A Power of Data 2021 webinar: speakers and talks

We’re hosting a special Power of Data environmental and geospatial one hour webinar on June 16th. You can now sign up for tickets on our Eventbrite page and here’s a bit about our brilliant speakers and a brief outline of the talks they’ll be giving…

Abigail Page

Abigail is Head of Innovation and Skills for the Geospatial Commission, Cabinet Office; a former Chair of the Association for Geographic Information and a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.

Abigail’s presentation will be on Enabling Innovation to Unlock the Power of Location. In it, she’ll discuss the UK Geospatial strategy and share the approach and outcomes from a recent competition with geospatial data to solve transport and mobility challenges.

Chris Jarvis

Chris Jarvis is Data Sharing and Access Manager at the Environment Agency. He is responsible for DEFRA’s Data Sharing Platform, which provides access to environmental data through real-time data feeds (via APIs and as Linked Data); as spatial data, and via a number of end user applications.

Chris will present alongside Swirrl CEO Bill Roberts, about a joined-up view of environmental management plans and actions.

The Environment Agency is involved in managing many different aspects of the environment, including flood risk, water quality, nature recovery and others. The information on current status and the activities designed to make improvements are managed by separate groups in separate systems and it’s hard to get an overview of everything that is happening at a location. Chris and Bill will describe an initiative designed to provide a more joined up view of this kind of information, with the potential to support a more integrated approach to environmental management.

Bill Roberts

Bill Roberts is our CEO at Swirrl. Swirrl specialises in software for government organisations to publish their data in standards-based machine-readable ways. We work with the Office for National Statistics, Defra, MHCLG, the Scottish Government and others on ensuring open government data can have the maximum positive impact. Swirrl is a member of the W3C.

Darren Barnes

Darren Barnes has worked in ONS for thirty years and much of this time has been spent in digital transformation roles. Over the last few years his focus has been on what the Government Statistical Service (GSS) landscape looks like and how we can improve the situation for both statistical producers and users alike.

He leads the Integrated Data Programme Dissemination work, that is creating a 5* Linked Open Data repository for the GSS to support the aim of a better statistical landscape. He is also Head of Open Data publishing within Digital Publishing and is the co-chair of the GSS Open Data Subgroup.

Darren will present on a project within the government Integrated Data Programme on climate change. He’ll cover the aims of the project, which gathers together climate, environmental and energy data from a wide range of government organisations, and the practical tools being built to make the data easily accessible and ready for analysis.

Registration for this one hour webinar is open now! Sign up for tickets here.