Sage Commons Congress Watch Live 23-24 April!

We're proud to partner with Creative Commons and Sage Commons to webcast the Sage Commons Congress, taking place 23-24 April 2010. For two days, international thought leaders will convene in San Francisco to establish the framework for a unique public resource.

The Sage Commons is a novel information platform being built by an international partnership of researchers and stakeholders to define the molecular basis of disease and guide the development of effective human therapeutics and diagnostics. The public access mission of the Sage Commons requires the development of a new strategic and legal framework to protect the rights of contributors while providing widespread access to integrative genomics resources.

Creative Commons is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to making it easier for people to share and build upon the work of others, consistent with the rules of copyright.

The Sage Commons Congress is a Sage Bionetworks initiative.

Here's the full agenda:

Day 1 Friday, April 23, 2010

8:00 am Continental Breakfast
8:30 am Plenary Vignettes
Andrea Califano, Columbia University
Lee Hood, Institute for Systems Biology
9:00 am Purpose of the Congress
Stephen Friend, Sage Bionetworks
9:45 am Project Group Reports

• A) End-to-End Pilot Combining Data, Building Models, and Querying Them
  Andrew Kasarskis, Sage Bionetworks
  Ilya Kupershmidt, NextBio

• B) Standards and Ontologies for Integration, Analysis, and Exchange of Global Coherent Datasets
  Jessie Tenenbaum, Duke Translational Medicine Institute

• C) Sage Infrastructure Tools Project
  Carol Goble, University of Manchester
  Ted Liefeld, Broad Institute
  Alex Pico, Gladstone Institutes

• Short Break
  
• D) Internationalization of Sage Efforts
  Carolina Rossini, Berkman Center at Harvard University

• E) Citation of Network Models and Associated Data
  Liz Lyon, UKOLN
  Carol Goble, University of Manchester
  Jonathan Rees, Creative Commons

11:45 am Keynote Speaker 1
Jeff Hammerbacher, Cloudera
12:20 pm Break into Lunch Tables (sponsored by NextBio)
12:30 pm LUNCH & Special Guest Speaker
Josh Sommer, Chordoma Foundation
1:15 pm Plenary Vignettes
Trey Ideker, University of California, San Diego
Hiroaki Kitano, Systems Biology Institute
Sam Aparicio, Univ. British Columbia
Rob Epstein, Medco
1:50 pm Simultaneous Working Session for Project Groups:
Reaction & Conversation
3:30 pm Break
3:45 pm Reports Back to Plenary From Project Groups
5:10 pm Plenary Vignettes
Brian Yandell, University of Wisconsin
Jill Mesirov, Broad Institute
5:30 pm Transition to Evening Venue and Refreshments
5:45 pm Keynote Speaker 2
John Wilbanks, Creative Commons
6:20 pm Plenary Vignettes
Eric Schadt, Pacific Biosciences/Sage Bionetworks
Vamsi Mootha, Harvard
Atul Butte, Stanford
7:15 pm Forge Linkages between Workstreams and Objectives
8:15 pm Deposit Suggestions in Mailbox on exit; Post-event socializing

Day 2 Saturday, April 24, 2010

8:15 am Coffee
8:45 am Plenary Vignettes
Daphne Koller, Stanford University
Geoff Ginsburg, Duke University
Ken Buetow, NIH
9:15 am Workstreams Build Synthesis Reports
11:00 am Plenary Vignettes/Speakers
Laura Esserman, UCSF
Garry Nolan, Stanford
Yoshihiden Hayashizaki, Riken
Sharon Terry, Genetic Alliance
11:45 am Break into Lunch Tables (sponsored by NextBio)
12:00 pm Keynote Speaker 3 (LUNCH)
Anne Wojcicki, 23andMe
1:00 pm Presentation of Synthesis Reports
2:15 pm Summary of Statements & Next Steps
John Wilbanks, Eric Schadt & Stephen Friend
2:30 pm ADJOURN

We hope you enjoy the live stream and on-demand views for this important event!