MONDAY AUGUST 30 Promise and Pandemic: Reshaping Science Advice DAY 1

8:30 | Welcoming Remarks François Legault - Premier of Québec, Canada Valérie Plante - Mayor of Montréal; Leader of Projet Montréal, Québec, Canada Peter Gluckman - Chair of INGSA, President-Elect of the International Science Council; Director of Koi Tū: the Centre forInformed Futures at the University of Auckland, New Zealand Rémi Quirion - Chief Scientist of Québec; President-elect, INGSA, Canada

8:45 | Plenary | Roundtable: Reflections from Covid-19: Where to from here? Moderator: Mona Nemer – Chief Science Advisor of Canada Speakers: Joanne Liu – Professor, School of Population and Global Health, McGill University, Quebec, Canada Chor Pharn Lee – Principal Foresight Strategist at Centre for Strategic Futures, Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore Andrea Ammon – Director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Sweden Rafael Radi – President of the National Academy of Sciences; Coordinator of Scientific Honorary Advisory Group to the President on Covid-19, Uruguay

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9:45 | Panel: Science advice during COVID-19: What factors made the difference? Moderator: Romain Murenzi – Executive Director, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Italy Speakers: Stephen Quest – Director-General, European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), Belgium Yuxi Zhang – Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Amadou Sall – Director, Pasteur Institute of Dakar, Senegal Inaya Rakhmani – Director, Asia Research Centre, Universitas Indonesia

Studio Session | Panel: Lessons from and for science diplomacy Moderator: María Estelí Jarquín – Deputy Director, International Affairs, University of Costa Rica Speakers: Marga Gual Soler – Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum; Founder of SciDipGLOBAL, Spain Jan Marco Müller – Science and Technology Advisor, Strategic Policy Planning Division, European External Action Service, Belgium Mitsunobu Kano – Science and Technology Co-Advisor, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Japan Mandë Holford – Associate Professor, CUNY Hunter College, The American Museum of Natural History, CUNY Graduate Center, United States

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10:45 | INGSA Horizon Stage: Salim Abdool Karim Interviewer: Inès Hassan – Senior Projects Manager at the International Science Council Speaker: Salim Abdool Karim – Director of the Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa; CAPRISA Professor of Global Health at Columbia University, United States

Studio Session | Special Event Panel: Chief Science Advisors Moderator: E. William Colglazier – Editor-in-Chief, Science & Diplomacy, AAAS; former S&T Adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State, United States Speakers: Juliet Gerrard – New Zealand Prime Minister’s Chief Science Advisor Teatulohi Matainaho – Chief Science Advisor, Government of Papua New Guinea; Chairman, Papua New Guinea Science and Technology Council Corien Prins – Chair, Netherlands Scientific Council for Government Policy Mark Ferguson – Director General, Science Foundation Ireland and Chief Scientific Adviser to the Government of Ireland

11:30 | LUNCH

12:15 | Panel: Transdisciplinary science: Are we there yet? Moderator: Theres Paulsen – Director, Network for Transdisciplinary Research, Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences, Switzerland Speakers: Jose Siri – Senior Science Lead for Cities, Urbanization, and Health, Wellcome Trust’s Our Planet, Our Health programme, United Kingdom Ana Maria Hernandez Salgar – Chair, Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service (IPBES), Canada Naoko Ishii – Director, Center for Global Commons; Executive Vice President, University of Tokyo, Japan Nicole Grobert – Chair, European Commission’s Group of Chief Scientific Advisors, United Kingdom

Studio Session | Innovations in Science Advice – Covid-19: Reshaping Science Advice Moderator: Mehrdad Hariri – CEO and President of the Canadian Science Policy Centre, Canada Speakers: Anna-Maria Arabia – Chief Executive of the Australian Academy of Science Diego Quirós – Professor of the Computer Science, Economics and Statistics Schools of the University of Costa Rica Katrina Lawson – Communications Manager at Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, United Kingdom Alexandra Middleton – Assistant Professor, Oulu Business School, University of Oulu, Finland Toby Wardman – Head of Communications for Science Advice for Policy by European Academies (SAPEA), Belgium Andrew Millar – Chief Scientific Adviser, Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture, Government of Scotland, United Kingdom of Ireland

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13:15 | Plenary: Is the paradigm shifting? Rethinking our models Moderator: Ian Goldin – Professor of Globalisation and Development, Oxford University, United Kingdom Speakers: Armine Yalnizyan – Economist and Atkinson Fellow on the Future of Workers, Canada Achim Steiner – Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, United States Amba Kak – Director, Global Policy and Programs, NYU’s AI Now Institute, United States Elder Dave Courchene – Knowledge Keeper of the Anishnaabe Nation; Founder of the Turtle Lodge International Centre for Indigenous Education and Wellness, Canada TUESDAY AUGUST 31 Foresight and Resilience: From SDGs to DAY 2 Emerging Technologies

8:45 | Plenary: Fast and Fair Societal Transformation: The role of social science and humanities in science advice on our shared challenges Moderator: Jean Lebel – President, International Development Research Centre (IRDC), Canada Speakers: Elizabeth Jelin – Senior Researcher at Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas of Argentina (CONICET) Montira Pongsiri – Advisor, Climate Change and Health at Save the Children; Member, INGSA South-East Asia Science Advice Network (SEA SAN), Thailand Ilona Otto – Professor of Societal Impact of Climate Change, Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change, University of Graz, Austria Steven Hoffman – Director, Global Strategy Lab; Scientific Director, CIHR Institute of Population and Public Health, Canada

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9:45 | Panel: Interrogating Foresight: the role of anticipatory analysis in science advice and how to do it well Moderator: Kristel Van der Elst – Director General, Policy Horizons Canada Speakers: Jeanette Kwek – Head, Centre for Strategic Futures, Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore Claire A. Nelson – Futurist and Sustainability Engineer; Chief Ideation Leader, The Futures Forum, United States Martin Müller – Executive Director Academic Forum, Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator (GESDA), Switzerland Francisco Sagasti – Former President of the Republic of Peru

Studio Session | Panel: Science advice for complex risk assessment: dealing with complex, new, and interacting threats Moderator: Eeva Hellström - Senior Lead, Strategy and Foresight, Finnish Innovation Fund Sitra, Finland Speakers: Albert van Jaarsveld – Director General and Chief Executive Officer, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria Abdoulaye Gounou – Head, Benin’s Office for the Evaluation of Public Policies and Analysis of Government Action Catherine Mei Ling Wong – Sociologist, LRF Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk, National University of Singapore Andria Grosvenor – Deputy Executive Director (Ag), Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency, Barbados

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10:45 | INGSA Horizon Stage – Mami Mizutori (UNDRR) Interviewer: Robin Grimes - UK Ministry of Defence Nuclear Chief Scientific Adviser Speaker: Mami Mizutori – Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction, Japan

Studio Session | Panel: Science advice experiences from Next Generation Researcher groups Moderator: Vanessa Sung – Policy Advisor, Office of the Chief Science Advisor of Canada; former President and Internal Director of Science & Policy Exchange Speakers: Arthi Ramachandran – Canadian Commission for UNESCO Youth Advisory Group member, Science & Policy Exchange alumna Josée Maurais – Vice-president, Québec’s Chief Scientist’s Intersectoral Student Committee Madison Rilling – Director Talent & Outreach, Optonique, Québec, Canada Binyam Sisay Mendisu – Program Officer, UNESCO-International Institute for Capacity Building in Africa; Member of the Global Young Academy; Research Associate, INGSA, Ethiopia Sivani Baskaran – President, Toronto Science Policy Network, Canada

11:30 | LUNCH

12:15 | Panel: Cities as solutions Moderator: Anna Davies – Professor and Chair of Geography, Environment & Society at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Speakers: Edgar Pieterse – Director, African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, South Africa Alice Charles – Project Lead, Cities, Infrastructure and Urban Services Platform, World Economic Forum Geneva, Switzerland John Mauro – City Manager for the City of Port Townsend, Washington, United States Marie-Christine Therrien – Director, Cité-ID LivingLab, Québec, Canada

Studio Session | Innovations in Science Advice – Science Diplomacy driving evidence for policymaking Moderator: Mehrdad Hariri – CEO and President of the Canadian Science Policy Centre, Canada Speakers: Primal Silva – Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s Chief Science Operating Officer, Canada Zakri bin Abdul Hamid – Chair of the South-East Asia Science Advice Network (SEA SAN); Pro-Chancellor of Multimedia University in Malaysia Christian Arnault Emini – Senior Economic Adviser to the Prime Minister’s Office in Cameroon Florence Gauzy Krieger and Sebastian Goers – RLS-Sciences Network Elke Dall and Angela Schindler-Daniels – European Union Science Diplomacy Alliance Alexis Roig – CEO, SciTech DiploHub – Barcelona Science and Technology Diplomacy Hub, Spain

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13:15 | Plenary: Inside and outside science advice: aligning politics and publics around evidence Moderator: Sujatha Raman – Director of Research, Centre for the Public Awareness of Science (CPAS), Australian National University Speakers: Gabriela Ramos – Assistant Director-General, Social and Human Sciences, UNESCO, France Frederic Bouchard – Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada James Wilsdon – Digital Science Professor of Research Policy at the University of Sheffield and Director of the Research on Research Institute (RoRI), United Kingdom Martha Delgado Peralta – Vice Minister of Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights, Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 1 Evidence and Democracy: Sustaining Trust DAY 3 in a Challenging World

8:45 | Plenary: Science-Policy-Society: Virtuous cycle? Moderator: Vladimír Šucha – Senior Policy Advisor, UNESCO; Former, Director General of the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC), Slovakia Speakers: Roger Pielke Jr – Professor, University of Colorado Boulder; Lead, Evaluation of Science Advice in a Pandemic Emergency (EScAPE) project, United States Jean-Philbert Nsengimana – Managing Director, The Commons Project Foundation; Former Rwandan Minister of Youth and ICT Rwanda Kira Matus – Associate Head, Division of Public Policy at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Maria da Graça Carvalho – Member of European Parliament for Portugal; Former Minister of Science, Innovation & Higher Education

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9:45 | Panel: Evidence and values in policy-making: Finding the balance Moderator: Manuela Fernández Pinto – Associate Professor, Center for Applied Ethics, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia Speakers: Heather Douglas – Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Michigan State University, United States David Mair – Head of Unit, Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Belgium Asma Ismail – President, Academy of Sciences Malaysia; Ibn Sina Chair for Medicine at the International Islamic University Malaysia Maria Baghramian – Professor, School of Philosophy, University College Dublin; Project Leader, PERITIA (Policy, Expertise and Trust), Ireland

Studio Session | Panel: The future of regulatory science advice: Adaptive tech regulation and how to do this Moderator: Marc Saner – Chair, Department of Geography, Environment and Geomatics at the University of Ottawa; Founding Director, Institute for Science, Society and Policy (ISSP) Speakers: Marina Kaljurand – Estonian Member of the European Parliament and Member of the Science and Technology Options Assessment (STOA) committee Lassina Zerbo – Executive Secretary Emeritus, Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization, Austria Yoshua Bengio – Founder and Scientific Director, Mila – Quebec AI Institute; Full Professor, University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada Muhammad Adeel – Diplomat at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Pakistan

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10:45 | INGSA Horizon Stage: Daniel Sarewitz Interviewer: Sabina Leonelli – Professor of Philosophy and History of Science, University of Exeter, United Kingdom Speaker: Daniel Sarewitz – Emeritus Professor, Arizona State University, United States

Studio Session | Panel: What evidence do you need to take action? The role of communication in evidence-informed policy Moderator: Elisa Reis – Professor of Political Sociology, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Speakers: David Budtz Pedersen – Director of the Humanomics Research Centre; Knowledge Broker for Algorithms, Data and Democracy by the Villum & Velux Foundations, Denmark Claire Craig – Provost of Queen’s College, University of Oxford; Former Chief Science Policy Officer at the Royal Society, United Kingdom Lewis Collins – Editor-in-Chief One Earth journal, United Kingdom

11:30 | LUNCH

12:15 | Panel: New responsibilities in a changing information landscape Moderator: Jurgis Vilcinskas – Deputy Head of Strategic Communications, European External Action Service, Belgium Speakers: Dominique Brossard – Professor and Chair, Department of Life Sciences Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States Peter Halligan – Chief Scientific Adviser, Wales, United Kingdom Shirley S. Ho – Professor, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore Kate Wilkinson – Deputy Chief Editor, Africa Check, South Africa

Studio Session | Innovations in Science Advice – Beyond the Current Affairs: Building Capacity for using scientific knowledge in policymaking Moderator: Mehrdad Hariri – CEO and President of the Canadian Science Policy Centre, Canada Speakers: Nancy Goucher – Knowledge Mobilization Specialist at the University of Waterloo’s Water Institute, Canada Andy Stirling – Professor of Science and Technology Policy at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex, United Kingdom Aline Villarreal – Science – Policy Interface Fellow in the Ministry of Environment of Mexico City Emily Hayter – Senior Programme Specialist, INASP, United Kingdom Seyed Shahmy – Senior Scientist, National Science and Technology Commission, Sri Lanka Timo Maas – Policy Researcher, PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency, The Netherlands

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13:15 | Plenary: Where to from here? The next steps for INGSA, award presentations and announcements Moderator: Kristiann Allen – Executive Secretary of INGSA; Associate Director at Koi Tū: Centre for Informed Futures, New Zealand Speakers: Peter Gluckman – Chair of INGSA, President-Elect of the International Science Council; Director of Koi Tū: the Centre for Informed Futures at the University of Auckland, New Zealand Rémi Quirion – Chief Scientist of Québec; President-elect, INGSA, Canada THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 2 Day dedicated to the Francophonie DAY 4

8:30 | Welcoming Remarks Michèle Boisvert – Delegate General of Quebec in Paris; Personal Representative of the Premier for the Francophonie, Québec, Canada Rémi Quirion – Chief Scientist of Québec; President-elect, INGSA, Canada

8:45 | Plenary: Testimonies on opportunities and threats in the practice of science advice Moderator: Alexandre Fasel – Special Representative for Science Diplomacy in Geneva, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), Switzerland Speakers: Shamila Nair Bedouelle – Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences, UNESCO Marc Schiltz – Chief Executive, Luxembourg National Research Fund; President, Science Europe Caroline Quach-Thanh – Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal; Physician in charge of the Infection Prevention and Control Unit, CHU Sainte-Justine, Quebec, Canada

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9:45 | Plenary: Evidence on science advice: Some empirical observations Moderator: Mona Nemer – Chief Science Advisor of Canada Speakers: Rémi Quirion – Chief Scientist of Québec; President-elect, INGSA, Canada Madiagne Diallo – Director of Scientific Animation, Economic, Social and Environmental Council of Senegal

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10:45 | Workshop: The pandemic and other health crises Moderator: Claire Trottier – Member of the Administrative Committee, Trottier Foundation, Quebec, Canada Speakers: Jean-François Delfraissy – President, Scientific Council COVID-19, France Cécile Tremblay – Medical Microbiologist, Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CHUM); Professor, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Infectiology, Université de Montréal, Quebec, Canada Francine Ntoumi – President, Congolese Foundation for Medical Research, Republic of the Congo

10:45 | Workshop: Education Moderator: Alain Fuchs – President, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, France Speakers: Sylvana Côté – Director, Observatory on Children’s Education and Health; Professor, School of Public Health, University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada Rahma Bourqia – Director, National Evaluation Authority in the Higher Council of Education Training and Research, Morocco Koumba Boly Barry – Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education, United Nations, Burkina Faso

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11:45 | Workshop: Sustainable development, climate change and biodiversity Moderator: Tounao Kiri – Senior Coordinator, Institut de la Francophonie pour le développement durable (IFDD) Speakers: Delegate of the “50 jeunes engages” project Éliane Ubalijoro – Global Hub Director in Canada and Executive Director of Sustainability in the Digital Age, Future Earth Jean-Pascal van Ypersele – Climate Scientist; Former Vice-Chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Belgium Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim – Coordinator, Association des Femmes Peules Autochtones du Tchad (AFPAT); Chad’s Roving Ambassador for Climate

11:45 | Workshop: Digital technology and artificial intelligence Moderator: Henri Monceau – Director of the Economic and Digital Francophonie, International Organization of the Francophonie (OIF), France Speakers: Lyse Langlois – Executive Director, International Observatory on the Societal Impacts of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technology (OBVIA), Quebec, Canada Karine Perset – Head of Unit, OECD Artificial Intelligence Policy Observatory, France Lacina Koné – Director General, Smart Africa, Cote d’Ivoire

12:30 | Lunch

13:15 | Plenary: Workshop summary Moderator: Marie-Pier Élie – Science Journalist, Canada Speakers: Claire Trottier – Member of the Administrative Committee, Trottier Foundation, Quebec, Canada Alain Fuchs – President, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, France Henri Monceau – Director of the Economic and Digital Francophonie, International Organization of the Francophonie (OIF), France Tounao Kiri – Senior Coordinator, Institut de la Francophonie pour le développement durable (IFDD) Éric Montigny – Scientific Director, Research Chair on Democracy and Parliamentary Institutions, Canada

13:45 | Plenary: Stakeholders and governance Moderator: Michel Audet – Former Deputy Minister, Ministère des relations internationales et de la Francophonie du Québec Speakers: Laurent Fabius – President of the Constitutional Council of the French Republic; Former Prime Minister of France Louise Mushikiwabo – Secretary General of la Francophonie, International Organization of the Francophonie (OIF)

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14:30 | Plenary: Science and local government Moderator: Michèle Boisvert – Delegate General of Quebec in Paris; Personal Representative of the Premier for the Francophonie, Québec, Canada Speakers: Slim Khalbous – Rector, The Francophone University Agency (AUF) François William Croteau – Borough mayor of Montréal’s Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie, Executive Committee member responsible for the smart city, information technologies, innovation, and higher education, City of Montreal, Québec, Canada

15:00 | Announcement of the Francophone Network in Science Advice Rémi Quirion – Chief Scientist of Québec; President-elect, INGSA, Canada François Paradis – President of the National Assembly of Quebec, Canada