OW22 Programme

Thursday, 10 November 2022

11:30-12:30 Registration and lunch

Location: The atrium outside the Queen's Hall, Black Diamond, Royal Danish Library
Time Activity
11:30-12:30 Registration and lunch, courtesy of Open World Conference

12:30-13:30 Opening ceremony

Moderator: Mogens Høgh Jensen, University of Copenhagen
Time Activity Speaker Title
12:45-12:50 Speech His Royal Highness Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark An open world
12:50-13:00 Speech Rector at University of Copenhagen, Henrik C. Wegener Openness in research and research collaboration
13:00-13:30 Speech Director of the Danish Foreign Policy Society, Charlotte Flindt Pedersen The challenges to the Open World in a time of increased geopolitical competition

13:30-17:45 Keynote sessions

Location: The Queen's Hall, Black Diamond, Royal Danish Library
Moderator: Ole Wæver, University of Copenhagen
13:30-13:55 Keynote
Former Minister of Education and Research in the German Federal Government.
 
Global Challenges, What Decision Makers Ask from Science
13:55-14:00 Q&A
14:00-14:25 Keynote
Senior Researcher, Institute for Peace and Security Research, Hamburg, Germany; Visiting Research Collaborator with Science & Global Security, Princeton University.
   
Junior Professor, Sustainability Science and Psychology, Leuphana University Lüneburg.
  
What Remains to be Done to Achieve Open, Global Science
14:25-14:30 Q&A
14:30-14:50 Break

Moderator: Christian Joas, University of Copenhagen
14:55-15:35 Keynote
Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and Professor of Physics, MIT.
 
Changing Notions of Openness and Secrecy in the History of Science
15:35-15:45 Q&A
 

Moderator: Tomas Bohr, Technical University of Denmark
15:45-16:25 Keynote

Tong Zhao

Senior fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Visiting research scholar at Princeton University.
 
Nuclear Arms Race
16:25-16:35 Q&A

 
16:35-16:55 Break

 

Moderator: Helle Porsdam, University of Copenhagen
16:55-17:35 Keynote

Naomi Oreskes (online)

Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard.
Why Open Science
17:35-17:45 Q&A

 

17:45-20:30 Reception with light dinner

Location: The atrium outside the Queen's Hall, Black Diamond, Royal Danish Library
18:30-18:40 Dinner Speech

Christian Joas

Director of the Niels Bohr Archive
 
20:30 End of day 1

 

Friday, 11 November 2022

09:00-12:00 Parallel sessions

Session 1: As Open as Possible, as Closed as Necessary

This session focuses on ways of optimizing openness when other concerns places limits on it.
 
Location: The Queen's Hall, the Black Diamond, Royal Danish Library
Moderator: Anja C. Andersen, University of Copenhagen
Rapporteur: Abdul Kadir H. Mohammed, Linnaeus University
Time Activity Speaker Title
09:05-09:30 Keynote
Early career researcher, University of Cambridge.
 
Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge; Professor of History of Science, Department of Science Education & the Niels Bohr Archive, University of Copenhagen.
 
Open or Closed: Climate, AI, and Digital Data Across National Borders
09:30-10:00 Discussion
10:00-10:25 Keynote
Senior Lecturer, Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine and Division of Medical Education, Manchester University.
 
Openness and the Diplomacy of Scientific Data
10:25-10:55 Discussion
10:55-11:10 Break
11:10-11:35
Keynote
Director of the Dual-Use and Arms Trade Control Programme, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
 
Balancing Openness and Security: Export Controls in an Era of Technological Advancement, Geo-political Tension and Normative Change.
11:35-12:05 Discussion
12:05-12:15 Conclusions
 

Session 2: Openness as a Strategic Tool Towards a Safer World

This session explores the power and limitations of openness as a strategy for confronting new dangers.
 
Location: The Old Conference Room, 1st floor, the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
Moderator: Kirsten Busch Nielsen, University of Copenhagen 
Rapporteur: Matthijs Maas, University of Cambridge
09:05-09:30 Keynote
Professor of International Relations, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen; founder of Centre for Advanced Security Theory; Director of Centre for Resolution of International Conflicts.
 
Bohr’s Theory of Secrecy and Insecurity Applied to New Challenges
09:30-09:55 Discussion
09:55-10:20 Keynote
Theodore and Frances Geballe Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences; Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; Professor, by courtesy, of Economics, Stanford University.
 
Major Power Conflict and Nuclear Risk in a Much-Changed Technological Environment
10:20-10:45 Discussion
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-11:25 Keynote
Physicist and co-director of the Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton University; co-founder Physicists Coalition for Nuclear Threat Reduction; member of UN Secretary-General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters.
 

Openness as Responsibility and Accountability, and the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
11:25-11:50 Discussion
11:50-12:00 Conclusions

Session 3: How Can Science Be Open and Responsible

In this session, we explore how we can secure scientific integrity, and who should shoulder the responsibility of making scientific research more transparent, accountable, and open.
 
Location: The New Conference Room, 3rd floor, the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
Moderator: Mathias Wullum Nielsen, University of Copenhagen
Rapporteur: Peter Marcus Kristensen, University of Copenhagen
09:05-09:30 Keynote
Professor at the Methodology Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam.
 
Drivers and consequences of the replicability crisis in science
09:30-09:55 Discussion
09:55-10:20 Keynote
Senior Researcher, Centre for Science and Technology Studies, Leiden University; UNESCO Chair on Diversity and Inclusion in Global Science.
 
Opening Research Agendas to Address Global Needs
10:20-10:45 Discussion
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-11:25 Keynote
Head of Department of Clinical Physiology, Nuclear Medicine & PET, Rigshospitalet; Professor, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen; Honorary Professor, Technical University of Denmark.
 

How Can Science Be Open and Responsible
11:25-11:50 Discussion
11:50-12:00 Conclusions

12:15-13:00 Lunch break

Location: The atrium outside the Queen's Hall, Black Diamond, Royal Danish Library
12:15-13:00 Lunch, courtesy of Open World Conference

13:00-13:50 Keynote session

Location: The Queen's Hall, Black Diamond, Royal Danish Library
Moderator: John Renner Hansen, University of Copenhagen
13:00-13:40 Keynote
Senior Staff Research Scientist & Head of Long-term Strategy and Governance, DeepMind; President, Centre for the Governance of AI; Trustee, Cooperative AI Foundation.
 
Global governance of artificial intelligence
13;40-13:50 Q&A
13:50-14:10 Break

14:10-15:40 Reports from the parallel sessions

Location: The Queen's Hall, Black Diamond, Royal Danish Library
Moderator: Tomas Bohr, Technical University of Denmark
14:10-14:25 Report from session 1 
Abdul Kadir H. Mohammed
Senior Professor of Biological Psychology,Linnaeus University.
 
As open as possible, as closed as neccessary
14:25-14:40 Q&A
 
14:40-14:55 Report from session 2  
Senior Research Fellow (Law & AI) & Research Affiliate, Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge.
 
Openness as a strategic tool towards a safer world 
14:55-15:10 Q&A
 
15:10-15:25 Report from session 3
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen.
 
How can science be open and responsible
15:25-15:40 Q&A
 
15:40-16:00 Closing ceremony
15:40-15:50
Helle Porsdam, University of Copenhagen
 Next step towards 2025 and conclusions
16:00
End of Open World Conference 2022