https://groups.io/g/eusprig/message/860

Tickets available for in person and online attendance: EuSpRIG 2026 Annual Conference: Spreadsheet Productivity and Risks. London 9-10 July.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/eusprig-2026-annual-conference-spreadsheet-productivity-and-risks-tickets-1952139715439.

#EuSpRIG #SpreadsheetRisk #Excel #ArtificialIntelligence #GenerativeAI #LLMs #AIinExcel #Copilot #FinancialModelling #EndUserComputing #SpreadsheetGovernance #AIrisk #ResponsibleAI

The European Spreadsheet Productivity & Risks Interest Group maintains a list of horror stories with spreadsheet mistakes that made the news.

Some of them have cost millions, reputations, or even lives.

https://eusprig.org/research-info/horror-stories/

#FactOfTheDay #Spreadsheet #Tech #EuSPRIG

European Spreadsheet Risk Annual Conference Programme announced
Thursday 3rd and Friday 4th July 2025
University of Greenwich, London, UK

https://eusprig.org/conferences/eusprig-annual-conference/

Spreadsheet Entertainment
AI and LLMs
Excel languages
Research into human-computer interaction
Horror Stories

Register on https://eusprig2025.eventbrite.co.uk/

@EuSpRIG #eusprig #conference #London #HCI #research #AI #LLMs #Excel #TDD #Spreadsheet #Risk

Do you know how to make spreadsheets safer? Do you have ideas to improve how ordinary users can find errors faster and correct them more easily? Do you provide spreadsheet training which includes recommendations for good practices? There is still a chance to offer a talk to the European Spreadsheet Risk and Productivity Interest Group @EuSpRIG annual conference in Greenwich, London, UK, on July 3 & 4, 2025.

https://eusprig.org/conferences/call-for-papers-presentations/

#Eusprig #Excel #Spreadsheets #Risk #Conference

https://www.postofficescandal.uk/post/proposed-amendment-to-legal-assumption-about-the-reliability-of-computers/

UK: Proposed amendment to legal presumption about the reliability of computers

Long campaign by Stephen Mason, one of the keynote speakers at #eusprig 2024.
#itrisk #postmaster #horizon #scandal
@EuSpRIG

@Felienne has a paper on "A Case for Feminism in Programming Language Design"
https://www.felienne.com/archives/8470

Mentions the "math is hard" arguments and that on the other hand "spreadsheets are excluded from the dominant discourses in PL"

It would make for an interesting case study among programmers in the BT Young Scientist competition.
https://btyoungscientist.com/bt-young-scientist-technology-exhibition-continues-break-records-entry-numbers-rise/
"a gender split of 61% female to 39% male entrants"

#Gender #Feminism #CS #Programming #STEM #Excel #Eusprig

European Spreadsheet Risk Interest Group
#EUSPRIG

The Horror. Make it Stop. 🤓

https://eusprig.org/research-info/horror-stories/

"Some years ago, I was involved in a somewhat heated online disagreement with an eminent professor of spreadsheet risk. I inadvertently provoked my adversary to describe me as an idiot and to compare me to a member of the Italian inquisition. The idiot accusation was probably fair enough, but I didn’t expect the Italian inquisition…"

https://www.icaew.com/technical/technology/excel-community/excel-community-articles/2024/can-spreadsheets-show-us

#spreadsheets #accounting #excel #icaew #eusprig