Most recent Reading Room Manchester breakfast meeting focused on 'Open Digital' specifically in the Arts & Culture Sector. The beginnings of an ongoing discussion and debate, which we would love you to join!

1. Owen Valentine Pringle
Owen Valentine
Pringle is a
leading Digital
Transformation
consultant and
former Director
of Digital Communications at
the London-based headquarters
of international NGO, Amnesty
International, where he led on
development and implementation
of global digital strategy for the
organisation as well as its use of
technology and open innovation for
social change. Prior to this, Owen
was Commercial Director for New
Media at ITN, Brand Director for New
Media & New Product Development
at BskyB, and Head of Media
Services at Southbank Centre.
Jon Pratty
Jon Pratty is
Relationship
Manager for
Creative Media,
Arts Council
England across
the South East area, based in
Brighton, Cambridge and London.
Jon helped on The Space, the Arts
Council England/BBC pilot project,
and initiated the development of
the Brighton Digital Festival. He’s
currently working on digital projects
involving culture/tourism and
open data, as well as mentoring
development of three arts/digital/
learning clusters in the South East.
Dr Marieke Navin
Dr Marieke Navin
is the Director
of Manchester
Science Festival
and manages
the year round
contemporary science programme at
the Museum of Science & Industry.
The Manchester Science Festival
has engaged over half a million
people with science since 2007
and specialises in bringing science
to life in the most creative ways
possible, making it ideally placed
for ‘Open Digital’. Most recently
the Festival has driven the highly
successful #HookedonMusic project
in partnership with the University of
Amsterdam and the Wellcome Trust,
which Marieke will be discussing
with us.
Diana Erskine
Diana Erskine is
the Managing
Director of
Reading Room
Manchester as
well as sitting on
the Manchester Digital and DMA
North Councils. Diana has over 8
years’ experience working in Digital,
Ticketing, Ecommerce and User
Experience - specialising in Digital
Marketing. She has worked across a
wide variety of sectors from Charity,
Arts, Heritage and Culture to Retail
and B2B. Having worked for and with
such a wide range of organisations
and businesses, Diana’s experience
lies in getting to the root of business
objectives in order to architect useful
and effective Digital solutions that
deliver results.
Today’s speakers
We’re delighted to be joined by Diana Erskine, Owen Valentine Pringle, Jon Pratty and Dr Marieke Navin who will be drawing
on their wealth of experiences and sharing valuable insights and opinions as well as discussing recent examples of their work.
Today’s schedule
9:00 – 9:10
9:10 – 9:35
9:35 – 10:00
10:00 – 10:25
10:25 – 10:35
10:35 – 11:00
11:00
Diana Erskine
Chair’s intro
Jon Pratty
How do we get smarter about Open Data?
Owen Valentine Pringle
The role of ‘open’ thinking and open software
solutions in Digital Transformation projects
Dr Marieke Navin
Delivering a truly ‘Open Digital’
project #HookedOnMusic
Diana Erskine
Chair’s summary
Q & A
Networking
Join the discussion
@ReadingRoom
@di_erskine
@jon_pratty
@thereinafter
@lisamarieke
As a group of people who are all invested in the Arts, Culture and Heritage sectors, either personally or through our profession, we are having a lot of information thrown
at us about making the industry more open. What do we mean by ‘Open Digital’ and how is it changing the way we work?
Being ‘open’ in our approach refers to various ways and means by which we can share and strengthen our industries through the use of Open Data, Open Software
and Hardware and Open Knowledge Share. Through today’s event we hope to start to demystify these topics, showing you the real value of adopting such principles.
Through better understanding we can all work together pushing the industry forward and allowing all organisations to benefit from the latest digital innovation and
strategic thinking.
Reading Room welcomes you to join our ongoing discussion and debate aimed at pushing digital forward in Arts, Culture and Heritage. As a consultancy that specialises
in these sectors, working side-by-side with leading organisations tackling digital challenges, we are going to be running a series of events over the coming year looking
at where ‘Open Digital’ can not only help, but also support and encourage collaboration and knowledge share. Please join us at our next event in September discussing
Open Source Software including Ticketing and Collections Management solutions.
‘Open Digital’
How it’s changing the pace and the way organisations work,
specifically in the Arts & Culture Sector.