Events · 2026/27

Five events, one season

Each event takes one domain — farming, civic data, enterprise IT, online safety, heat-health — and asks the same thing: pull the sources together and show what no single one reveals. Where our people are speaking on the day, you'll see them on the date.

The 2026/27 events, in date order

03Enterprise FinOpsNext event

Fri 30 Oct2026

Beyond the Mainframe

How might an organisation see what its computing actually costs, when the estate spans generations of systems that each account for cost differently?

Friday 30 October 2026October half-term, inside the BCS Hertfordshire Community Conference — 52 years of BCS in Hertfordshire.

04Civic online safety

Sun 25 Apr2027

Safe in the Open

How might a person in public life understand and act on the harm aimed at them, without having to read all of it themselves?

Sunday 25 April 2027Oliver Cromwell's birthday — Huntingdon's public-life patron.

05Charity · patient safety

Late May2027

Ahead of the Heat

How might a warning issued for a whole region reach the individual people most at risk from it, while there is still time to act?

Exact date to be confirmedBuilt before the heat-alert season opens on 1 June.

01AgTech data

Sun 13 Jun2027

One Farm, One Picture

How might a farmer get a trustworthy answer about their own land, when the data that holds it sits in systems that were never built to talk to each other?

Sunday 13 June 2027LEAF Open Farm Sunday — British farming's open day.

02Civic data

Fri 16 Jul2027

Mapping the Gaps

How might someone see where different kinds of disadvantage fall on the same people and places, when each kind is counted and held separately?

Friday 16 July 2027Potto Brown's birthday, into the summer holidays.

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  • Roche
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  • IBM
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