EVENT DETAILS AND DESCRIPTION

Date: April 16th - 17th, 2024

Location: University of Ottawa: Desmarais and CRX buildings

Registration deadline: March 29th, 2024 by 11:59 ET

EVENT PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

The aim of this event is to increase awareness of identified and unidentified needs within a diverse and multidisciplinary research community, such as BHI, to promote more inclusive and equitable brain and heart research.

This event will run at three different stages. First, a pre-event training will be made available to all those participants who register for the in-person sessions. The goal of this training is to set an IDEAS knowledge baseline amongst the participants to enhance their experience during April’s sessions. Secondly, a full-day dialogue and networking session has been planned to bring experts on IDEAS practices and facilitate discussion and idea exchange within the BHI community. Lastly, three hands-on learning sessions have been prepared for applying IDEAS principles in scientific- and healthcare-related research activities.

Important: Access to all the training opportunities listed here is free of charge.

IDEAS CERTIFICATE

To be issued post-event to those attendees participating in all of the activities described below:

Pre-event training + IDEAS Dialogues (in-person) + 3 IDEAS Workshops

1. PRE-EVENT ASYNCHRONOUS TRAINING - March 2024

Title: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Starter Pack

Goal: Understanding and applying key principles and practices, approaches, and strategies for EDI implementation in the workplace

Training fees: FREE (Regularly priced at $99 CAD).

Registration details: Follow instructions after completing ticket registration.

Modality: Online asynchronous

Time commitment: 8 hours

Completion deadline: April 14th, 2024

Important: Mandatory requirement for in-person attendees

2. IDEAS DIALOGUES (Event Day 1)

Modality: Hybrid

• Register above for in-person or virtual attendance
• In-person attendance: Limited to 100 seats
• Virtual audience attendance: Unlimited seats

 Date & Time: April 16th, 2024, from 09:00 to 19:00 ET

• Attendance registration open from 08:00 to 8:50 ET
• Dinner and networking session from 17:00-19:00 ET

Location: uOttawa Desmarais Building, Room: DSM-4101 (Camille Villeneuve)

• 55 Laurier Ave E 12th floor, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5

Agenda: During this day, 10 short presentations by guest speakers followed by Q&A and dialogue timing have been scheduled to cover diverse IDEAS topics.

• Session 1: Equity, diversity, and inclusion in Biomedical and Health Sciences Research development and implementation
• Session 2: Systemic ableism in Biomedical Research and Health Sciences
• Session 3: Creating meaningful accessibility and inclusion
• Session 4: Indigenous wisdom transforms our understandings of ability
• And more…

 Note:

• Food and drinks will be available throughout the event

Disclaimer: Registration cancellation must be done within at least 2 weeks (14 days) prior to the event. A monetary penalization of $100 CAD will be issued if you fail to notify the organizing committee (bhi.ideas@gmail.com).

3. IDEAS WORKSHOPS (Event Day 2)

Modality: In-person

• Attendance is limited to 90 seats (30 participants per workshop session)

Date & Time: April 17th, 2024, from 09:00 to 16:00 ET

• Attendance registration open from 08:00 to 8:50 ET

Location: uOttawa Learning Crossroads (CRX) Building

• 100 Louis-Pasteur Private, Ottawa, ON K1N 9N3

Agenda: Three different workshops on IDEAS in Research and Healthcare, each lasting 1.5 hours, will run in parallel at three different times to allow attendees to participate in all of them. Thirty-minute breaks have been scheduled after each workshop session.

Topics:

• Indigenous wisdom
• Preparing effective and authentic EDI sections for Biomedical and Healthcare Research
• How to create accessible documents

Note:

• Food and drinks will be available throughout the event