 The ODI Summit is a fantastic place to talk about data and the impact that it's having on our societies and our economies. It brings new people into an environment where they can understand where best practice lives. What the ODI Summit achieves is, starting with getting together lots of people, so a huge amount of networking. People come for all the stalls, the stands and the talks. The ODI Summit is definitely not like a usual tech conference. There's always a vast number of people who have actually got interesting challenges with data or problems that they're trying to solve and want to talk and share. There's always a moment of original thought that pops up on stage, on a conversation, where you go and say, ah, that wasn't yet an hour strategy and we better do something about that. I would recommend the ODI Summit because data is fundamental to the future and if we want to create a future that works for everyone, we need to make sure that everyone is in the room when we're deciding on how we're going to collect the information and handle the information that we're going to be using. I think the key thing that sets the ODI Summit apart from at least any of the conferences that I've been to is just the level of passion around the topic. I think it's a great learning place, a great place for like-minded people, really concerned or just passionate about data to come together. Data as culture is an amazing part of ODI and has been since the beginning. It gives us a different way of thinking about and addressing the issues around data, a way that is colourful and engages people. They really bring alive a human and artistic sense of data. It's not all dry, deadly stuff. This is really animated data as cultural object. Too often I will go to events that are about data and artificial intelligence and they're having conversations where they're still saying, well do you think there's some problems with how we use data? And we need to get beyond the question of whether we should do it at all. We really need to get into the how do you do. What's that going to look like? Who's tried what and did that work and what did you learn from it? And that's what you get here and that's why it's really great. I would absolutely recommend the ODI Summit to anybody who's interested in how data is changing our world and I think that should be everybody.