Chair & welcome to MS2025: James Wilsdon (Executive Director, RoRI & Professor of Research Policy, UCL)

Opening keynote: A Year in Metascience
Lord Vallance (UK Minister for Science & Innovation)

Keynote panel:
Magdalena Skipper (Editor-in-Chief, Nature)
Sylvia Schwaag Serger (President, Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) & co-author, The Heitor Report)
Kelvin Mubiana Katukula (NCRST)
Takahiro Ueyama (Special Advisor, Council for Science, Technology and Innovation, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan)
Sir Peter Gluckman (President, International Science Council & Chair, Science System Advisory Group, New Zealand)

Chair: Katrin Milzow (Co-Director, Swiss National Science Foundation and Co-Chair, RoRI)

Opening keynote: John-Arne Røttingen (CEO, Wellcome Trust)

Keynote panel:
Matt Clancy (Research Fellow, Abundance & Growth, Open Philanthropy)
Hanna Denecke (Head of Exploration Funding Team, Volkswagen Foundation)
Claire Forsyth (Deputy CEO, Australian Research Council)
Ted Hodapp (Program Director, Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation & Co-Chair RoRI AFIRE Steering Group)
Ilan Gur (CEO of ARIA)

Chair: Chonnettia Jones (President & Executive Director, Addgene)

Opening keynote: Is there a science of science policy - 20 years on?
Cassidy Sugimoto (Tom & Marie Patton Chair, School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology)

Keynote panel:
Fiona Fidler (Professor of History & Philosophy of Science, University of Melbourne; co-lead, MetaMelb Initiative; founding President, AIMOS)
John Ioannidis (Professor of Medicine, of Epidemiology and Population Health, and (by courtesy) of Biomedical Data Science and Co-Director, METRICS, Stanford University)
Andy Stirling (Professor of Science & Technology Policy, SPRU, University of Sussex)
Lin Zhang (Professor of Information Management, Wuhan University & Co-Editor, Scientometrics)

Chair: Geraint Rees (Vice-Provost for Research Innovation & Global Engagement, UCL)

Opening keynote: Anna Koivuniemi (Head, Google DeepMind Impact Accelerator)

Keynote panel:
Parashkev Nachev (Professor of Neurology, UCL) 
Moumita Kouley (Senior Researcher, DST Centre for Policy Research, Indian Institute for Science)
Sabina Leonelli (Professor of Philosophy & History of Science & Technology, Technical University of Munich; Scientific Director of the Ethical Data Initiative)
Dashun Wang (Professor of Management & Organizations and founding director, Center for Science of Science & Innovation, Northwestern University)

Chair & launch of the Metascience Alliance: Tim Errington (Senior Director of Research, Center for Open Science)

Opening keynote: Anastasia Gamick (Co-founder & Chief Operating Officer, Convergent Research)

Keynote panel:
Emmanuel Boakye (Founder, African Reproducibility Network)
Sarah Main (Vice President for Academic and Government Relations, Elsevier)
Sir Geoff Mulgan (Professor of Collective Intelligence, UCL & founder, The Institutional Architecture Lab (TIAL))
Tracey Weissgerber (Team leader EXCELScIOR project ERA Chair, University of Coimbra)

Session chair: Christina Boswell (Vice President for Public Policy, British Academy & Pro-VC for Research, University of Edinburgh)

Opening keynote: Maria Leptin (President, European Research Council)

Keynote panel:
Alison Bourgon (Director General of Science Policy at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR))
Marin Dacos (GRIOS & National Open Science Coordinator, France)
Ana Persic (Programme Specialist for Science Technology and Innovation Policies and Open Science, UNESCO)
Ludo Waltman (Scientific Director, CWTS, Co-Editor, MetaROR  & Co-Chair, RoRI)

Chair: James Wilsdon (Executive Director, RoRI)

Special guest: Denys Kurbatov (Deputy Minister of Education & Science, Ukraine (online))

Where from here?
Tamarinde Haven (Metascience Alliance)
Jen Gold & Ben Steyn (Co-heads, UK Metascience Unit)

Announcing plans for Metascience 2027
Tim Errington (Senior Director of Research, COS)