Name: The Future of Free (and Who Will Pay for It)
Start: 2025-10-22T16:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-10-22T17:30:00+01:00
Location: Room G.07, Informatics Forum, The University of Edinburgh

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October 2025
Giving Humanists a Helping Hand in HPC

Talk/Discussion

20th October 2025 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM BST

Online Edinburgh
A discussion led by Brad Rittenhouse.

Free
Facilitating Futures-led Design Sprints

Talk/Discussion

21st October 2025 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM BST
Explore how the strategic use of futures methods and digital tools can help teams create innovative solutions under pressure.

Free
Traveltech/E-corner Meetup

Talk/Discussion

22nd October 2025 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM BST

Room 2.55, Edinburgh Futures Institute 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, EH3 9EF
Join us for the next TravelTech Meetup, hosted by the Edinburgh Futures Institute!

Free
The Future of Free (and Who Will Pay for It)

Talk/Discussion

22nd October 2025 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM BST

Room G.07, Informatics Forum, The University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Newington, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Who bears the cost of free in our AI-accelerated world?

Free

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Making Waves

Making Waves is an exciting programme of events that explores creativity in different forms, crossing areas such as the arts, technology, science, and the environment..

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Learning Curves

Our Autumn 2024 programme of events explored the future of education through panel discussions, poetry readings, live music and performance, and deep intellectual debate and discussion.

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POWER TRIP

Our Autumn 2023 programme of events explored leadership in all its forms – from the seats of power to the front lines of activist movements and even in our own workplaces.

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Love machine

Our Spring 2023 programme of events explored the interconnections of AI and data with humanity through conversations, performances, and workshops.

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First Breath

Our Autumn 2022 programme featured more than 20 events exploring crisis, migration, displacement and equality coalescing around the theme of Climate Justice.

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Making Waves

Learning Curves

POWER TRIP

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First Breath

Meet the events team

Alice Disley

Fraser Pringle

Ioannis Kalkounos

Lewis Williams

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