ICASR

International Collaboration for the Automation of Systematic Reviews

2025 ICASR meeting

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Introduction

The 2025 ICASR is hosted by DESTInY as part of their consortium meeting. DESTInY is a Wellcome-funded consortium on a mission to build the next generation of evidence synthesis tools driven by artificial intelligence, to deliver rigorous living evidence in climate and health that matters to policymakers and other evidence users.

This 10th annual meeting of ICASR will contain presentations and discussion about trustworthy DESTs and their underlying automation methods. Topics include:

  • Fair and robust validations relevant to real-world projects
  • Living reviews
  • Retrospective evaluations based on gold-standard datasets

Breaks and discussions will facilitate networking and informal topic exchanges.

In the evening, there will be a shared networking dinner with DESTInY attendees in Potsdam.

The ICASR is directly followed by the DEST Hackathon, which takes place at the same venue on July 10th–11th.

The event will be streamed and available online via Zoom: Link TBA

ICASR Overview

  • Location: Telegrafenberg, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impacts Research, Germany
  • Date: July 9th, 2025
  • Time: 2:00 PM – 6:30 PM CEST

Location and Travel Information

We are meeting at:

Potsdam Institute for Climate Impacts Research
Building A561, Hasselmann Hall
Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany

Sessions and Presentations

14:00 – 14:15

Introduction to the day
Speaker: Lena Schmidt (UCL)

14:15 – 14:45

Keynote: DESTINY – AI-Powered Living Evidence for Climate & Health
Speaker: Jan Minx (PIK)

14:45 – 16:00

Presentation Sessions

15-min presentations + 10-min shared Q&A (mini-panels of 2 presenters)

Part 1

  • “Responsible AI in Evidence Synthesis (RAISE): Guidelines Update”
    James Thomas (UCL)
  • “Transferability Model”
    Kinlabel Miyaka (eBASE Africa)
  • 10 min shared Q&A

Part 2

  • “Living Review of Automated Data Extraction Methods”
    Lena Schmidt (UCL)
  • “Data – The Bottleneck to Trustworthy SRA”
    Elias Sandner (CERN) and Kavita Kothari (Systematic Review Consultants)
  • 10 min shared Q&A

16:00 – 16:30

Coffee Break with DESTInY Consortium

16:30 – 17:30

Discussion: Attitudes and Trust Toward Artificial Intelligence for Evidence Synthesis
Moderators:

  • Jose Meneses-Echavez (Norwegian Institute of Public Health)
  • Ella Flemyng (Cochrane)

17:30 – 18:00

Closing Talk:
Evidence Synthesis Infrastructure Collaborative: Update
Speaker: Will Moy (Campbell)

18:00 – 18:15

Summary and Meeting Close

19:30

Joint Dinner at Tomasa, Potsdam