Track One: Science, Knowledge, and Policy

• The national STI ecosystem: Strategy for the next ten years; building on strengths and opportunities; addressing weaknesses
• Managing the evolving/changing research landscape: AI, Open Science
• Evidence for policy
• Science policy futures
• Major research initiatives, research infrastructure, large research facilities
• Science advice and policymaking in AI era
• Research security, new measures, and implications for Canadian research
• Indigenous knowledge and policymaking
• Local, regional, and national science policy and Canadian federalism
• EDI in Science next chapter

Track Two: Science, Knowledge, and Society

• Public trust
• Systemic racism, otherism
• Science in support of democracy
• Science, Knowledge, and Truth and Reconciliation
• Ethics of emerging technologies
• Science and innovation: public education
• Scientists, research, and communities
• Citizen Scientist
• Science in a multi-lingual world

Track Three: Innovation Policy and Economic Development

• Canada’s industry and innovation strategy
• Emerging economic opportunities
• Emerging and disruptive technologies
• Sector policies and challenges
• Multi-sectoral collaboration
• Scale up and commercialization
• Inclusive innovation

Track Four: Science, International Affairs and Security

• International science, technology, innovation and knowledge (STIK) agreements and Canada’s interest
• Assessing and fostering Canadian global leadership in STIK
• Strategic approaches to international opportunities, collaboration
• Science diplomacy, research security and geopolitics
• Scientists on the move

Track Five: Science and the Next Generation

• Career transitions
• Talent development in a fast-changing landscape
• Enabling the next generation of researchers with non-research skills
• Trainees’ well-being
• Grassroots science policy networks, opportunities and lessons learned
• New mechanisms; connecting trainees to policy

Track Six: Grand Challenges

• Adaptation, Resilience, Canada’s Role
• Climate change
• Health
• The North
• Food, agriculture, water
• Energy transitions, energy security
• Ocean economy and conservation