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GDS Academy masterclasses
A series of talks by world-leading academics and industry experts about the new technologies impacting public services.
Overview
GDS Academy masterclasses bring academic expertise into the heart of government with a series of seminars by world-leading academics and industry experts on the new technologies impacting public services.
Masterclasses are free to people working in the public sector. You can:
Future events
Please come back later for new dates.
Past events
| Date | Event | Speaker |
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| 18 September 2019 | Immersive heritage experiences: virtual and augmented reality and engagement | Dr Jenny Kidd (Cardiff University) |
| 12 September 2019 | Digital government and digital citizens | Professor Helen Margetts (Oxford Internet Institute) |
| 28 August 2019 | Women in tech | Dr Mariann Hardey (Durham University) |
| 8 August 2019, 2pm to 3pm | What is cyberpsychology and what is it good for? | Dr Alison Attrill-Smith (Wolverhampton University) |
| 24 July 2019 | Keeping and discovering secrets online | Professor Wendy Moncur (Dundee University) |
| 3 July 2019 | State responses to cyberattacks: an exercise in risk management | Monica Kaminski (Oxford University) |
| 13 May 2019 | The VOLT project: Voting on Ledger Technologies | Professor Steve Schneider, Secure Systems at the University of Surrey |
| 2 May 2019 | Rethinking public diplomacy for a digital age | Professor Nick Cull, Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California, USA |
| 12 April 2019 | Data Science in Local Government: Challenges and Opportunities | Dr Jonathan Bright, Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute (Oxford University) |
| 26 February 2019 | Digital government: decision-making under uncertainty | Dr Ivan Palomares Carrascosa, Lecturer in Data Science and AI, University of Bristol |
| 31 January 2019 | The value, contributions and limitations of digital diplomacy | Dr Corneliu Bjola, Head of the Oxford Digital Diplomacy Research Group |
| 13 December 2018 | Quantum computers – the world’s most incredible machines | Professor Winfried Hensinger, Head of the Sussex Ion Quantum Technology Group and director of the Sussex Centre for Quantum Technologies |
| Perceiving and interacting with artificial agents: insights from social neuroscience | Professor Emily Cross, Professor of Social Robotics at the Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow | |
| 12 December 2018 | Machine learning in tele-rehabilitation | Dr Crina Grosan, University of Brunel |
| 22 November 2018 | Developments in augmented and mixed reality: living with intelligent machines | Professor Steve Benford, Professor of Collaborative Computing in the Mixed Reality Laboratory at University of Nottingham Professor Nello Cristianini, Professor of Artificial Intelligence, University of Bristol |
| 31 October 2018 | Artificial intelligence, Rubik’s cubes and ethics | Terence Eden, Head of Open Standards at GDS |
Published 24 January 2019
Last updated 12 July 2019 + show all updates
Last updated 12 July 2019 + show all updates
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Restructured tables; added new events to upcoming events and past events.
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Added registration link for the masterclass on 26 February 2019: Digital government: decision-making under uncertainty.
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First published.