In the Trenches Schedule

2:00 pm

Registration Check-In

3:00 PM

Welcome Address

Introduction to “In the Trenches” Impact Summit Series

Getting to Know Your Neighbour in the Trenches

3:30 Pm

Session One: Frameworks and Approaches to Navigate Implementation to Impact

Panellists will introduce different principles, frameworks and approaches that acknowledge and make sense of complexity through the pathways from implementation to impact. The session will end with applications in practice.

• Complexity, implementation science and value co-creation
• Impact Frameworks in action
• The view from within: learning from other research funders by asking ‘how do you do it?’

4:45 Pm

Session Two: Flipping the Switch – Cross-sector Learnings from Near and Far

Local and international participants from sectors outside of health will convey their experiences and perspectives on initiatives when implementing to achieve societal benefit.

• Business innovation the Australian way
• Clean technology the Alberta way
• Scale-up and spread of technology programs

5:30 PM

Transportation to Banff Springs Hotel

6:00 PM

Cocktails and Refreshments: Banff Springs Hotel Networking Reception

7:00 am

Breakfast

8:00 am

Overview of the Day

8:15 am

Session One: Building Stakeholder Engagement Platforms for Culture Change

Participants will review stakeholder engagement approaches they have designed and implemented to affect culture change for optimizing use of R&I.

• Creating a culture to move implementation to impact
• Engaging stakeholders in the development of a system of Health Research Assessment (SARIS) in Catalonia
• The importance of planning for effective adoption pathways for delivering social and economic impact

9:00 am

Session Two: Flipping the Switch – Cross-sector Learnings from Near and Far

Participants will introduce real-world approaches for optimizing patients’ contributions to informing what needs to be assessed in implementation and impact initiatives.

• Patient focused outcomes
• Building a ‘Strategy for Patient-Oriented Research’ (SPOR) platform
• Importance of patient engagement with scale and spread of research and innovations into the health system

9:45 am

Refreshment and Networking Break and Dialogue with Presenters

10:15 am

Session Three: Building a Diverse Talent Pool for the Future

Participants will speak about innovative ways of diversifying and strengthening the talent pool of tomorrow to bridge the gap between R&I and impact.

• Canadian Health System Impact Fellowships
• Talent for the workforce of tomorrow
• Gender equity pathway to Impact
• Women’s leadership and advancement in 20 Catalan Biomedical Research Centers

11:15 AM

World Café (Concurrent Sessions)

Session One: Connecting the Dots Between the Innovation Process and Societal Benefit

Participants will engage in dialogue centred on unpacking the connection between the innovation process with economic and social development or a “systems” approach to innovation achieving impact.

Session Two: Addressing Sustainability in Real World Applications

Participants will engage in focused conversation on navigating the quagmire of sustaining implementation efforts in real-world applications.

12:00 pm

Lunch

1:00 PM

Session One: Accelerating Scale and Spread for Sustainable Impact – A Local Approach

Panellists will review innovative ways they have scaled-up and spread initiatives in the real-world, conveying practical approaches for sustaining impact.

• Strategic considerations for research and innovation scale and spread
• Co-creation approach for value – Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Health System (PRIHS)
• Enhanced Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) – the Alberta Experience
• Using implementation labs to clear a path to impact
• Sustaining implementation efforts leveraging impact assessment

2:15 PM

Refreshment and Networking Break and Dialogue with Presenters

2:45 PM

Session Two: Show Me the Data

Participants will discuss data strategies that address data use in complex and dynamic environments.

• Data-driven insights for accelerating scale-up and spread
• Semantic technologies and ontology-based data access for research impact monitoring and evaluation
• The Canadian data landscape

3:30 PM

Session Three: Engaged Assessment for Sustaining Impact

Panellists will discuss ways of engaging stakeholders in measuring, assessing and improving impact at local, national, and international levels.

• Social economic return on investment
• Using a co-creation and layered approach to scaling and spreading impact assessment Canada
• Maximizing sustainable impact in The Netherlands
• Designing a monitoring, evaluation and learning approach to maximise sustainable impact for the UK National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)’s Global Health portfolio

4:45 PM

Reflection and Summary

Next Steps in the Series

Closing Remarks

5:00 PM

Closing Connections and Dialogue with Presenters in Mclab Bistro