Evidence Day
Unveiling the Evidence publishing platform
The inaugural NeuroLibre Day was a success, bringing together 24 experts and industry partners to explore solutions for advancing reproducible publishing to new heights.
Building on the success of NeuroLibre Reproducible Preprints, we are advancing open publishing to the next generation with Evidence.
Plenary Speakers
Scientific Committee
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Themes
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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
🏅 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 Alan C. Evans
🏅 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
Time for a peer-reviewed caffeine intervention. Refuel before the next round of evidence.
Evidence team: Patrick Bermudez
🍁 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
💻 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.
Lunch Break
Please update your biological runtime with carbs. Failure to patch may cause spontaneous segmentation faults.
Plenary talk by Cesar Hidalgo
🏅 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
Lightning Talks
A series of five-minute talks by experts and builders shaping the next-generation publishing platform ecosystem.
Townhall Meeting with Nikola Stikov
⎈ 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.
Social Gathering
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