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OKCon 2011: Programme

We are delighted to announce the programme for OKCon 2011. Please note that there might be some last minute changes. Please also visit the great line up of excellent Speakers. See the layout of the venue place here. Jump directly to Pre OKCon Days June, 27th, June, 28th and June, 29th

* June, 30th OKCon Day I
* July, 1st OKCon Day II

	Workshop I	Workshop II
10:00 – 18:00	Open Spending Hackday chaired by Friedrich Lindenberg	ScraperWiki scraping Day Please register for the Scraping Day here. chaired by Julian Todd

	Workshop I	Workshop II	Workshop III
10:00 – 18:00	Open Spending Hackday chaired by Friedrich Lindenberg	ScraperWiki scraping Day Please register for the Scraping Day here. chaired by Julian Todd	CKAN Development Workshop Please register for the workshop here. chaired by James Gardner, David Read

	Workshop I	Workshop II	Workshop III
10:00 – 18:00	Open Spending Workshop Please register for the workshop here. chaired by Friedrich Lindenberg	Open Science and Social Science Workshop Please register for the workshop here. chaired by Francois Grey and Rufus Pollock	10:00 – 18:00 openSE internal meeting 15:00 – 18:00 Open Data & Privacy Workshop Please register for the workshop here. chaired by Jan Schallaböck, Javier Ruiz and Daniel Dietrich

Workshop I

Workshop II

Workshop III

10:00 – 18:00

Open Spending Workshop
Please register for the workshop here.
chaired by Friedrich Lindenberg

Open Science and Social Science Workshop
Please register for the workshop here.
chaired by Francois Grey and Rufus Pollock

10:00 – 18:00 openSE internal meeting

15:00 – 18:00 Open Data & Privacy Workshop
Please register for the workshop here.
chaired by Jan Schallaböck, Javier Ruiz and Daniel Dietrich

	Track I	Track II	Workshop I	Workshop II	Workshop III
10:00	Welcome! by Rufus Pollock
10:30	Keynote: From Openness to Abundance by Glyn Moody
11:00	Free/Libre Software and Open Data by Richard Stallman	Open Science Panel by Francois Grey and Rufus Pollock
11:30	Free/Libre Software and Open Data by Richard Stallman	Open Science Panel by Francois Grey and Rufus Pollock
12:00	Panel: Open Hardware & Open Standards by Alison Powell, Dannie Jost, Massimo Menichinelli and Jürgen Neumann	EU Digital Agenda and Open Data by Carl-Christian Buhr	Q&A with Richard Stallman	Q&A Open Science panel
12:30		EU Digital Agenda and Open Data by Carl-Christian Buhr	Q&A with Richard Stallman	Q&A Open Science panel
13:00	Lunch
13:30
14:00	Keynote: The Power, Promise and Perils of Open Government Data by Nigel Shadbolt	Panel: Data journalism: what next? with contributions from Simon Rogers, Stefan Candea, Caelainn Barr, Federica Cocco, Liliana Bounegru, Paul Bradshaw and Mirko Lorenz followed by a panel discussion moderated by Michelle Thorne	Wikipedia & Research: The innovative character of Wikipedia research by Mayo Fuster Morell, Daniel Mietchen, Mathias Schindler and Benjamin Mako Hill	An International Private Standard for Open Source Hardware with Alison Powell, Dannie Jost, Massimo Menichinelli and Jürgen Neumann	The Why and How of Open Education: Concepts and Practices by United Nations University, UNU-MERIT (NL) and UNU-ViE (GE)
14:30	Defending Open Data by Tom Lee		Open Research: Already here or still a distant pipedream? by Cameron Neylon
15:00	Implementing an Open Data programme within government by Andrew Stott		Collaborative platforms for streamlining workflows in Open Science by Konrad U. Förstner
15:30	Global open data: a threat or saviour for democracy? by Chris Taggart	Open Data in the newsroom: How should a workflow for data-journalist look like? Mirko Lorenz	toolserver.org – Direct Access to Wikipedia’s Database by Daniel Kinzler
16:00	Open Data – Louder Voices? by Michael Gurstein	You programmer, me journalist: How can we work together? by Georgi Kobilarov & Mirko Lorenz	Scholarly Publishing Reform: What Needs to Change? by Björn Brembs
16:30	Open Data at the World Bank: What we learned in a year and what’s next by Tariq Khokhar	Structural changes of the information economy – Google Books as a Blueprint? by Jeanette Hofmann	Citing versioned sources by Daniel Mietchen
17:00	Coffe
17:30	Lightning Talks	Open Cities – Open Innovation in the Public Sector by Esteve Almirall	Liquidizer by Stefan Dirnstorfer	Open Linguistics Workshop chaired Sebastian Hellmann
18:00	No Open Society without Open Knowledge, no Open Knowledge without Open Infrastructures by Michel Bauwens	Winners of the Open Data Challenge introduced by Jonathan Gray	Freedoms to Sharing by Jeremie Zimmermann
18:30		Open Data in the Netherlands by Paul Suijkerbuijk	ChokePoint Project – towards a distributed Internet infrastructure by James Burke & Chris Pinchen
19:00	Openness as Strategy: Leading Open Knowledge Communities by Phillipp Mueller	Consuming Linked Open Data from the Web by Chris Bizer	Beyond Access: legal defence of the right to reuse information by Helen Darbishire		The Free Technology Academy and Shared QA in Free Educational Materials by Frans Mofers, Wouter Tebbens, Hanneke Potters and Lex Bijlsma
19:30	Free Culture Forum and new models for a sustainable creativity by Jaron Rowan	The Open Government Data Stakeholder Survey with Michael Martin, Martin Kaltenböck	Alaveteli: international freedom of information software by Seb Bacon		Building a Common Master Curriculum on Free Technologies by Wouter Tebbens and David Jacovkis
20:00	Get together!

	Track I	Track II	Workshop I	Workshop II	Workshop III
10:00	Keynote: Supercomputing for everyone (and by everyone!) by Bruce Allen	Open Data Licensing by Jordan S. Hatcher	The emergence of a free culture movement by Mayo Fuster Morell	Open source hardware and Milkymist by Sebastien Bourdeauducq	metaStudio: an studio to design close-to-life construction contexts for learning by Nagarjuna G.
10:30	We are the Creators! by Till Kreutzer	ScraperWiki: We eat Data by Julian Todd	Free Culture Metadata by Øystein Jakobsen	Open Source Ecology – the hardware foundation for modern civilization by Nikolay Georgiev
11:00	We are the Creators! by Till Kreutzer	Google Public Data: Enhancing Data Discovery and Exploration by Benjamin Yolken	Open publishing model in Free Lectures and Free textbooks projects by Kamil Śliwowski	Beyond DiY: Open Hardware and Renewable Energy by Javier Ruiz
11:30	Europeana and open cultural heritage data by Georgia Angelaki	Making Open Data Really Worldwide by Jose Manuel Alonso	Knowledge for All: Building a Collaborative, International, and Open Citation Database by Amanda Stevens	Developing open & distributed tools for Fablab project documentation by Anu Määttä
12:00	Open Education: Totally pointless or a mean to modernize traditional formal education? by Andreas Meiszner	OpenSpending: mapping the money by Friedrich Lindenberg	Open Images: Towards an Audiovisual Commons by Maarten Brinkerink	Repairable machines: lessons learned developing open hardware by Lieven Standaert	Civic Commons: Sharing Technology for the Public Good by Philip Ashlock
12:30	Hacking Education (P2PU, a case study) by Philipp Schmidt	How to study lobbying with crowdsourced OpenData? by Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou	Workflow Classification and Open-Sourcing Methods: Towards a New Publication Model by Richard Littauer	Defining (and synerging) free and open infrastructure for open online collaboration by Mayo Fuster Morell, Rufus Pollock and Michel Bauwens	Co://aboratory
13:00	Lunch
13:30
14:00	Keynote: Open data as business model by John Sheridan	Open Econometrics – Towards an open standard in empirical research by Guo Xu	Open Government Data in Latin America by Fumega Silvana and Scrollini Fabrizio	P2PU: Open Community Learning on the Web, Create a course, a school, or a whole university in 90 minutes by Rebecca Kahn and others from P2PU	C/Overt operations with CCTV sniffing and collaborative open source video editing by Adnan Hadzi
14:30	IpeaData: 13yrs of Open Government Data in Brazil by Lucas F Mation	GNOWSYS: A Free Semantic Knowledge Studio by Nagarjuna G.	Open Data starts absolutely buttom up…. by Katalin Gallyas
15:00	Universal Access to All Knowledge by Brewster Kahle	Towards Embedding Open Methods in Chemistry by Anna Croft	On the road to open data in Poland – where are we now? by Alek Tarkowski
15:30	Data All the Way Down by Jeni Tennison	Paragogy by Joe Corneli and Charles Danoff	Open Data in France: an updated state of the art by Benjamin Ooghe-Tabanou	Open Bibliographic Data Workshop by Peter Murray-Rust, Mark McGillivray & Adrian Pohl
16:00	BuzzData: a social data hub by Pete Forde	Introducing Oracc.org: the Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus by Eleanor Robson	Who is who in spending the Hungarian public funds? by Sandor Lederer
16:30	What does Open Data mean for enterprises? by Andreas Blumauer	Open Palaeontology – Putting fossil data on the web for all to see and use by Ross Mounce	Mapping aid to Uganda’s budget in real time by Mark Brough		Open Data and Family History by Nick Barratt
17:00	Coffe
17:30	Lightning talks	What kind of a commons is free software? by Miguel S. Vieira	When Free Software Isn’t Better by Benjamin Mako Hill	Motivations for socio-collaborative learning practices by Kasia Kozinska	From Geography to physics: How does geography help students learn motion? by Amit Dhakulkar & Nagarjuna G.
18:00	Taking the pulse of global Initiatives using technology to promote transparency and accountability by Renata Avila	Open Access: Closed Discourse or Open Knowledge? by Ulrich Herb	Understanding Commons and Peer Production by Stefan Meretz	Reinvention for sustainability by Niels Spong
18:30	Communia, the international association on the digital public domain by Melanie Dulong de Rosnay	Open Shakespeare: A New Way of Reading by James Harriman-Smith	The Emergence of Benefit-driven Production by Christian Siefkes	Open Access… but Professionally by Jacek Ciesielski	Open Science, Open Data, Open Minds: Using smartphones games to study recreational drug use by Caspar Addyman
19:00	Freeing Copyright for Art and Profit by Nina Paley	Open Bank Project by Simon Redfern		Double Loop Learning in Work based Settings II by Olaf Resch	Testing new toy economies/political structures in MMOGs by Nadja Kutz
19:30	Freeing Copyright for Art and Profit by Nina Paley
20:00 – 23:00	Get together & Party