Opendata.ch Conference 2012

The Opendata.ch Conference 2012 took place on 28 June in Zurich with 200 participants from politics, business and academia. All contributions to the conference are comprehensively documented; videos and slides are all available online.

Most of the content from the thematic workshops is also available online:

• Mobility
• Health & Environment
• Finance & Procurement
• Science & Culture

Programme

Welcome by Martin Vollenwyder, member of the Zurich City Council, Head of the Finance Department

Presentation of the new Open Government Data portal of the City of Zurich by Andreas Németh, Programme Manager eZürich

Results of the Open Government Data Study Switzerland (I) by Prof. Reinhard Riedl, Head of Business Research, Bern University of Applied Sciences

Results of the Open Government Data Study Switzerland (II) by André Golliez, Managing Partner itopia ag, President of Opendata.ch

Open Government Data in practice: Make.opendata.ch Hackdays by Hannes Gassert, co-organiser of the Make.opendata.ch Hackdays, Vice-President of Opendata.ch

Open Government Data in Austria by Martin Kaltenböck, CFO Semantic Web Company, Executive Board Open Knowledge Forum Österreich

The EU’s Open Data Strategy by Ton Zijlstra, Community Steward ePSIplatform.eu

Open Government Data in Germany by Daniel Dietrich, Chairman German Chapter of the Open Knowledge Foundation

Big Open Data Processing by Prof. Dr. Abraham Bernstein, Head of Dynamic and Distributed Information Systems Group, Department of Informatics, University of Zurich

Openness beyond Government Data by Rufus Pollock, University of Cambridge, Director Open Knowledge Foundation

Open data and economic growth by Prof. Nigel Shadbolt, University of Southampton, Member Public Sector Transparency Board UK

Closing remarks by Balthasar Glättli, National Councillor, Parliamentary Group for Digital Sustainability

Thanks and outlook