Join experts and authorities, leading researchers and many exciting startups as they come together to solve the challenge of reducing sick leave in the public and corporate sectors –by participating in one of Europe’s first business experiments using open data.

Enhance your current business model, and brainstorm new applications. Everyone is welcome! Are you a public official looking to improve municipal services; student looking to experiment and connect with potential future employees; a startup, SME or corporate employee aiming to tailor your business models; researchers interested in innovation methodology; or just simply a citizen with an above-average interest for making their city a better place? Sign up to join a group, or register your own team. We’re pooling resources to experiment with open data to improve public services and create new and improved business models. Winning groups to receive a monetary stipend and secured placement in the projects next development phase, Open Data Lab.

Learn more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c42QNa-rccw If you have an idea for using open data, want to find an interesting project to contribute towards, learn about how to visualise or analyse data or simply want to see what’s happening, then come participate! Participation is a core value of Open Data Day, everyone is free to voice their opinions in a constructive manner.

No matter your skill-set or interests, we are encouraging organisers to foster opportunities for you to learn and help the global open data community grow.

Who should participate? Anyone with an interest to support the application of HR-data to gain insight and build tools to help solve the increasing challenge of increasing sick days, and sick-leave in organisations, using Trondheim Municipality as a case.

What’s to gain? Connect with influencers, gain knowledge on public procurement processes, help develop a model for tracking and reducing sick leave, pivot your company’s business model towards meeting public sector needs, be part of developing a new innovation model in Europe, earn funding and connect to accelerator services.

Limited space to attend in person, further opportunities to participate online.