Agenda
Day 1 – Thursday 7th Nov 2019
10:00
Registration, Coffee & Networking
11:00
Opening Welcome
Prof Mark Ferguson, Director General, SFI and Chief Scientific Adviser to the Government
Keynote address: Rob Wilmot (Founder, CEO, Crowdicity) ‘Crowdsourcing Innovation: Changing the world one good idea at a time.’
Video address: Dr Jyotika Virmani, Executive Director of Planet and Environment, and Shell Ocean Discovery, XPRIZE
SFI Future Innovator Prize Pitches
Panel discussion: EU Missions, Challenge Funding, Climate Action and
Community Engagement with Prof Kevin O’Connor (BEACON, EU Mission Board), Rob Wilmot (Founder, CEO, Crowdicity), Charlotte Macken (NESTA UK), John Weakliam (Vita NGO). Chaired by Dr Ruth Freeman, Director of Science for Society, SFI.
Science Week Poem performance by Stephen James Smith
12:55
Lunch
13:45-14.45
Workshops (with coffee)
Workshop 1 – Influencing Policy – Engaging with Politicians and Policy Makers
Workshop 2 – SFI International Partnerships
Workshop 3 – Working with Peer Review
14.55-15.45
Workshop 4 – Challenge-Based Funding with Charlotte Macken (Nesta) and Elena Martines (DG Research & Innovation, European Commission)
Workshop 5 – SFI Diversity Strategy 2021-2025
16.00
Meet and network with SFI – catch up with our programmes and policy teams (coffee/tea)
16:45
Allison Paradise, Founder and CEO, My Green Lab (USA) and Dr Una FitzGerald, Director and PI, Galway Neuroscience Centre and Founder ‘Galway Green Labs’ Initiative.
17.00
Prof. Mark Ferguson – Address
17:35
CLOSE
19.00
Pre-dinner networking reception
19.30
Dinner and presentation of SFI Awards
Day 2 – Friday 8th November 2019
09:25
Prof Brad Fenwick, VP of Global Strategic Alliances, Elsevier: Using analytics to identify key research trends
09:40
Fireside chat: Dr Ciarán Seoighe and Prof Brad Fenwick
SFI Design Thinking Session: Collisions and Future Scoping
SFI Research Professor: John Dalton, Professor of Molecular Parasitology, NUI Galway
Prof Jennifer McElwain, Director of Trinity Botanic Gardens
Prof Frédéric Dias, School of Mathematics and Statistics, UCD and MaREI Principal Investigator.
Facilitated roundtable discussions where multidisciplinary groups of
researchers will ‘horizon scan’ their fields of research and identify trends.
11:50
Prof. Mark Ferguson closing address
12:00-13:30
Workshops
Workshop 6 – Leveraging Data and Analytics for Best Practice in Research Funding
Workshop 7 – Climate Action Research Network scoping workshop
13:30
Lunch
CLOSE
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