Knowledge Quarter Conference (KQ Conference)*
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The Knowledge Quarter Conference (KQ Conference) is a conference of talks and workshops on the future of knowledge. A diverse range of speakers from across the fields of politics, media, philosophy and academia will convene for one inspiring and provocative day of keynote talks, discussion groups and workshops, looking at Knowledge in all its forms.
Conference History:
KQ Conference 2023, 27 March 2023, Francis Crick Institute, London, United Kingdom
Conference Theme: Innovating a Better Tomorrow
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Main themes:
Innovation, Sustainability, Wellbeing, People (this represents topics which impact local area communities. e.g. the cost of living crisis)
Place (this represents topics which impact local area properties and developments. e.g. the local impact of HS2)
Keynotes: (2)
TBD
Auditoriums’ Presentations:
British Library extension
Innovating towards a sustainable food future
Boosting knowledge exchange through the mobility of innovators and researchers across sectors
The Mayor’s Skills Academy Hubs: supporting londoners into good work
AI, creativity and me
Affordable workspace
Focussing on cognitive distortions to support wellbeing in a learning environment
Social value and social supply chains
A sustainable knowledge quarter: a contractor’s insight
Inclusive innovation
Evolution of the human mind
The pursuit of the ECO
Belgrove house development
Bloomsbury law clinic: an innovative and impactful response to local area communities
The innovation campus
Beacon for mental health: St Pancras Hospital redevelopment
The magic circle
Seminar Rooms’ Presentations:
Hospitality Skills Academy: breakout session
Creative and Digital Skills Academy: breakout session
Affordable workspace: workshop
Look up! look down! get to know your town
Compassionate leadership
Resident-led social action in the Regent’s Park Estate
Opening Knowledge Quarter sectors to young people
Cut + paste: bringing purpose to life through design and experiences
Making R&D part of the local community
A creative economy through communication
Pleasure, connection, purpose: how museums can leverage emotions to build greater public support connection
LIFT: leading inclusive futures through technology
Building a more innovative UK – connecting R&D to people and politics
Crowdsourced and collaborative culture: ODAC’s journey to be part of its local Euston communities
Unlocking innovation
Turning research into innovative enterprise
KQ Conference 2021, 6-8 July 2021, Virtual venue
Conference Theme: The Future of Knowledge: Building Back Together
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Daily Topics:
Working Together; Learning Together; Growing Together
Keynotes:
Do Something: Activism for Everyone; Keynote 2 n.a.; A manifesto for change: How generation justice will lead the way in building back better
Plenary Sessions: The Future of…
Working Together, Learning Together, Growing Together
Youth Roundtables: A Young Person’s Perspective on …
Working Together, Learning Together, Growing Together
Lightning Talks: Current Approaches to…: Tales from the KQ
Working Together, Learning Together, Growing Together
(CANCELLED)
KQ Conference 2020, 14 July 2020, London, United Kingdom
Conference Theme: The Future of Knowledge: Growing Pains
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Conference Program TBD
KQ Conference 2019, 26 June 2019, British Library Knowledge Centre, London, United Kingdom
Conference Theme: The Future of Knowledge: Think Together. Think Better.
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Keynotes:
n.a.
Panel Discussions:
Democratising Knowledge; The Future of Knowledge-Sharing; Current Approaches to Sharing Knowledge: Tales from the KQ (lightning talk session)
Breakout Sessions:
Separating Science Fact From Science Fiction; The Dream of a Common Language (workshop); Democratising Knowledge Through Deliberative Democracy (panel); Young People as the Future of Knowledge; MAKE Meanwhile – A Public Space for Creative Collaboration in King’s Cross; Sometimes it’s Under the Apple Tree
Post-KQ Conference Legacy Events:
#4 Debunking the Myth of Decolonisation, 19 March 2020, London, United Kingdom (POSTPONED)
KQ Conference 2018, February 12, 2018, The British Museum, London, United Kingdom
Conference Theme: The Future of Knowledge (KQ Third Anniversary Conference)
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Keynotes:
n.a.
Panel Discussions:
The role of the Knowledge Creator; The role of the Knowledge Translator; The role of the Knowledge Consumer
Breakout Sessions:
Whose knowledge is it anyway? (panel); Heritage collections and wellbeing: the future of the past? (lecture); Academic Expertise: the good, the bad and the ugly (workshop); The Face of Knowledge (table discussion); The future of knowledge through the eyes of the future (panel); Mary’s Hand – curating historical fact as creative fiction; Reading Well: redefining the role of the expert through co-production (workshop); Publishing Knowledge: Have we had enough of experts?
The Knowledge Quarter:
Three Years On celebration and Essays launch