2025 ICASR meeting
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Introduction
The 2025 ICASR was 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 contained presentations and discussion about trustworthy DESTs and their underlying automation methods. Topics included:
- Fair and robust validations relevant to real-world projects
- Living reviews
- Retrospective evaluations based on gold-standard datasets
Breaks and discussions facilitated networking and informal topic exchanges.
In the evening, there was be a shared networking dinner with DESTInY attendees in Potsdam.
The ICASR was directly followed by the DEST Hackathon, which took place at the same venue on July 10th–11th.
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
Evidence Synthesis Infrastructure Collaborative: Update
Speaker: Will Moy (ESIC secretariat mamber)
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) - “Awesome Systematic Reviews” Paweł Jemioło (AGH University of Krakow)
- “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) Understanding Expectations for Evidence Synthesis when using AI: Survey Results
17:30 – 18:00
Keynote: DESTINY – AI-Powered Living Evidence for Climate & Health
Speaker: Jan Minx (PIK)
18:00 – 18:15
19:30
Joint Dinner at Tomasa, Potsdam