This event is from 6-8pm on Wednesday November 19th in Rm MP203, 2nd Flr, BCU, Millennium Point, Birmingham (Millennium Point is 10 minutes walk from New St station)

Open Mercia and West Midlands Open Data Forum are inviting data analysts, infographers and other data science specialists from around the West Midlands region to this event where they can:

• meet
• network
• make connections

and

• join the new Open Mercia register of data analysts.

Attendees will be able to build their personal and professional networks with a view to:

• doing business with each other
• getting opportunities to 'give something back' to charities and community groups in the West Midlands region by working with them on their data and open data at other events to be organised during the year
• finding out more about open data activities in the West Midlands and how to engage with Open Mercia and West Midlands Open Data Forum
• finding innovative open data use cases provided by the Share-PSI 2.0 project

NOTE: This is a fringe event of Birmingham Made Me Expo and SmART Marts

Everyone who registers for this FREE Open Mercia event is eligible to attend free of charge the Birmingham Made Me Expo which runs all day on Nov 19 – details of the Expo and how to register are here

This Open Mercia event is sponsored by the European funded Share-PSI 2.0 project and supported by West Midlands Open Data Forum, Digital Birmingham and Birmingham Science City.