Tech Events by Open Data Manchester

Open Data Manchester's annual Halloween session, run with PyData Manchester: a room of data people telling each other about the times data went badly wrong. The format is short community talks - bad statistics, nonsense correlations, data mangled badly enough to cause real damage. The organisers cite an air traffic control mix-up that cost millions and a Google Maps error that led to the wrong house being demolished. Anyone can claim a slot by emailing the organisers beforehand, submit a story anonymously to be read out, or take one of the quick-fire slots held back for the night itself. Doors 18:00, talks 18:30, close 20:30, at Altogether Otherwise on Hanover Street opposite the NCP Shudehill car park. Ticketed, and a code of conduct applies. Why go: failure post-mortems told by the people who lived them teach more than another best-practice talk, and this is the one night a year Manchester's data community does it deliberately. Best for analysts, data engineers and anyone who owns a pipeline.

Open Data Manchester's GM Digital Blueprint Refresh session on skills - what the city region needs to build a workforce for a digital economy, and who is responsible for it.

Open Data Manchester convenes a working session in the GM Digital Blueprint Refresh series, looking at how Greater Manchester keeps people safe as more of community life moves online. For anyone working on digital inclusion, online safety or public-sector data policy in the city region.