2023 Global MCBK Meeting
October 3 & 4 in the Americas and Europe
(October 4 & 5 in Australia and Asia)
The sixth annual meeting will have two sessions each day to accommodate our global participants.
The live sessions primarily for participants in the Americas and Europe will be on October 3 and October 4 at:
9 AM – 1 PM U.S. eastern time
10 AM – 2 PM in Argentina and Brazil
2 PM – 6 PM in the U.K.
3 PM – 7 PM in Central Europe
The live sessions primarily for participants in Australia and Asia, will be on October 4 and October 5 at:
10 AM – 2 PM in Australia
7 AM – 11AM in China
7 PM – 11 PM U.S. Eastern time on October 3 and 4
4 PM – 8 PM U.S. Pacific time on October 3 and 4
Click here to add the meeting sessions to your calendar!
All participants will have rapid access to recordings of sessions they do not attend “live”.
The program will showcase keynote presentations from innovators and trailblazers, contributed lightning talks from participants showcasing their own work, breakout sessions, and networking huddles.
Registration is required but free. Register now HERE!
We look forward to seeing you there!
MCBK Global 2023 Meeting Program

MCBK Global 2023 Lightning Talk Abstracts

MCBK Global 2023 Zoom Links

MCBK Global 2023 Speaker Bios

Meeting Program
ALL TIMES IN U.S. EASTERN
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Vancouver -3, Sao Paulo +1, UK +5, Central Europe +6, Delhi +9.5, China +12, Sydney +15
DAY 1 AM Session: October 3 (Eastern Americas, Europe, Africa, India, Middle East)
9:00 - 9:15 a.m. Welcome, Overview of Meeting
9:15 - 10:00 a.m. SMART GUIDELINES: Rethinking digital assets to deliver global health 2.0
Alain Labrique, World Health Organization
10:00 - 10:30 a.m. Parallel sessions:
Introduction to MCBK for First-Timers
CBK for Personalized Disease Prevention
Setting the Scientific Record on FHIR: Using the FEvIR Platform to Mobilize CBK
The Right Decision Service – a national approach to decision support in NHS Scotland
10:30 - 11:15 a.m. Lightning talk Session 1
28 Lightning talks organized into six thematic rooms
Standards, Interoperability, Metadata, Technical Models & Infrastructures for CBK
Implementation, Evaluation and Stakeholder Value of CBK
National and Global Ecosystems Development Related to CBK; CBK Governance, Policy & Curation
Ethics, Equity, Inclusion & Trust Related to CBK; Education for CBK
11:15 - 11:30 a.m. BREAK
11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Lightning talk Session 2
28 Lightning talks organized into six thematic rooms
Standards, Interoperability, Metadata, Technical Models & Infrastructures for CBK
Implementation, Evaluation and Stakeholder Value of CBK
National and Global Ecosystems Development Related to CBK; CBK Governance, Policy & Curation
Ethics, Equity, Inclusion & Trust Related to CBK; Education for CBK
12:15 - 1:00 p.m. Plenary Conversation: Large Language Models and Discrete Knowledge Objects
Mark Musen, Stanford University, USA
Karin Verspoor, RMIT University, Australia
DAY 1 PM Session: October 3 (Western Americas, Asia, Australia)
7:00 - 7:15 p.m. Introduction to meeting
7:15 - 8:00 p.m. Plenary Conversation: Large Language Models and Discrete Knowledge Objects
Mark Musen, Stanford University, USA
Karin Verspoor, RMIT University, Australia
8:00 - 8:30 p.m. Parallel sessions:
Introduction to MCBK for First-Timers
CBK for Personalized Disease Prevention
CBK in Action - Priyanka Rana
Ongoing computable medical knowledge research in China
8:30 - 9:15 p.m. Lightning talk Session 1
28 Lightning talks organized into six thematic rooms
Standards, Interoperability, Metadata, Technical Models & Infrastructures for CBK
Implementation, Evaluation and Stakeholder Value of CBK
National and Global Ecosystems Development Related to CBK; CBK Governance, Policy & Curation
Ethics, Equity, Inclusion & Trust Related to CBK; Education for CBK
9:15 - 9:30 p.m. BREAK
9:30 - 10:15 p.m. Lightning talk Session 2
28 Lightning talks organized into six thematic rooms
Standards, Interoperability, Metadata, Technical Models & Infrastructures for CBK
Implementation, Evaluation and Stakeholder Value of CBK
National and Global Ecosystems Development Related to CBK; CBK Governance, Policy & Curation
Ethics, Equity, Inclusion & Trust Related to CBK; Education for CBK
10:15 - 11:00 p.m. SMART GUIDELINES: Rethinking digital assets to deliver global health 2.0
Alain Labrique, World Health Organization
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Vancouver -3, Sao Paulo +1, UK +5, Central Europe +6, Delhi +9.5, China +12, Sydney +15
DAY 2 AM Session: October 4 (Eastern Americas, Europe, Africa, India, Middle East)
9:00-9:15 a.m. Welcome back for Day 2
9:15 - 10:00 a.m. The European Health Data Space
Dipak Kalra, European Institute for Advancement Through Health Data
10:00 - 10:45 a.m. Hot Topic Huddles
Regulation and Other Policies for Computable Knowledge
Issues of Computable Knowledge Quality
Metadata to Promote FAIRness and Trust
Governance, Scaling, and Sustainability of CBK
Technical Considerations in Representing and Packaging CBK
Importance of Biomedical Libraries and Librarians in MCBK
10:45 - 11:00 a.m. BREAK
11:00 - 11:45 a.m. Bridging the Gap – Top Down and Bottom Up: Complementary Approaches in MCBK
Dana Lewis, OpenAPS
11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Forming National/Regional MCBK Chapters
12:45 - 1:00 p.m. Meeting Summary and Wrap Up
DAY 2 PM Session: October 4 (Western Americas, Asia, Australia)
7:00 - 7:15 p.m. Welcome back for Day 2
7:15 - 8:00 p.m. Prometheus and the Patient: Epistemic Rights and Epistemic Duties
Brian Chapman, University of Melbourne
8:00 - 8:45 p.m. Hot Topic Huddles
Regulation and Other Policies for Computable Knowledge
Issues of Computable Knowledge Quality
Metadata to Promote FAIRness and Trust
Governance, Scaling, and Sustainability of CBK
Technical Considerations in Representing and Packaging CBK
Importance of Biomedical Libraries and Librarians in MCBK
8:45 - 9:00 p.m. BREAK
9:00 - 9:45 p.m. AI:AI Interactions
Guy Tsafnat, Evidentli
9:45 - 10:45 p.m. Forming National/Regional MCBK Chapters
10:45 - 11:00 p.m. Meeting Summary and Wrap Up
Call for Lightning Talk Abstracts
Lightning talks are brief, focused presentations of current work to mobilize CBK. Selected presenters will pre-record three- to four-minute presentations with a maximum of five slides. Abstracts of all accepted lightning talks will be published in the Learning Health Systems open access journal. Some submissions not selected for presentation will still be included in the published set.
There will be two live lightning talk sessions, during which participants will view recorded presentations and then join the presenters for a live discussion.
LIGHTNING TALK ABSTRACTS
Submitted lightning talks must conform to at least one of the following thematic areas:
National and global ecosystems development related to CBK
CBK governance, policy & curation
Standards interoperability, metadata, technical models & infrastructures for CBK
Ethics, equity, inclusion, & trust related to CBK
Implementation evaluation and stakeholder value of CBK
Education for CBK
All lightning talks should address the concept of MCBK as described
in the MCBK Manifesto.
Submitters will be notified about acceptance of their abstract by August 14, 2023.
THE VIRTUAL SESSION FOR CBK LIGHTNING TALKS
Detailed requirements for the three-to-four-minute recording of the lightning talks will be sent to all presenters upon notification that their abstract has been selected.
All lightning talk presenters must register for the 2023 MCBK Global Meeting, and must agree to be present for the live discussion following the showing of their recorded presentation.