Policies for research software in the age of artificial intelligence

Participating countries will present the current state of their national policies and practices related to access to research software. Each presentation will be followed by a short Q&A, allowing participants to clarify approaches, exchange insights, and highlight emerging lessons across different national contexts.

Moderator: Alan Paic, Project leader, Open science policies, OECD

Panel:

• Marin Dacos, Coordinator for Open Science, France and Arianna Caporali, Deputy Coordinator for Open Science, France
• Roberto Di Cosmo, Director, Software Heritage
• Nick Jenkins, Software specialist, Australian Research Data council
• Eunjung Shin, Researcher, STEPI, South Korea
• Fotis E. Psomopoulos, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas and Coordinator of EVERSE
• Johan Rung, Head of Data Centre, SciLifeLab, Sweden 

Participating countries will present the current state of their national policies and practices related to access to research software. Each presentation will be followed by a short Q&A, allowing participants to clarify approaches, exchange insights, and highlight emerging lessons across different national contexts.

Moderator:  Katharina Rieck, Austrian Science Fund FWF

Panel:

• Felipe Pérez Jvostov, Digital Research Alliance of Canada
• Ishwar Chandramouliswaran, National Institutes of Health
• Benedikt Wirth, German Research Foundation
• Yan Wang, Head Research Data and Software at Technische Universiteit Delft Library
• Dianne Cook, Dept of Econometrics & Business Statistics, Monash University

The OECD Secretariat will present the outline and preliminary direction of the tentative Policy Paper, including its overall approach and indicative timeline. This session will provide participants with key issues and policy gaps to discuss in the breakout groups scheduled for the afternoon.  

Alan Paic, Project leader, Open science policies, OECD

Three thematic breakout stations will be organised, each dedicated to two of the six pillars of analysis on access to research software:

Breakout 1

• Governance of access to research software
  Moderator: Neil Chue Hong, Principal Investigator and PI and founding Director of the Software Sustainability Institute
• Human resources
  Moderator: Daniel S. Katz, Chief Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Breakout 2

• Infrastructure
  Moderator: Carole Goble, Professor University of Manchester and Joint Head of Node, ELIXIR
• Standards and assessment
  Moderator: Fotis E. Psomopoulos, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas and Coordinator of EVERSE

Breakout 3

• Public-private partnerships
  Moderator: Alan Paic Project leader, Open science policies, OECD
• International cooperation
  Moderator: Michelle Barker, Director, Research Software Alliance

Participants will be invited to choose among thethree stations, with each discussion lasting 60 minutes (30 minutes for each of the two themes).

Moderators will facilitate the discussions at each station, provide guiding key questions, capture key insights, and synthesise outcomes for presentation in the subsequent plenary session (Session 4).

After one hour, participants will be able to switch to another breakout and follow two additional themes.

Moderators will report back on the outcomes of the breakout group discussions, highlighting key insights, converging themes, and policy considerations across the six pillars. This will be followed by a plenary discussion, allowing participants to reflect on the findings, discuss the agenda items raised, and identify issues for further OECD work.