The 2015 Jisc Digital Festival, known as Digifest, took place in Birmingham on 9 and 10 March 2015.
In this podcast, reporter Chris Parr speaks with Carole Goble, a professor in the school of computer science at the University of Manchester, and Richard Watson, writer, speaker and consultant who advises organisations on the future.
Topics discussed include academic “trolling”, the importance of software in research, and the risks posed to the traditional university by technology.