Oxford Digital Festival 2024
Relive the Oxford Digital Festival 2024
The second Oxford Digital Festival happened on Thursday 14 November 2024, at Rhodes House. We once again be gathered over 100 digital innovators from across Oxford under one roof to inspire colleagues about the potential of digital Oxford.
Hosted by Professor Anne Trefethen, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, People and Digital, the day featured plenary talks, interactive sessions, exhibition stands and offered attendees the opportunity to network.
CATCH UP EXHIBITORS VISITOR GUIDE 2023 FESTIVAL
https://www.youtube.com/embed/CBhgGMaK6L8?si=JieNZEujTHziDsZD
CATCH UP
You can view sessions from the day (SSO required):
- AI and climate with Hannah Christensen
- AI and me workshop panel with Alwyn Collinson, Ella Wicks, Sara Ratner, and Brian Marsden
- The future of education panel with Anne Trefethen, Kate Maxwell (Microsoft), Valerie Singer (AWS), and Adele Every (Cisco)
- AI and music workshop with David De Roure and Robert Laidlow
- Sustainable computing with Mark Bjornsgaard (Deep Green Technologies)
Look back at the day with our photo library (SSO required).
EXHIBITORS
Read below for a reminder of the 'innovator' colleagues who showcased their work as exhibitors at the Digital Festival and find out more about their fascinating work.
Exhibitor | Further information | Contact information |
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Digital Scholarship at Oxford | Digital Scholarship website | digitalscholarship@humanities.ox.ac.uk |
Centre for Digital Scholarship | Sustainable Digital Scholarship Electronic Enlightenment Centre for Digital Scholarship Events |
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Research Data Oxford | Research Data Oxford website | researchdata@ox.ac.uk |
FAIRsharing | FAIRsharing website | contact@fairsharing.org |
User Experience | UX Centre of Excellence website | Sarah Zama: sarah.zama@it.ox.ac.uk |
Digital Accessibility | UX Centre of Excellence website | Ben Tillyer: ben.tillyer@it.ox.ac.uk |
Transforming Oxford's Digital Communications | Transforming Oxford's Digital Communications Programme | transformingdigitalcommsprogramme@it.ox.ac.uk |
Synchrony: interactive digital art inspired by cell behaviours in the embryonic heart | Artist website Project website |
Tomoko Watanabe: tomoko.watanabe@dpag.ox.ac.uk |
AI and ML Competency Centre | AI and ML Competency Centre website | AIMLSupportCentre@it.ox.ac.uk |
Workflow and Automation Competency Centre | Workflow and Automation Competency Centre website | workflow.automation-cc@it.ox.ac.uk |
Cloud Computing for Research Competency Centre | Cloud Computing for Research Competency Centre website | researchcloud.ai-cc@it.ox.ac.uk |
Cyber Security Competency Centre | Cyber Security Competency Centre website | cybersecurity-cc@it.ox.ac.uk |
Eyemmersive | Eyemmersive project website Eyemmersive introductory video Eyemmersive showcase |
Selvakumar Ramachandran: selvakumar.ramachandran@conted.ox.ac.uk |
GLAM - Exhibit | Exhibit website | |
GLAM - MARCO (Manuscripts and Archives at Oxford University) | MARCO website | |
GLAM - Bes - Creating Identities | Bes website | |
GLAM - 3D at the Museum of Natural History | Megalosaurus 200 website | |
GLAM - About Time | About Time website | |
GLAM - Wandering in Other Worlds | Wandering in Other Worlds website | |
Taylor Editions | Taylor Editions website | Emma Huber: emma.huber@bodleian.ox.ac.uk |
ARCHiOx - Analysis and Recording of Cultural Heritage in Oxford | ARCHiOx website | John Barrett: john.barrett@bodleian.ox.ac.uk |
IMPRESA | The IMPRESA project aims to transform Nuffield Department of Medicine's operations by developing a comprehensive web application designed to streamline various workflows within NDM. The platform integrates multiple workflows into a single system, addressing inefficiencies from using separate platforms. | Leonidas Koukouflis: leonidas.koukouflis@cmd.ox.ac.uk |
Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub events programme (Jesus College) | Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub website | digitalhub@jesus.ox.ac.uk |
MyOxford | MyOxford project website | myoxford@admin.ox.ac.uk |
Online Education Hub | Online Education Hub webpage | onlineeducationhub@conted.ox.ac.uk |
Oxford Saïd Online (EdTech of Saïd Business School) | Saïd Online Programmes website | OnlineExecEd@sbs.ox.ac.uk |
Digital Education Service (by CTL) | Centre for Teaching and Learning website | |
Online courses development | Continuing Education's online courses | tall@conted.ox.ac.uk |
Headless Web Development | Merton College website | Rebecca Wilson: rebecca.wilson@merton.ox.ac.uk |
Hands on experience of VR and 3-D modelling medical image segmentation (winners of a VC Award in 2024) |
VC Awards announcement |
Rumyana Smilevska: rumyana.smilevska@dpag.ox.ac.uk Sharmila Rajendran: sharmila.rajendran@dpag.ox.ac.uk |
DGscope.id | DGscope is an affordable digital stethoscope designed to aid telemedicine, telemonitoring, medical training, and research while minimizing auscultation errors that might otherwise result in inaccurate diagnoses. | |
Train Your Eyes, Train Your Brain – Amblyopia Virtual Reality | Train Your Eyes, Train Your Brain – Amblyopia Virtual Reality webpage | vision.study@ndcn.ox.ac.uk |
Mung! Digital Grandchild | Mung! LinkedIn | mungtech@outlook.com |
Quantifying Parkinson's using digital wearable technology | OxQUIP study website | Chrystalina Antoniades: chrystalina.antoniades@ndcn.ox.ac.uk |
Laing O’Rourke (inc Schwarzman Centre) | Read about the building of the new Schwarzman Centre | |
Improving Wireless Programme | Improving Wireless programme website | improvingwirelessprogramme@it.ox.ac.uk |
Opportunities List |
A centralized, filtered, database of humanities-relevant opportunities accessible to members of the university. Hosted on SharePoint page through a Microsoft List. Communications Officers and/or professional services staff can add opportunities that may be of shared interest throughout the Humanities Division. This eliminates duplication of work and allows us to share information between faculties. |
Claire MacLeod: claire.macleod@theology.ox.ac.uk |
PixselChat - Follow lectures in your own language | PixselChat website | Sepi Chakaveh: sepideh.chakaveh@conted.ox.ac.uk |
Impossible Factory | Impossible Factory webpage The Impossible Factory is a rapid innovation and prototyping method which helps businesses ideate on problems in a range of different industries and sectors, re-imagine how things can be done differently using technology, and quickly reach scale and commercial viability. |
VISITOR GUIDE
Check out the 2024 Visitor Guide for a full reminder of sessions, speakers, and exhibitors from the day.
RELIVE THE 2023 FESTIVAL
You can browse our 2023 Digital Festival page for video highlights of 2023's event, along with recorded playbacks of plenaries and a list of past exhibitors.

Catch up
You can watch all sessions from the day (SSO required):
- AI and climate
- AI and me workshop panel
- The future of education panel
- AI and music workshop
- Sustainable computing
Visitor Guide
View our visitor guide for full information on venue, speakers, and exhibitors.
Oxford Digital Festival 2024 Visitor Guide
Get in touch
Digital Festival 2023
Catch up on last year’s event, exhibitors and presentations (SSO required) on the 2023 webpage.