Open Science Summit 2010

OBJECTIVES: Create an annual flagship event and news hub to build and maintain the identity of the international Open Science Movement. Organize the various sub-communities into an effective, global, socio-technological force for rapid change in science/innovation policy.

SCHEDULE:

Thursday, July 29th

4pm
Opening Discussions and Speaker Intros

5-7pm
Short Talks

Mike Gretes, Neglected Disease R&D www.mindthehealthgap.org

Victoria Stodden, Two Ideas for Open Science
Scientific computation is emerging as absolutely central to the scientific endeavor, but is having profound effects on the scientific method. The prevalence of very relaxed practices is leading to a credibility crisis. Reproducible computational research, in which all details of computations—code and data—are made conveniently available to others, is a necessary response to this crisis. In this talk I argue reproducibility is the key issue underlying the imperative of open data and code in computational science. I describe approaches currently underway to facilitate reproducible computational research, and outline how these efforts dovetail with the Open Science Movement.

Peter Murray-Rust, Open Knowledge Foundation
Karim Chine
Morgan Langille, BioTorrents
Jason Hoyt, Mendeley Research Networks
Martha Bagnell, www.thirdreviewer.com
DJ Strouse & Casey Stark presenting CoLab
Jason Levitt, Kaltura
Doug Hershberger, Bioinformatics, the ultimate open source research platform Bay Area Bioinformatics forum (BayBIFX)
Josh Perfetto, OpenPCR, www.OpenPCR.org
James Peyer, Open Biotech Education, OTYP
Todd Kuiken, Responsible Science for DIY biologists, a new Woodrow Wilson Center Initiative
Bryan Bishop, Open Source Hardware
Alex Lightman, Rise of the Citizen Scientist in the Ever Smarter World

7-8pm
Meet + Greet then adjourn to local bars.

Friday, July 30th

9:30-10am
Welcome Introduction

Theme I: Genomics, Gene Patents, and the Future of Biology

10-11am
Retrospective on Human Genome Project, Prospective Look at Synthetic Biology

Alexander (Sasha) Wait Zaranek, Tim Hubbard, Drew Endy
Ten years after the completion of the Human Genome Project, we stand on the cusp of an era of personalized medicine and the much hyped, sometimes maligned possibility of a "synthetic biology." George Church, a leading figure in the human genome project, has long advocated the virtues of an "Open Source approach" (see Polonator.org the first open source sequencing machine). The Biobricks Foundation, and the newly created BioFab, works to create an open standard for the field of synthetic biology. Can an "Open Source" model, in which essential biotechnologies are accessible as an "innovation commons," provide a way forward? See Freeman Dyson for a vision of an era of radically "democratized," decentralized biology.

Our Biotech Future
BioBazaar: The Open Source Revolution and Biotechnology

11am-12pm
Gene Patents: Moving Beyond the Myriad Fallout

David Koepsell, author Who Owns You?
Luigi Palombi, author Gene Cartels
Rochelle Dreyfuss, member SAGCHS
Misha Angrist, author Here Is a Human Being: At the Dawn of Personal Genomics

12-12:45pm
Lunch Break

12:45-1pm
Nick Shockey, Director, Right to Research Coalition
Introduction to Open Access and Latest Developments

Theme 2: The Scientific Process

1-2pm
State of Open Data/Open Access Journals
Group Discussion

Michael Eisen
Victoria Stodden
Jean Claude Bradley
Cameron Neylon
Carole Goble
Peter Murray-Rust
Karim Chine
Todd Huffman
Morgan Langille, BioTorrents<
Nick Shockey, Director, Right to Research Coalition

2-3:15pm
Epistemology 2.0: Reputation Engines, Peer Review, and the Future of Online Science.

2-2:14pm
Michael Nielsen

2:14-2:28pm
Michael Vassar, The Darwinian Method: Why Science Works and How Scholarship Helps

2:28-2:40pm
Jorge Hirsch, the H-index/Impact Factor

2:40-3:15pm
Panelists discuss the future prospects of peer review and reputation metrics in online science, (joined by Jason Hoyt, and participants from earlier session)

3:15-4:15pm
Microfinance, Crowd-Funding for science (continuation of Peer Review discussion at beginning)

David Vitrant, Mark Friedgan : Fund Science
David Fries, president SciFlies
Jason Blue Smith, Zach Berke: EurekaFund

Theme 3: The rise of Distributed, Decentralized, Amateur/Citizen Science and Do It Yourself Biology

4:15-5:15pm
Part 1:A look at recent examples of citizen science in biology.

Jason Bobe, co-founder DIY Bio
Mac Cowell, co-founder DIY Bio
Raymond McCauley, Founder Exponential Bioscience
Tito Jankowski, Pearl Biotech LLC
Meredith Patterson, biohacker extraordinaire
Dr. Hugh Reinhoff, My Daughters DNA

5:15-6:30pm
Part II: Safety and Security Concerns, Open Source BioDefense

Rob Carlson Phd, Biodesic
Christine Peterson, Foresight Institute/Open Source Sensing
J Christopher Anderson, professor of synthetic biology, Berkeley
Special Agent Edward You, FBI
Len Sassaman, Researcher Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

6:30-8pm
Dinner

8-10pm
Discussion at Local Bars with entertainment from Brian Mallow, Science Comedian

Saturday, July 31th

Theme 4: The Open Innovation Paradigm

9:30-10:30am Alternative Funding Mechanisms for Science, R&D
Aiden Hollis, Health Impact Fund/Incentives for Global Health
Jamie Love, Knowledge Ecology International

10:45am-12pm
Cure Entrepreneurs

Scott Johnson, Myelin Repair Foundation
Craig Benson, Beyond Batten Foundation
Beth Anne Baber, The Nicholas Conor Institute

12-12:45pm
Lunch

12:45-2pm
Open Source Drug Discovery

Dr. Jonathan Izant, SAGE
Barry A. Bunin, Ph.D, CEO Collaborative Drug Discovery
Andrew Hessel, Pink Army, the first open source cooperative for breast cancer therapeutics, www.pinkarmy.org

Theme 5: Intellectual Property Management to Facilitate Collaborative Innovation

2-3pm
"Academic Background"

Alan Bennett, executive director, PIPRA
Rebecca Goulding PhD, ISIS Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia

3:15-4:15pm
Applied Examples/Patent Pools

Keith Bergelt, Open Invention Network, Linux
Lisa Green, Creative Commons

Theme 6: Role of Universities

4:15-5:15pm
The role of the University in the knowledge economy: Agonies of Academia and Tribulations of Technology Transfer.

Ethan Guillen, Universities Allied for Essential Medicines, Talk title: Saving lives through university patent policy

Rebecca Goulding PhD, ISIS Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia, Talk Title: Alternative licensing solutions for Global Access

Carol Mimura PhD, Office of Intellectual Property & Industry Research Alliances, University of California, Berkeley" Talk Title: Humanitarian rights clauses in contracts

Lisa Green, Creative Commons

5:15-5:30pm
José Cordeiro, The Millennium Project The Future of Education

5:30-6:15pm
Closing Commentary on Personal Genomics

Tom Goetz, author, The Decision Tree
David Ewing Duncan, author Experimental Man