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Tuesday, March 28, 2023

• 08:30 09:30

  Keynote

  Biodiversity

  • Moderator: Andrés  Roldan
  • Speaker: Brigitte Baptiste
  • Room: Orquideorama
• 09:30 10:00

  Coffee Break

  Story Corner: “Fusion Energy and Climate Change – The Conversation begins” by ITER

  Speaker: Kirsten Haupt

• 10:00 11:15

  Panel

  "Growing research equity and representation: a dialogue with Latin American women researchers" SciDev.Net-Elsevier

  • Moderator: Rebecca Clear
  • Speakers: Carla Fabiana Crespo Melgar, Gabriela Montenegro-Bethancourt, Magaly Blas, Luisa Massarani
  • Room: Orquideorama
• 10:00 11:15

  Parallel Session

  Stories Without Borders: Working together to report on science, health and the environment in Latin America

  • Moderator: Iván Carrillo
  • Speakers: Valeria Román, Johanna Osorio, Eduardo Franco Berton, Ximena Serrano
  • Room: Salon Restrepo 1
• 10:00 11:15

  Parallel Session

  Moving Lands: what the world can learn from Latin America and the Caribbean early warning alerts systems?

  • Moderator: Patricia Luna
  • Speakers: Laura Garcia Vargas, Lina Ceballos, Nahuel Arenas, Gloria I. Lopez
  • Room: Salon Restrepo 2
• 10:00 11:15

  Parallel Session

  Reporting on inequity in science from the Global South

  • Moderator: Laura Helmuth
  • Speakers: Ankur Paliwal, Subhra Priyadarshini, Abdullahi Tsanni, Thereza Paiva
  • Room: Salon Restrepo 3
• 11:15 12:30

  Panel

  Why the youngest children should be on every science journalist's radar?

  • Moderator: Irene Caselli
  • Speakers: Mariana Lenharo, Alla Katsnelson, Rhitu Chatterjee
  • Room: Orquideorama 
• 12:30 14:00

  Lunch

  Juan Valdez exhibition

• 14:00 15:30

  Plenary

  Giving & taking scientific advice: why inclusiveness matters

  Organized by WFSJ, FRQ-INGSA, and SciCom

  • Moderator: Kai Kupferschmidt
  • Speakers: Dr Ndumiso Cingo, Gustavo González, Prof. Rémi Quirion, Soledad Quiroz
  • Room: Orquideorama
• 14:00 15:15

  Parallel Session

  COVID-19 and vaccine development in Latin America. What have we learned?

  • Moderator: Bruno Massare
  • Speakers: Juliana Cassataro, Erique Jose Farias Peixoto de Miranda, Liz Alvarez-Lajonchere Ponce de León
  • Room: Salon Restrepo 1
• 14:00 15:15

  Parallel Session

  Writing the popular science book: Four authors tell their stories

  • Moderator: Kathryn O'Hara
  • Speakers: Sarah Everts, Jennie Erin Smith, Engela Duvenage
  • Room: Salon Restrepo 2
• 14:00 15:15

  Parallel Session

  Explorers of the Universe

  • Moderator: Brenda Arias Martin
  • Speakers: Andrea Obaid, Avivah Yamani, Fatemeh Bonyadi, Santiago Vargas Domínguez
  • Room: Salon Restrepo 3
• 15:30 16:00

  Coffee Break

  Story corner: "Solving the riddle of the Coffee Beetle" by Cenicafe

  Knowledge capsule: “Translating our science: From research publication to social post” by Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT

  Story corner: from 3:30pm to 4:00pm

  • Speaker: Dr Lucio Navarro

  Knowledge capsule: from 3:40pm to 3:50pm

  • Speaker: María Fernanda Mejía, Social Media Specialist
• 16:00 17:30

  Plenary

  News from Amazonia: Conserving bio-cultural ecosystems

  • Moderator: Avecita Chicchón
  • Speakers: Rodrigo Botero, Ane Alencar, Sandra Valenzuela, Manuel Pulgar Vidal
  • Room: Orquideorama
• 18:00 18:45

  Open Ceremony

  Room: Orquideorama

• 18:45 20:45

  Welcome Reception

  Room: Orquideorama