The University’s IT Futures conference returns this year with the title:

Edinburgh Futures: Data, Data all Around …

It will take place all day on Wednesday, 12th December 2018, in G07 Informatics Forum

Surrounded by vast quantities of data, we are confronted by deep problems and extraordinary opportunities. Radical new thinking is needed, imaginative and interdisciplinary. Citydeal is about the University, in collaboration with the City, its businesses and a wider context, building a national centre of expertise, training and ethics, to realise the value in data. Our conference this year seeks to bring us together as a University to understand the breadth of the implications for creativity, research and education. The Usher Institute is already a major centre for the application of data expertise; the Bayes Centre, newly opened, has hit the ground running; the Edinburgh Futures Institute is emerging with a focus perhaps especially on creativity and learning. What do we want it to mean, when we say Edinburgh is Data Capital of Europe?

Tweet the conference using hashtag: #itfutures

All speakers are University of Edinburgh colleagues unless otherwise stated.

Many thanks to all for a highly successful conference. Slides are now available from links below.
Photos from the conference are by courtesy of Ashley Lloyd.

08.45 – 09.30	Registration, with coffee
09.30 – 09.35	Welcome
09:35 – 10.00	City Region Deal: Opportunities, Challenges Prof. Charlie Jeffery, University of Edinburgh We are delighted that Prof Charlie Jeffery, Senior Vice Principal at the University of Edinburgh, has agreed to deliver the opening address. Link to slides (pdf)
10.00 – 10.40	Edinburgh Futures Institute Prof. Lesley McAra, University of Edinburgh Link to slides (pdf)
10.40 – 11.15	Coffee break
11.15 – 11.45	Prof. Peter Mathieson We are delighted that Professor Peter Mathieson MBBS(Hons)(London), PhD(Cambridge), FRCP(London), FRCPE, FMedSci has agreed to present to us in this conference.
11.45 – 12.25	Learning = change + risk: The Bayes Experiment Michael Rovatsos Link to slides (pdf)
12.25 – 13.05	Data Education for All Prof. Judy Robertson, University of Edinburgh Link to slides (pdf)
13.05 – 14.00	Lunch break
14.00 – 14.40	Dr. Claudia Pagliari, University of Edinburgh
14.40 – 15.20	The Internet of Things Simon Chapple, Information Services
15.20 – 16.00	Space is big. Really big. So is the data. Dr. Nigel Hambly, University of Edinburgh Link to slides (pdf)
16.00-16.30	Closing Address Gavin McLachlan Link to summary (pdf)
16.30 – 17.00	Please join us for Mince Pies and Mulled Wine