Conference Program
2nd Canadian Open Science Conference
Three days of plenaries, panels, rapid talks, workshops, and posters.
- Conference Dates
- October 27–29, 2026
- Location
- CRX Learning Crossroads
University of Ottawa
Conference Program Handbook
Download the full program handbook with the detailed agenda, session abstracts, speaker information, and venue maps. Available in English and French.
All times are local to Ottawa and shown in 24-hour format. Parallel sessions may have different end times; see each session card.
Day 1
Tuesday, October 27, 2026
- 08:30–09:00
- 09:00–09:30
Indigenous blessing & Opening remarks
Kris Noakes and Kelly Cobey
- 09:30–10:15
Plenary: Why Canada needs open science for innovation
Guy Rouleau (MNI)
- 10:15–10:45
Short talk: Open Science and Sovereignty
Richard Gold (Conscience)
- 10:45–11:10
Coffee break
- 11:10–12:10
Panel 1: Health research, data management, sharing, and innovation: The Canadian context
Moderator: Jodi Edwards (uOttawa)
Panelists: Ian Paterson (UOHI); Taban Behin (FNHA); Michael Schull (DRAC); Osmo Ramakko (patient partner UOHI); Alison Bourgon (CIHR)
Panel 2: Driving adoption of Open Access in Canada
Moderator: Leigh-Ann Butler (uOttawa)
Panelists: Kory St. Cyr (NSERC); Mylène Deschênes (FRQ); Monica Granados (Creative Commons); Jess Herdman (FHHS); Tanja Niemann (Érudit / Coalition Publica)
- 12:10–12:40
Short talk: Implementing the Tri-Agency Data Retention, Deposit and Availability Requirement
Dominique Roche (SSHRC)
Rapid talks
Transformative agreements
DeDe Dawson (uSask); Monica Ward (uOttawa); Leigh-Ann Butler (uOttawa)
- 12:40–13:40
Lunch
- 13:40–14:00
Short talk: Enabling open science through responsible research assessment
Joséphine Uwineza (NSERC)
Short talk: Are we ready for a data-driven era? Building the foundations for reliable and reusable research data
Anna Catharina Vieira Armond (UOHI)
- 14:00–15:00
Panel 3: Responsible research assessment
Moderator: Alexandra D’Arcy (UVic)
Panelists: Carole Jabet (Fonds de recherche du Québec); Helga Hallgrimsdottir (UVic); Benedikt Hallgrimsson (ACHRI)
Panel 4: Research reproducibility
Moderator: David Moher (uOttawa)
Panelists: Sara Hart (UWaterloo); Shinichi Nakagawa (UAlberta); Abel Brodeur (uOttawa); Aileen Maclellan (OHRI)
- 15:00–15:30
Rapid talks
Data-visiting—a solution for the sharing shy?: A presentation of the RAISE Science project
Maria Pawlowska (Visnea Inc.)
Opening up the hidden curriculum: Creating culture change
Alison Moore (SFU); Julie Jones (SFU); Jennifer Zerkee (SFU)
Rapid talks
Atomization of scientific findings for a modular, interoperable and reusable ecosystem
Rodrigo Migueles Ramirez (Réseau Circé - Université de Montréal)
Designing a new publishing model as a practical mechanism to support open science and assessment reform
Iain Hrynaszkiewicz (PLOS)
- 15:30–15:50
Coffee break
- 15:50–16:45
Closing Plenary Panel: How to shape a more equitable, multilingual, community-accountable, and globally responsible open science ecosystem
Moderator: Leslie Chan (UofT)
Panelists: Matthew Wallace (IDRC); Shawn McGuirk (NSERC); Katie Corker (ASAPBio); Emily Ford (ORFG)
- 16:45–17:25
ECR Plenary: An early-career perspective on making research more transparent, reliable, and reusable
Marija Purgar Filjak (Alberta/SORTEE)
- 17:25–17:30
Closing remarks
Kelly Cobey
- 17:30–19:30
Reception and conference poster session
Day 2
Wednesday, October 28, 2026
- 08:30–09:00
Badge pick-up · Coffee/Tea and snacks
- 09:00–09:10
Opening remarks
Kelly Cobey and Minister Evan Solomon
- 09:10–09:20
Vision for today’s metascience-focused discussion
Molly Frost (uOttawa) and Katerina Vasilas (uOttawa)
- 09:20–10:10
Opening Plenary: Who will improve the research system? Building capacity for evidence-informed change
Tracy Weisgerber (Coimbra)
- 10:10–11:00
Panel: The Canadian Metaresearch Ecosystem
Moderator: Annabel Seyller (The Neuro)
Panelists: Amy Buckland (Concordia); Matthew Lucas (SSHRC); Vincent Larivière (Université de Montréal); Ellie Griffith (Health Research BC)
- 11:00–11:20
Coffee break
- 11:20–12:40
Rapid talks and moderated discussion: From Evidence to Practice: Early-Career Perspectives on Open Science and Metaresearch
Moderator: Chantal Ripp (uOttawa)
Baked in, not bolted on: Institutional responsibility for open science training
Jessie Mayes (University of British Columbia)
Building What We Couldn't Find: Computational Research Services and Infrastructure for SSH
Jérémie Dion (UQuébec)
Data, Communities, and Open Science: Initiatives at the St. Lawrence Global Observatory
Juliette Ganne (Observatoire Global du Saint-Laurent)
Panel 1: Facilitating Inter/Transdisciplinary Research: A Meta-Research Agenda
Moderator: Benoît Hogedez (UQAM)
Panelists: François Claveau (Université de Sherbrooke); Marie-Luc Arpin (Université de Sherbrooke); Agustín Mauro (Université de Sherbrooke/CIRST); Michael O’Rourke (Michigan State University/Toolbox Dialogue Initiative); Chad Gonnerman (University of Southern Indiana/Toolbox Dialogue Initiative)
Rapid talk: Re-imagining systematic reviews with and from community
Natalie Kivell (Wilfrid Laurier University)
- 12:30–13:40
Lunch
- 13:40–14:10
Plenary: Data challenge winner: Mapping Metaresearch in Canada
Eduardo Santos (uAlberta)
- 14:10–15:40
Facilitated Workshop: Generating an Action Plan for Metaresearch in Canada
Your assigned group number is indicated on your conference badge. Each group will gather input for a strong, coordinated national metaresearch action plan.
Group 1
CRX 140Facilitators: Anna Catharina Armond (UOHI); Nicolás Alessandroni (uConcordia)
Group 2
CRX 307Facilitators: Kevin Read (uSask); Laura Peach (WLU)
Group 3
CRX 309Facilitators: Alyssa Arbuckle (CRKN); Chantal Ripp (uOttawa)
Group 4
CRX 230Facilitators: Aileen MacLellan (OHRI); Dominique Roche (SSHRC)
- 15:40–16:00
Coffee break
- 16:00–16:40
Closing Plenary: Open Science as Research-System Reform: Evidence from Wartime Ukraine
Oleksandr Berezko (Ukrainian Reproducibility Network, Lviv Polytechnic National University)
- 16:40–16:50
Metascience 2027 in Montreal
Annabel Seyller (TOSI)
- 16:50–17:00
Closing remarks
Martine Lagacé (uOttawa) and Kelly Cobey (UOHI)
- 17:00–19:00
Posters and Reception
Day 3
Thursday, October 29, 2026
- 08:30–09:00
Badge pick-up · Coffee/Tea and snacks
- 09:00–09:05
Opening remarks
Kelly Cobey (UOHI)
- 09:05–09:30
Summary of metascience facilitated discussion
Clare Ardern (UBC)
- 09:30–10:10
Canada’s Health Data Space
Paul Hebert (CIHR) and Anderson Chuck (CIHI)
- 10:10–10:45
Talk series on Diamond OA
Lisa Matthias (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; ECR); Jessica Dallaire-Clark (Érudit) and Jeanette Hatherill (Coalition Publica); Lucía Céspedes (Érudit, Université de Montréal)
- 10:45–11:05
Coffee break
- 11:05–12:00
Panel: Canada on the global open science stage
Moderator: Mona Nemer (Chief Scientist of Canada)
Panelists: Bettina Cenerelli (P.E. Trudeau Foundation); Stuart Lane (Swiss National Science Foundation); York Sure-Vetter (National Research Data Infrastructure - NFDI, Germany); Jérôme Dupras (Chief Scientist of Quebec)
- 12:00–12:40
Rapid talks
Building Research Data Management Supports in an Academic Library
Stephanie Quail (York University)
Mapping a Community-led Canadian Neuroimaging Data Sharing Network
Gabriel Pelletier (McGill University)
Rapid talks
How Can Funders Drive Open Science Practices?
Robert Thibault (Coalition for Aligning Science)
“Work in progress” report of a tailored open scholarship mapping strategy at SFU
Gracielle Higino (SFU)
- 12:30–13:30
Lunch
- 13:30–14:00
Building Awareness of Paper Mills: An Open Educational Approach
Kaitlin Fuller (St. Francis Xavier University); Alison Manley (Saint Mary’s University); Catherine Gracey (University of New Brunswick)
On the Prevalence of Personally Identifiable Information in Replication Packages
David Valenta (uOttawa)
- 14:00–15:00
Rapid talks and discussion: Open science monitoring/compliance
Simplified FAIR monitoring at scale using large language models
Tim Vines (DataSeer)
Tracking Changes in Open Science on the Open Scholarship Policy Observatory
Alan Colin-Arce (UVic)
Open, inclusive databases reveal the global research ecosystem
Simon Van Bellen (Érudit)
Rapid talks and discussion: Security/ethics
Governing Dual Use in the Era of Open Science
Carolina Lucchesi Lavoie (UMontréal)
Open Science Infrastructures and Gender Inequity in Science
Sarah Cameron-Pesant (UMontréal)
When Research Security Becomes Exclusion: Iranian Academics
Encieh Erfani (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
- 15:00–15:15
Poster Prizes and Closing Remarks
Krista Byers-Heinlein (Concordia) and Kelly Cobey (UOHI)