SwissRN 5th Annual Meeting: Program

Event

December 10, 2026, 09:00-17:30 - Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI), Aula Polivalente, Via la Santa 1, 6962 Lugano-Viganello

Author

Piera Filippi

Published

October 7, 2026

SwissRN 5th Annual Meeting: Program

Time	Session
09:00 – 09:30	Registration and welcome coffee
09:30 – 09:45	Welcome speech Leonhard Held and Deborah Sulem
09:45 – 10:30	Keynote talk Niel Jakobs Title and abstract Where next for open research? Trustworthiness, diversity, equity, geopolitics, populism, commercialisation, academic freedom Openness and transparency in academic research are primarily about the public trust and the social licence that research has to operate. That is, the degree to which research institutions, researchers and research practices are regarded by society as trustworthy, legitimate and acting in the public interest, such that they are granted ongoing autonomy, authority, resources and access to participants, data, communities and policy influence. The level of openness society expects, or is willing to tolerate, depends on the extent to which research is perceived as both trustworthy and aligned with societal interests. This level changes over time; it is different now in the 2020s to the situation in the 1990s when open research first emerged as a distinct idea. Open research is often presented as a means of generating public trust and social legitimacy, but high levels of trust and social legitimacy are also the conditions that make extensive openness politically possible. The future of open research will therefore be determined less by arguments about openness itself than by whether research institutions can retain the public trust and social licence that make openness possible.
10:30 – 10:45	Coffee break
10:45 – 11:30	Keynote talk Tamarinde Haven Title and abstract Reproducibility Issues in Biomedicine: Investigated problems, less investigated solutions Reproducibility issues in biomedicine have persisted for more than a decade, with large-scale assessments revealing significant challenges in replicating findings. Despite widespread acknowledgment of these issues, responses remain inconsistent, and proposed solutions often lack rigorous evaluation. In this talk, I will review the factors that contribute to irreproducibility and assess the effectiveness and desirability of interventions aimed at improving reproducibility. I will highlight the need for scientific reform and flag that a critical appraisal of the role of meta-research is essential to ensure sustainable improvements in research quality.
11:30 – 12:30	Activities of SwissRN Details Details coming soon.
12:30 – 13:30	Lunch break, Foyer
13:30 – 14:15	Keynote talk Brandon Stell Title and abstract To be confirmed.
14:15 – 15:30	Invited session Frontiers of Reproducibility and Fairness in AI and Open Science Martin Gjoreski (USI) Title and abstract Responsible AI for Human Well-Being: From Wearables to Digital Healthcare Artificial intelligence is transforming how we understand and support human well-being. With mental health conditions affecting one in four people at some point in their lives, there is a pressing need for solutions that are effective, responsible, and accessible. By combining wearable technologies, such as smartwatches, fitness trackers, and smart glasses, with responsible AI, we are moving toward a future in which mental and physical health can be monitored, understood, and improved in ways that are transparent, privacy-aware, and widely available. My work is grounded in end-user and clinical studies in affective computing (AI that recognises human emotions and mental states) and digital healthcare, keeping my research connected to real-world needs. Drawing on more than ten years of research experience, I will share lessons learned about decoding stress, mood, and cognitive states from everyday signals such as heart rate, movement, and facial expressions, and about how human-centred design ensures these tools truly serve people. I will illustrate this through three interdisciplinary Responsible AI projects that bridge well-being and technology: XAI-PAC, on explainable and private affective computing; SmartCHANGE, on co-designing AI tools with children, families, and practitioners to help prevent non-communicable diseases such as obesity and diabetes; and EXperiMental, on using wearable technology and explainable AI to support mental health and inclusivity in schools. Across these projects, I will show what it takes to build AI systems that are explainable (able to show how they reach their decisions), privacy-preserving (able to learn without personal data leaving people’s devices), and fair. Together, these efforts point toward AI that predicts, explains, and adapts to individuals, enabling people to live healthier, longer, and more fulfilling lives. Christos Dimitrakakis (UniNE) Title and abstract To be confirmed. Fernanda Beigel Title and abstract Cartographies for Inclusive Open Science This presentation is framed in the intersection between openness and inclusion, considering that openness is necessary but not sufficient to achieve a more equitable and effective scholarly communication globally. In the convergence of a sociological field approach the first part provides a conceptual framework to assess the actors and infrastructures that build towards inclusiveness or exclusiveness. Afterwards, to explore the indicators of inclusive openness, 7 cartographies are proposed: 1) the distribution of repositories by country, 2) a mapping of the Current Information systems (CRIS) and their different developments at the national and institutional level, 3) a cartography of persistent identifiers of digital resources comparing DOI and ARK, 4) a cartography of persistent identifiers for active researchers (ORCID) by country and representation of the national research communities, 5) a comparison of the coverage of identifiers of research organizations (ROR) regarding national database of organizations, 6) a cartography of indexed Diamond journals built with a multi-source database and 7) a mapping of multilingualism in scholarly publishing, by platform. Finally, some examples of relevant stockholders in the current state of openness and inclusiveness are discussed.
15:30 – 15:45	Coffee break
15:45 – 16:45	Panel discussion Description To be confirmed.
16:45 – 17:30	General assembly and concluding remarks