Evidence Day

Unveiling the Evidence publishing platform


Building on the success of NeuroLibre Reproducible Preprints, we are advancing open publishing to the next generation with Evidence.


Plenary Speakers

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John P.A. Ioannidis

Stanford University

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Alan C. Evans

McGill University

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Cesar Hidalgo

Toulouse School of Economics

Scientific Committee

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Nikola Stikov

Polytechnique Montreal

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Agah Karakuzu

Polytechnique Montreal

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Bas Rokers

NYU Abu Dhabi

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Kartik Sreenivasan

NYU Abu Dhabi

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Dmitry Novikov

NYU Langone Health

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Shigeki Aoki

Juntendo University Tokyo

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Rowan Cockett

Curvenote and CSF

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Ordan Chukaliev

UKIM Skopje

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Biljana Angelova

UKIM Skopje

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Patrick Bermudez

McGill University

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Mathieu Boudreau

Polytechnique Montreal

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Samir Das

McGill University

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Lune Bellec

Universite de Montréal

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Morane Bienvenu

Polytechnique Montreal


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Themes

Responsible use of LLMs for reproducible publishing
Distributed peer review platforms
Content reuse patterns
Papers as structured data
Long-term sustainability of live compute and data
Science communication in the LLM and Web3 era

Save the date
4 December 2025
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The event will take place in Abu Dhabi, with participation from our Evidence partners in Canada, Japan, North Macedonia, and UAE.
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Agenda

Plenary talk by John P.A. Ioannidis

9:00-9:30

🏅 Reproducible and useful research in the AI era


John Ioannidis is a Greek-American physician, scientist, and writer, as well as a professor at Stanford University. His work focuses on meta-research, the study of how science is conducted. He is also known for authoring one of the most influential papers in modern science, 'Why Most Research Findings Are False'.

Plenary talk by John P.A. Ioannidis
Plenary talk by Alan C. Evans

Plenary talk by Alan C. Evans

9:30-10:00

🏅 A global infrastructure for data democratization


Alan Charles Evans is a Welsh-born Canadian neuroscientist who is a Distinguished James McGill Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Psychiatry and Biomedical Engineering, and holds the Victor Dahdaleh Chair in Neurosciences at McGill University.

Coffee Break

10:00-10:30


Time for a peer-reviewed caffeine intervention. Refuel before the next round of evidence.

Coffee Break
Evidence team: Patrick Bermudez

Evidence team: Patrick Bermudez

10:30-11:00

🍁 Evidence & Open Publishing: Scientific principles in action


Patrick Bermudez is the executive director of the Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform (CONP). His talk will situate Evidence in the Open Science landscape.

Evidence team: Agah Karakuzu

11:00-11:30

💻 Building evidence


Agah Karakuzu serves as the principal engineer and technical lead for Evidence, guiding its architecture and development. His talk will explore its newest advances in response to the accelerating pace of AI: the woven literature.

Evidence team: Agah Karakuzu
Lunch Break

Lunch Break

11:30-13:00


Please update your biological runtime with carbs. Failure to patch may cause spontaneous segmentation faults.

Plenary talk by Cesar Hidalgo

13:00-13:30

🏅 Understanding scientific impact beyond rankings


César A. Hidalgo is a Chilean-Spanish-American scholar known for his contributions to economic complexity and for his applied work on data visualization and artificial intelligence. Hidalgo is a tenured professor at the Toulouse School of Economics’ (TSE) Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Plenary talk by Cesar Hidalgo
Lightning Talks

Lightning Talks

13:30-14:00


A series of five-minute talks by experts and builders shaping the next-generation publishing platform ecosystem.

Townhall Meeting with Nikola Stikov

14:00-16:00

⎈ Evidence Chair


Nikola Stikov is a professor of biomedical engineering, a researcher at the Montreal Heart Institute, and co-director of NeuroPoly, the Neuroimaging Research Laboratory at Polytechnique Montréal. He will lead this town hall meeting, which will address key issues related to Evidence’s long-term success and maintainability.

Townhall Meeting with Nikola Stikov
Social Gathering

Social Gathering

21:00-23:00


Initiating peer-to-peer human networking protocol. No API keys required.

VENUE

Center for Brain and Health, NYUAD New York University Abu Dhabi (CBH NYUAD NYUAD)



New York University Abu Dhabi, Saadiyat Marina District, Abu Dhabi, UAE


A6 Atrium (A6-004)