Launching the Data Empowerment Clinic: Paving the way to participatory Data
Join us to launch a new hub that builds capacity, networks & learning resources to shape just, participatory digital futures.
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Location
King's College London
Strand London WC2R 2LS United KingdomAgenda
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Arrival & Registration; Tea & Coffee
9:00 AM - 9:10 AM
Welcome & Introduction to the Data Empowerment Clinic
Prof. Sylvie Delacroix, Centre for Data Futures
Suha Mohamed, Centre for Data Futures
9:10 AM - 9:30 AM
Keynote #1 – Empowerment in the Age of AI: The Need of the Hour
Vilas Dhar, President, Patrick J McGovern Foundation
9:30 AM - 9:50 AM
Introducing the Data Empowerment Clinic
Suha Mohamed, Centre for Data Futures
Sara Wolfe, Indigenous Health Data Cooperative
Rose Luckin, Educate Ventures (School Leaders Coalition)
Ali Hossaini, Knowledge Quarter Data Commons
9:50 AM - 10:20 AM
Fishbowl Dialogue: The Path to Meaningful and Sustained Participation
Vinay Narayan, Aapti Institute
Julian Tait, Open Data Manchester
Lisa Gutermuth, Mozilla Foundation
10:20 AM - 10:35 AM
Coffee break
10:35 AM - 10:55 AM
Spotlight – Lessons from King’s College London: Shaping Equitable Data Futures
Prof. Elena Simperl, King's Institute for AI
David Young, Digital Humanities , King's College London
10:55 AM - 11:50 AM
Lightning Talks – Innovation in Practice
Tim Davies , Community Campaigns on Data
Dirk Slater, Fabriders
Hannah Webster, Carefull
11:50 AM - 12:50 PM
Lunch
12:50 PM - 1:50 PM
Thematic Mini Teach-Ins – Making Empowerment Tangible
Dr Shyam Krishna, Research Leader, RAND Europe
Tony Curzon Price, First International Data Union
1:50 PM - 2:55 PM
Interactive Session – Designing Transformational Models for Empowerment
2:55 PM - 3:10 PM
Coffee break
3:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Mozilla Foundation × Data Empowerment Clinic - Launching Our Co-Built Learning
Nabiha Syed, Mozilla Foundation
Jaselle Edward-Gill , Mozilla Foundation
Suha Mohamed, Centre for Data Futures
3:30 PM - 3:50 PM
Keynote #2 – The Future of Data Empowerment
Sir Nigel Shadbolt
3:50 PM - 4:50 PM
Panel – Philanthropy & the Future of Data Empowerment
4:55 PM - 5:00 PM
Closing Reflections & Next Steps
5:00 PM - 5:45 PM
Networking and drink reception
Good to know
Highlights
- 8 hours
- In person
About this event
What if communities could shape the AI systems that increasingly govern their lives? What if data became a tool for collective empowerment rather than corporate extraction?
Welcome to the Data Empowerment Clinic launch – where these possibilities become practical realities.
Hosted by King's College London's Centre for Data Futures, this one-day event brings together practitioners, experts, students, researchers, funders and policymakers to move past theory and into practical, solution-oriented dialogue.
Featuring keynotes from Sir Nigel Shadbolt (Principal of Jesus College, University of Oxford) and Vilas Dhar (President of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation), we will introduce the Clinic's vision, spotlight early partners, and open the floor to conversations about what it takes to build data empowerment structures.
The Clinic is designed to build capacity by training students who learn through advising real-world data empowerment projects, while simultaneously creating a peer learning community where organizations facing different geographical and socio-economic circumstances can learn from each other.
If you're building, organising, or reimagining technology to address social challenges, we'd love to have you in the room.
To learn more about the Clinic or explore how we can support your work, get in touch with us at cdf@kcl.ac.uk
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