Upcoming Events
The Turing Way Practitioners Hub hosts online and in-person workshops and events for the Experts in Residence and the broader Turing and The Turing Way Community. You are welcome to join us at any public event listed below.
Call for applications is open to participate in the cohort 2025-26 (starts in September 2025). Find details on the Join Us page.
A webinar was hosted on 28 May 2025 to share information with potential applicants.
Previous Events
The project team has hosted cohort-based activities and events for the previous cohorts between 2023 and 2025.
Cohort 2024-25
| Event name | Dates | Mode: Online or In-person/Hybrid (duration) | Audience | Summary |
| 2024 Cohort Kick-Off Event | 5 September 2024 | Online (1 hour) | 2024 Cohort - EiRs | Malvika Sharan, Arielle Bennett, Ella Macaffery and Léllé Demertzi welcomed the second cohort with 20 companies, represented by 40 Experts in Residence (EiRs). |
| Stakeholder Management in AI - 1 | 12 September 2024 | Online (1.5 hours) | 2024 Cohort - EiRs | Malvika Sharan designed this workshop combining community management, user design principles and systems thinking. The first part introduced the double diamond design principles and how to conduct stakeholder mapping for a project or company. |
| 2024 Cohort - Official Launch | 24 September 2024 | Hybrid - The Alan Turing Institute in London (2.5 hours) | 2024 Cohort - EiRs | An in person launch event brought together all EiRs, creating opportunity for them to meet each other in person and learn share about their goals in Practitioners Hub. |
| Stakeholder Management in AI - 2 | 24 September 2024 | Hybrid - The Alan Turing Institute in London (2.5 hours) | 2024 Cohort - EiRs | In the second part of this workshop, Malvika Sharan and Mike Nolan covered the second of double diamond, to test ideas, develop engagement strategy and work with users/community. This part also covered systems thinking to facilitate identification of 'leverage points' in the system when designing or deploying a product. This part of the material was built on previous workshop delivered by Digital Catapult team. |
| Introduction to AI Readiness Assessment Toolkit | 10 October 2024 | Online (2 hours) | 2024 Cohort - EiRs | Hema Ramamoorthy, Senior AI/ML Technologist from Digital Catapult shared the AI Adoption Assessment Toolkit. |
| AI risks, rewards and responsibilities: Responsible Decision-Making Business - Part 1 | 17 October 2024 | Online (2.5 hours) | 2024 Cohort - EiRs | Led by Mishka Nemes, this workshop was delivered by the Turing Skills team: Find materials and agenda online on Skills webpage. |
| AI Insight Chat: Is Open Source the Future of AI? | 24 October | Online (1.5 hours) | Video online | Hosted by Malvika Sharan, this panel offered their industry perspectives from John Sandall: CEO and Principal Data Scientist at Coefficient, Keivan Navaie: Professor in Intelligent Networks, Lancaster University, Independent Scientific Advisor, Alan Turing Institute, Udai Dhamija: President at Oxbridge AI Challenge and Jennifer Ding: Senior Researcher, Research Applications at The Alan Turing Institute. |
| AI risks, rewards and responsibilities: Responsible Decision-Making Business - Part 2 | 31 October | Online (2.5 hours) - In collaboration with the Turing Skills team, led by Mishka Nemes | 2024 Cohort - EiRs | Led by Mishka Nemes, this workshop was delivered by the Turing Skills team: Find materials and agenda online on Skills webpage. |
| Open Source, Ethics and Innovation in AI | 25-26 November 2024 | Hybrid - BMA House London (2 days) | Video will be posted soon. | Day one explored open source AI, its regulatory aspects, and opportunities for emerging companies. Keynotes, panels, and hands-on sessions showcased open source AI breakthroughs. Day two focused on AI ethics, addressing transparency, fairness, and accountability. Interactive discussions covered bias, privacy, and societal impact, from ethical frameworks to regulation, providing insights into responsible AI. Please visit the event page for detailed agenda. |
| Long-Term Strategy and Roadmapping - Part 1: Insights from Open Source | 5 February 2025 | Hybrid (2 hours) | 2024 Cohort - EiRs and the Turing Research Engineering Group | This workshop was hosted in collaboration with Google Research and Google Open Source and RISE Research Institutes of Sweden. Amanda Casari covered the business of open source; Johan Linåker, open source strategy and risk management; Sophia Vargas, collecting OSS metrics while respecting contributor privacy; and Erin McKean, open source documentation lessons from Google Season of Docs. |
| Long-Term Strategy and Roadmapping - Part 2: Practical walk through to pull all work together in roadmap | 20 February 2025 | Online | 2024 Cohort - EiRs | Will be facilitated by Arielle Bennett and Patricia Herterich. |
| 2024 Cohort Showcase Event | Dates TBA (February 2025) | Hybrid - London | Registrations are limited to EiRs and their network | Recording from this event will be shared on YouTube. |
Cohort 2023-24
| Event name | Dates | Mode: Online or In-person/Hybrid (duration) | Audience | Summary |
| Stakeholder-mapping-and-engagement | 19 July 2023 | Online | 2024 Cohort - EiRs | Stakeholder mapping from a community management perspective |
| Practitioners Hub Workshop: Adopting Data Science Best Practices: Exploring Cross-Sector Needs, Challenges, and Opportunities | 27 July 2023 | Hybrid (full-day event) | A keynote panel featured five speakers: Neil Chue Hong, Director of Software Sustainability Institute; Lauren Wool, Data Scientist, City Data | City Intelligence Unit, Greater London Authority; Simon Reeve, Director of Innovation, The Alan Turing Institute and Lloyd Register Foundation and Kirstie Whitaker, Director of Tools, Practices and Systems (TPS), The Alan Turing Institute. This panel was facilitated by Jennifer Ding, TPS Senior Researcher - Research Applications. | |
| User-journey Mapping (UX/UI) | 7-11 August 2023 | Online (3 hours) | Delivered by Fruto Design | |
| Applying pedagogy skills to our work | 6 September 2023 | Online | In partnership with Skills Team | |
| Skills gap analysis workshop | 20 September | Online | Informal discussion | |
| Systems thinking - 1&2 | 23 October 2023 | Hybrid (Full day hours) | In partnership with Digital Catapult | |
| Open Source Roadmapping | November 2023 | Hybrid (3 hours) | Delivered by Superbloom | |
Fireside Chat: Adopting Open Source in Data Science & AI Across Sectors: Launch of 2023 Case Study | 11 December 2023 | Online (1.5 hours) | This panel featured highlights from Experts in Residence (EiRs) Lucy Stephenson (British Antarctic Survey), Rowan Hemsi (Office of National Statistics), Stephen Haben (Energy Systems Catapult), Wenjia Tang (DigiHaul) and Maxine Mackintosh from Genomics England. This call was facilitated by Malvika Sharan (The Turing Way Co-Lead) and Raphael Sonabend, a previous EiR. | |
| Showcase Event: Co-adoption of AI and Open Practices for Innovation | 6 March 2024 | Hybrid (Full Day) | On 06 Mar 2024, The Turing Way Practitioners Hub hosted a special showcase featuring case studies, expert panels and attendee-led discussions on the co-adoption of open source and AI. The call for Expression of Interest to join the second cohort of the Practitioners Hub was also launched. |
Resources & Recordings
All resources for reuse and case studies for public access are shared under the CC-BY 4.0 License on the Practitioners Hub community page of Zenodo.
Video recordings from public events are available on our YouTube channel.