Day One
2:00 pm
Registration Check-In
3:00 PM
Welcome Address
Tim Murphy
Alberta Innovates, Canada
Introduction to “In the Trenches” Impact Summit Series
Kathryn Graham
Alberta Innovates, Canada
Pavel Ovseiko
University of Oxford, UK
Getting to Know Your Neighbour in the Trenches
Maxi Miciak
Alberta Innovates, Canada
Theme: Setting the Stage for Implementation to Impact (and back again)
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?’
Pavel Ovseiko
University of Oxford, UK
Stephen Hanney
Brunel University, UK
Kathryn Graham
Alberta Innovates, Canada
Adam Kamentzky
NIHR, UK
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
Dale Sanders
Health Catalyst, USA
Elizabeth Shirt
ERA, Canada
Laura Hillier
CFI, Canada
Peter Riddles
CSRIO, Australia
5:30 PM
Transportation to Banff Springs Hotel
6:00 PM
Cocktails and Refreshments: Banff Springs Hotel Networking Reception
Day Two
7:00 am
Breakfast
8:00 am
Overview of the Day
Kathryn Graham
Alberta Innovates
Pavel Ovseiko
University of Oxford
Theme: Creating a Culture for Societal Impact
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
Peter Riddles
CSRIO, Australia
Reesa John
Alberta Innovates, Canada
Núria Radó-Trilla
AQuAS, Spain
Tom Keenan
CSIRO, Australia
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
Tim Murphy
Alberta Innovates, Canada
Jean Miller
PaCER, Canada
Jordan Antflick
Ontario Brain Institute, Canada
Lauren Gerloch
HealthAcademy, USA
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
Adam Kamentzky
Megan McMahon
Alex Clark
Pavel Ovseiko
University of Oxford, UK
Eduard Güell
AQuAS, Spain
11:15 AM
World Café (Concurrent Sessions)
Peter Riddles
CSRIO, Australia
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.
Kelly Mrklas
AHS, Canada
Rachel Flynn
University of Alberta, Canada
12:00 pm
Lunch
Theme: Novel Approaches for Scaling Research and Innovation to Impact
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
Jeffery Crelinsten
Tim Murphy
Nancy Fraser
Gregg Nelson
Kelly Mrklas
Rachel Flynn
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
Dale Sanders
Health Catalyst, USA
Alba Velasco
SIRIS Academic, Spain
Rick Glazier
CIHR-IHSPR, Canada
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
Pavel Ovseiko
Kathryn Graham
Alberta Innovates, Canada
Alan O'Connor
RTI International, USA