Data is available from an incredible number of sources in an endless number of formats. Data science deals with the extraction of valuable insights from this jumble in the form of attractive visualizations. Walking you through several examples using practical tools and tricks, Margriet Groenendijk presents a typical workflow that offers a basic introduction to data science.

Openness is a political idea, and our democracy is changing for the network age. Something New is a startup political party in the UK built for the network age and founded on open source principles. The party created an open source manifesto, ran it in the 2015 general election, and is now building momentum for the future. Join James Smith to learn what an open source democratic future looks like.

Have you heard the story of a rock star, the school teacher and a cosmic mystery? Join Microsofts Joseph Sirosh for a conversation about how the unreasonable effectiveness of OPEN (source, data, science, cloud) is accelerating humanitys rate of progress.