Schedule
20 March
21 March
22 March
23 March
20 March
07:00 PM
Data Drinks Welcome Event
21 March
08:00 AM
Registration
09:00 AM
Opening Plenary
10:30 AM
Coffee Break
11:00 AM
Planet Plenary: Planetary Data for Development
Planet
11:00 AM
Open Data Portals: Challenges & Best Practices
Process
11:00 AM
Why Invest in Data? The Data Impact Storytelling Competition
Process
11:00 AM
Community-Led Monitoring
People
11:00 AM
VR Playspace
12:30 PM
Lunch
01:00 PM
Meet & Greet with Claire Melamed
01:00 PM
Google Cloud: Problem-Solving with Public Data Sets
01:00 PM
Engaging Youth and Data: MYDATA Initiative Launch
02:00 PM
Data Bazaar/Innovation Showcase
Prosperity
02:00 PM
Speed Dating
02:00 PM
Debate: Data Privacy
People
02:00 PM
Building Data Ecosystems for Decision-Making
Process
02:00 PM
Mind the Spend: Accountable Financing for the SDGs
Prosperity
02:00 PM
Measuring the Private Sector Contributions to the SDGs
Prosperity
02:00 PM
Open Standards for Data: What are they? And, Why are they Important?
02:00 PM
AI for Development: Case Studies from Tanzania and Beyond...
Planet
03:30 PM
Field Trip to ONS Data Science Campus
22 March
08:45 AM
Opening Plenary: Data for Advocacy and Social Change
People
Prosperity
09:45 AM
Everybody Counts: The Disaggregated Data Revolution
People
09:45 AM
Citizen-Generated Data: What’s Stopping You?
People
09:45 AM
Geospatial Demography: A Hands-On Data Session
Prosperity
09:45 AM
Training: Assessing Options and Tools for SDG Reporting
Process
09:45 AM
Harnessing Open and Proprietary Intellectual Property Conditions to Increase Data Impact
Planet
09:45 AM
VR Playspace
11:15 AM
Coffee Break
11:30 AM
Making The Case: More and Better Financing for Data
Process
11:30 AM
Improving Migration Data & Analysis for Sustainable Development
People
11:30 AM
An Action Plan for Agriculture & Nutrition Open Data in Africa
Planet
Prosperity
11:30 AM
Immersive Communications: Data-Driven Virtual, Augmented, & Mixed Reality
Planet
11:30 AM
Earth Observation Applications for the Sustainable Development Goals
Planet
01:00 PM
Lunch
01:00 PM
Meet Country Partners
01:00 PM
Using Data to Increase Accountability and Strengthen Partnerships for more Development Impact
01:00 PM
Geospatial Reference, Infrastructure and Demographic Data for Development: The GRID3 Program
People
01:00 PM
Data Dive Info Session
02:00 PM
Beyond GDP
Prosperity
02:00 PM
The Future of Data Privacy and Digital Ethics in the Emerging World of Data & Technology
Process
02:00 PM
Sharing Water: Technology for Transboundary Water Management
Planet
02:00 PM
Storytelling: Visualizing the Gender Data Revolution
Process
02:00 PM
Data Infrastructures Learning Session
03:30 PM
Coffee break
03:30 PM
Briefing Session on Data Fellowships
04:00 PM
From Paper to Practice: Shaping a Common Vision for the Data Revolution
Process
04:00 PM
Count to Deliver: Strengthening the Census & Civil Registration Systems
Prosperity
04:00 PM
Making People Count in Humanitarian Crises
People
04:00 PM
Understanding Disability Data
People
04:00 PM
Making it Stick: Designing Data for Sustainable Development Impact
Planet
05:30 PM
Break
07:00 PM
The Data For Development Festival Gala Dinner
23 March
09:00 AM
Data Bazaar/Innovation Showcase
09:00 AM
Rise of the Bots: Should Machines be Making Decisions for Us?
Process
09:00 AM
Let’s Get Practical: Problem-Solving Data for Development Challenges
Process
09:00 AM
Data Science for Sustainable Development
Process
09:00 AM
VR Playspace
11:15 AM
Closing Plenary/Town Hall
01:00 PM
Lunch
01:00 PM
Data Dive
01:30 PM
Data Communicators Meeting
Speakers
Remigio Chilaule
Catalina Devandas
Special Reporter, Rights of Persons with Disabilities
United Nations Human Rights, Office of High Commissioner
Francesca Feruglio
Monitoring Working Group Coordinator, ESCR-Net
International Network for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Professor Agustín Gómez Meléndez
Board Member
National Institute of Statistics and Census of Costa Rica
Trudy Hope
Sabrina Juran
Technical Specialist, Data and Population Analysis
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Vaughn Lantz
Director, Operational Direction and Coherence, International Assistance Operations Bureau
Global Affairs Canada
Ewen Macleod
Head of the Policy Development and Evaluation Service
UNHCR/World Bank Joint Centre for Forced Displacement
Angélica Maria Palma Robayo
Head of Technical Cooperation and International Relations Office
National Administrative Department of Statistics- DANE
Ann Singleton
Senior Research Fellow, School for Policy Studies
University of Bristol, University of Bristol
Jenna Slotin
Senior Director
Policy and Strategy for the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data
Lawrence Sperling
Director, Data Revolution for Sustainable Development Team
President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), U.S. Department of State
Anna Whitson
Knowledge Management and Communications Specialist
United Nations Development Programme
Co-organizers
Sponsors
Data Bazaar
Using Feedback Data, Open Data, and Social Media to Enable Agile Response and Improve Decision Making