Open Knowledge Meet-ups are friendly and informal evenings for people to get together to share and argue all areas of openness. Come and join discussions around open knowledge and open data – from politics and philosophy to practicalities of theory and practice. Information Open Knowledge Scotland and about some of our past meet-ups can be found at http://scot.okfn.org.
Confirmed lightning talks:
Prof and Director of Interaction Lab: speech tech, dialogue agents, machine learning, human-robot interaction, multimodal personal assistants, AI.
Billy Connolly of records management. Excitable. Fascinated by people. Mother of four excellent weans.Likes cars you can cuddle. Life motto: Give it laldy
Code for Europe fellow, yak groomer par excellence and lovable arse. Authentic Scotsman.
National Librarian and Chief Executive, National Library of Scotland. Interests: Book History, 17-19th C British History, Illustration, Digital, the Internet.
Freelance Web & Android Developer, involved in local tech scene, runs @OpenTechCal @HasACalendar ... Me: http://t.co/ta8iAqObLG Blog: http://t.co/F0Mg1OlqU3
Local Gov Digital manager - digital everything, open data, innovation, organiser of EdinburghApps. French Horn playing for fun. Secret art lover. Posts my own.
We invent stuff and code stuff and make stuff and create stuff - check out @euan_mackenzie & @velocitylight as well
Home to over 15 million printed items, 7 million manuscripts, and over 2 million maps the National Library of Scotland (NLS) is a treasure trove of information.
George IV Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1EW, United Kingdom
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