Ada Lovelace Day is over!

It's been amazing 50 hours and we hope you've enjoyed it as much as we have!

Highlights from Ada Lovelace Day Live 2024

Hi there, 

Midnight has just arrived on Baker Island and Howland Island, finally bringing Ada Lovelace Day 2024 to a close.

We’ve had an absolutely wonderful day with lots of amazing independent events held around the world and, although many of them are over, there are a handful still to come. See what’s on in your area by checking our map!

Ada Lovelace Day Live catch-up and photos

Ada Lovelace Day Live at the Royal Institution last night was absolutely amazing! The talks were funny and captivating, and we had a fabulous audience ready and waiting to join in with their squeaky ducks. I hesitate to pick out a highlight because it was all brilliant, but I did enjoy Sally’s What The Duck? segment!

Livestream recording available for two weeks

If you bought a livestream ticket but couldn’t watch us live last night, you now have two weeks to watch it on demand, so check your email for the link. For anyone who didn’t buy a ticket, the videos will be put up on the Royal Institution’s YouTube channel in due course.

Take a look at our photos

If you’d like to see more photos from the event, then our fabulous photographer, Paul Clarke, has made them available online already. Do take a look!

(And if you find yourself in one of those photos and don’t wish to be, please let me know and I’ll get it taken down for you.)

Dr Sarah Bearchell on BBC Radio 5

You can also listen to Dr Sarah Bearchell talking about her Cloud Factory demo and Ada Lovelace Day on BBC Radio 5 Live yesterday morning. The interview starts at about 2 hours 42 minutes into the recording and it’s available for the next 29 days.

(And if you’re curious about why ALD is always the second Tuesday in October, Rick Edwards is right – it’s just a good time to get as many people as possible to take part!)

Our collection of tweets, posts and videos

We had lots of activity online throughout the day yesterday, so if you’d like to see what others were doing, take a look at our Wakelet for the day with a selection of tweets, posts, and videos, plus our Wakelet for Ada Lovelace Day Live.

Thanks to our fantastic speakers!

Many thanks to our Ada Lovelace Day Live 2024 speakers for sharing their expertise, passion and knowledge with us: Dr Evgenia Ilyinskaya, Mamta Singhal MBE, Takita Bartlett-Lashley, Dr Samantha Terry, Joysy John MBE, Dr Sarah Bearchell, and Prof Anjali Goswami. 

Thanks also to our wonderful compère, Dr Sally Le Page, our guest author, Lisa Rajan, and Newham Bookshop for providing our bookstall. 

And thanks to our fabulous team!

Huge thanks to Lorna Richardson and Stephanie Davey for their invaluable help both on the night and ahead of the day, and our volunteers, Sarra Martin and Neil Perrott. 

I’m also very grateful to Orinoco Communications for creating the wonderful short that we showed at the beginning of the show. 

And of course, thanks to our Advisory Council for their guidance and support: Sumaya Abdurrezak, Timo Hannay, Prof Thorunn Helgason, Stefan Magdalinski, Emma Mulqueeny and Tom Hunter. 

Thanks to our sponsors!

Enormous thanks to the Royal Institution, particularly Katherine Mathieson, Dan Plane, Chris Witham, Lisa Derry and the events team, for all their hard work hosting our event again this year. 

Thanks also to our sponsors, Arden University, Digital Science, Ada Infrastructure, Redgate and Causeway whose support has been absolutely crucial.

Thank you! 

Finally, many thanks to all of you for your continued support of Ada Lovelace Day, whether you were a volunteer, speaker, event organiser, donor or attendee! 

Next year, Ada Lovelace Day will be on Tuesday 14 October so save that date in your diary now!

Best regards, 

Suw