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 9:30 | PAUSE 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 10:30 | PAUSE 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 13:00 | PAUSE 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 9:30 | PAUSE 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 10:30 | PAUSE 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