 Okay. So during this session, we're going to hear about international collaborations going from the large-scale initiatives collaborating with each other all the way down to interested parties collaborating it together. So our first speaker is going to be Linda Lanyon from INCF, the executive director, and she's going to speak about the International Brain Initiative. Okay, thanks Matthew. So as Matthew says, I'm going to talk about the International Brain Initiative, IBI. This is an initiative spearheaded by Kavli Foundation to bring together the world's large-scale brain projects. So I'd just like to mention that in the audience, we've got Agnes McMahon somewhere, I don't know, up there. Agnes is going to soon start work with Kavli to organize all of the IBI meetings. So following this presentation, of course, I'd love to hear feedback that you have, that I can feedback to IBI, but also I'm sure Agnes would be very interested to hear your thoughts and take them with her as she starts her new job at Kavli next week. Okay, so as we know over the last five years or so, there's been some major investments in brain initiatives around the world with many countries launching large-scale national projects. So in 2013, the US Brain Initiative was launched and the Human Brain Project in Europe. After that, Japan launched its Brain Minds project focused on the Marmoset. Korea has launched an initiative. The Australian Brain Alliance is currently working to lobby to launch their Australian Brain Project. China Brain Project is sort of poised about to be launched. And within Canada, we've heard, of course, a lot from Alan this morning about the various efforts that are going on here, which are really amazing and being brought together under a banner of the Canadian Brain Research Strategy. So of course, there's a need for coordination between these large projects to make sure that we're really maximizing impact and efficiency globally and reducing potential redundancies and that we're really all kind of working together towards common global standards rather than each nation developing its own standards and doing its own thing. So of course, there's many different coordination actions in this space and INCF has led several of these for many years and we heard a lot of other ones coming from Canada from Alan's talk this morning. And I'm going to talk now about the IBI. And this is a fairly new initiative that follows some meetings that Carvley held throughout 2016. And then right at the end of last year in 2017, they had a meeting in Australia with the brains of the dome. And some of the large scale initiatives met there and formed this declaration of intent to form an international brain initiative. So they said that the global brain initiatives recognize that they're engaged in an effort so large and complex that even with the unprecedented efforts and resources from public and private sectors, no single initiative will be able to tackle the challenge to measure, map, image, model, simulate, understand, imitate, diagnose and heal the brain. So the IBI was formed then at the end of 2017. INCF has been involved since the start of this year and we've attended the two in person meetings that have happened so far, the first in Korea in May and the second in Geneva hosted at the Human Brain Project in July. So the group that meets is formed of representatives from each of the nation's projects and INCF and IBRO. And so far the meetings we focused around forming what is the IBI vision and its aims specifically. And we're now turning attention to forming a series of working groups. So already formed was a group looking at a global inventory of brain projects and that's being led by Melina Hale and Patrick Hoff in the US. That's a project funded by NSF. And the NeuroEthics team have been quite active already, organizing a couple of world conferences and that's led by Karen Rommelfanger from the US and Jinny Jung from South Korea. And then at the Geneva meeting we began to talk about the formation of other working groups in these areas shown. And INCF is going to have representation and be active in each of these. I'm going to talk more specifically about the data sharing and standards and education and training working groups in a moment. So the IBI has been connecting with the scientific community and asking for views in a number of different meetings up to now. And this is led by Carvely. Most recently at the FENS meeting in Berlin there was a social networking session where various questions were posed to scientists about sort of what are your barriers to data sharing and so on. And then there will be another meeting arranged at SFN to launch the IBI website and do some more outreach. So now that was the standard IBI piece with the slides thanks to Carvely. I'm going to turn now more specifically to INCF's involvement in IBI and what we can do as part of this initiative. So we're receiving some funding from Carvely to participate in the Global Inventory Project and as I mentioned we're planning to participate in the working groups and I think we'll have some co-leadership in the data sharing and standards working group. We've also over the last year organized some INCF events that happen to advance IBI aims so it could be considered as helping towards the IBI initiative. The first of these was here in McGill organized by JB Pulley for the INCF Canada node in March and that was making open neuroscience infrastructures interoperable. So that was a very successful meeting focused as you can tell from the practicalities of making these things interoperable and there's plans to hold another one early in next year. And then in April at the INCF secretariat in Stockholm we hold a brain summit which was aimed again at bringing together these large-scale initiatives very focused on the practical issues around aligning these large-scale projects from around the world with a specific focus in this meeting on clinical data particularly traumatic brain injury. So a number of concrete outcomes came from that meeting including the group progressed work on an inventory that of course we're sort of syncing with the main IBI inventory project and other recommendations for forming working groups hosting workshops and writing a white paper. So then at these IBI meetings bringing the INCF perspective to this what I've been trying to sort of focus on there is of course the INCF perspective being around the practicalities of how do we how do we link these these projects so the sort of the systems and the data standards aspects. So I've been talking about the the need to to have interoperability and the ability to search across data sets and really creating some sort of underlying framework to enable this sharing and interoperability through the use and the development and use of common standards for data and metadata and systems interoperability APIs and so on and of course the training and education that goes alongside all of that with training in neuroinformatics being vitally important. So very glad to hear everybody hear feedback on you know what we should be lobbying for in the IBI coming from the INCF perspective and whether this is the the sort of thing that that you think is important. So then when it comes to the the working group on data sharing and standards it as I said it looks likely that INCF will be co-leading this with the Japan Brain Minds Project. So far at the meeting in Geneva where we first presented ideas on this we've really been just trying to make sure that the people in IBI are really aware of all of the existing initiatives that are going on within the community making sure there's no reinventing of wheels that we're really you know using what's out there. So again really seeking feedback from you all on what should be the scope and how do we form this working group as we go forward. It's really early stages right now no specific plans have been made for the composition of the working group so this is the time to feedback but possible focus areas might be around technological financial motivational legal and ethical. So I think you know from the INCF perspective obviously we've worked very much around the technological and the standards and we often hit upon problems of you know needing to have more incentives from funders and publishers and academic institutions to incentivize researchers to really share. So I think this may be something where IBI can help because they do have the sort of higher level political power and sway to be able to you know really help us lobby for that so that might be an area where we can utilize being part of IBI. And of course INCF has a lot of expertise in this area to really bring to bear on this with 12 years of experience of managing working groups developing standards for data sharing and of course all of the standards that have come from the community here and the fact that from this year INCF is endorsing standards so that badge of endorsement may be a really useful thing for IBI. And of course a number of products like the Knowledge Space Community Encyclopedia for Neuroscience are relevant here. I haven't got time to go in detail through this but I'd be glad to hear your thoughts on how can you know what can IBI do to help overcome barriers to data sharing and there may be some of the categories here that something can be done. I think particularly as I say around lobbying the stakeholders and raising awareness that may be something they can really help us with. Then the Working Group on Education and Training is likely to be led by IBORO in conjunction with the Career Brain Initiative. I've spoken already with Pierre Magistretti at IBORO about the fact that in INCF we have a training and education committee and we're really keen to collaborate here and we've sort of made a in-principle agreement that we'll have cross-representation between the Working Group and our committee. So again glad to hear particularly from members of the INCF Tech you know how we should be taking forward that discussion with them. We have a lot of expertise and resources to bring to bear here of course the not only the Training and Education Committee with all of the partners involved in that but also the INCF Training Space which is an online hub for training and education materials. So as I said really very interested to hear your feedback on you know where what we should be taking back to Carvely and the other members of the IBI and you know where should the the direction of these working groups on data sharing and standards and training and education or the other topics. So please feel free to feedback to me Helena or Matthew or Agnes. Thanks.