Past Events

10th Annual Open Education Conference

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
November 6, 2013 (All day) - November 8, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
The Canyons Resort Park City, UT
United States

For over a decade the focus of the open education community has been on creating and sharing open educational resources. We have largely succeeded in building out a vast, high quality open content infrastructure atop which a new generation of educational innovations are being built. As we celebrate the success of that work, the 10th annual Open Education 2013 Conference looks forward to the critical work of the next decade.

This year’s conference themes include:

  • Developing and deploying models that support the broad adoption and use of open educational resources
  • Leveraging the open content infrastructure to enable and reinvigorate efforts like prior learning assessment, alternative pathways to credentials, and informal and lifelong learning...

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EHI Live 2013

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
November 5, 2013 (All day) - November 6, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
National Exhibition Centre Birmingham
United Kingdom

EHI Live 2013 will bring together popular features from previous shows and new meetings and activities. This year’s conference focuses on themes that are at the very centre of healthcare reforms in the UK with streams on The Big EPR Debate, health secretary Jeremy Hunt’s call for a paperless NHS by 2018, and the challenges of Dame Fiona Caldicott’s second review of information governance and information sharing.  Giving delegates the chance to discuss these issues with like-minded people makes EHI Live 2013 an unmissable event.

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Open Access and Research Conference 2013

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
October 31, 2013 (All day) - November 1, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
Science and Engineering Centre Brisbane
Australia

Since the previous iteration of the conference in 2008, a number of key reforms to academic publishing requirements have occurred, both in Australia and internationally. The adoption of national open access mandates reflects a common concern for delivering more efficient and broad-reaching research communication systems - a transition fundamentally underpinned by issues of access and dissemination. The theme Discovery, Impact and Innovation focuses on this transition.

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Health Data Exchange & Interoperability Summit

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
October 30, 2013 (All day) - October 31, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
Washington, DC
United States

eHealth Initiative's (eHI) Health Data Exchange & Interoperability Summit will occur October 30-31, 2013 at the Grand Hyatt in Washington, DC. This two-day event will feature a series of brief case studies and interactive multi-stakeholder panels focused on electronic health information exchange and its impact on patient care. Read More »

Open Data Institute Annual Summit 2013

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
October 29, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
London
United Kingdom

Open Data Institute Annual Summit 2013 - The daytime sessions will present an opportunity to hear inspiring stories from expert speakers. In the evening attendees are invited to celebrate Open Data’s impact on government, business and society.

The summit will bring together an international line-up of acclaimed experts including World Wide Web inventor and ODI founder Sir Tim Berners-Lee. It will be followed by the ODI’s Gala Dinner that will enable participants to connect and network with the leading players in open data. Read More »

International Congress for Clinicians in Complementary and Integrative Medicine

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
October 29, 2013 (All day) - October 31, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
Chicago, IL
United States

On October 29-31, 2013, the Consortium of Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine will convene the inaugural International Congress for Clinicians in Complementary and Integrative Medicine in Chicago, Illinois. Read More »

Games For Health Europe 2013

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
October 28, 2013 (All day) - October 29, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
Amsterdam
Netherlands

Games for Health reached Europe in 2011. The non-profit Games for Health Europe is the official sister conference of the Games for Health project in the U.S.  Their goal is to help bring serious gaming and healthcare together in order to contribute to more advanced healthcare across Europe. Read More »

AHIMA Convention & Exhibition 2013

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
October 26, 2013 (All day) - October 30, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
Atlanta, GA
United States

The 85th American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) Convention and Exhibit will draw health information management (HIM) thought leaders and professionals and healthcare executives from all areas of health informatics and information management for a weeklong focus on the global transformation of HIM technology & solutions. Read More »

Continua Health Alliance Southeast Asia Work Group Event on Personal Connected Health

Event Details
Type: 
Open Source Event
Date: 
October 23, 2013 - 10:00am - 3:30pm
Location: 
HIMSS Digital Healthcare Week 2013
Marina Bay Sands
Singapore

Continua Health Alliancetoday announced its Southeast Asia Work Group is hosting a flagship event during HIMSS Digital Healthcare Week 2013, highlighting unique business development opportunities, policy initiatives and the advantages of personal connected health devices and solutions for the region. Read More »

2013 OPEN MINDS Technology & Informatics Institute

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
October 23, 2013 (All day) - October 24, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
Philadelphia Convention Center Philiadelphia, PA
United States

The 2013 OPEN MINDS Technology and Informatics Institute is designed to provide an inside look at the ground-breaking technologies that will influence the health care market in the years to come. By gathering together the industry’s greatest technological innovators, a team of expert faculty, and the country’s top health and human service executives, this institute will not only provide you with a glimpse at the future, but also a strategic roadmap for success along the way.

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VistA Expo 2013

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
October 22, 2013 - 8:00am - October 25, 2013 - 3:00pm

The VISTA Expo & Symposium is an annual conference that provides a unique opportunity for VistA thought leaders, decision-makers, vendors, adopters, and end-users to meet in a professional conference environment. The four-day program features daily keynote addresses on major VistA topics, and a range of panels, presentations and roundtable discussions. In addition, VISTA Expo is sponsoring a full slate of pre-conference training classes. The eight different classes covering a range of VISTA-related topics will be held at the same venue as the VISTA Expo, in Seattle, Washington, beginning October 18, 2013. The VISTA Expo & Symposium will run from October 22 to 25, 2013.

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Open Source Developers Conference 2013

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
October 21, 2013 (All day) - October 23, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
The Langham Hotel Auckland
New Zealand

The Australasian Open Source Developers Conference (OSDC) is one of the top conferences for developers in Asia Pacific. It’s primarily focused on development with open source tools and development of open source software, and is now in its 10th year.

For the first time, the conference is crossing the ocean and is landing in Auckland, New Zealand, 21st – 23rd October 2013, at the lavish Langham Hotel. This makes it truly an international event to that is a must attend. Read More »

Open Source Hospital Information Systems Development Workshop

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
October 21, 2013 (All day) - October 25, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
United Nations University International Institute for Global Health Kuala Lumpur
Malaysia

The Open Source Hospital Information Systems Development Workshop will be held from 21 to 25 October 2013 at the United Nations University International Institute for Global Health. The 5-day programme will consist of lectures, intensive discussion sessions, hands-on programming session and site visits. The language of instruction for the workshop is English.

The main purpose of the workshop is to equip healthcare professionals working in a hospital information system environment with a fundamental knowledge of the concepts and components of open source hospital information systems. Read More »

Open Access Week 2013

Event Details
Type: 
Open Source Event
Date: 
October 21, 2013 (All day) - October 27, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
Everywhere

Open Access Week 2013 is a global event, now in its 6th year. The goal is to help promote Open Access as a new norm in scholarship and research around the world.

'Open Access' to information – the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need – has the power to transform the way research and scientific inquiry are conducted. It has direct and widespread implications for academia, medicine, science, industry, and for society as a whole. Read More »

LinuxCon Europe 2013

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
October 21, 2013 (All day) - October 23, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
Edinburgh International Conference Centre, Edinburgh
United Kingdom

LinuxCon Europe is the place to learn from the best and the brightest, delivering content from the leading maintainers, developers and project leads in the Linux community and from around the world. There's simply no other event in Europe where developers, sys admins, architects and all types and levels of technical talent gather together under one roof for education, collaboration and problem-solving to further the Linux platform.  Read More »

The Open Group London 2013 Conference

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
October 21, 2013 (All day) - October 24, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
Central Hall Westminster London
United Kingdom

Transforming an organization is about fundamental change in the way a business operates.  The Open Group supports business transformation goals by working with suppliers and end-users to establish open, vendor-neutral IT standards that can be used in a cross-section of industries.

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VISTA Academy 2013

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
October 18, 2013 - 12:00pm - October 21, 2013 - 5:00pm

A full slate of pre-conference training classes has been announced for the Academy program of the Third Annual VISTA Expo & Symposium. The eight different classes covering a range of VISTA-related topics will be held at the same venue as the VISTA Expo, in Seattle, Washington, beginning October 18, 2013. The VISTA Expo & Symposium will run from October 22 to 25, 2013.

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CDISC for Medical Device Companies: Progress Made and Best Practices from Pharma/Biotech Implementation

Event Details
Type: 
Open Source Event
Date: 
October 9, 2013 - 6:30pm - 9:00pm
Location: 
Capgemini Offices, South San Francisco
20425 Stevens Creek Blvd
Cupertino, CA 95014
United States

The healthcare industry, as well as regulatory bodies, have been hard at work in the standardization of clinical trial data. The need for data transparency, traceability, and auditability has continued to increase, in line with the cost of studies and the amount of data submitted to the FDA. As a result, much progress has been made in the past decade in creating standards to ease data exchange and interoperability as well as speed up the regulatory review process.

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Ireland Public Health (IPH) Open Conference

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
October 8, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
Croke Park Conference Center Dublin
Ireland

Following the success of the Open Conference held In Belfast last year IPH invites you to attend the 2nd Public Health Open Conference which will take place on Tuesday, 8 October 2013 in Croke Park, Dublin. The programme will be suggested and developed by you, the participants, through online registration and this approach gives you the opportunity to present on a topic of your choice.  There is no cost in attending the Conference.

The aim of the Conference is to provide an open platform to:

  • Showcase multidisciplinary work in public health,
  • Provide opportunities for partnership working...

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2013 OpenMRS Implementers Meeting

Event Details
Type: 
Conference
Date: 
October 8, 2013 (All day) - October 11, 2013 (All day)
Location: 
Noble Conference Centre Eldoret
Kenya

This meeting provides an opportunity for developers to collaborate and improve their technical skills in OpenMRS, implementers to share their best practices from implementations, and users to propose and prioritize their top features in future releases of the software. As we introduced last year, the 2013 Implementers Meeting may also include visits to OpenMRS implementation sites along with a discussion afterward for participants to share their experience and suggestions. Read More »