AGENDA & PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

Meeting Program: 

Each day, an organized session will be open to all participants: 

  • 3:30 - 6:30 PM Europe (CEST) 

  • 6:30 - 9:30 AM West Coast (PDT)

  • 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM East Coast (EDT)

  • 10:30 PM - 1:30 AM Asia (JST). 

  • Groups or pairs may also wish to meet on their own outside of the scheduled meeting. 


We will be using a virtual platform called Remo on May 19-20 in which participants may move between breakout group discussions as they choose.  The final day will take place on Zoom.    

 

May 19: Exploration Day (on Remo: https://live.remo.co/e/joint-annual-meeting-may-19-expl)

Small groups or pairs will meet to explore shared interests and the possibility of forming new interdisciplinary collaborations. In Remo, you will be able to see all available topics (tables) and move among them at will.  The session will be organized as follows:

  • Welcome (Rachel Parker, CIFAR and Julia Wyss, Jacobs Foundation)
  • Exploration (all participants): 
    • Participants select which table to start at.  If you proposed a topic, we encourage you to start there, to help kick-off the discussion.
    • We will take a “speed dating” approach, providing a signal every 30 minutes for you to move to another table/discussion, if you’d like.  
    • Free tables will also be available for new topics that crop up organically.  
    • Discussions will be self-directed by participants.


CIFAR & the Jacobs Foundation will jointly host an “information table” for questions and comments as they come up. 
 

 

May 20: Collaboration Day (on Remo: https://live.remo.co/e/joint-annual-meeting-may-20-coll)

This day will build on the previous day, with groups or pairs beginning to coalesce around ideas that they can further develop towards a collaborative project proposal. Discussions will be self-organized and self-directed by participants. 

  • The Remo platform will be available as a meeting space. 
  • CIFAR & the Jacobs Foundation will jointly host an “information table” for questions and comments as they come up. 

     

May 21: Discussion Day (on Zoom: https://cifar.zoom.us/j/87486846473)

Groups or pairs who are brainstorming a potential collaboration will have the opportunity to present their ideas-in-progress and collect feedback in real time from peers and an advisory panel to help strengthen their proposed work.

  • Interested teams may sign up to give a presentation (first-come, first-served) by May 21, 2:30 pm CEST / 5:30 am PDT / 8:30 am EDT / 9:30 pm JST.  The sign-up sheet can be found here.
  • The Zoom chat box comments with resource links and discussion can be viewed, downloaded and saved in this document. 

The session will be structured as follows:

  • Welcome (CIFAR/JF)
  • Up to 10 presentations of collaborative project ideas:  5 minutes presentation + 10 minutes discussion each (incl. short break)
  • Advisory panel: 
  • Closing remarks (CIFAR/JF)