London

Details

• When: Thursday 6th November, 0900-1730 and then drinks afterwards...
• Where: The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm Road, London NW1 8EH (see on openstreetmap)
• Cost: £15 donation for venue lunch and refreshments.
  
• Register: Book your place now!
  

Organizers

• Open Business
  
• Open Knowledge Foundation
• Shuttleworth Foundation
• Young Foundation

Description

On 6 November 2008, London will host an Open Everything event, a global conversation about the art, science and spirit of 'open'. The conversation will cover, well, everything. Qualifier: the 'thing' in question is built using openness, participation and self-organisation. There are people coming to talk about open technology, media, education, workplace design, philanthropy, public policy and even politics. These people want to tell you what they’re doing and find out what you're up to. And they'd like to have lunch with you. That's why they're coming to Open Everything. For more on what we mean and why it matters, check out: www.openeverything.net.

Programme

• 09:00 - Registration
• 09:30 - Welcome and introduction – Helen King
• 09:45 - Opening remarks - Glyn Moody
• 10:00 - Speed geeks
  
• 11:00 - Break
  
• 11:15 - Main speakers:
• Glyn Moody
• Charles Leadbeater
• Rufus Pollock
• 12.30 - Lunch
• 14:00 - Discussion:
• Tom Steinberg
  
• Richard Allen
• Geoff Mulgan
• 15:00 - Open space
• 17:00 - Closing discussion/remarks
• 17:30 - Drinks

Presenters

• Helen King, Principal Advisor, Shuttleworth Foundation
• Geoff Mulgan, Director of the Young Foundation + Visiting Professor at University College, London, the London School of Economics and University of Melbourne + Chair of Involve
• Tom Steinberg, Founder and Director of mySociety
• Charles Armstrong, Founder of Circus Foundation + CEO of Trampoline Systems
• Kennisland
• One World
• Social Innovation Camp
• Maslaha
• Brave New Collaboration
• NESTA
• Think Public
• The People Speak

About the speakers

• Glyn Moody is a technology writer. He is best known for his dissertation help book Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution (2001). It describes the evolution and significance of the free software and open source movements with many interviews of all the notable hackers.
• Charles Leadbeater is a leading authority on innovation and creativity. He has advised companies, cities and governments around the world on innovation strategy and drawn on that experience in writing his latest book We-think: the power of mass creativity, which charts the rise of mass, participative approaches to innovation from science and open source software, to computer games and political campaigning.
• Rufus Pollock is a Founding Director of the Open Knowledge Foundation and Mead Fellow in Economics at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University. His dissertation writing services research focuses on innovation and IP, with particular attention to open models of innovation. Other areas of particular interest include two-sided/platform industries (e.g. Operating Systems, Search Engines), and research on happiness and well-being.
• Helen King is Principle Advisor at the Shuttleworth Foundation and has over ten years worth of experience working with international NGOs and agencies. She is driven by the belief that open technologies, content and processes have vast benefits and value to offer education, economies and communities in Africa.
• Tom Steinberg is the founder and director of mySociety, a charitable body that runs many of the best-known democracy websites in the UK, from WriteToThem.com, to PledgeBank.com to the volunteer-founded TheyWorkForYou.com to the No10 petitions website. MySociety's missions are to build websites which give people simple, tangible benefits in the democratic and community aspects of their lives, and which teach the public and voluntary sector how they can use technology better to help citizens.
• Richard Allen is Chair of the Power Of Information Task Force. He used to be MP for Sheffield Hallam and served as the Liberal Democrat Spokesman on Information Technology. He has spoken and written regularly on a broad range of technology related subjects and takes a particular interest in the development of e-democracy and e-government. Between October 2004 and October 2005 he was an academic visitor to the Oxford Internet Institute. In September 2005 he started employment with Cisco Systems as their Head of Government Affairs for UK and Ireland.
• Geoff Mulgan is director of the Young Foundation. He was previously director of the British prime minister’s Strategy Unit, head of the Performance and Innovation Unit in the Cabinet Office and the prime minister’s adviser on social policy. He was the founder and director of Demos, and is the author of several books including Connexity (Harvard Business Press, 1998) and Politics in an Antipolitical age (Polity, 1994).