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OpenCon 2016

12:00pm EDT

Intro to OpenCon Youtube

11:00am EDT

Introduction to Advocacy & the OpenCon Advocacy Day Youtube

10:30am EST

Pre-OpenCon Webcast: Diversity, Inclusion & Equity Youtube

7:00pm EST

Informal Reception Montgomery 1&2 at the Conference Hotel

7:30am EST

Breakfast Conference Hotel

8:15am EST

Travel to Venue Conference Hotel

8:30am EST

Registration and Morning Coffee Outside Grossman Hall

9:00am EST

Break / Quiet / Prayer Room YT15

9:30am EST

OpenCon Opening Grossman Hall

10:15am EST

Brewster Kahle, Founder & Digital Librarian, Internet Archive Grossman Hall

11:00am EST

Project Presentations Session 1 Grossman Hall

11:20am EST

Break Outside Grossman Hall Remote only: Speaker Q&A Facebook Live

11:50am EST

** Story Circles and your Story of Self ** Grossman Hall Story Circle 1FULL Room: Grossman Hall | Table: Harnad Story Circle 10FILLING Room: NT07 | Table: Forward Story Circle 11FULL Room: NT08 | Table: Cassidy Story Circle 12FILLING Room: NT08 | Table: Swan Story Circle 13FILLING Room: NT02 | Table: Kuchma Story Circle 14FILLING Room: NT02 | Table: Stebbins Story Circle 15FILLING Room: NT03 | Table: Hannel Story Circle 16FILLING Room: NT03 | Table: Aldirdiri Story Circle 17FILLING Room: YT17 | Table: Neylon Story Circle 18FULL Room: YT17 | Table: Swartz Story Circle 19FILLING Room: YT16 | Table: Rentier Story Circle 2FILLING Room: Grossman Hall | Table: Baraniuk Story Circle 20FULL Room: YT16 | Table: Wales Story Circle 21FULL Room: Y116 | Table: Rossini Story Circle 22FILLING Room: Y116 | Table: Stodden Story Circle 23FILLING Room: The Commons (Outside Grossman Hall) | Table: Bibev Story Circle 24FILLING Room: The Commons (Outside Grossman Hall) | Table: Varmous Story Circle 25FILLING Room: The Commons (Outside Grossman Hall) | Table: Killey Story Circle 26FILLING Room: The Commons (Outside Grossman Hall) | Table: Patterson Story Circle 27FILLING Room: The Commons (Outside Grossman Hall) | Table: Binfield Story Circle 28FILLING Room: The Commons (Outside Grossman Hall) | Table: Shackman Story Circle 3FULL Room: Grossman Hall | Table: Lessig Story Circle 4FULL Room: Grossman Hall | Table: Weller Story Circle 5FULL Room: Grossman Hall | Table: Schmidt Story Circle 6FULL Room: NT01 | Table: Browne Story Circle 7FILLING Room: NT01 | Table: Surman Story Circle 8FULL Room: NT01 | Table: Hilton Story Circle 9FULL Room: NT07 | Table: Petrides

1:00pm EST

Lunch American University Cafeteria Remote only: Lunchtime Networking Call (Disciplinary Groups) Google Hangouts

1:45pm EST

Break Outside Grossman Hall

2:00pm EST

Culture Change Grossman Hall

3:30pm EST

Project Presentations Session 2 Grossman Hall

3:45pm EST

Open Reactions Grossman Hall Break Outside Grossman Hall Remote only: Speaker Q&A Facebook Live

4:15pm EST

Right to Research Coalition Next Generation Leadership Award Grossman Hall

4:30pm EST

Successful participant projects Grossman Hall

6:00pm EST

Group Photo NT01

6:30pm EST

Remote only: End of Day Community Call Uberconference Reception American University Cafeteria

9:00pm EST

Informal Meeting Space Montgomery 1&2 at the Conference Hotel

TBA

Open Reactions Grossman Hall

7:30am EST

Breakfast Conference Hotel

8:15am EST

Travel to Venue Conference Hotel

9:00am EST

Morning Coffee Outside Grossman Hall Break / Quiet / Prayer Room YT15

9:30am EST

Introduction to Day 2 Grossman Hall

9:45am EST

Research Evaluation Grossman Hall

11:15am EST

Break Outside Grossman Hall Remote only: Speaker Q&A Facebook Live

11:45am EST

Equity & Open Grossman Hall

12:15pm EST

Remote only: OpenCon Community Call Google Hangouts

12:30pm EST

Lunch American University Cafeteria

1:15pm EST

Break Outside Grossman Hall

1:30pm EST

How to do an Open Research Training Grossman Hall How to communicate openness effectively for Campaigns and Policy Makers NT08 How to communicate openness effectively to Academics NT01 How to do grassroot organising and campaigning NT03 How to effectively communicate in an international network of free knowledge stakeholders YT17 How to ensure your projects & organizations are diverse & inclusive YT16 How to fundraise for projects NT02 How to harness Open to advance your career N102 How to start projects from scratch N101

2:30pm EST

Break Outside Grossman Hall Remote only: Speaker Q&A Facebook Live

3:00pm EST

Project Presentations Session 3 Grossman Hall

3:15pm EST

Unconference Introduction Grossman Hall ** Unconference ** TBA

3:25pm EST

National Open Access Policies: The case of Mexico's National Open Access Strategy N101 Copyright Policy and Open YT17 Data Literacy N102 Harnessing Open Peer Review to Advance Open Culture N104 How can we encourage researchers to release their software? How can we improve software citation? NT01 I didn't know I could know so much YT16 Min(e)d your Data ! NT02 Open Advice NT08 Open Education in Africa NT03 Open Global Health N105 Open in Canada N103 Open Science Awareness in Research YT14 The Impact of OA beyond Academia Grossman Hall

4:05pm EST

Break TBA

4:15pm EST

Patents: The Next Open Access Fight N101 Brainstorming on open data N104 Can Wikipedia's Citations Become Open? YT17 Collaborative Editing of a Best Practices for Transparent Social Science Research NT03 Ideas for international Open Access (OA) campaigns N105 Making Open Research Personal: Reaching Beyond the Echo Chamber N102 oaDOI YT16 Open Humanities N103 Opening up funding sources NT01 Phasing out non-disclosure clauses that library users cannot defend against YT14 The Pan-African Institutional Repository NT08 Toward Open Science: Crowdsourcing a Revision of Study Materials on Open Access and Undergraduates NT02 Wikipedia+Open Education at your university Grossman Hall

4:55pm EST

Break TBA

5:05pm EST

How publication bias and the lack of openness degrades reported research findings YT14 Better to light a candle than curse the darkness: finding the inspiration & energy for persistence in Open work N105 Can we measure open science? Should we? Grossman Hall Dinoboards': Getting ECRs onto the boards of organizations YT17 Evolving the OpenCon Application Process N103 Hacking school textbooks in Cameroon N102 Impactstory NT08 Implementing Open Research Practices with the Open Science Framework NT03 Making the ethics approval process more transparent N101 Open Textbooks YT16 OpenCon Latin America N104 Pitfalls of OER NT01 What should post-publication peer review look like? NT02

5:45pm EST

Break Outside Grossman Hall

6:00pm EST

Project Presentations Session 4 Grossman Hall

6:15pm EST

Closing Grossman Hall

7:00pm EST

Informal Meeting Space Montgomery 1&2 at the Conference Hotel

7:00am EST

Breakfast Conference Hotel

8:00am EST

Travel to Venue Conference Hotel

9:00am EST

Arrivals George Washington University Advocacy Meeting: Laura & John Arnold FoundationFULL 1776 I (Eye) St NW

9:30am EST

Introduction to the Advocacy Day George Washington University

9:45am EST

Kristina Peters, Open Education Fellow, Office of Educational Technology, US Department of Education George Washington University

10:15am EST

Break George Washington University

10:30am EST

Advocacy Day Training George Washington University

11:00am EST

Group 1 Advocacy Training & Meeting Planning George Washington University

11:30am EST

Group 2 Advocacy Training & Meeting Planning George Washington University

12:00pm EST

Advocacy Meeting: Office of Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA-19)FULL 1401 Longworth House Office Building Advocacy Meeting: Office of Senator Benjamin Cardin (D-MD)FULL 509 Hart Senate Office Building Advocacy Meeting: Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV)LIMITED 172 Russell Senate Office Building Lunch TBA Advocacy Meeting: Open Society FoundationsFULL 1730 Pennsylvania Ave NW, 7th Floor, Washington, DC

12:30pm EST

Advocacy Meeting: Office of Rep. Mike Doyle (D-PA-14)FULL 239 Cannon House Office Building Advocacy Meeting: Office of Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ)LIMITED 528 Hart Senate Office Building Optional: Advanced Skills Training -- 'State of Open Data' George Washington University

1:00pm EST

Advocacy Meeting: Office of Rep. Blake Farenthold (R-TX-27)LIMITED 1027 Longworth House Office Building Advocacy Meeting: Office of Rep. Kevin Yoder (R-KS-3)FULL 215 Cannon House Office Building Advocacy Meeting: Office of Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI)FULL 722 Hart Senate Office Building Advocacy Meeting: Office of Senator Ed Markey (D-MA)FULL 255 Dirksen Senate Office Building Advocacy Meeting: Office of Senator Gary Peters (D-MI)LIMITED 724 Hart Senate Office Building Advocacy Meeting: Office of Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ)FULL 413 Russell Senate Office Building Advocacy Meeting: Bill & Melinda Gates FoundationFULL 1300 I St NW, Washington DC Advocacy Meeting: New America FoundationFULL 740 15th St NW, Suite 900 Advocacy Meeting: Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)FULL PCORI

1:30pm EST

Advocacy Meeting: Rep. Larry Buschon, M.D. (R-IN-08)FULL 1005 Longworth House Office Building Advocacy Meeting: Senator Tim Scott (R-SC)FULL 520 Hart Senate Office Building

2:00pm EST

Advocacy Meeting: Rep. Seth MoultonLIMITED 1408 Longworth House Office Building Advocacy Meeting: Rep. Derek Kilmer (D-WA-6)FULL 1520 Longworth House Office Building Advocacy Meeting: Senator Bob Casey (D-PA)FULL 393 Russell Senate Office Building Advocacy Meeting: Senator John Cornyn (R-TX)FULL 517 Hart Senate Office Building Advocacy Meeting: Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR)FULL 221 Dirksen Senate Office Building Advocacy Meeting: Embassy of SerbiaLIMITED Embassy of Serbia Advocacy Meeting: Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH)FULL 713 Hart Senate Office Building

2:15pm EST

Optional: Q&A -- U.S. Government & Elections George Washington University

2:30pm EST

Advocacy Meeting: National Institutes of Health (NIH)FULL National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

3:00pm EST

Advocacy Meeting: Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA)FULL 703 Hart Senate Office Building Optional: Advanced Skills Training -- Advocacy & Effective Communications George Washington University Advocacy Meeting: Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS)FULL 955 L’Enfant Plaza North SW, Suite 4000 (4th Floor), Washington, DC Advocacy Meeting: Senator Mark Warner (D-VA)FULL 475 Russell Senate Office Building

4:00pm EST

Advocacy Meeting: Senator Al Franken (D-MN)FULL 309 Hart Senate Office Building Advocacy Meeting: Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)LIMITED 506 Hart Senate Office Building Advocacy Meeting: Department of EducationFULL Basement room of the National Library of Education Advocacy Meeting: Department of StateFULL Room C2L04, State Department Building Advocacy Meeting: National Academy of SciencesFULL National Academies of Science, 2101 Constitution Avenue NW

6:30pm EST

Closing Reception The University Club of Washington DC

10:00pm EST

Official Afterparty Emissary

1:00pm EST

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