Public & professional speaking

Overview

Gavin is as comfortable on stage with the President of the World Bank at their spring meeting as at the G8, in front of a room of C-Suite executives, at a hacker gathering defining new standards, or at an arts festival talking about the intersection of astrophysics, music and algorithms.

He has been recognised as one of the most influential people in data — winning awards for innovation and expertise — and has served on the UK Smart London Board, the Ministry of Justice Data, Science and Evidence Board, and as a London Tech Ambassador.

If you’d like Gavin to speak at your event, biog & notes are here. He undertakes paid and unpaid speaking depending on context.

Impact @ web-scale Data & society Open banking Open data Smart data AI & algorithms Entrepreneurship & policy Climate & environment Astrophysics & music
Gavin Starks — influential people in data award
On stage
IMF / World Bank Group Spring Meetings 2014 — Talking about the Data Revolution

2014 IMF / World Bank Group Spring Meetings — The Data Revolution. With Dr. Jim Yong Kim (President, World Bank), Jan Eliasson (Deputy Secretary General, UN), and others.

Royal Astronomical Society 2017 National Astronomy Meeting
RAS National Astronomy Meeting 2017 — Acoustic Cosmology
US Secretary of Agriculture's panel on data privacy
US Secretary of Agriculture’s panel on data privacy
G8 — Gavin Starks, Open Data Institute

G8 — Open Data Institute

Events
2020 onwards
2020–ongoing IcebreakerOne events — COP, Davos, and more
2020 Jan 27 Chair, ‘Creating a Data Ethics Board’, private round table London, UK
2020 Jan 22 Icebreaker One launch in collaboration with WEF Davos, Switzerland
2019
Dec 04 Global Open Finance Summit Edinburgh, UK
Nov 28 The Longplayer Conversation 2019 — Jem Finer & Gavin Starks British Library, London, UK
Oct 24 Innovation in Fintech, The Telegraph Technology Intelligence London, UK
Jul 10 IcebreakerOne private round table — catalysing a digital ecosystem for the environment House of Lords, London, UK
Jul 9 APPG for Longevity — A National Strategy for improving Healthy Life Expectancy Millbank, London, UK
Jul 3 Exploiting the Data Economy — Bird & Bird Advance Series London, UK
Jun 20 Longplayer Day — opening talk Goldsmiths, London, UK
Jun 11 Icebreaker One, CogX London, UK
May 17 Icebreaker One launch, UN Disaster Risk Reduction Global Platform Geneva, Switzerland
Apr 16 Introduction to Icebreaker One, Earth Day, Somerset House London, UK
Apr 8 Challenge & feedback to Extinction Rebellion, Newspeak House London, UK
Feb 27–29 Open Banking, FinTech Invitational Forum, Northwind Professional Institute Cambridge, Canada
2018
Dec 6–7 Global Open Banking Summit — Open Banking Innovation Edinburgh, UK
Oct 13 Climate Change – what’s next? Opening keynote, DesCon Belgrade, Serbia
Sep 17 ’10 years after the Global Financial Crisis’, Transparency Task Force London, UK
Sep 6 ‘Should you be thinking about data differently?’, The Forum, Royal Mail London, UK
Sep 4 Chair, ‘Data With A Purpose? Tech Won’t Save Us’, Disruption Summit Europe London, UK
Sep 3 ‘License to click’, Nine to Noon, Radio New Zealand Radio NZ
Jun 14 Data is the infrastructure of our future — private roundtable Wellington, NZ
Apr 18 Launch: ‘Can government stop losing its mind?‘, Nesta London, UK
Apr 16 Developing the Digital Economy, Commonwealth Business Forum, CHOGM London, UK
Jan 25–26 Judge & speaker, $500K SDG hackathon prize, Future Hack Davos, Switzerland
2017
Dec 01 Closing keynote & fireside, Open Innovation in Media Warsaw, Poland
Nov 17 Data and the future of Health & Care — Government Office for Science London, UK
Nov 16 Culture; data; art — Royal College of Art London, UK
Oct 23–26 Four talks in Seoul — Art Centre Nabi / CODE / National Information Agency / Yonsei University Seoul, Korea
Oct 5 Cup Club wins Ellen MacArthur Foundation Award, #OurOceans Malta
Oct 4 Ethical codes for a digital age, Breakout, Forum for the Future Shard, London, UK
Jul 06 Acoustic CosmologyRoyal Astronomical Society National Astronomy Meeting UK
May 25 Closing the Climate Protection Gap, Oasis, Edelman London, UK
Mar 29 Social Investment Data, Acumen Impact Circle London, UK
Feb 24 The Future of Data — DMA Direct Marketing Association London, UK
Previous talks — selection
Open Government Partnership, G8 meeting — Lancaster House, London
The future of data — British Embassy, Tokyo
Data as culture — Churchill Room, HM Treasury, London
The open data revolution — World Bank, Washington DC
Open data — European Commission, Brussels
‘State of the Nation’ — OpenTech, London (8 years)
Open data — Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Malta
Open data impact — US Secretary of Agriculture’s roundtable, World Food Prize, Iowa
Internet of Things & Industrial Internet — Finnish Ambassador’s Residence, UK
The data revolution (keynote) — UNDP, Cartagena, Colombia
Social impact data — Gates Foundation, Washington
The future of data — Aspen Institute / Knight Foundation, Aspen
Data as Culture — University of Rio de Janeiro
City data infrastructure — Mayor’s Office, GLA, London
The future of data — Wired conference, London
The future is open data (keynote) — Cloud Expo Europe, London
Open data in Finance — Hatton Garden, London
Data-driven sports innovation — Science Museum IMAX, Sport England
Business innovation with data — Henley Business School
The Age of Social Machines — Web Science Institute
The Digital Economy — Imperial College London
Data for everyone — Future Everything, Manchester
Data for open government — Conservative and Labour party conferences
Music & open culture — Music 4.5, London

A small selection from hundreds of presentations, panels and roundtables. Pre-2017: dozens of presentations globally while running the Open Data Institute and AMEE.

To invite Gavin to speak at your event — biog & notes here. Paid and unpaid engagements considered.