Happy First Birthday WSI :-)

WSI celebrated its first anniversary at a special event at London’s Digital Catapult Centre on Monday.

The Digichamps were there providing social media support as detailed in Tim’s review.

They also experimented with Periscope:

Photos from the event can be viewed here (more are still being added!) and Bartosz’s summary Storifys of all the tweeting are available here and here. Video interviews and recordings of the full panel sessions are available on our YouTube channel.

The venue was pretty amazing as you can see here:

Before the official start, early arrivals could check out a number of stands and displays:

The event featured a number of panel sessions:

The best set of presentations came at the end of the day from the Web Science PhD students, Reuben Binns, Emma Cradock and Richard Gomer:

A few facts and figures:

Media coverage of the event:

Scientific Computing World
Data News Daily
Phys.org
Digital Catapult Centre
EurekAlert

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