Speakers
Keynote Speaker: Birgitta Jónsdóttir
Icelandic MP, activist, spokesperson and internet pioneer discusses the Icelandic Modern Media Initiative, crowd-sourcing and direct democracy
Keynote Speaker: Carlo Ratti
The real-time city is now real! Carlo Ratti directs MIT Senseable City Lab and is at the forefront of global endeavour on future cities
Keynote Speaker: Rohan Gunatillake
Founder of the world’s first urban meditation app discusses how people are using technology to reinvent Buddhism
Catalyst: Juliana Rotich + Jon Whittle
Founder of Ushahidi, and one of the Guardian's Top 100 Women in Technology is guest speaker with Catalyst
Keynote Speaker: César A. Hidalgo
MIT MediaLab's rising star of economics, networks and data science discusses complexities of economic growth
Keynote Speaker: Bilal Randeree
Social Media & Online Producer for Al Jazeera talks about the Arab Spring and Al Jazeera’s role in documenting those events
Keynote Speaker: Juha van’t Zelfde
VURB founder discusses the aspirations of democratic Smart Cities
Conference Panel: Mass Participation
Session featuring Adrian Hon (creator of Zombies, Run!) Dave Addey of Agant (Malcolm Tucker app) and Metabroadcast's Chris Jackson
Reuse and Replicate: ‘Lessons for the Smart City’
A day of presentations & workshops exploring Smart City Initiatives w/ MDDA, NESTA, i-Network and ICT-PSP
Animal Systems
Animal Systems explore the pre-history of computing, discuss biological & social phenomena and host a workshop with their lead developer
Conference Panel: The Space
The Space team discuss a new collaboration in digital art between ACE/BBC. Ed Vaizey MP, Tom Barker (John Peel Centre) and artist Peter Gregson are guest panelists.
Rufus Pollock
Thursday closing talk by the Director of the Open Knowledge Foundation
Turing’s Sunflowers
Get involved in a mass participatory experiment to celebrate master code-breaker, Alan Turing’s legacy to Manchester
SuperCritical Mass
Julian Day and Luke Jaaniste, the Australian sound artists behind Super Critical Mass, discuss their models for mass participation and collaboration within public spaces
Co-operative
The Co-operative's Mark Robinson-Field explores the origins of the co-operative movement and where the future lies for this unique form of enterprise
Conference Panel: Social Broadcasting
Paul Bennun (Somethin' Else) and Chris Jackson (Metabroadcast) address key arguments for expanding content delivery to new media platforms
William Heath
The founder of Mydex presents the concepts behind this new personal datastore that gives individuals complete control over their data online
Manchester DIYBio
DIYBio launch The Manchester Microbe Map, a large-scale project that builds a bacterial atlas of the streets of Manchester
Conference Panel: Mass Observation
A session on the Mass Observation Movement, exploring its relevance in today's new participatory culture
Farida Vis
Part of Guardian's groundbreaking Reading the Riots, that examined 2.5 million riot tweets, Farida talks on Social Media and Social Change
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Happenstance
James Bridle, Natalia Buckley, Kevin Walker, Linda Sandvik, Leila Johnston and James Jefferies discuss the Happenstance project and its development
Manchester Digital: IBZL
Manchester Digital present & discuss projects such as the ‘flying shepherd’, ‘real avatars’ and examples of ‘hybrid’ digital/material networked learning
Kieron Kirkland
Development researcher at Nominet Trust shares practical examples of how collaborative technologies are enabling positive social change
ScraperWiki Workshop
Chris Blower, ScraperWiki’s Platform Engineer hosts a practical data scraping workshop
Andy Miah
Report and showcase on an international campaign to open up the London 2012 Olympics to voices from below - #media2012
Conference Panel: Net Neutrality
National Media Museum's Life Online Curator discusses net neutrality with representative panelists from politics and business
Sanaz Raji
Social Media, Activism, and the Middle East: From Iran's Green Movement to the Arab Spring
Conference Panel: Identity and Security
Featuring Dr. Ian Brown ‘Staying Safe Between The 1s and 0s‘, William Heath, and Jeremy Newman ‘New Model Identity’
Catalyst Workshop
Explore the perils and possibilities of self-exploration through hacking, homebrew electronics and hands-on biostatistics with Catalyst, Signposts, and MadLab
Moritz Stefaner
Celebrated European artist discusses how data visualisation allows us to map all kinds of worlds, from the physical to the social and personal
Mass Observation presented by Theatre Jukebox
Stand + Stare discuss their new artwork that uses material and inspiration from the Mass Observation Archive
Conference Panel: Producing a Living
The new cultural, political and business models for making a living with Laura Harper, Loz Kaye, Campbell Cowie & James Blessing
Richard Ayers
Will technology transform the tribalism of football fandom, asks Head of Digital at Manchester City Football Club
Andrea Molino
Italian composer and conductor Andrea Molino discusses the concept behind his unique Three Mile Island multimedia project
Dave Carter
Head of MDDA gives an insight into Manchester's involvement with Smart City Initiatives
Jon Kingsbury
Programme Director of Nesta's Creative Economy talks about their approach to public service innovation
Charles Hunter
Co-founder and MD of Mudlark talks about the development of the Birmingham Civic Dashboard
Andrew Wilson
The process of innovation with the use of technology when done in collaboration with front line public service staff.
