Join us for an interactive, family-friendly day exploring how data shapes life in the Liverpool City Region. Doors open at 9:00 am for a quiet hour, with main activities running from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. Embark on a “data safari” to collect stamps at eight art displays and discover how data about health, homes, and daily life is used for good.
Enjoy creative workshops for all ages, from Lego data skills to mapping Teddy’s day, and hear insights from data and AI experts - including how elite sporting teams use technology. Explore our exhibition of data art commissions including a giant illuminated brain, share your views on the Community Data and AI Charter, and visit exhibitor stands for live demos. Complete your passport for a chance to win fun prizes!
Time: doors open at 10:00 am, event ends at 4:00 pm
Quiet hour: 9:00 am to 10:00 am
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Audience: Families, residents and communities from the Liverpool City Region.
Funded by the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority and delivered by the Civic Data Cooperative and the Civic Health Innovation Labs at the University of Liverpool, the festival brings together partners from the NHS, local authorities, business, academia and the community. The Festival of Data serves as an appropriately ambitious and inclusive event to celebrate the CDC’s years of commitment to shaping better services, healthier communities and a more vibrant civic data environment for the Liverpool City Region. We are delighted to be supported by The ACC Liverpool Group, Sodexo Live! and Pullman Liverpool.
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For all car journeys it's best to follow the white on brown tourist route signs for the Waterfront. These signs are visible on the major routes into the city. Exhibition Centre Liverpool is situated on the Kings Dock directly adjacent to the south side of the Albert Dock. Upon arrival, the Kings Dock entrance is clearly sign posted.
From the North...
Leave the M6 at junction 26 and follow signs for M58 Liverpool. Follow to end of M58 and then take signs for A59 Liverpool. Continue to follow Liverpool City Centre until picking up signs for the Waterfront.Â
From the South...
Leave the M6 at junction 21A and take the M62 to Liverpool. At the end of the M62 follow signs for Liverpool City Centre along Edge Lane, picking up and following signs for Waterfront.Â
Most Liverpool city centre bound buses will call at either Queen Square bus station (a 15-minute walk) or Liverpool ONE Bus Station, which is only a five minute walk to ACC Liverpool.
For further information on bus routes within Merseyside, you can visit https://www.merseytravel.gov.uk/customer-information/routes-and-maps/
For up-to-date information on all bus, train and ferry services, call Traveline Merseyside on 0871 200 22 33, open 8am – 8pm, 364 days a year or visit www.merseytravel.gov.uk
From the south...
Avanti West Coast operates hourly, direct services from London Euston to Liverpool Lime Street (with a journey time of just over two hours). Other long-distance rail services also operate into Liverpool Lime Street station.
ACC Liverpool is a 20-minute walk from Lime Street or a short taxi ride. You can also transfer at Lime Street onto the underground Wirral Line trains to James Street station (10 minute walk) or catch the CityLink Route C4 (7am – 8pm) directly to ACC Liverpool. If travelling from outside Merseyside, you can catch an underground train to James Street station from Lime Street station, inclusive of the cost of your train ticket.
Flying into Liverpool John Lennon Airport...
A taxi from the airport to the city centre will take approximately 20 minutes or the express bus service Route 500 will take approximately 25 minutes, dropping you off within a five minute walk of ACC Liverpool.