precise details will be confirmed the week before the event.

This event is suitable for anyone with an interest in citizen science data

Address: Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Room 122, South Kensington Campus

Time: 17:00 – 18:00

Today, people leave digital breadcrumbs wherever they go and sometimes, this data can leak in unexpected ways. We have methods of securing and encrypting data to protect against these data leaks or malicious hacks, but how effective are they?

Join us for a discussion on data privacy, led by Imperial’s Computational Privacy Group who will be explaining some of their research investigating the robustness of current data privacy systems.

Postgraduate researchers Nataša Krčo and Igor Shilov will be presenting their cutting-edge research on privacy attacks on synthetic data and machine learning classifiers and the copyright implications of large language models.

Agenda:

5:00-5:15 – Introduction to the Data Science Institute and to the Computational Privacy Group

5:15-5:30 – Research presentation by Nataša Krčo

5:30-5:45 – Research presentation by Igor Shilov

5:45-6:00 – Q&A with audience

*Please arrive at least 5-minutes early to ensure a prompt start to the event.

This event is suitable for a general audience with an interest in privacy, policy and government

Address: Public Hall, 1 Horse Guards Ave, London SW1A 2HU

Time: 18:00 – 20:30

Join us for an in-person event, “Unleashing the power of data for an incoming government,” as part of London Data Week (LDW), now in its second year, a festival dedicated to exploring ways data can shape London for the better.

Our event, hosted by Policy in Practice, Tussell, and Shearwater, will take place in the heart of Whitehall, making it an exciting time with the general election just days away.

We will focus on the transformative potential of technology, specifically AI and public sector data, in enhancing public services in London and across the UK. We’re bringing together esteemed experts from the tech and policy sectors for a public discussion on how these technologies are driving efficiency in public services. The event will feature presentations, Q&A panel discussions, and a drinks reception to follow.

This isn’t just an event; it’s a chance for you to have your say, to contribute, and to connect with others passionate about the future of public services.

Spaces are limited, so secure your spot now and be part of shaping the future!

Guest Speakers:

– Gus Tugendhat will give an overview of how data and AI is being procured by government.

– Abigail Everett will share how government data is being used to change the lives of Londoners today.

– Paul Maltby was the Chief Digital Officer at DLUHC and now leads on public sector change at Faculty.
– Joe Hill is Policy Director at Reform Think Tank and, as a former civil servant, has written about what’s holding back the use of data within government.
– Rachel Coldicutt, OBE, has a background in a range of civic tech organisations and will give a citizen-centred perspective.

This event is suitable for anyone with an interest in data and AI for transforming government

Address: Newspeak House, 133 Bethnal Grn Rd, London E2 7DG

Time: 18:30 – 21:00

Come celebrate London Data Week, and come join us for an evening of semi-organised discussion around the present and future of AI in Government!

​Open to existing civil servants and anyone with an interest in AI for good in government and beyond, we’ll look at recent example of how government has made use of AI, through the Evidence House community and beyond.

​Then, in a semi-facilitated “unconference”, we’ll think about the future, and where government AI goes from here!

​To ensure a broad mix of participants and facilitate meaningful discussion, we’ll confirm your place in the run-up to the event – especially if you’re from outside government, make sure to tell us your affiliation and why you care about government AI for good when you sign-up! If you’re not sure, reach out to the organisers.

This event is suitable for anyone with an interest in AI for good in government

Address: I-Hub (White City Campus), 84 Wood Lane, London W12 0BZ

Time: 9:30 – 16:30

Embark on an illuminating journey into the realm of Intelligible AI (IAI) at the I-X Open Day!

Join us as we unveil the forefront of multidisciplinary research, dedicated to crafting a new era of AI systems that are both intelligible and trustworthy. I-X, Imperial College London’s flagship AI initiative, stands at the forefront of the AI revolution, pioneering the development and delivery of Intelligible AI. Our initiative converges interpretable, explainable, and safe AI technologies, reshaping the landscape of AI in science, precision healthcare, secure software systems, and ethical AI research.
Our Open Day will feature a series of talks, demonstrations, poster presentations, and networking sessions designed to showcase the capabilities of I-X and foster meaningful interactions between participants, who will have a unique opportunity to witness first-hand how our research, teaching, and innovation converge to redefine the boundaries of AI. Some of our confirmed speakers include Daniel Rueckert (Professor of Visual Information Processing, Imperial College) & Stefanos Zafeiriou (Professor in Machine Learning & Computer Vision, Imperial College). Panel discussions will be led by Alessandra Russo (Professor in Applied Computational Logic, Imperial College) & Aldo Faisal (Professor of AI & Neuroscience, Imperial College).

Whether you are a seasoned AI enthusiast, a curious student, or an industry professional, I-X Open Day welcomes all who share our passion for innovation!

This event is suitable for data science and AI students, practitioners, and researchers.

Address: Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA

Time: 10:00 – 12:00

On this short taster course at Somerset House, discover ways to ensure your data or digital tool meets the needs of your key audiences. What insights do they need? How will they access them? What will they use them for? These are all questions organisations need to consider before creating a digital or data product.

Join award-winning data design studio Applied Works and discover the key principles of UX and how to build user personas. Discover how to create personas – considering users’ needs, motivations and pain points – and then how to test those considerations with real users. The trainers will take you through an example organisation to practise persona creation, and you’ll be able to apply this workshop format to your own organisation.

This workshop is for individuals working with data who are seeking guidance in effectively engaging their audience. No expertise in design is required. This is a friendly and supportive workshop that will encourage you to discover and try approaches to user needs analysis.

This event is suitable for data practitioners

Address: Great Hall, King’s College London, Strand Campus, Strand, London, WC2R 2LS

Time: 12:00 – 18:00

Celebrating the 4th year of “State of Open” Reports with the launch of  “The UK in 2024: The Open Manifesto Report,” OpenUK continues the evolving narrative of open source software and open data in the UK, bringing to life the reality of open source through our communities’ stories coupled with hard data.  The launch event convenes the conversation as part of London Data Week and we are grateful to the incredible speakers of a world-leading calibre including: Amanda Brock, Dr Jennifer Barth,  Dr Rebecca Taylor, Liz Rice, Matt Barker, Richard Granville-Hanson, Margaret Hartnett, Sonia Cooper, Professor Elena Simperl, Lee Fulmer, and more speakers will tackle key topics around Skills, Public Sector and open source in AI.

Keynotes include economist and journalist Will Hutton, author of “This Time No Mistakes”,  and Google DeepMind Professor of ML Professor Neil Lawrence, author of “The Atomic Human”. Both speakers will also be participating in a book signing and give away of 30 copies of each of their books. 

This event is suitable for anyone with an interest in the UK open source community

Location: Online (Zoom)

Time: 15:00 – 16:00

You have the data and the numbers — but what’s the narrative? What are the key takeaways worth sharing? In today’s data-driven world, the ability to turn raw data into valuable insights is crucial.

In government, accessing vast amounts of data is only half the battle; the real value lies in interpreting this data to inform decision-making and drive impactful policies. Our line-up of speakers will share their experiences with, and methodologies for, making sense of complex data, helping you become a data-savvy public servant.

Join this 1-hour multi-speaker masterclass for practical tips and real-life lessons delivered through expert presentations, and an open-floor discussion where you can ask questions. Together, we will explore how to interpret complex datasets, identify key trends and communicate findings clearly and effectively.

Who is this for?
Any public servant who’s interested in becoming better with data analysis, storytelling and communication.

This event is suitable for public sector participants.

Address: Canva UK Operations Ltd, 33 Hoxton Square, London, N1 6NN and Online

Time: 15:00 – 19:30

Data is at the heart of almost everything we do, from choosing the best tube line during rush hour to making crucial business decisions. But to truly excel in our data-driven world, we need more than just the ability to crunch numbers. We need data storytelling – transforming data into compelling narratives that drive impact and foster understanding.

That’s why we’re thrilled to invite you to Data Storytelling: shaping our work, life, and our city. This event is a unique fusion of data visualization, storytelling techniques, and strategic communication designed to empower professionals across all industries: creative, professional services, non-profit, academia, and more.

Join us in the heart of London, as seasoned storytellers and experts share their insights and practical tips on using data storytelling to influence decisions and inspire action. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how to turn data into powerful stories that shape our world. The event will feature a keynote, panel, workshop, and finally, drinks & networking.

This event is suitable for professionals interested in data storytelling and visualization.

Address: Geovation Hub, Sutton Yard, 65 Goswell Rd, London EC1V 7EN

Time: 18:00 – 20:00

Join geodata enthusiasts for a free event featuring community projects with an open data focus for London Data Week. This GeoMob features talks from the GLA High Streets Data Service, SatVu, and researchers from The Alan Turing Institute and Queen Mary, University of London on a cyclist safety dataset created during the All The Docks challenge during London Data Week 2023.

This event is suitable for anyone with an interest in geodata

Address: Gate 1, Havas Village (8th floor), 3 Pancras Square London N1C 4AJ

Time: 18:00 – 21:00

Join Diverse AI for a thought-provoking panel discussion during London Data Week, in partnership with Gate One (part of Havas Group), a business and digital consultancy focused on delivering meaningful change.

As AI becomes increasingly integrated into our daily lives, we delve into the pros and cons of this transformative technology, addressing its impact on society, systemic risks and potential harms.

Should AI be used to produce ‘more’, or ‘better’? Does AI have the potential to enhance creativity and create more meaningful and engaging content, ultimately benefiting both businesses and consumers?

As AI becomes more advanced with improved computing power, are there concerns about biases and inaccuracies in data?

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn, network and engage in a lively debate with fellow data and AI enthusiasts. There will be the opportunity to network with fellow attendees, industry experts and panellists. Register now and be part of London Data Week’s celebration of innovation, collaboration and the power of data.

This event is free to attend and open to everyone. Places are limited so please register early to avoid disappointment.

Moderated by Ankit Bharadwaj (Principal, Gate One), the panel will feature:

• Rosie Kitson (Chief Impact Officer, Havas UK)
• Umbar Shakir (Partner and AI Lead, Gate One)
• Ruth Ikwu (AI Education Project Lead, Diverse AI)
• Smera Jayadeva (Researcher in Data Justice and Global Ethical Futures, The Alan Turing Institute)
• Dr. Steven Kleinegesse (Lead Research Scientist in Machine Learning causaLens)

This event is suitable for a general audience, and particularly those from minority backgrounds who are often underrepresented in data science and AI

Address: Huxley Building, Imperial College London South Kensington Campus London SW7 2AZ

Time: 10:00 – 17:00

This workshop is dedicated to guiding individuals through the regulatory landscape of AI for healthcare. This year, we are working with regulatory and industry experts to bring the 4th edition of the workshop to the wider community in London as part of the London Data Week, with the goal of supporting London’s AI innovators who are venturing into the highly-regulated digital health and med-tech space.

Our event will showcase a series of engaging talks and discussions led by a distinguished panel of experts, including Warren MacDonald from Imperial College London, Kanwal Bhatia from Aival, Ele Harwich from Newmarket Strategy, and Yasmin Stinchcome from Digital Health.London, all poised to share their knowledge and experience.

Join us to explore and gain invaluable insights on how to navigate the regulatory landscape of AI for healthcare.

This event is suitable for healthcare professionals, policymakers, and anyone interested in AI and healthcare regulation.

Location: Online (Zoom)

Time: 10:30 – 11:30

Statisticians for Society, Pro Bono Economics and Pro Bono OR are collaborating in a 1 hour webinar to explore how data experts from our pro bono services can empower third sector organisations to maximise their data and demonstrate their impact to funders and beneficiaries. Aimed at charities, NGOs and community groups we’ll share insightful case studies, engaging audience activities including polls and a Q&A as well as key information on how our services can help.

This event is suitable for charities and NGOs

Address: The Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability, West Hill, Putney, SW15 3 SW

Time: 12:30 – 14:30

This event is to showcase a newly developed clinical co-pilot that is being trialled on one of our wards. The co-pilot, called Memori, is supporting the early detection of deterioration in adults with complex brain injury. These patients may not be able to tell us that they are feeling poorly so we can only rely on observations to detect deterioration. Being able to detect deterioration early means acting early to stop the infection. This is particularly important in this vulnerable population where any infection can negatively impact their rehabilitation and their quality of life. We will demonstrate the co-pilot in a very informal way to enable a wide audience to access this event. Anyone interested in learning how we use data to improve the care we provide to our patients is welcome.

This event is suitable for patients, residents, their friends and families, staff and the general public

Location: Online (Zoom)

Time: 14:30 – 15:30

The data available about open source projects can feel like a tsunami, but there are ways to make this more manageable by focusing on the metrics that matter for your project. This session will focus on some CHAOSS resources and techniques that you can use to generate meaningful insights about your open source communities along with some examples of how to interpret the data to move beyond analysis and find tangible ways to make improvements. This will be an interactive session with group breakouts where you can discuss how to use these resources and techniques in your open source projects. This event will be run as part of the Turing’s TPS Coffee Chat series and is targeted towards maintainers, open source project leaders, community managers, OSPOs, and anyone who wants to improve the health of open source projects.

This event is suitable for anyone who is part of an open source project

Address: Impact Hub London – 1 Triton Square, London, NW1 3DX

Time: 09:30 – 17:00

Empowering People in Data will be a hybrid event (central London and online) that draws together a broad range of organisations from across London and beyond that consider using data as critical to their success and realise the need to enable more people to work in data focused careers.

The morning workshop will focus on sharing/mapping approaches from across London to developing data and AI skills. We will start with some lightning presentations before participants discuss and share in small groups on possible opportunities, challenges and goals for the future. The afternoon workshop will focus on the data professionals workforce and the People in Data project. We will start with a diverse panel of speakers who will talk about their experience of working in data and the need for capacity building in this community and highlight some of the current challenges. We will then have small group discussions about: Who are the People in Data?, What skills and competency work, or training development have you done in this area or know of?, What are the main challenges of working in a data focused role?

We will end the day with a social networking hour to promote collaboration between this diverse range of attendees. The event is free to attend in person or online, and attendance can be all day or morning or afternoon only.

This event is suitable for data professionals, those who manage data professionals and anyone interested in a career working in data.

Address: Wood Green

Time: 12:00 – 15:00

Neighbourly Lab, in collaboration with the High Streets Data Service and partners are working with Haringey residents to explore local high streets with data. By getting out and about with community researchers to ask the questions that matter to them (with e.g. shopkeepers, other residents, tourists), the project will surface timely insights about how local communities experience their high streets. This qualitative research will build on existing in-depth quantitative data on business trends and the local retail offer, to capture what life looks like on Haringey’s high streets. In doing so, the research initiative will also explore how to democratise access to and usage of civic data and how seemingly difficult to navigate data can be leveraged by residents to understand more about their communities.

This event is suitable for Haringey residents.

Address: AutogenAI, 123 Pentonville Road, N1 9LG

Time: 13:00 – 15:00

Despite their existence since the early days of the internet, web archives remain an underutilised resource with immense potential. This session aims to raise awareness about the crucial role of web archives and the institutions dedicated to preserving digital history across various national domains. Attendees will gain insights into the operations of these archives and explore examples of their valuable content.

The session will delve into the challenges and imperatives of archiving the web, demonstrating the wide array of applications for which web archives can be indispensable. By highlighting their significance as a source of smart data, we aim to underscore the transformative potential of web archives for research and beyond.

This event is suitable for anyone with an interest in web data

Address: 21Soho (3-5 Sutton Row London – W1D 4NR)

Time: 14:00 – 18:00

London has emerged as a global hub for AI, boasting a thriving ecosystem of tech startups and world-class universities. This positions the UK’s capital at the forefront of AI development, with over 1,000 AI companies based in the city. These companies are reliant on training data to function effectively. However, tensions have been growing between content creators and AI developers due to concerns over the use of copyrighted material in training datasets.

Publishers and creators with image, text, music and even video find that their content scrapped without permission for training AI models. This is then used to generate works in their style or likeness often without proper attribution, consent or compensation. High profile cases such as the “eerily similar” voice of Scarlet Johansson’s in OpenAI’s ChatGPT is a recurring example. AI companies also need access to high quality training data to create even better models and remain competitive. Is licensing and revenue share for training data the solution?

It is crucial for creative content creators to understand on how to navigate the issue of protecting their data content and receiving fair compensation through data licensing. In this session hosted by Valyu, a data provenance and licensing platform, we will answer some pressing questions regarding:

• How AI companies use training data and what it means for the future of the publishing and creative industries?
• How creators can navigate the use of their data for copyright.
• Why content creators and publishers are increasingly licensing their data for training AI
  

There will be a panel discussion involving a diverse group of industry experts in music, content creation, academia, AI, and policy followed by an active Q&A session with the audience to answer any questions. We will also host a workshop on finding ways for how AI companies can work with content creators and responsibly use their data. The event will conclude with a networking session with the panel members and the audience, light refreshments will be provided.

This event is suitable for a general audience.

Address: Goodenough College, Mecklenburgh Square,  WC1N 2AB

Time: 14:00 – 17:00

Join us for an exciting talk by Dr. Vasilios Mavroudis, Principal Research Scientist co-leading the AI for Cyberdefence (AICD) Research Center at The Alan Turing Institute. After the talk, explore open government data and tackle a series of challenges as part of a hands-on hackathon – open to all levels.

The event aims to provide hands-on experience with data analytics and foster discussions around data ethics.

This event is suitable for students, academic researchers and anyone with an interest in data privacy

Address: University of the Arts London, Creative Computing Institute, 45–65 Peckham Road, London, SE5 8UF

Time: 14:00 – 16:00

HUMAN-CENTRED, ARTS-FOCUSED, BEAUTIFUL SCIENCE CAPTURED IN THE MOMENT

Step into ‘Your Moment’ powered by The Lαβ where we fuse science with creativity and personal reflection. We delve into the fascinating realm of brain waves, allowing you to have a glimpse into of your mind while you engage in your chosen meaningful moment.

We use a lightweight EEG headset which gives you freedom to explore your experience. Portability allows you to move freely and privately at the venue space. The headset empowers you with real-time insights, fostering a deeper connection with your own mind. We won’t record any data unless asked to in which case it will be anonymously and securely stored for your protection if you do decide to explore your own data deeper. Your data can be deleted on request.

Previous moments that people have asked us to explore include scanning their brain waves while listening to music, singing, dancing, meditating, and playing an instrument. Your moment doesn’t have to be artistic, it’s whatever moment is meaningful to you.

Each pop-up session will be 20 minutes. The first five minutes will be about helping you settle in, to hear about the purpose of The Lαβ, and help you to familiarise yourself with the headset. If you’re still happy at that point, we will move on to capturing ‘Your ‘Moment’ for ten minutes. The final five minutes will be about rounding the session up and answering any questions you may have.

Spaces are limited and registration is required. We will send you a confirmation email to introduce ourselves.

This event is suitable for anyone

Address: Camden Collective, 5-7 Buck St, London NW1 8NJ

Time: 15:00 – 17:30

Memes, often characterized by their humorous and viral nature, have become a widespread form of online expression, shaping the way we engage with and understand contemporary issues. This workshop explores the immense potential of memes as an informative and transformative tool for critical data literacy through an intersectional feminist lens. It will provide a collaborative space for participants to co-create memes for various aspects of critical data literacy.

In this workshop, we will delve into how memes; an online medium that has been predominantly driven by and amplifying the voices of patriarchal norms and communities, can be adopted to challenge the inequalities in access to data literacy, introduce feminist perspectives to the data and amplify underrepresented perspectives by actively creating memes and contributing to the critical data literacy meme archive. The event is pay as you wish.

This event is suitable for anyone with an interest in feminist data literacy

Address: BCS London, The Chartered Institute for IT, Ground Floor, 25 Copthall Avenue, London, EC2R 7BP

Time: 11:00 – 14:00

This workshop will use different methods to educate about diabetes and the impact of AI on diabetes in general. You can play with Legos and threads, and complete games and surveys to learn more about diabetes. Attendees can listen to an AI expert talking about how sensors can use AI to adjust insulin dosages and many other cool things! Attendees can also mingle with scientists and ask any “techy” questions they may have!

Everyone is welcome – we are AI experts and visualisers from the University of Portsmouth. We know AI is a term that many may be fascinated or afraid of. For diabetes especially, there are AI applications that give you insulin and other innovations, hence many people with diabetes feel excited or scared or a little bit of both. Questions such as investigating data sharing options and ethical issues when using AI are important. AI can make a significant impact, as seen with innovations like the artificial pancreas.

Note: Walk-ins are also welcome on the day of!

This event is suitable for a general audience with an interest in health and AI.

Address: Online (Zoom)

Time: 12:00 – 13:00

You’ve got all this information at your fingertips – how can you use it to make real change? Join charity DataKind UK for an interactive session and learn how to get your organisation’s data working for you. DataKind UK is a small charity with a big vision of a data-informed, impactful third sector. Their community of skilled data professionals supports third sector organisations – charities, voluntary organisations, community interest companies, social enterprises, and more – to embrace data use. In this practical session, we’ll provide real-life examples, share how to frame organisational issues, and help you assess whether data can help you solve them, and build a project from there.

This event is suitable for data professionals working in third sector organisations – charities, voluntary organisations, community interest companies, social enterprises, etc.

Address: All Around London

Time: 12:00 – 18:00

Contribute anytime during London Data Week to the online platform!

How do plants make you feel? And how can we design digital tools that capture these connections to support environmental learning across our gardening communities?

This event is for anyone interested in gardening, environmental education, or community growing.

Address: Online (Zoom)

Time: 9:30 – 10:30

This event is suitable for data professionals

Address: All Around London

Time: 12:00 – 20:00

Address: One Triton Square

Time: 18:00 – 21:00

Launching at London Data Week, KQ Data Socials is a new forum linking data scientists, researchers, and tech developers in the Knowledge Quarter with community groups in Camden and Islington to solve data-driven challenges and foster collaboration for social good. ​

Our first KQ Data Social is delivered in partnership with University College London. ​Professor Allison Littlejohn will introduce UCL’s Grand Challenge programme, Data-Empowered Societies. Professor Littlejohn will introduce a number of lightning talks from recent grant recipients from the programme, including:

• ​Interactive Citizen Science for Data-Empowered Decision Making: developing solutions for the growing burden of plastic waste
• ​Map & Drill: Crowdmapping and Crowdfunding for Smarter Water Wells in Ethiopia
• ​Empowering Inuit communities to map their own land
• ​Mapping the unseen: recovering living heritage and supporting community-led relocation through data-driven approaches
• ​Data and Lived Experience: Evaluation of Newham’s ‘People Powered Places’ Participatory Budgeting Programme
• ​Data-Empowered Evacuation: Co-Designing Inclusive Emergency Response System with Disabled People and Fire Rescue Services
• ​Incorporating Indigenous Ecological Knowledge in AI-assisted Bioacoustic Data Analysis for Biodiversity Monitoring

​Following the lightning talks, attendees can enjoy an informal networking reception – an inclusive space where you can make new connections with other Knowledge Quarter partners and local organisations, particularly those with data gaps and data-informed challenges.

This event is suitable for data scientists, researchers, developers and anyone interested in citizen science and data science for social impact

Address: Online (Teams)

Time: 12:00 – 12:45

This event is suitable for public sector data professionals and policy leaders.

Address: Online (Zoom)

Time: 16:00 – 17:00

This event is suitable for data professionals

Address: Bush House, King’s College London, 30 Aldwych, London WC2B 4BG

Time: 10:00 – 16:00

This event is suitable for ethnography, deliberation, and AI practitioners.

Contribute anytime during London Data Week to the online platform!

How do plants make you feel? And how can we design digital tools that capture these connections to support environmental learning across our gardening communities?

This event is for anyone interested in gardening, environmental education, or community growing.

Address: River Lea, East London

Time: 17:00 – 19:00

This is an interactive participatory data ‘walkshop’ for community engagement officers, participatory researchers, or anyone working in public services who has to communicate about data in creative ways. The data walk aims to engage participants in a lively dialogue around the monitoring of a healthy river from different perspectives. Discussions will also cover the different types of data used for monitoring river health, such as citizen generated data, and biodiversity data amongst others, reflecting on questions of monitoring for who and for what, prompted by observations of different aspects of the River Lea as we walk along it. Participants can expect to take away inspiration and reflections on the ways in which citizen generated data can have greater impact.

Come with an inquisitive mindset, comfortable footwear, and be prepared to talk about your experiences of collecting or using citizen science data with those around you.

The walk will start from Bromley-by-Bow Tube station and last for about 1.5 – 2 hours. Precise details will be confirmed the week before the event.

This event is suitable for local residents, community groups and the general public.

Address: UCL Marshgate Building, 7 Sidings St, London E20 2AE

Time: 18:30 – 20:30

Join us for a unique, immersive event that brings data to life through movement, storytelling, and hands-on exploration. Walking the Data combines a guided walking tour of East London with a participatory data workshop to critically examine the legacy of the 2012 London Olympics—particularly its role in urban regeneration and gentrification.

This event is designed to make data analysis accessible, engaging, and grounded in lived experience. Whether you’re a local resident, student, artist, or someone curious about data for the first time, you’re warmly invited to explore how open datasets can help us understand the transformation of our neighbourhoods.

We especially welcome participants from underrepresented groups in data and AI, including those without technical backgrounds. Through place-based storytelling, collective discussion, and hands-on work with public data, we’ll show that data isn’t just for coders or institutions—it’s a powerful tool for communities to make sense of inequality, power, and change.

• Part 1: Data Workshop (1 hour)
  In the classroom, we’ll look at micro-datasets such as census, demographic, and housing data, to understand how the Olympic area has changed.
  Please bring a laptop. We’ll be using Excel (or Google Sheets if you don’t have Excel installed). Some basic familiarity with spreadsheets is helpful but not required.
• Part 2: Walking Tour (1 hour)
  Explore Stratford, a historically working-class area shaped by Olympic-led redevelopment. We’ll pass landmarks like a former public bathhouse and discuss the social and spatial shifts in the area. The walk will cover areas in the Olympic Park and Hackney Wicks.
  Please wear comfortable shoes, bring water, and pack a snack if needed.

This event is suitable for the general public.

Address: City Hall, Kamal Chunchie Way, London E16 1ZE

Time: 13:30 – 18:00

Local areas are on the frontline of delivering services that impact people’s everyday lives – from housing to climate resilience, social care to skills. Data, more than ever before, is the strategic advantage that can supercharge the future of London and the UK both locally and globally.

At Data Leaders Summit: This year in data – fuelling a supercharged future, we’ll look at how national government, local government, and citizen data networks are pressing forward and how they are powering up like never before to build the data infrastructure, partnerships, trust and skills that local people and places need to thrive in an ever-changing world.

This event, from the Data for London team for the Mayor of London, marks the start of an exciting London Data Week, a citywide festival of data full of community events, conversations, activities and workshops across the city.

This event is suitable for London data professionals and leaders, and attendance is by invitation.

Address: Waterloo

Time: 13:00 – 17:00

This event is suitable for members of the High Streets Data Service

Address: The Drum at Wembley Engineers Way, Wembley, HA9 0FJ

Time: 9:30 – 16:30

Join us, for the first-ever LOTI Data Jamboree, an exciting gathering for London’s public sector data community as part of London Data Week 2025. This interactive event aims to connect colleagues from across local government and beyond, fostering collaboration and knowledge sharing through engaging workshops, interactive sessions like data gamification and data visualisation storytelling, and opportunities to learn from innovative projects across the London boroughs.

It’s a chance to meet up with your peers in-person, celebrate impactful work, and gain practical insights to drive positive change in London.

This event is suitable for those working in data roles or with data in London local or central government, those who work in data in the public sector in London, and data professionals in health, emergency servces and other organisations.

Address: London Institute for Healthcare Engineering, 100 Lambeth Palace Rd, London SE1 7AR

Time: 14:00 – 16:00

Our bodies work through electricity. When we are in hospital, this electricity is often recorded. You may be familiar with the ‘ECG’ – electricity from the heart. We can also record electricity from other body parts, like the brain. This kind of bioelectrical health data helps us to understand how disease happens, and how we could prevent this.

We want the public to be part of this research journey; in this workshop within London Data Week, we invite your input! Help us to shape the way that we talk about bioelectrical health data, and give us your thoughts. After the event, we will post a summary on Open Science Framework (https://osf.io/). Anybody who attends this event and is happy to share their name can be listed as a co-author. The summary will then be linked to from King’s College London webpages, and we will invite more people to contribute to and update the document. By doing this, we will crowdsource a ‘citizen science’ approach to bioelectrical health data, giving everybody the opportunity to contribute.

This event is suitable for a general audience (adults or 14 years+). The organisers particularly invite those from minority backgrounds to attend, who are often under-represented in data science conversations.

Address: Canva, The Bersey Warehouse, 293-295 Old Street, London, EC1V 9LA

Time: 15:00 – 17:00

Join us for a participatory data visualisation workshop to explore how collaborative drawing strategies can embody, interpret, and imagine the living behaviours of mycelium networks.

Mycelium networks play a vital role in our climate and future; however, they remain largely unknown, unquantifiable, and challenging to describe. They embody unique characteristics of non-linearity, collaboration, variance, adaptability, and decomposition through their interconnectedness with the environment and our lives.

During the workshop, participants will have the opportunity to individually imagine and reflect on mycelium networks through a guided quantitative data and drawing exercise. We will then focus on drawing collaboratively, adapting together to rule-based conditions that explore the movement and connectivity of the mycelium network.

The workshop aims to explore how generating unexpected and infinite drawing outcomes can embrace multiplicity and allow interaction with an unfamiliar and ungraspable subject. It builds on processes that explore network literacy, with the pen touching the paper being the first instance of navigating a network. We hope participants will gain new perspectives on the topics of connection, decomposition and growth, as well as experimental visualisation approaches to engage with data and topics.

This event is part of a three-day programme organised by Flourish (part of Canva) called “Data that moves us: turning data into stories, and stories into impact.”

This event is suitable for the general public.

Address: Canva, The Bersey Warehouse, 293-295 Old Street, London, EC1V 9LA

Time: 18:00 – 21:00

Join us for a 3-hour creative, collaborative, and fun workshop where we’ll explore how memes—yes, memes!—can help us explore, re-think about and even advocate around the environmental impact and sustainability of AI and data systems, whether as a developer/practitioner, user, or an advocate.

Memes have become a widespread form of online expression, shaping the way we engage with and understand contemporary issues. With their humorous, relatable and viral nature, they’ve become powerful tools to express complex ideas and engage wide audiences.

Drawing inspiration from how the climate justice movement has used memes to raise awareness and spark dialogue, this workshop invites you to explore meme-making as a form of expression, critique, and care.

We’ll focus on how to represent and reflect on themes like:

• The environmental footprint of AI and data systems
• The challenges developers face in making sustainable choices
• The difficulty of navigating immateriality of energy and carbon metrics
• Feelings of powerlessness or uncertainty in the face of big systems
• Coping with feelings of climate-anxiety and climate-guilt

This event is part of a three-day programme organised by Flourish (part of Canva) called “Data that moves us: turning data into stories, and stories into impact.”

This event is suitable for the general public, including AI practitioners and developers, concerned tech and AI users, and activists and advocates.

Address: King’s College London, Strand London WC2R 2LS United Kingdom

Time: 9:00 – 17:00

This event is suitable for tech and healthcare professionals, as well as the general public.

Address: BrainStation Shoreditch, 55-57 Rivington Street

Time: 18:00 – 20:00

Looking to connect with fellow tech and data professionals in a relaxed, inspiring setting? Join us for Data After-Hours LDN during London Data Week 2025, an evening designed for professionals shaping the future of data and technology.

Hosted at BrainStation London, this in-person networking event offers a chance to meet like-minded leaders, exchange ideas, and explore the latest trends in data and tech. Whether you’re a founder, digital professional, or just curious about the evolving landscape, this is your chance to engage in meaningful conversations with others at the forefront of innovation.

Expect informal networking, insightful discussions, and the opportunity to build new professional connections. Gourmet refreshments, artisanal small plates, and a selection of wine and beer will be served.

Ready to connect, share, and be inspired? Reserve your spot today.

This event is suitable for anyone working in tech, digital, or data-focused roles, including entrepreneurs, career changers, and BrainStation alumni.

Address: starting at Finsbury Park and ending at SPACE4, 113-115 Fonthill Road, N4 3HH

Time: 9:45 – 13:00

How can we combine policy, citizen science and ecological data to drive real-world change?

Join Outlandish at London Data Week as we take a data walk around Finsbury Park and learn about two emerging tech-for-good solutions – Pollenize and Greentalk – designed to support biodiversity and local nature recovery efforts.

We’ll also hear from Tranquil City, an environmental research company that combines scientific evidence with practical solutions to increase connection with nature, and the team at The Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park’s Innovation District, who foster innovation on the challenges facing city life.

Together we’ll dive into how data, community participation and digital tools can help deliver on policy and encourage public action. A codesign session will also see us tackling common community + data challenges.

We’ll meet at Finsbury Park (exact details to be shared ahead of the event) at 9:45, for a prompt start to the walk at 10:00, ending at SPACE4 on Fonthill Road.

What We’ll Do:

• A Participatory Dive into Community Participation & Ecological Data – During a live walk and data gathering “bioblitz” around Finsbury Park, we’ll explore how citizen science data can be used to deliver on environmental policies.
• Q&A and Codesign – Back at SPACE4, hear from the teams about the challenges and opportunities of working with communities, businesses, statutory bodies and ecological data. Plus work with the teams in a codesign session to collaboratively tackle data <> community challenges.
• Facilitated Networking – Take part in a structured networking session for attendees to connect with others and get useful takeaways for public-engagement data projects.

This event is suitable for local council teams, biodiversity officers, community groups, NGOs, land owners and developers, academics and researchers and anyone interested in or working at the intersection of communities and delivering government policies around the local environment.

Address: 14 Welbeck Street

Time: 18:30 – 20:30

Join us for a special edition of AI After Hours, where the spotlight is on human in the loop.

​Adding an exciting twist, we’re putting you in control of the conversation! Attendees can submit topics and questions related to data-centric AI before and during the event. Then, each speaker will spin the Wheel of AI to determine which submissions they’ll tackle in real-time, making every presentation a unique and interactive experience.

This event is suitable for data and AI professionals.

Address: BrainStation Shoreditch, 55-57 Rivington Street

Time: 18:00 – 19:30

Join us in London for an exclusive evening with senior AI and technology leaders as they explore the trends, tools, and innovations shaping the future of artificial intelligence. This thought leadership event brings together experts from Deutsche Bank, Visa, and Salesforce to discuss how AI is being deployed at scale, the frameworks guiding ethical innovation, and the creative potential unlocked by generative models.

In this engaging panel discussion, we’ll cover:

• Real-world AI applications delivering business and societal impact
• How to build ethical and responsible AI systems
• The transformative role of generative AI in creativity and productivity
  

Gourmet refreshments, artisanal small plates, and a selection of wine and beer will be served. Reserve your spot now and be part of a lively, forward-looking conversation with some of the top minds in AI.

This event is suitable for professionals working in AI, product, data science, technology strategy, and digital innovation

Address: Hackney, East London

Time: 17:00 – 19:00

This is an interactive participatory data ‘walkshop’ for community engagement officers, participatory researchers, or anyone working in public services who has to communicate about data in creative ways. The data walk aims to engage participants in a lively dialogue around the monitoring of traffic flows and urban mobility from different perspectives. One perspective is using Telraam sensors. These easy to use and affordable sensors leverage the knowledge and access of local residents, using artificial intelligence (AI) technology to deliver consistent, timely, quality data for more efficient and effective infrastructure, traffic flow and traffic management plans.

The data walk aims to spark discussions about how citizen-generated data can help to build trust with residents, starting with involving them in monitoring urban mobility, and how citizen science can produce trustworthy data for wider use by Local Authorities to address complex local issues.

Come with an inquisitive mindset, comfortable footwear, and be prepared to talk about your experiences of working with citizens to collect and interpret data for making planning decisions.

The walk will start from Dalston Junction station and last for 1.5 – 2 hours. Precise details will be confirmed the week before the event.

This event is suitable for local residents, community groups and the general public.

Address: Northeastern University London, Devon House 58 Saint Katharine’s Way London E1W 1LP

Time: 17:00 – 19:00

This event is suitable for local residents in Tower Hamlets, community groups and the general public.

Note: This event is organised by a team that is based outside of the UK and is contributing an online event to London Data Week.

Address: Online  

Time: 11:00 – 12:00 CAT

This event is suitable for the general public.

Address: Canva UK Operations Ltd, 33 Hoxton Square London N1 6NN

Time: 15:00 – 20:00 

This event is suitable for cross-sector professionals.

Address: Online

Time: 10:00 – 11:00

This event is suitable for public sector data professionals

Address: Queen Mary University of London (Colette Bowe Meeting Room, Queen’s Building, QMUL, E1 4NS)

Time: 10:00 – 12:00

This 2-hour interactive workshop, held during London Data Week 2025, explores how next-generation digital twins, powered by artificial intelligence, physics-informed machine learning, and the Internet of Things, are reshaping the future of smart infrastructure. Participants will gain insights into the transition from traditional monitoring approaches to autonomous, adaptive systems designed for resilience and real-time responsiveness.

London Data Week is a city-wide, distributed festival of events focusing on all things data in London. Data shapes our everyday lives, both the decisions we make and the decisions made about us. That is why it is vital that more people are included in imagining how data should be used in our city. Events are organised across London by partners from different sectors and organisations, all united by a mission to use data to improve the lives of Londoners in a more collaborative, open and inclusive way.

The event will feature a keynote-style talk by industry expert Ali Nicholl, followed by lightning talks from emerging researchers and an open panel discussion to foster cross-sector dialogue and collaboration. The session is designed for researchers, engineers, policymakers, and professionals working across infrastructure, data science, and urban innovation.

The workshop aims to initiate a cross-disciplinary working group and produce a summary of key discussion points and collaboration pathways, culminating in a white paper, to support the growing community around autonomous digital twins for infrastructure resilience.

This event is suitable for researchers and practitioners working on digital twins.

Address: Red Badger Offices, 2 Old Street Yard, London, EC1Y 8AF

Time: 14:00 – 18:00

While generative AI is reshaping the future of work, mounting evidence suggests a significant gender disparity in its usage. This event seeks to unpack the “why”, raise awareness, and provide practical support to bridge the gap.

Join us for a day of hands-on learning, inclusive discussion, and community building. Run by expert coaches, these one-hour sessions are open to women of all backgrounds – no prior AI or data experience required.

The afternoon of events includes:

• 3 bootcamps offering anyone a chance to learn how to start using Generative AI tools
• A panel debate and Q&A to explore the topic
• Drinks reception

This event is suitable for women of all backgrounds

Address: Impact Hub, 1 Triton Square, Euston, NW1 3DX

Time: 14:00 – 17:00

This event is suitable for data professionals

Address: Royal School of Mines, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus

Time: 10:00 – 15:30

This event is suitable for researchers, data professionals, innovators, policymakers, and anyone interested in AI and healthcare regulation

Address: Nesta, 58 Victoria Embankment, London, EC4Y 0DS or Online

Time: 14:00 – 16:00

This event is suitable for public sector data professionals and decision makers.

Address: Chabad Islington Community Centre, 1–3 Elliott’s Place, London, N1 8HX

Time: 17:30 – 19:30

This event is suitable for the general public

Address: Stripe Partners – 42 Southwark Street, London, SE1 1UN

Time: 17:00 – 18:30

This event is suitable for AI practitioners, data scientists, healthcare researchers, industry professionals, and community members with relevant health experiences

Address: City Hall, Kamal Chunchie Way, London E16 1ZE

Time: 11:00 – 13:00 

Address: Canva UK Operations Ltd, 33 Hoxton Square London N1 6NN

Time: 14:00 – 18:00

This event is suitable for marketers, researchers, strategists and data professionals.

Address: British Council Stratford Office, 1 Redman Place, London E20 1JQ

Time: 16:00 – 19:00

This event is suitable for teenagers, ages 13-16.

Address: Level 4 Project Space, UCL East – Marshgate, 7 Sidings St, London E20 2AE

Time: 12:00 – 16:00

This event is suitable for data scientists, technologists, researchers and public sector leaders interested in public data solutions.

Address: Online

Time: 10:00 – 11:00

This event is suitable for public sector data professionals, Camden residents and the general public.

Address: RSA House, 8 John Adam Street, London, WC2N 6EZ

Time: 19:15 – 20:45

This event is suitable for the general public

Address: The Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability, West Hill, Putney, SW15 3 SW

Time: 11:00 – 15:00

The Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability is a rehabilitation and long term care centre for adults with brain injury.

Come and see how data and AI are used in Healthcare to keep our patients safe.

There will be a demonstration of our patient record system (Patientsource) and of the first digital twin product: Memori (in collaboration with Sanome). Memori is an early warning system to detect infection in very vulnerable patients.

You will also be able to take part in our data escape room! Navigate the systems, solve the puzzles and learn about data!

This event is suitable for patients, residents, their friends and families, staff and the general public

Address: Online & In Person (techUK, 10 St Bride St, London EC4A 4AD)

Time: 11:00 – 16:00

As AI becomes more commonly used in our daily lives, especially with powerful tools like large language models we need to think more carefully about how we use data to build and apply these technologies responsibly. In critical fields like healthcare, AI could help improve patient care and make services run more smoothly, but we also have to address big concerns like keeping people’s data private, safe, and making sure AI decisions are fair and understandable. This is why it’s so important for everyone to work together on developing AI in a trustworthy way and one way to carry this out is to collaborate on devising effective AI frameworks and policies.

During the roundtable discussion and workshop event attendees will learn about what is AI and how it is developed, types of data that are collected, associated risks and how we can prevent them. The main focus will be review of the First EthicalAI (firstethicalai.org) framework and giving participants the opportunity to join a small group and add an aspect about data.

Outline of the event:

• Github basics for collaborating on First EthicalAI
• Roundtable on “The Hidden Costs of Risky Data: Tackling Challenges in Building Ethical and Responsible AI”. Panellists include Tess Buckley (Programme Manager -Digital Ethics and AI Safety techUK), Manzoor Ahmed (Founder First Ethical AI) etc
• Free Networking Lunch
• Workshop: Risky Data: Co-creating an Ethical AI Framework
• Wrap up and next steps
• Call to action and close

This is a hybrid event; please check the ticket type before booking: ticket prices range from £5 – £20+.

This event is suitable for policy makers, healthcare workers, legal professionals, patients, academics, fintech, education, government and anyone with an interest in developing ethical AI tools. 

Address: The Hub, Camberwell College of Art, University of the Arts London, 42 Bonar Road, SE15 5FB
Time: 15:30 – 17:00

Indie legend MJ Hibbett is bringing his hilarious – and rigorously researched – new one-man musical ‘Data and Doctor Doom’ to London Data Week. He’ll be performing at The Hub in Peckham on Friday 11 July , in collaboration with University of the Arts London’s Creative Computing Institute.

As the world’s leading (also only) academic expert on Doctor Doom, MJ is the ideal person to tell you all you need to know about the next big baddie of the Marvel movies before Robert Downey Jr brings him to the MCU in ‘Fantastic Four: First Steps’ and ‘Avengers: Doomsday’.

The show is an adaptation of his PhD thesis (yes, that makes him a Doctor of Doctor Doom), using songs, slides, jokes and a unified catalogue of transmedia character components to explain how all fictional characters can be understood with stats and why on earth you’d want to do that. You’ll come away understanding randomised stratified sampling, dual process theory, and, most importantly of all, why Doctor Doom is better than Batman.

This event is suitable for a general audience with no prior experience with data, and anyone with an interest in arts and culture

Address: Science Gallery London, Guy’s Campus, London

Time: 18:30 – 21:30

Join an electrifying evening where music meets mathematics, and creativity collides with code.

Curious about live coding? Join our hands-on workshop where you’ll learn to craft your own rhythms using Strudel, a popular and beginner-friendly live coding tool that runs in your browser. No prior coding experience needed—just bring your laptop and an open mind!

Step up and showcase your live-coded creations in a supportive environment. For the first hour of Algorave it’s over to you. Whether you’re a seasoned coder or a first-timer, this is your chance to perform. Slots are limited—arrive early to sign up!

Experience the raw energy of live-coded music as seasoned Algorave artists take the stage. Watch as they manipulate code in real-time, generating unique, bass-heavy beats that will keep you dancing all night.

Witness the fusion of art and technology in real-time and be part of a movement redefining live performance.

Note: Only those with tickets for the workshop will be admitted at 18.30, admittance for Algorave attendees is from 19.30. You can select the ticket type you require on Eventbrite.

This event is suitable for developers, dance enthusiasts, and the general public.

Address: City Hall, Kamal Chunchie Way London E16 1ZE

Time: 10:00 – 11:00

This event is suitable for data and AI professionals or those interested in learning more about AI

Address: City Hall, Kamal Chunchie Way London E16 1ZE

Time: 12:00 – 13:00

This event is suitable for data and AI professionals or those interested in learning more about AI

Address: Online

Time: 11:00 – 12:00

This event is suitable for public sector data professionals

Address: METRO GAVS 1st Floor, Equitable Building, 7 Gordon Square SE18 6FH

Time: 14:00 – 16:00

This event is suitable for the general public.

Note: This event is organised by a team that is based outside of the UK and is contributing an online event to London Data Week.

Address: Online  

Time: 13:00 – 15:00 CAT

This event is suitable for the general public.

Address: Bush House, King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS

Time: 10:00 – 13:00 

Address: Bush House, King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS

Time: 14:00 – 15:30

Address: Science Gallery London, Great Maze Pond, London SE1 9GU, UK

Time: 10:00 – 17:00

This event is suitable for the general public.

Location:  Imperial College London

Time: 13:00 – 18:00

The EAST2046 x Bionic Awards Hackathon challenges global creators to reimagine AI filmmaking across two tracks: “The Digital Unconscious,” visualising patterns from over 44,500 dream reports, and “Social Impact Storytelling,” turning London-focused safety datasets into film.

The schedule includes:

• online workshop (21 June 2026)
• a launch and in-person workshop at Imperial College (4 July)
• [this event] an LSE-hosted “Turning Data into Films” workshop (8 July), and finals at Imperial College (11 July).

Participants receive specialised datasets, TapNow platform support including tokens, and a £500 prize per track winner, alongside expert mentorship from figures like BAFTA-winning filmmaker Martin Percy. Top works have a chance to be showcased by the Bionic Awards, subject to selection process.

Starting Location: Tower Subway Tunnel North

Time: 14:00 – 16:00

This walking tour will walk you through the ubiquitous but often invisible infrastructure that enables millions of Londoners to stay connected, guided by a research fellow and artist from the Internet Society.

​Walkers will learn how architecture originally made for transport and communication, now enables internet connectivity. They will learn how to untangle the invisible signs of internet connectivity across the city, often disguised under manholes, up lamp posts, and behind inconspicuous buildings.

Location: London City Hall

Time: 09:30 – 13:00

🥁 Hackathon Challenge

​AI can write a complete machine learning pipeline in seconds. But can you vouch for it?

​In this half-day hackathon, co-hosted by Probabl and the GLA Data for London Team as part of London Data Week 2026, participants will tackle real policy problems faced by the Greater London Authority, including youth employment, building decarbonisation, and open data discovery. The focus isn’t just on training a model, but on being able to evaluate, explain, and vouch for it – a skill that’s only becoming more important as AIs can generate ML pipelines in seconds.

​Participants will be encouraged to use the Python library skore in their evaluations. The winning teams will get to pitch their solution to the GLA’s data leadership team in the afternoon.

​Note: Participants are asked to bring their own laptop.

​🗓️ Agenda

​9:00-9:30: Doors open

​Doors open at 9:00. We ask all participants to arrive before 9:30 so that we can start the fun on time.

​9:30-10:00: Welcome

​We’ll start with welcome speeches and a demo of skore. Participants will be asked to form teams of 2-4 and select the policy problem they want to tackle during the hackathon. The options include:

• ​Can we help London’s young people find work, education, or training?

• ​How do we decarbonise London’s buildings?

• ​How can we improve searching for London’s data?

​10:00-12:00: Hackathon

​Teams tackle their chosen policy problem using provided datasets. Teams will be assessed on how well they can explain and evaluate their model and decision-making – whether the code was hand-written, AI-generated, or both.

​12:00-13:00: Presentations & prizes.

​Each team gives a short presentation of their approach. Prizes are given to the winning team per policy problem.

​🏆 Prizes and Perks

​• Winning teams (1x per policy problem): 100% discount code for Skolar certification + pitch solution to the GLA’s data leadership team in the afternoon

​• All participants: 100% discount code for the Skolar Discovery certification – a tangible credential for the CV and LinkedIn account, regardless of their hackathon result.

​• Refreshments and lunch provided

​• Networking with fellow data science practitioners and the Probabl and GLA data teams

Location: London City Hall

Time: 10:00 – 12:00

This hands-on, collaborative workshop invites Londoners to step into the role of urban data analysts to examine the city’s air quality. Utilising open-access datasets from the London Air Quality Network (LAQN) and local monitoring centres, participants will map pollution hotspots, trace historical trends across different boroughs and investigate the micro-effects of local traffic and green infrastructure.

​The event acts as a bridge between hard environmental science and local community experience. Participants will work in small teams to look at the data, draw insights about their own neighbourhoods, and collaboratively draft data-driven recommendations for cleaner borough streets. Rather than viewing air pollution solely as an environmental problem, the workshop introduces participants to the idea that air quality is an emergent property of London’s wider urban system. Participants will be encouraged to consider how infrastructure investment, transport planning, and urban design can contribute to healthier and more liveable communities.

Note: participants are asked to bring their own laptop, if possible, for the workshop activities.

​This event is hosted by the Data for London team at City Hall.

Location: City Hall

Time: 10:00 – 12:00

This interactive session will explore how labour market data and AI tools can help more Londoners navigate routes into green jobs. Participants will work in small groups on practical London-based scenarios, using local jobs, skills and training information to map and co-design pathways, identify barriers, and suggest improvements.

We will use public London and UK datasets on green job demand, labour market trends, apprenticeships, further education outcomes, deprivation and transport accessibility to support a practical, place-based discussion on fairer pathways into green jobs.

​This event is hosted by the Data for London team at City Hall.

Location: City Hall

Time: 10:00 – 12:00

Have you ever had to repeat your story to different parts of government? Struggled to find the right support after a big life change? Felt like you had to start from scratch every time you contacted a different service?

​You’re not alone – and government is working to change that.

​Join us for a free, hands-on session where we bring a fictional scenario to life. You’ll work through a real-world problem with others in the room, seeing step by step how connecting information across government could cut through frustration, reduce delays, and get people the right support at the right time.

​We’ll also introduce you to some of the practical work already underway across government to make this a reality.

​This event is suitable for the general public. No technical knowledge needed. Just some curiosity.

Location: City Hall

Time: 11:00 – 12:30

​This free, interactive workshop from the Deep Truth Project brings Londoners together to explore the real-world harms of deepfakes and AI-generated media, from political disinformation and financial scams to non-consensual intimate image abuse.

​Together we’ll look at what deepfakes are, how to detect them, and how they’re used to cause harm, with real examples drawn from the UK. You’ll leave with a practical toolkit for thinking critically about what you see online, red flags to watch for, and the steps to take if you or someone you know is targeted.

​The session runs approximately 60 to 75 minutes and is designed for mixed adult audiences with no technical background. No devices, prior knowledge, or technical confidence required.

​This event is hosted by the Data for London team at City Hall.

Location: Online (Teams)

Time: 11:00 – 13:00

Join us for an online interactive workshop exploring how Digital Twins are evolving from static digital representations into intelligent, adaptive, and AI-enabled decision-support systems. The event will focus on the role of trusted data, responsible AI, explainability, validation, interoperability, human oversight, and governance in building Digital Twins that can support real-world decisions across infrastructure, cities, transport, energy, buildings, healthcare, manufacturing, and public services.

​The workshop will include a short welcome and introduction, a keynote presentation on the transition from traditional to intelligent Digital Twins, a series of lightning talks covering data foundations, trust, governance, AI, real-world decision-making, and future skills, followed by a facilitated discussion and interactive brainstorming session. Participants will be invited to reflect on what makes an Intelligent Digital Twin trustworthy enough to support high-impact decisions and how trusted data can create public value.

​The target audience includes early-career researchers, postgraduate students, academics, engineers, data scientists, policymakers, public-sector professionals, industry practitioners, and anyone interested in the future of trustworthy data-driven and AI-enabled connected systems. The event aims to create an interdisciplinary space for discussion, knowledge exchange, and future collaboration around responsible and trustworthy Intelligent Digital Twins.

Location: Online

Time: 12:00 – 13:30

Global South Perspectives on Work, Power and Data Justice Artificial intelligence is transforming economies, workplaces and societies around the world. Yet the people whose labour, data and lived experiences underpin these technologies are often excluded from conversations about how AI should be designed, governed and deployed.

This interactive London Data Week 2026 workshop brings together researchers, policymakers, practitioners, civil society organisations and members of the public to explore critical questions at the intersection of AI, labour and justice.

Whose voices shape the future of AI? How can we ensure that the benefits of innovation are shared more equitably? What would fair and inclusive AI governance look like from Global South perspectives?

Through dialogue, case studies and collective reflection, participants will examine the realities of digital labour and data work, challenge dominant narratives around technological progress, and identify practical pathways towards more accountable and rights-based AI systems.

Join us online as we reimagine AI futures that centre dignity, participation and justice—ensuring that those most affected by technological change have a meaningful role in shaping it.

Location: One Triton Square

Time: 9:00 – 11:00

Data informs decisions that impact our lives, but is not always collected equitably or shared in ways that reflect the nuances of human experience.

Are you curious about how design researchers and innovators are experimenting, discovering and telling stories with data to reveal the diversity and complexities of human experience?

Design and innovation experts from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, Quicksand and Stby will introduce how they use diverse data sources and emerging technologies to research, innovate and communicate more inclusively and equitably.

Everyone is invited to actively join the conversation and reflect on recent work in the UK, India, Kenya, Nigeria and Senegal using qualitative mapping, new narrative techniques, AI and simulation.

Register for this interactive session to meet others interested in the value of lived experiences, technology and inclusive innovation and storytelling.

Programme

9.00 – Arrival, refreshments and networking

9.15 – Panel Introductions and Audience Discussion

10.15 – Facilitated Breakout Conversations

10.50 – Closing Conversation

Meet the Panel

Romit Raj – Associate Partner, Quicksand

Romit leads design research projects across climate and public health topics and PhD research practices that move beyond technosolutionism to participatory design.

Dr Qin Han, Senior Design Researcher, Stby

Qin leads the R&D function at Stby in the UK and Netherlands exploring technology and the role it plays in society.  Qin is particularly interested in the healthcare context and advocates the value of Design Research and Service Design in addressing issues related to aging societies, healthcare and general wellbeing.

Laura Knight – Course Leader, Communicating Complexity, Central Saint Martins UAL

Laura is a data visualisation expert who uses qualitative data representation and mapping as a design research method. Recently, she has been working with qualitative data and systems mapping of patient data for service design, innovation and patient communication.

Sitraka Rakatoniaina – Senior Lecturer for Narrative Environments, Central Saint Martins UAL

Sitraka is an experience designer and futures researcher who uses speculative histories, re-enactment, and simulation as methods for exploring what can be recognised as evidence, and how lived realities become legible/available within research and design

Denise Bianco – Senior Research Community Manager, The Alan Turing Institute and Associate Lecturer, MA Innovation Management, Central Saint Martins

Denise is a social scientist who investigates hybrid collaborative formats at the intersection of art and science. She champions Open Science principles and FAIR research, and also explores why these matter for creative practice and how they apply to qualitative research and innovation, including in relation to data-driven technologies like AI.

Hosted by Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, Stby, Quicksand and the Knowledge Quarter, Kings Cross.

Central Saint Martins is a world-renowned art and design college, based in Kings Cross, London with a reputation for change-making through creative practice. Today, across art, design and performance, the students and staff of Central Saint Martins create and practice ideas, materials and actions for a better future in a more-than-human world.

Quicksand and Stby recently merged to become one company with offices located in London, Amsterdam, Delhi, Bangalore and Goa. Quicksand brings speciality in designing culturally contextual and future-facing products, services, and programs. While Stby is a leading pioneer in the ever evolving field of design research. Together, they offer over 20 years’ expertise in design research and innovation, delivering impactful solutions for public, private and NGO sector clients worldwide.

Please share this invitation with colleagues, friends or anyone in your networks or communities interested in joining the conversation.

Location: Queen Mary University of London + Online

Time: 10:00 – 12:00

​This interactive workshop will explore how transport-relevant data can support future integrated mobility, resilient infrastructure, and trusted decision-making across complex transport systems. The event will focus on the role of Agentic Digital Twins as emerging decision-support systems that can connect fragmented datasets, support model updating, enable scenario reasoning, interpret anomalies, and assist human decision-makers under appropriate governance and validation.

​The workshop will begin with a short welcome and introduction to the event theme, followed by a keynote presentation on transport-relevant data, integrated mobility, and trusted decision support. This will be followed by lightning talks and case-study reflections addressing data sources beyond transport-generated data, Digital Twins across assets and wider transport systems, infrastructure monitoring and predictive maintenance, and the translation of data into policy, operations, resilience planning, and public value.

​A coffee break will include poster viewing, poster scoring, and networking, giving postgraduate students and early-career researchers an opportunity to present their work. The second half of the workshop will include a panel discussion on moving from fragmented data to real-world Agentic Digital Twin implementation, followed by a facilitated brainstorming session on data quality, interoperability, provenance, governance, cyber-security, trust, and public value. The event will close with key reflections, a best poster announcement, and suggested next steps for future collaboration.

​The target audience includes postgraduate students, early-career researchers, academics, transport professionals, civil engineers, data scientists, urban planners, policymakers, public-sector professionals, local authority officers, infrastructure asset owners, digital transformation specialists, public health researchers, and industry practitioners working with data-driven transport systems, intelligent mobility, Digital Twins, AI, and resilient infrastructure.

Location: Camley Street Nature Park

Time: 10:00 – 11:45

Biotic Immersion is an immersive participatory multimedia installation exploring citizen science, ecology, and belonging through audio guidance, biodiversity photography, and live data visualisation.

Responding to the exclusion of minority communities from biodiversity initiatives, the project reimagines data collection as sensory, inclusive, and relational. Participants use their smartphones to follow a self-guided audio experience through a nearby garden, photographing biodiversity and uploading images to the iNaturalist app via a custom website. The collected data is transformed into a live projected visualisation within the exhibition space, creating a collective experience that encourages deeper connections between participants, local greenspaces, and the living world.

Start Location: Copeland Park SE15 3SN

End Location: AMP Gallery, 1 Acorn Parade, London SE15 2TZ. 

Time: 12:00 – 14:30

Join us for a walking tour through Peckham in south-east London, exploring a story of regeneration, gentrification, and community life. Known as ‘Little Lagos’, Peckham is home to one of the largest Nigerian diaspora populations in the UK. This area has changed dramatically since the turn of the millennium, widely considered one of the most vibrant and trend setting parts of London. Who benefits from these changes, and who is left behind? During the tour, we will visit Nigerian-led religious spaces and explore the intersections between migration, regeneration, and community resilience.

The walk will start at Copeland Park, a former industrial estate in Peckham previously home to as many as 15 churches and which was at the centre of the area’s increased popularity. We will then visit two listed heritage buildings – Peckham Public Hall on Rye Lane and the Old Mill Building on Copeland Road – which are currently occupied by branches of the Christ Apostolic Church, a Nigerian-led Aladura Pentecostal denomination. We will end at the London Data Week x art exhibition at AMP Gallery, where Dr Lois Liao will give a tour of the exhibition.

Location: Online

Time: 13:00 – 13:45

Across HR, marketing and employer brand teams, the same question keeps surfacing: how do we prove this work is actually working? Traditional measures still tell you something.

Applications, clicks, impressions, time-to-hire. But rarely what you actually need to know. Are the right people noticing us? Do they believe what we say? Would they choose us over a competitor? In this hands-on session, we’ll look at how leading employers are rebuilding their measurement frameworks for a landscape where a Glassdoor review, a Reddit thread, or a single employee TikTok can shift perception faster than a year of paid media. We’ll share the metrics that are starting to matter most, the ones worth retiring, and how to build a measurement story your leadership will actually engage with.

You’ll leave with:

• A clearer view of where traditional brand and recruitment KPIs fall short, and what to track instead
• Ways to measure reputation, trust and influence across owned, earned and employee channels
• A practical framework for connecting employer brand activity to attraction, retention and wider business outcomes
• Real examples from organisations who are getting this right

Location: One Triton Square

Time: 14:00 – 16:30

What happens when biology meets data science? New medicines, faster diagnoses, and whole categories of jobs that didn’t exist five years ago. And right now, the UK is one of the most exciting places in the world to be part of it.

​Data Careers in Life Sciences is a careers event designed specifically for students and recent graduates curious about where data science can take them in one of the UK’s fastest-growing sectors.

This event is hosted in the Knowledge Quarter – the King’s Cross innovation district home to some of the world’s leading life sciences and AI organisations – the afternoon is built to demystify where biology and data are colliding, the careers being created at that intersection, and how to break in.

Location: University College London

Time: 14:00 – 17:00

This event is planned as a “mini” mapping festival, will include three parallel sessions to get your mapping curiosity satisfied. The event will start in a lecture theatre to provide a 20-min introduction to OpenStreetMap and how collaborative mapping works. Then the attendees will have the opportunity to join any of the three groups to learn and work on different mapping activities.

Parallel Activities

1. 1. Helping humanitarian organisations to map parts of the world that there’s no mapping information. This is a hands-on activity that the missing map volunteers will lead and everyone can participate. This will be led by British Red Cross mappers.
   • Participants will need to bring a laptop.
2. Use OpenStreetMap data for research. There’s a lot of data available on OpenStreetMap that helps to provide insights about the city. This session will guide the curiosity minded people to find answers to their questions. This will be led by UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis.
   • Participants will be able to engage more if bringing a laptop.
3. Map the university. OpenStreetMap was originally developed at University College London, however, there are areas of the university that remain unmapped. Join this group to complete UCL map. This will be an exploratory and walking activity around campus. This will be led by UCL Advanced Research Computing Centre.
   • You’ll need a mobile phone with one of the mapping apps that we will recommend during the workshop.

Schedule

• 14:00–14:20 Introduction to the Mapping festival and Open Street Map
• 14:20–14:30 Introduction to the parallel sessions
• 14:30–16:45 Parallel sessions: Missing maps, OpenStreetMap for Research and Map the university.
  • Participants will be able to move between the sessions as they want.
• 16:45–17:00 Reconvene and closing.

Location: Online

Time: 15:00 – 16:00

What kind of relationship do we want with the infrastructures that make computing possible?

They are material systems as much as they are human ones, but their complexity is often too large in scale to render visible or understood. In this work-in-progress talk, I bring together three strands of my practice as a digital anthropologist and artist to try and answer this question, a countermap of the field.

The first reviews a series of installations and writing I developed about supply chains and environmental disaster: called Trace and Elegies for Oil Spills. Both attempt to make planetary infrastructure felt rather than merely known.

The second reviews a year of giving walking tours of London’s internet infrastructure, this brings infrastructures into the body and lived imagination of participants and into the physical environment.

The final is my Software Sustainability Institute fellowship, From Studios to Screens, where I am connecting across the creative computing and research software engineering communities. I’ll share initial findings from a survey of the network.

Across all three, I’m interested in countermapping as a practice of care, and how to make extractive systems make invisible. I’d welcome the group’s thoughts as this work takes shape.

Presenter Anne Lee Steele is a digital anthropologist and artist. Over a little less than a decade, she has contributed to a variety of initiatives spanning open infrastructures, responsible technology, and cultural engagement – through roles, fellowships, collaborations, and more at a variety of organisations including the Alan Turing Institute, Internet Society, Missing Maps, Open Knowledge Foundation and School of Commons. Her writing has been published by Logic Magazine and Cursor, and work has been exhibited at the Mozilla Festival, International Body of Art, and EASST-4s among others. At the latter, she won the Making & Doing prize for Applied Science and Technology Work.

Zoom joining information:

• Link: https://turing-uk.zoom.us/j/98661970506?pwd=u8RAnlSUUDbaOkiHMYFaajnYQsjnCm.1&from=addon
• Meeting ID: 986 6197 0506
• Passcode: 265555

Location: One Triton Square

Time: 18:00 – 21:00

London generates data about itself constantly – the question is what we do with it.

​For our next KQ Social, hosted in partnership with UCL Grand Challenges during London Data Week 2026, we’re bringing together a cross-section of the city’s research, innovation and policy communities to look at what the numbers are actually telling us about London right now..

​Some of it is striking. Nearly half of London’s workers are in roles where generative AI could automate a significant share of their tasks, a figure well above the UK average. The cost of a nursery place in London runs around 44% higher than elsewhere in the country, while a pint of milk costs roughly the same. And nearly half of all Londoners say they’d consider retraining for a ‘green’ job.

​These aren’t just statistics. They’re signals about a city in transition: in how people work, what they can afford, and where they see opportunity.

​The evening will be an informal space to connect with people working across these questions: from workforce and skills to urban sustainability and the economics of city life. Come with your data, your research, or just your curiosity about where London is heading.

Location: One Triton Square

Time: 18:00 – 18:45 AND 20:00 – 21:00

​Join UCL Co-Design Lab & CVAN London for a hands-on Workshop, taking place during KQ Social: Data in the City.

​This hands-on co-design workshop is designed as a knowledge exchange event on how we think about ‘accountability and transparency’ in the bigger picture of how we ‘guard and cultivate’ the creative industry in this age of GenAI.

​Origin is a fun and playful workshop, designed for data and AI practitioners, business and industry, charity organisations, policy and government along with art-based organisations.

​The workshop is based on an AHRC seed funded project which used co-design based creative practices as a research method with artists and creative intermediaries as part of systems approach to envision their current attitudes, hopes, fears and challenges of using AI, as well as having their work used as part of machine learning.

​Using “out of the box” methods (like exquisite corpse for storytelling exercises) as part of this workshop, we’ll explore the audience’s views. The workshop outputs will then be exhibited with the project resources at The Gallery, Willesden Green Library.

​This workshop and project is supported by UCL Co-Design Lab, London Contemporary Visual Arts Network (CVAN London) with DACS, UCL Arts Futures and Arts Council England.

Please note that in order to attend, you must register for the KQ Social and choose ticket type “London Data Week ticket”.

Location: One Triton Square

Time: 18:00 – 18:45 AND 20:00 – 21:00

​

Join KeyAnalytics for interactive workshops taking place during KQ Social: Data in the City.

​We put real NHS primary care open datasets and live examples into your hands. Working in small groups, you’ll explore healthcare data from GP practices across London, uncovering health inequalities, patient demographics, access to care and generating ideas for how data can drive better outcomes.

​Here’s the twist: you’ll interact with the same data in two completely different ways, through a traditional analytics dashboard and through a conversational AI assistant. Along the way we’ll ask: which approach helps you find answers faster? Do you trust AI-generated insights? When does a dashboard work better? And what happens when you combine the two?

​You’ll explore questions like:

• ​How does your GP practice compare with others nearby?

• ​What does data reveal about local health needs and inequalities?

• ​How can open data support better decisions in primary care?

• ​Is AI changing how we interact with healthcare information?

​No technical or healthcare background is required. Whether you are a student, researcher, healthcare professional, policymaker, community organiser or simply curious about how data shapes the services around you, this workshop is designed to be accessible, engaging and thought-provoking.

​Come curious. Leave with a new perspective on the power of open data in healthcare.

​Drinks and networking as part of the wider KQ Social evening. Please note that in order to attend, you must register for the KQ Social and choose ticket type “London Data Week ticket”.

Location: Powering London: Data, AI & Climate
Time: 18:30 – 20:30

​London is one of the most connected cities in the world but behind every click is infrastructure, energy, and impact. The future of London isn’t just physical—it’s digital too. And everyone here has a role in shaping it. Today we’re exploring something we all use but rarely see— the hidden world of data, AI and the infrastructure powering London.

​From streaming in Camden to commuting across London Underground, everything runs on data—and that has a real impact on energy and climate. This Data Decarb community event will bring together – data science, decarbonisation, data centres, and AI – in a fun way making it accessible and engaging for people from all backgrounds, with little or no prior knowledge.

​Join us for a two hour session with fun and games such as:

• ​Power the City – Interactive Game | A team-based simulation where participants run a mini “city” and must balance energy, data use, and carbon emissions.

• ​What Uses Energy? Live Guessing Game | A fun, surprising quiz about everyday digital activities.

• ​AI for Good or Bad? Debate Corners | Participants move between corners of the room based on their opinion.

• ​Family Challenge: “Design a Low-Carbon Digital Life | Teams redesign a household’s digital habits.

• ​Inside a Data Centre” Interactive Explainer | Demystify data centres with simple language.

​This event is hosted by the Knowledge Quarter and the Somers Town Community Association.

Location:  King’s College London

Time: 09:30 – 11:00

An interactive workshop led by the Responsible Artificial Intelligence Network (RAIN), this session invites civil society, academia and non-profits to affirm imagination as a collective practice. What if AI futures were not something delivered to us, but something we could deliberate, contest, and build together? What if diverse publics could gather to imagine technological futures grounded in real societal and ecological needs, and chart practical pathways toward them?

This session invites participants to affirm imagination as a collective practice. Through participatory world-building, we will move beyond abstract optimism or dystopian critique, and instead co-define actionable, justice-oriented AI futures.

• Discovery: Discover futures thinking as a critical practice that examines how imagined futures shape present decisions, power structures, and technological trajectories.
• Encounters: Through dialogue and reflection, collaboratively articulate future scenarios that feel socially, environmentally, and politically meaningful. Rather than tightly scripted facilitation, this phase encourages emergent conversation, prioritizing story-telling over theory.
• Crafting: Tell new stories and potential journeys that link the diverse futures that you imagined together.

Part of the programme “A Day of Countering AI Inevitability: Reimagining and Reclaiming AI” at King’s College London on 8th July.

Shady Sharify / https://betterimagesofai.org / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Location:  King’s College London, Macadam Building, MAC 304

Time: 09:35 – 10:45

This interactive workshop explores how AI-driven policing and surveillance technologies are shaping everyday life in the UK, with a focus on their racialised impacts.

Led by Grace Davis from BLAM UK (Black Learning Achievement and Mental Health), the session introduces participants to key AI policing tools through abolitionist and anti-racist frameworks. Participants will learn how to identify surveillance technologies in their own lives, understand their rights, and explore practical strategies for community autonomy and resistance through the co-creation of an AI accountability tool. Calling all interested in policing, technology, racial justice, and education.

Part of the programme “A Day of Countering AI Inevitability: Reimagining and Reclaiming AI” at King’s College London on 8th July.

Alyssa Chen https://betterimagesofai.org / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Location: 55 Kennington Oval London, SE11 5SR, London

Time: 8 – 12 July, 10:00 – 21:00

‘Can we Start Again?’ is a computational arts festival, which will explore digital ecology, AI, technological acceleration, digital excess, and the social impact of emerging technologies.

The curatorial approach combines critical reflection with speculative and optimistic perspectives on the future of digital culture, asking whether we’re too far past the tipping point, whether we can correct course, or whether we can start again. 

Visit the festival page or Instagram @phreaking_collective to learn more about specific events. Learn more about Phreaking Collective at https://phreaking.co.uk/

Location: King’s College London

Time: 11:00 – 12:00

Join Reclaiming Futures at King’s College London for a panel of three researchers describing three different faces of AI, offering an simple introduction for the general public, and anyone curious to understand more about it.

​We will explore AI, not as a monolith, but as a complex, multifaceted and sometime contradictory ecosystem.

​Each researcher will give 10 minute presentation, leaving 30 minutes for questions and open discussion.

​Image by Pauline Wee & DAIR / https://betterimagesofai.org / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Location: Shaw Lecture Theatre, London School of Economics

Time: 11:00 – 13:00

​AI Companionship: Intimacy, Ethics, and the Future of Connection is a public panel discussion running adjacent to EAST2046’s interactive exhibition at London Data Week. The event bridges technology, healthcare, and social science to explore how AI-driven companions and digital therapeutics are reshaping human relationships, mental health, and policy.

We invite tech innovators, AI researchers, healthcare professionals, ethicists, students, and members of the general public to join us for an exploration on the psychological and societal impacts of conversational AI.

This event is hosted by the Data Science Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and the King’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence at King’s College London.

Location: Online

Time: 11:00 – 12:00

​Join us for an interactive online session open to all, but most useful for data managers, asset management teams and net zero leads working in social housing. Send in your messy data and tricky challenges in advance. Like an antiques roadshow, we can help you find the unexpected value in the data you have inherited!

​After a brief introduction, we will walk through anonymised data challenges, and engage in an Expert Q&A, a dedicated, rapid-fire segment focusing on ‘data worries & fixes’ to issues such as:

• ​“Our maintenance notes are full of shorthand and typos!”

• ​“My finance director doesn’t believe my retrofit program is strategic! She said it’s just fixing the squeaky wheel.”

• ​“My data is spread across five different systems that don’t talk to each other. How do I create a single truth without spending millions?”

• ​“Which is more important: using our limited budget to address Net Zero commitments, or ensuring compliance with Decent Homes Standards?”

​The session will conclude with a discussion of the insights generated and a clear prescription for data management best practices, showing how an approach can move teams from reactive repairs to proactive interventions… and we’ll make it fun!

Location:  King’s College London, Macadam Building (Macadam MAC 304)

Time: 11:00 – 12:00

If AI systems depend on vast amounts of data generated through our actions, relationships, communities, and everyday lives, what influence might we already hold in shaping technological futures?

This interactive workshop invites participants to explore a different response to AI inevitability. Before we can reimagine technological futures, we must first understand how power, value, and influence already flow through the systems around us. Together, we’ll examine the relationship between data and AI, and envision it as a source of power and possibility.

Through collaborative mapping activities, we will explore where in our lives data is generated, captured, and transformed into value; who benefits and who bears the costs; and reimagine those sites as opportunities for collective empowerment, negotiation, agency and preferred forms of stewardship. Drawing on participatory design, systems thinking, and futures practices, participants will create a shared map of the relationships and infrastructures shaping our digital lives while exploring how communities might exercise greater agency over the data they create together.

Part of the programme “A Day of Countering AI Inevitability: Reimagining and Reclaiming AI” at King’s College London on 8th July.

Yutong Liu & Digit / https://betterimagesofai.org / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Location: Sir Alexander Fleming Building, Imperial College London

Time: 12:00 – 16:30

​Organised by the AI for Healthcare Centre at Imperial College London, this event will feature an in-person workshop and will cover an overview of the UK’s medical regulatory landscape as well as the adoption challenges faced by AI and digital health innovators.

​We will discuss best practices for building AI and digital technologies that meet the highest safety standards, while also addressing common obstacles that innovators encounter in the healthcare sector.

​Since 2021, this event has brought together pioneers from across technology, healthcare, and regulations to discuss how AI can be deployed safely and with positive impact in medical settings. This event is suitable for researchers, HealthTech innovators, policymakers, clinicians, investors, or anyone interested in the evolving role of AI in health. Through talks and interactive discussions, attendees will engage with the latest thinking on innovation, regulation, safety and real-world implementation of AI in health.

Location:  King’s College London

Time: 12:15 – 14:15

A workshop for people in charities, education, research, policy, public sector and community roles to explore the theory and practices of developing critical AI literacy (CAIL).

We start with: The reasons for the emergence of Critical AI literacy and how it is defined Why it is a necessary intervention prior to, or alongside skills and technical education on AI How it can enable more participatory, community focused input into if, when and how AI is used Then we will explore principles, delivery methods and creative practice.

This includes breakout sessions on: Empowering children and young people or lifelong learning Conducting participatory research and codesign that can better reflect participants’ values and imagination for more community-centred visions of AI.

Finally, get a sneak peek demo of a new resource library for those delivering critical AI literacy interventions for different audiences, developed by We and AI with support from Our AI Collective CIC and Tecer Digital.

Facilitated by Tania Duarte, Bruna Martins, Aphie Gover, Cinzia Pusceddu, and Mhairi Quiroz-Aitken. Part of the programme “A Day of Countering AI Inevitability: Reimagining and Reclaiming AI” at King’s College London on 8th July.

Deborah Lupton / https://betterimagesofai.org / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Location: Online (Zoom)

Time: 13:00 – 14:00

Care and Accountability in Queer Data Practice is a panel discussion and Q&A for community groups, LGBTQ+ and allied organisations, researchers, public-sector teams, funders and data practitioners interested in how data can be approached in more care-full, accountable and community-led ways. ​

Building from work developed by researchers PJ Annand (they/any) and Stef Garasto (they/them) with QUEERCIRCLE, a London-based LGBTQ+ arts and community organisation, the session will ask what queer approaches to data can offer to wider community, civic and public-interest data work across London. ​This event begins from queer data practice – an approach shaped by questions of power, categorisation, visibility, consent, refusal, reciprocity and collective benefit. ​The panel discussion will bring together speakers from community, research and organisational perspectives.

Panellists will explore how data can support advocacy, service improvement, resource claims and collective learning, while also raising questions about when data practices become extractive, unsafe, inaccessible or misaligned with community needs.

Location: Bush House, King’s College London

Time: 13:00 – 17:00

Join us for a series of workshops to explore the health of London’s rivers. We will utilise a dataset provided by the Greater London Authority, accessed via an interactive map on the screens. Through the topic of river health, we will draw attention to London’s blue spaces and wider environmental issues.

We invite participants to engage in a data physicalization crafting activity to showcase how data is not just for a technical audience of professionals, but can be approached by anyone in playful and creative ways, reveal factual discoveries, prompt reflections and add to our experience of where we live.

Data physicalization is a hands-on process of engaging the public with data literacy to create crafts that encode data in their material characteristics. For this workshop, we will use a toolkit of our design that builds on glyph-based visualization, allowing each participant to make small cardboard sculptures shaped like colourful fish. Participants will then contribute their data sculptures to a common display, with a participatory approach.

The workshop aims to provide an opportunity to explore complex data, digest it step by step, reflect on its general and personal significance and build community. The event is suitable for participants of any level of data literacy and crafting abilities.

Location: LSE

Time: 14:00 – 17:00

What if you could take a London dataset, find a story inside it, and turn that story into a short animated film, all in one afternoon?

This experimental collaborative workshop brings together three disciplines: data analysis, hand-drawn illustration, and generative AI animation. Participants work with a single London-centric dataset, find an angle worth telling, sketch out a visual story, and use AI tools to bring that sketch to life as a short animated piece (30 to 120 seconds).

The workshop is co-led by Sophie Sparkes (information designer and workshop facilitator), Alex Pell (data journalist and AI specialist), and Andy Gordon (filmmaker and creative director).

Planned agenda (3 hours):
0:00–0:30 Intro to the dataset, the workshop arc, and a tour of the AI tools we’ll use
0:30–1:15 Finding your story: working with the data to identify an angle
1:15–1:30 Break
1:30–2:15 Sketching: building the visual spine of your story using shared style assets
2:15–2:45 AI animation: turning sketches into short animated outputs
2:45–3:00 Group share and discussion

This event is open to anyone curious about data storytelling, AI tools, or visual communication, for example data practitioners, journalists, designers, filmmakers, and people experimenting with AI in creative work.. No technical experience is needed, but participants should bring a laptop.

Location:  King’s College London, Macadam Building (Macadam MAC 304)

Time: 14:10 – 15:25

Civil society and community organisations are being asked to make decisions about technology faster than most of us feel ready to make them.

We are weighing up tools whose risks we do not fully understand, developed in ways that don’t align to our values, while the same technologies are being used in ways that affect the communities we serve, the people who trust us with their information, and the work we do. Most individual decisions, anchored in principles of resisting, refusing, reclaiming and reimagining AI, don’t easily translate into organisational settings where risks and opportunities are shared.

In this session, participants map the risks of using AI inside their own work and the risks of AI being used against them and the communities they serve. What the room produces becomes the raw material for an open framework, co-developed with a working group drawn from participants and published with named co-authors.

Part of the programme “A Day of Countering AI Inevitability: Reimagining and Reclaiming AI” at King’s College London on 8th July.

Hanna Barakat & Archival Images of AI + AIxDESIGN / https://betterimagesofai.org / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Location: King’s College London

Time: 14:15 – 15:25

What if the future wasn’t digital? This zine-making workshop encourages you to explore, via visual storytelling, on paper, a world where technologies like AI are rejected and resisted. The zine – a handmade magazine that’s low-cost and made with passion – has a long history in counterculture. Join us to create, learn, and express your ideas in your very own zine. No prior experience is required, just a willingness to experiment.

Part of the programme “A Day of Countering AI Inevitability: Reimagining and Reclaiming AI” at King’s College London on 8th July.

Bart Fish & Power Tools of AI / https://betterimagesofai.org / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Location:  King’s College London

Time: 15:30 – 17:30

Location: Shaw Lecture Theatre, London School of Economics

Time: 16:00 – 18:00

Join us to explore how AI tools can improve accessibility and inclusion for disabled people through a broader, 360-degree view of disability. Rather than focusing on a single access need, the session will consider how AI can support people across a wide range of lived experiences, including sensory, physical, cognitive and neurodivergent disabilities
The agenda will include a short welcome, an opening talk on AI and disability inclusion, a discussion with speakers from disability and technology backgrounds, practical examples of accessible AI tools, and an audience Q&A.

The target audience includes disabled people, advocates, community organisations, charities, researchers, students, designers, policymakers, AI practitioners and members of the public interested in accessibility and inclusive innovation.

This event is hosted by the Data Science Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and the King’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence at King’s College London.

Location: UCL, Chadwick Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT

Time: 18:00 – 20:00

Excited to announce the 4th edition of London “Geo” Meetup!

This meetup is for everyone—you don’t need to be an expert. If any of these describe you, you belong here:

• ​Anyone curious about maps, data, and how location shapes our world

• ​Students exploring geospatial as a career path

• ​GIS analysts, cartographers, and remote sensing specialists

• ​Developers building with spatial data, mapping libraries, or location APIs

• ​Urban planners, environmental scientists, and researchers

• ​Open source contributors (OSM, QGIS, PostGIS, GeoServer, etc.)

​📅 8th July, 6:00 PM onwards
📍 UCL, Chadwick Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT
🎟️ Free — just RSVP

​Expect 2–3 short talks (15 min each) on anything geo — passion projects, open source tools, research — followed by networking.

​Additionally, if you would like to speak at this or future events. Please reach out at: lgm@jsonsingh.com

Location: Bush House, King’s College London

Time: 18:30 – 20:30

When Anthropic’s Fable 5 was ordered offline worldwide just three days after its release, it sharpened a question artificial intelligence increasingly raises: who’s in control?

Most governments talk about ‘sovereign’ AI and some are now building it, but what does it really mean for a country, an institution, or a citizen to have a say over those systems? What happens when that control slips?

Join King’s Institute for AI and LSE’s Data Science Institute for a public panel bringing together leading voices to explore the technology, politics and security of AI and data sovereignty, and what’s at stake for the UK. The event will be followed by a drinks reception.

Panel speakers include:

​Ana Alania
AI Programme Manager, National Physical Laboratory.

​Professor Amanda Brock
CEO, OpenUK and Honorary Professor Industrial, Bristol University Smart Internet Lab.

​Professor Helen Margetts OBE
Director, Data Science Institute, London School of Economics.

​Dr Vasilios Mavroudis
AI+ Academic Senior Fellow, King’s College London.

Professor Mathias Koenig-Archibugi
Professor of Global Politics (Joint appointment with LSE International Relations)
Department of Government

Location: Online

Time: 09:00 – 12:30

Join this online event hosted by a global contributor outside of London!

​This participatory outdoor session examines the limits of conventional data systems by focusing on the forms of information that remain uncollected, unclassified, or treated as noise. These include environmental fluctuations, informal infrastructural behaviours, social rhythms, and situated knowledge that shape everyday life but rarely enter formal datasets or decision-making frameworks.

​Participants will engage in a structured observation exercise within their own local environments, using a shared set of prompts designed to surface what existing data infrastructures fail to register. The emphasis is on comparison rather than aggregation: how different physical and social contexts produce different “blind spots” in what is perceived as data.

​The session contributes to broader questions in data practice and civic infrastructure, particularly around how data is defined, what is excluded through current measurement systems, and how alternative forms of observation might inform more context-sensitive approaches to analysis and design.

Location: The Bersey Warehouse

Time: 10:00 – 12:00

Do you wear multiple hats at work, and is one of them ‘data’?

​As part of London Data Week, DataKind UK is hosting a morning unconference for folks who ‘do data’ in charities, community interest companies, voluntary groups, social enterprises, and more. Join us in person to connect, talk shop, and get support from peers and DataKind UK’s expert data volunteers. Bring your burning questions and discussion topics, and we’ll provide a friendly networking space where you can choose which data dilemmas you’d most like to discuss.

​We’re kindly being hosted by Flourish for this session, and breakfast will be provided. Because there are limited spaces, please think carefully about whether you can attend and cancel your ticket or inform the event organisers if you can’t make it!

Location: SPACE4

Time: 10:30 – 12:30

Location: The Bersey Warehouse

Time: 12:30 – 13:15

Have you ever wondered what ‘other’ ethnicities are?

In this workshop, we will start with an introductory presentation using open-access census data from the ONS, to unlock the write-in answers provided when people select ‘Any other ethnicity’. Participants will then engage in a hands-on, art-based workshop using collage and drawing exploring the diverse nature of identity. Following the art workshop, participants will be invited to a brief discussion on identity and representation.

The workshop aims to surface cultural diversity through visual data, exploring which voices are missing and how we/they can be represented. We hope participants leave with a greater awareness of the ethnic diversity within our community, feeling empowered in their own identity and a sense of belonging in a multi-ethnic society, regardless of their background.

​This event is hosted by Flourish at The Bersey Warehouse.

Location: Finsbury Park

Time: 13:30 – 15:30

At the London Tree Appreciation Walk, we will wander around Finsbury Park, then up the Parkland Walk and round Highgate and Queens wood taking time to notice and appreciate the trees we encounter along the way.

It will be a casual, laid back affair with the opportunity to use the PLACES app by EcoGPX to capture and record warm relational traces from along our journey end the trees we encounter.

Learn more about the project here.