Cochrane Colloquium 2026

Name: Cochrane Colloquium 2026
Start: 2026-12-08
End: 2026-12-10
Location: ICE Kraków Congress Centre

Cochrane Colloquium 2026 takes place on 8–10 December 2026 at ICE Kraków Congress Centre, Kraków. It is organised by Cochrane, and B2DB lists 739 speakers and 156 sessions announced so far.

The Cochrane Colloquium 2026, themed "Cochrane Evidence: Living, Trusted, Transformed", is hosted by Cochrane Poland at the ICE Kraków Congress Centre from 8 to 10 December 2026, preceded by satellite events on 7 December. It brings together the global Cochrane community and others interested in evidence-informed decision making to exchange ideas on evidence generation, synthesis and use across health and beyond.

Key facts

Dates	8–10 December 2026 (upcoming)
Venue	ICE Kraków Congress Centre, Kraków, Poland
Organiser	Cochrane
Series	Cochrane Colloquium
Speakers	739
Sessions	156
Stages	Park Inn Hotel, Kraków, ICE Kraków - S1 - Auditorium, Park Inn - Beta 1, ICE Kraków - Chamber Hall - S3A, Park Inn - Epsilon, Equity, co-production, inclusiveness, partnerships, ICE Kraków - Chamber Hall - S3B, Methods innovation for contextualised living evidence, ICE Kraków - Aquarium 2, Park Inn - Gamma 1&2, Overcoming distrust in evidence, Responsible AI in evidence synthesis, ICE Kraków - Aquarium 1, ICE Kraków - Glass Room, Park Inn - Beta 2, ICE Kraków - S4 C, From static reviews to a learning and living ecosystem, ICE Kraków - Foyer F0
Sponsors	2
Official site	colloquium-2026.cochrane.org/programme

Keynote speakers

Helen Pearson Senior Editor
Philippe Ravaud Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Statistics (CRESS)

Speakers (739)

Showing 400 of 739. Compiled from the published agenda; speakers can claim and verify their own entry.

Agenda (156 sessions)

Day 1 — Monday 7 December 2026

2026 Joint Cochrane Methods Executive-ICASR Methods Symposium: Advancing methods for the responsible use of AI in evidence synthesis 09:00
INGUIDE Course 2: Certified Guideline Methodologist Park Inn Hotel, Kraków
INGUIDE Course 1: Certified Guideline Panel Member + Adolopment Park Inn Hotel, Kraków

Day 2 — Tuesday 8 December 2026

Plenary 1 - From static reviews to learning and living ecosystem 09:00–10:30 · ICE Kraków - S1 - Auditorium — Rafael José Vieira, Amir Qaseem, Firmaye Bogale, Philippe Ravaud +3 more
Concurrent A - Special Session 11:00–12:30 · ICE Kraków - S1 - Auditorium
Concurrent A - WS: AI-Assisted Evidence Synthesis: A Practical Tour of Systematic Review Platforms 11:00–12:30 · Park Inn - Beta 1 — Ariel Bardach
Concurrent A - WS: Co-designing Cochrane’s Patient and Public Involvement Strategy 11:00–12:30 · ICE Kraków - Chamber Hall - S3A — Helen Bulbeck
Concurrent A - WS: Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Prognosis I: Introduction, design and protocol of systematic reviews of prognosis studies 11:00–12:30 · Park Inn - Epsilon — Johanna Damen
Concurrent A - OS: Equity, co-production, inclusiveness, partnerships 1 11:00–12:30 · Equity, co-production, inclusiveness, partnerships — Solange Durao, Monica Artha, Jorien Laermans, Cristián Mansilla +3 more
Concurrent A - WS: Evidence and Gap Maps: An introduction to their purpose, methods and the tools needed to create them 11:00–12:30 · ICE Kraków - Chamber Hall - S3B
Concurrent A - OS: Methods innovation for contextualised living evidence 1 11:00–12:30 · Methods innovation for contextualised living evidence — Helena De Carvalho Gomes, KM Saif-Ur-Rahman, Miloslav Klugar, Shahab Sayfi +2 more
Concurrent A - WS: How to assess the risk of bias in randomized trials using the Cochrane risk-of-bias (RoB 2) tool 11:00–12:30 · ICE Kraków - Aquarium 2 — Camilla Hansen Nejstgaard
Concurrent A - WS: Evidence for the planet too: systematic reviews of planetary boundary impacts alongside health decisions 11:00–12:30 · Park Inn - Gamma 1&2 — Thomas Piggott
Concurrent A - OS: Methods innovation for contextualised living evidence 2 11:00–12:30 · Methods innovation for contextualised living evidence — Tomasz Kozakiewicz, Elke Hausner, Javier Bracchiglione, Ryan Kenny +3 more
Concurrent A - OS: Overcoming distrust in evidence 1 11:00–12:30 · Overcoming distrust in evidence — Stefano Negrini, Eva Madrid, Anna Chaimani, Ratree Sawangjit +1 more
Concurrent A - OS: Responsible AI in evidence synthesis 1 11:00–12:30 · Responsible AI in evidence synthesis — Artur Nowak, Barbara Nussbaumer-Streit, Biljana Macura, Suppachai Insuk +1 more
Concurrent A - WS: Integrating Planetary Health into the GRADE Evidence to Decision Framework: experience from the European Commission Initiative on Colorectal Cancer 11:00–12:30 · ICE Kraków - Aquarium 1 — Silvia Gianola
Concurrent A - WS: Introducing the new PRISMA-QES for reporting a qualitative evidence synthesis 11:00–12:30 · ICE Kraków - Glass Room — Jane Noyes
Concurrent A - WS: Redundant systematic reviews: from debate to action 11:00–12:30 · Park Inn - Beta 2 — Livia Puljak
Concurrent A - WS: Responsible Use of GenAI in Evidence Synthesis: Validating Large Language Models for Study Selection in Systematic Reviews with EPPI-Reviewer 11:00–12:30 · ICE Kraków - S4 C — Anastasia Koryakina
Concurrent A - OS: Equity, co-production, inclusiveness, partnerships 2 11:00–12:30 · Equity, co-production, inclusiveness, partnerships — Seilin Uhm, Carmen Spӓth, Detty Siti Nurdiati, Ivan Florez +4 more
Concurrent A - OS: From static reviews to a learning and living ecosystem 1 11:00–12:30 · From static reviews to a learning and living ecosystem — Leslie Choi, Nicolas Meza, Maria-Inti Metzendorf, Antonia Sprenger +2 more
Tuesday Poster Session 12:30–14:00 · ICE Kraków - Foyer F0 — Seilin Uhm, Anna Noel-Storr, Rebecka Hall, Stefano Negrini +78 more
AGM 13:00–14:00 · ICE Kraków - S1 - Auditorium
Concurrent B - OS: Methods innovation for contextualised living evidence 3 14:00–15:30 · Methods innovation for contextualised living evidence — Jordi Pardo Pardo, Katy Sutcliffe, Jo-Ana Chase, Anastasios Bastounis +4 more
Concurrent B - OS: Methods innovation for contextualised living evidence 4 14:00–15:30 · Methods innovation for contextualised living evidence — Tamara Kredo, Carlos Alva-Diaz, Connor Evans, Virginia Chiocchia +3 more
Concurrent B - OS: Overcoming distrust in evidence 2 14:00–15:30 · Overcoming distrust in evidence — Dena Zeraatkar, Nicolas Meza, Bada Yang, Barbara Mintzes +3 more
Concurrent B - OS: Overcoming distrust in evidence 3 14:00–15:30 · Overcoming distrust in evidence — Heather Ames, Helen Burchett, Melissa Corso, Yaxin Chen +1 more
Concurrent B - OS Responsible AI in evidence synthesis 2 14:00–15:30 · Responsible AI in evidence synthesis — Anna Noel-Storr, Bernardo Sousa-Pinto, Anastasia Koryakina, Max Callaghan +4 more
Concurrent B - Special Session 14:00–15:30 · ICE Kraków - S1 - Auditorium
Concurrent B - WS: Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Prognosis II: Risk of bias assessment in systematic reviews of prognosis studies 14:00–15:30 · Park Inn - Gamma 1&2 — Johanna Damen
Concurrent B - WS: Creating Cochrane Evidence Gap Maps: From Scoping to Living Evidence Maps 14:00–15:30 · Park Inn - Beta 2 — Leslie Choi
Concurrent B - WS: Facilitating implementation of review findings in local contexts: A hands-on workshop on the CONSENSYS approach 14:00–15:30 · ICE Kraków - Chamber Hall - S3B — Isolde Sommer
Concurrent B - WS: From Evidence Synthesis to Research Priorities: An Interactive Workshop on Using GRADE to Guide Research 14:00–15:30 · Park Inn - Epsilon — Holger Schunemann
Concurrent B - WS: From hype to judgment: applying a decision matrix to guide the responsible use of AI in evidence synthesis 14:00–15:30 · Park Inn - Beta 1 — Julie Brown
Concurrent B - WS: Methodological Guidance for Conducting and Critically Appraising Delphi Panels 14:00–15:30 · ICE Kraków - Aquarium 1 — Sean Grant
Concurrent B - WS: Reproducibility and Safety Challenges in Using Large Language Models for Evidence Synthesis 14:00–15:30 · ICE Kraków - Chamber Hall - S3A — Moritz Staudinger
Concurrent B - WS: RoBSTER: an interactive online tool to support RoB 2 risk-of-bias assessments 14:00–15:30 · ICE Kraków - Glass Room — Rafael José Vieira
Concurrent B - WS: Toolbox for effective and trustworthy evidence dissemination: a hands-on workshop 14:00–15:30 · ICE Kraków - Aquarium 2 — Jorien Laermans
Concurrent B - OS: Equity, co-production, inclusiveness, partnerships 3 14:00–15:30 · Equity, co-production, inclusiveness, partnerships — Alicia Zink, Ana Beatriz Pizarro, Arnav Agarwal, Rigmor C. Berg +4 more
Concurrent B - WS: Towards two week reviews using acceleration focused, systematic review automation tools 14:00–15:30 · ICE Kraków - S4 C — Justin Clark
Concurrent B - OS: From static reviews to a learning and living ecosystem 2 14:00–15:30 · From static reviews to a learning and living ecosystem — Tomasz Kozakiewicz, Sally Yaacoub, Kerry Dwan, Preethy D'Souza +3 more
Concurrent C - WS: Evaluating experiences and impacts of co-production in evidence synthesis: planning for reflective practice 16:00–17:30 · ICE Kraków - Glass Room — Jo Thompson Coon, Rebecca Rees
Concurrent C - Leadership Meeting 1 16:00–17:30 · ICE Kraków - S1 - Auditorium
Concurrent C - OS: Equity, co-production, inclusiveness, partnerships 4 16:00–17:30 · Equity, co-production, inclusiveness, partnerships — Jacqueline Ho, Marta Roqué I Figuls, Ana Beatriz Pizarro, Kun Zou +5 more
Concurrent C - OS: From static reviews to a learning and living ecosystem 3 16:00–17:30 · From static reviews to a learning and living ecosystem — Sean Grant, Rigmor C. Berg, David Haas, Agustín Ciapponi +3 more
Concurrent C - OS: Methods innovation for contextualised living evidence 5 16:00–17:30 · Methods innovation for contextualised living evidence — Rebecka Hall, Laura Emili Silva Nunes, Joanna Leaviss, Adriani Nikolakopoulou +4 more
Concurrent C - OS: Methods innovation for contextualised living evidence 6 16:00–17:30 · Methods innovation for contextualised living evidence — Ryan Kenny, Farid Foroutan, Katie Scandrett, Shahab Sayfi +3 more
Concurrent C - OS: Overcoming distrust in evidence 4 16:00–17:30 · Overcoming distrust in evidence — Anelisa Jaca, Karolina Strzebonska, Christian Cao, KM Saif-Ur-Rahman +3 more
Concurrent C - OS: Responsible AI in evidence synthesis 3 16:00–17:30 · Responsible AI in evidence synthesis — Seilin Uhm, Artur Nowak, Manuel Marques-Cruz, Jesús López-Alcalde +1 more
Concurrent C - OS: Responsible AI in evidence synthesis 4 16:00–17:30 · Responsible AI in evidence synthesis — Anna Noel-Storr, Bernardo Sousa-Pinto, Paweł Jemioło, Shayesteh Jahanfar +3 more
Concurrent C - WS: Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Prognosis III: Meta-analytical approaches in systematic reviews of prognosis studies 16:00–17:30 · Park Inn - Gamma 1&2 — Johanna Damen
Concurrent C - WS: Don't stop me now: responsible use of AI for screening with stopping criteria 16:00–17:30 · Park Inn - Beta 1 — Max Callaghan
Concurrent C - WS: GRADE and the principles for assessing certainty of evidence for interventions: a hands-on workshop 16:00–17:30 · ICE Kraków - Chamber Hall - S3B — Miranda Langendam
Concurrent C - WS: Introduction to Living Reviews in EPPI Reviewer 16:00–17:30 · ICE Kraków - S4 C — Sergio Graziosi
Concurrent C - WS: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in Systematic Literature Reviews: A Practical Workshop Using EasySLR 16:00–17:30 · ICE Kraków - Chamber Hall - S3A — Hemant Rathi
Concurrent C - WS: Measuring Cochrane’s impact through guidelines & policy documents 16:00–17:30 · ICE Kraków - Aquarium 2 — Rebecka Hall, Susanna Wisniewski
Concurrent C - WS: Overview of reviews for Knowledge Translation (OKT): how to utilise tools to deliver clinician-friendly and immediately 16:00–17:30 · Park Inn - Beta 2 — Stefano Negrini
Concurrent C - WS: Strengthening domestic evidence support: Five pillars for a changing evidence synthesis landscape 16:00–17:30 · Park Inn - Epsilon
Concurrent C - WS: What is new in the Cochrane-Campbell Handbook for Qualitative Evidence Synthesis? 16:00–17:30 · ICE Kraków - Aquarium 1 — Jane Noyes

Day 3 — Wednesday 9 December 2026

Plenary 2 - Should AI change the way we think about evidence synthesis? 09:00–10:30 · ICE Kraków - S1 - Auditorium — Ivan Florez, Nadia Soliman, Ashrita Saran, Harsha Dayal +2 more
Concurrent D - OS: Methods innovation for contextualised living evidence 7 11:00–12:30 · Methods innovation for contextualised living evidence — Isolde Sommer, Anna Lene Seidler, Laurence Blanchard, Natasha Gloeck +4 more
Concurrent D - OS: Overcoming distrust in evidence 5 11:00–12:30 · Overcoming distrust in evidence — Helen Burchett, Eva Madrid, Jesús López-Alcalde, Kerry Dwan +3 more
Concurrent D - OS: Overcoming distrust in evidence 6 11:00–12:30 · Overcoming distrust in evidence — Johanna Damen, Jo Weeks, Mateusz Świerz, Kenneth Färnqvist +4 more
Concurrent D - OS: Responsible AI in evidence synthesis 5 11:00–12:30 · Responsible AI in evidence synthesis — Seilin Uhm, Artur Nowak, Emma McFarlane, Graziela De Luca Canto +3 more
Concurrent D - OS: Responsible AI in evidence synthesis 6 11:00–12:30 · Responsible AI in evidence synthesis — Paweł Jemioło, Hemant Rathi, Andreas Lundh, Moritz Staudinger +3 more
Concurrent D - WS: Accelerating Evidence Synthesis with a Cross-Domain Living Evidence Data Repository 11:00–12:30 · Park Inn - Beta 1
Concurrent D - WS: Bayesian Meta-Analysis in practice: from first principles to living evidence applications 11:00–12:30 · ICE Kraków - Chamber Hall - S3A — Gian Luca Di Tanna
Concurrent D - WS: Communicating with the media: how to build trust in evidence and counter misinformation 11:00–12:30 · ICE Kraków - Chamber Hall - S3B
Concurrent D - WS: Critically Appraising Reviews that Use Qualitative Comparative Analysis: Introducing the CARU-QCA tool 11:00–12:30 · Park Inn - Epsilon — Katy Sutcliffe
Concurrent D - OS: From static reviews to a learning and living ecosystem 4 11:00–12:30 · From static reviews to a learning and living ecosystem — Susanna Wisniewski, Solange Durao, Tamara Kredo, Xuan Yu +2 more
Concurrent D - WS: Mapping Cochrane evidence for child health: Coherence and tension between global and local priorities 11:00–12:30 · ICE Kraków - Aquarium 2 — Jeanne-Marie Guise
Concurrent D - WS: Practical Approaches to Meta-Analysis of Economic Evaluations for Evidence-Informed Decision-Making 11:00–12:30 · ICE Kraków - Aquarium 1 — Nathorn Chaiyakunapruk
Concurrent D - WS: Streamline evidence‑to‑recommendation workflows using structured summary of findings 11:00–12:30 · ICE Kraków - Glass Room — Rebecka Hall
Concurrent D - WS: The PRISMA 2020 adherence tool: a standardised approach for evaluating reporting quality of systematic reviews 11:00–12:30 · Park Inn - Gamma 1&2 — Matthew Page
Concurrent D - WS: User testing a prototype system for real-time collaborative evidence curation and mapping 11:00–12:30 · Park Inn - Beta 2 — Susanna Wisniewski
Concurrent D - OS: Equity, co-production, inclusiveness, partnerships 5 11:00–12:30 · Equity, co-production, inclusiveness, partnerships — Laura Emili Silva Nunes, Detty Siti Nurdiati, Carlos Alva-Diaz, Lucia Mendez Sanchez +4 more
Concurrent D - Leadership Meeting 2 11:00–12:30 · ICE Kraków - S1 - Auditorium
Concurrent D - WS: Humans, Machines and the Data Extraction Challenge: Hands on experience with the Data Extraction Evaluation Toolkit (DEET) 11:00–12:30 · ICE Kraków - S4 C — Ailbhe Finnerty Mutlu
Wednesday Poster Session 12:30–14:00 · ICE Kraków - Foyer F0 — Seilin Uhm, Isolde Sommer, Laura Emili Silva Nunes, Solange Durao +72 more
Concurrent E - OS: Methods innovation for contextualised living evidence 8 14:00–15:30 · Methods innovation for contextualised living evidence — Kristine Berg Titlestad, Kerry Dwan, Zalaya Simmons, Anke Rohwer +3 more
Concurrent E - OS: Equity, co-production, inclusiveness, partnerships 6 14:00–15:30 · Equity, co-production, inclusiveness, partnerships — Isolde Sommer, Carmen Spӓth, Anna Prokop-Dorner, Changhao Liang +4 more
Concurrent E - OS: From static reviews to a learning and living ecosystem 5 14:00–15:30 · From static reviews to a learning and living ecosystem — Susanna Wisniewski, Kusala Pussegoda, Barbara Whelan, Lindi Mathebula +3 more
Concurrent E - OS: Overcoming distrust in evidence 7 14:00–15:30 · Overcoming distrust in evidence — Carmen Spӓth, Livia Puljak, Kavessh Vandaiyar, Marcin Waligora
Concurrent E - OS: Responsible AI in evidence synthesis 7 14:00–15:30 · Responsible AI in evidence synthesis — Robby Nieuwlaat, Gerald Gartlehner, Josue Rivadeneira, Mathieu Repiquet +2 more
Concurrent E - OS: Responsible AI in evidence synthesis 8 14:00–15:30 · Responsible AI in evidence synthesis — Artur Nowak, Max Callaghan, Honoria Ocagli, Kenneth Färnqvist +3 more
Concurrent E - OS: Responsible AI in evidence synthesis 9 14:00–15:30 · Responsible AI in evidence synthesis — Manuel Marques-Cruz, Bernardo Sousa-Pinto, Arianna Gadinger, Nina Sondrup +1 more
Concurrent E - Special Session 14:00–15:30 · ICE Kraków - S1 - Auditorium
Concurrent E - WS: A practical workshop on how to use the new QUADAS-3 tool in a systematic review 14:00–15:30 · ICE Kraków - Glass Room — Penny Whiting
Concurrent E - WS: Being responsible when using AI for evidence synthesis: A framework for selecting AI tools 14:00–15:30 · ICE Kraków - Chamber Hall - S3A — Ella Flemyng
Concurrent E - WS: Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Prognosis IV: The use of GRADE for assessing the certainty of evidence for prognosis questions 14:00–15:30 · Park Inn - Gamma 1&2 — Johanna Damen
Concurrent E - WS: Health Equity and Implications for Evidence Synthesis 14:00–15:30 · Park Inn - Beta 1 — Jordi Pardo Pardo
Concurrent E - WS: How Can Living Evidence Networks Build Capacity and Share Best Practices for Living Evidence Synthesis? 14:00–15:30 · Park Inn - Beta 2 — Ian Shemilt
Concurrent E - WS: Mapping Maternal Health Evidence in Cochrane: Identifying Gaps, Engaging Interest-holders, and Setting Priorities for Future Systematic Reviews and Research 14:00–15:30 · ICE Kraków - Aquarium 1 — Jeanne-Marie Guise
Concurrent E - WS: Mapping Reviews and Evidence Gap Maps (Workshop 2/2): AI and Large Language Models for Automated and Living Mapping Reviews 14:00–15:30 · Park Inn - Epsilon — Anastasia Koryakina
Concurrent E - WS: Prospective meta-analysis: building collaborative, timely and trusted evidence 14:00–15:30 · ICE Kraków - Aquarium 2 — Anna Lene Seidler
Concurrent E - WS: Reporting findings that do not have a certainty of evidence rating 14:00–15:30 · ICE Kraków - S4 C — Clare Miles
Concurrent E - WS: The importance of prediction intervals for understanding the potential utility of an intervention and for creating guidelines 14:00–15:30 · ICE Kraków - Chamber Hall - S3B — Michael Borenstein
Concurrent F - WS: Co-developing guidance for synthesis of mixed-method and multimethod intervention studies in systematic reviews 16:00–17:30 · Park Inn - Beta 2 — Anne-Marie Bagnall
Concurrent F - WS: Conducting Cochrane Rapid Reviews: Methodological Recommendations and Responsible AI Integration 16:00–17:30 · ICE Kraków - S4 C — Barbara Nussbaumer-Streit
Concurrent F - WS: Designing meaningful involvement: an interactive workshop for evidence synthesis producers 16:00–17:30 · Park Inn - Beta 1 — Lyndsay Alexander
Concurrent F - OS: Overcoming distrust in evidence 9 16:00–17:30 · Overcoming distrust in evidence — Gian Luca Di Tanna, Guillaume Grenet, Arnav Agarwal, L. Susan Wieland +3 more
Concurrent F - WS: Evidence data reuse through open data formats 16:00–17:30 · ICE Kraków - Aquarium 2
Concurrent F - WS: GRADErater: GRADE official tool to support automated rating of the certainty of evidence 16:00–17:30 · Park Inn - Gamma 1&2 — Bernardo Sousa-Pinto
Concurrent F - WS: Help shape the priorities of the joint AI Methods Group and how we approach responsible AI implementation in Cochrane, Campbell, JBI and the Collaboration for Environmental Evidence 16:00–17:30 · ICE Kraków - Chamber Hall - S3A — Vivian Welch
Concurrent F - WS: If, when and how to purposively sample primary studies for inclusion in a qualitative evidence synthesis 16:00–17:30 · ICE Kraków - Aquarium 1 — Heather Ames
Concurrent F - WS: Introducing INSPECT-SR: a tool for detecting problematic randomised controlled trials 16:00–17:30 · ICE Kraków - Glass Room
Concurrent F - OS: Responsible AI in evidence synthesis 10 16:00–17:30 · Responsible AI in evidence synthesis — Stefano Negrini, Manuel Marques-Cruz, Jordi Pardo Pardo, Martha Martinez-Silveira +4 more
Concurrent F - OS: Responsible AI in evidence synthesis 11 16:00–17:30 · Responsible AI in evidence synthesis — Alicia Zink, Arnaldo Silva, Emma McFarlane, Gaelen Adam +2 more
Concurrent F - Special Session 16:00–17:30 · ICE Kraków - S1 - Auditorium
Concurrent F - WS: Advancing trustworthiness assessment: transitioning to INSPECT-SR for experienced trustworthiness reviewers 16:00–17:30 · Park Inn - Epsilon — Jo Weeks
Concurrent F - WS: Cochrane Crowd and Classmate: new ways of working and learning together to produce health evidence 16:00–17:30 · ICE Kraków - Chamber Hall - S3B — Anna Noel-Storr
Concurrent F - OS: Equity, co-production, inclusiveness, partnerships 7 16:00–17:30 · Equity, co-production, inclusiveness, partnerships — Carmen Spӓth, Helen Burchett, Ivan Florez, Helen Bulbeck +5 more
Concurrent F - OS: From static reviews to a learning and living ecosystem 16:00–17:30 · From static reviews to a learning and living ecosystem — Tomasz Kozakiewicz, Sean Grant, Honoria Ocagli, Nor Asiah Muhamad +3 more
Concurrent F - OS: Methods innovation for contextualised living evidence 9 16:00–17:30 · Methods innovation for contextualised living evidence — Rebecka Hall, Marta Roqué I Figuls, Silvia Gianola, Jo Thompson Coon +4 more
Concurrent F - OS: Overcoming distrust in evidence 8 16:00–17:30 · Overcoming distrust in evidence — Katy Sutcliffe, Jacqueline Ho, Matthew Page, Hainan Yu +4 more

Day 4 — Thursday 10 December 2026

Plenary 3 - Building Fairer Evidence Ecosystems Together 09:00–10:30 · ICE Kraków - S1 - Auditorium — Jordi Pardo Pardo, Yemisi Takwoingi, Euphrasia Ebai-Atuh Ndi, Joanne Khabsa +2 more
Concurrent G - WS: Assessing AI Tools for Systematic Searches: From Theory to Practice 11:00–12:30 · ICE Kraków - Chamber Hall - S3A — Elke Hausner
Concurrent G - OS: Equity, co-production, inclusiveness, partnerships 8 11:00–12:30 · Equity, co-production, inclusiveness, partnerships — Isolde Sommer, Susanna Wisniewski, Anelisa Jaca, Ana Beatriz Pizarro +5 more
Concurrent G - OS: From static reviews to a learning and living ecosystem 6 11:00–12:30 · From static reviews to a learning and living ecosystem — Anna Noel-Storr, Tomasz Kozakiewicz, Robby Nieuwlaat, Arnav Agarwal +4 more
Concurrent G - OS: Methods innovation for contextualised living evidence 10 11:00–12:30 · Methods innovation for contextualised living evidence — Livia Puljak, Arohi Sandeepkumar Chauhan, Liang Du, Bartosz Helfer +3 more
Concurrent G - OS: Overcoming distrust in evidence 10 11:00–12:30 · Overcoming distrust in evidence — Clare Miles, Yubin Cao, Bey-Marrie Schmidt, Victoria Nyaga +2 more
Concurrent G - OS: Overcoming distrust in evidence 11 11:00–12:30 · Overcoming distrust in evidence — Tamara Melnik, Carl Gornitzki, Daniel Hamilton, Kurt Hegmann +1 more
Concurrent G - OS: Responsible AI in evidence synthesis 12 11:00–12:30 · Responsible AI in evidence synthesis — Artur Nowak, Manuel Marques-Cruz, Paweł Jemioło, Julie Brown +3 more
Concurrent G - OS: Responsible AI in evidence synthesis 13 11:00–12:30 · Responsible AI in evidence synthesis — Rafael José Vieira, Sally Yaacoub, Matthew Page, Ana Martimbianco +4 more
Concurrent G - Special Session 11:00–12:30 · ICE Kraków - S1 - Auditorium
Concurrent G - WS: Co-Designing Discovery: Patients as Partners in Rare Disease Research 11:00–12:30 · ICE Kraków - Chamber Hall - S3B — Charlotte Ahmadu
Concurrent G - WS: Considering commercial involvement in evidence synthesis: discussion of methodological guidance from a Delphi study 11:00–12:30 · ICE Kraków - S4 C — Laurence Blanchard
Concurrent G - WS: From Evidence to Access - Connecting Systematic Reviews to Essential Medicine List Applications 11:00–12:30 · ICE Kraków - Glass Room — Thomas Piggott
Concurrent G - WS: GUIDE-Rehab as a tool to open the black boxes of complex interventions outside the rehabilitation field: opening new ways forward 11:00–12:30 · ICE Kraków - Aquarium 2 — Stefano Negrini
Concurrent G - WS: How to assess the data thickness and richness of a primary qualitative study included in a qualitative evidence synthesis 11:00–12:30 · ICE Kraków - Aquarium 1 — Heather Ames
Concurrent G - WS: Patient and Public Involvement in Cochrane Groups - What have we achieved and what are we aiming for? 11:00–12:30 · Park Inn - Beta 1 — Claudia Breuer
Concurrent G - WS: Rethinking systematic reviews of research priority setting: PROFS, meta-priorities and Delphi consensus 11:00–12:30 · Park Inn - Epsilon — Seilin Uhm
Concurrent G - WS: Risk of bias and applicability assessments for overall prognosis studies (RoB-OP) 11:00–12:30 · Park Inn - Beta 2 — Nina Kreuzberger
Concurrent G - WS: Training Workshop: Developing AI-Assisted Chatbots for Systematic Review Tasks 11:00–12:30 · Park Inn - Gamma 1&2 — Shayesteh Jahanfar
Thursday Poster Session 12:30–14:00 · ICE Kraków - Foyer F0 — Anna Noel-Storr, Detty Siti Nurdiati, Jacqueline Ho, Sally Yaacoub +70 more
Leadership Meeting 3 13:00–14:00 · ICE Kraków - S1 - Auditorium
Concurrent H - Special Session 14:00–15:30 · ICE Kraków - S1 - Auditorium
Concurrent H - Workshop 4 14:00–15:30 · ICE Kraków - S4 C
Concurrent H - WS: Beyond Description: Making the Leap to Analytical Themes in Qualitative Evidence Synthesis 14:00–15:30 · Park Inn - Beta 2 — Pauline Meskell
Concurrent H - WS: Designing AI-assisted priority setting for living evidence: a hands-on methods lab using Global Research Agenda outputs 14:00–15:30 · ICE Kraków - Chamber Hall - S3A — Seilin Uhm
Concurrent H - WS: Detecting untrustworthy trials in systematic reviews: practical checks and introduction to the 'integrity' R package 14:00–15:30 · Park Inn - Epsilon — Anna Lene Seidler
Concurrent H - WS: Developing a risk of bias tool suitable for assessing natural experiments: what are the pertinent issues? 14:00–15:30 · ICE Kraków - Aquarium 1 — Helen Burchett
Concurrent H - WS: Evidence under pressure: practical methods for informing public health decisions in infectious diseases 14:00–15:30 · ICE Kraków - Glass Room — Helena De Carvalho Gomes
Concurrent H - WS: Evidence where it's needed: disseminating Cochrane evidence to healthcare professionals via social media and specialist journals 14:00–15:30 · ICE Kraków - Chamber Hall - S3B — Alicia Zink
Concurrent H - WS: How to use Tool for Addressing Conflicts of Interest in Trials (TACIT) in systematic reviews 14:00–15:30 · Park Inn - Beta 1 — Andreas Lundh
Concurrent H - WS: Measuring health inequalities for equity-focused immunization policy decision-making 14:00–15:30 · ICE Kraków - Aquarium 2 — Anelisa Jaca
Concurrent H - WS: Systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy studies: Introduction to meta-analysis 14:00–15:30 · Park Inn - Gamma 1&2 — Yemisi Takwoingi, Katie Scandrett
Concurrent H - OS: Overcoming distrust in evidence 13 14:00–15:30 · Overcoming distrust in evidence — Monica Artha, Penny Whiting, Hanan Khalil, Miloslav Klugar +2 more
Concurrent H - OS: Overcoming distrust in evidence 12 14:00–15:30 · Overcoming distrust in evidence — Laura Emili Silva Nunes, Anna Prokop-Dorner, L. Susan Wieland, Dena Zeraatkar +2 more
Concurrent H - OS: Methods innovation for contextualised living evidence 12 14:00–15:30 · Methods innovation for contextualised living evidence — Silvia Gianola, Victoria Nyaga, Kansak Boonpattharatthiti, Nadine Ijaz +3 more
Concurrent H - OS: Methods innovation for contextualised living evidence 11 14:00–15:30 · Methods innovation for contextualised living evidence — Johanna Damen, Gian Luca Di Tanna, Okba Hatem, Rigmor C. Berg +3 more
Concurrent H - OS: Equity, co-production, inclusiveness, partnerships 9 14:00–15:30 · Equity, co-production, inclusiveness, partnerships — Solange Durao, Tomasz Krawczyk, Dominic Ledinger, Éle Quinn +4 more
Concurrent H - OS: Responsible AI in evidence synthesis 14 14:00–15:30 · Responsible AI in evidence synthesis — Manuel Marques-Cruz, Katy Sutcliffe, Paweł Jemioło, Julie Brown +2 more
Concurrent H - OS: Responsible AI in evidence synthesis 15 14:00–15:30 · Responsible AI in evidence synthesis — Rafael José Vieira, Agustín Ciapponi, Gerald Gartlehner, Joanna Sara Valson +1 more
Cochrane Lecture - The fight for facts: Evidence in an age of doubt 16:00–17:30 · ICE Kraków - S1 - Auditorium — Helen Pearson

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