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The banners have gone back into the banners cupboard. All the busy Bennett folk have had a week or so to recover. It’s almost time to take a short festive break. But before we do: we said we’d share all of day one, for the benefit of those of you who couldn’t make it. So we’ve done that.

The easiest way to relive the day is to use our YouTube playlist, sort the videos by “Date added (oldest)”, then you’ll see the whole event unfold before your eyes. Settle down with a cup of something comforting, and enjoy!

If you’d rather pick and choose, here’s a full list of all 32 videos:

Session 1: COVID-19 vaccine effects and coverage

Ed Parker from LSHTM answers a question during the panel session. Will Hulme and Andrea Schaffer are on stage with him

  1. Our trailer for the day - all the best bits, in less than 2 minutes. Because vibes are data too.
  2. Origins of OpenSAFELY - our friend Liam Smeeth on how OS began
  3. Comparing safety and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines - Will Hulme
  4. Regression continuity analysis for COVID-19 booster campaigns - Andrea Schaffer
  5. Exploring vaccine uptake and effectiveness in high-risk populations - Ed Parker from LSHTM
  6. Clinical events following COVID-19 - presented by Venexia Walker from University of Bristol, on behalf of Rachel Denholm who couldn’t make it on the day
  7. Session 1 Q&A panel discussion

Session 2: How OpenSAFELY works

Catherine Stables presenting on stage, next to a human-sized banner of the Bennett logo

  1. ehrQL, a better way to work with EHR data - Dave Evans
  2. Writing code for OpenSAFELY with GitHub Codespaces - Steven Maude
  3. Airlock! - Tom Ward
  4. How we secure OpenSAFELY - Simon Davy
  5. How the product and tech teams work - Catherine Stables
  6. Earning and maintaining trust: PPIE and more - Frederica Longfoot

Session 3: Dashboards, features and data curation

Colm Andrews gesturing with both hands as he presents on stage

  1. Keynote address - Kamran Abbasi, editor in chief of The BMJ
  2. Changes in medication safety indicators in the pandemic - Louis Fisher
  3. Pancreatic enzyme replacement in pancreatic cancer - Teena Varghese
  4. Ethnicity explainers and data descriptions: communicating your research - Colm Andrews, come for the science, stay for the jokes
  5. Using OpenSAFELY to measure quality of end-of-life care - Stuti Bagri and Sophie Julian, from Nuffield Research
  6. Session 3 Q&A panel discussion

Session 4: Inequalities, PROMs and registries

Viyaasan Mahalingasivam presenting on stage, standing by a laptop

  1. Weight trends during the pandemic - Miriam Samuel, from Queen Mary University of London
  2. Clinical and health inequality risk factors for sepsis - Xiaomin Zhong
  3. OpenPROMPT: linking patient reported outcomes to the EHR - Emily Herrett, from LSHTM
  4. Long term kidney outcomes after COVID-19 - Viyaasan Mahalingasivam, from LSHTM
  5. The UKRR/OpenSAFELY linkage - Dorothea Nitsch, from LSHTM
  6. Session 4 Q&A panel discussion

Session 5: What’s next?

Nicola Byrne, National Data Guardian, gestures with both hands while doing a short talk

  1. OpenSAFELY and Wellcome - Tariq Khokhar, Wellcome
  2. OpenSAFELY and NHS England - Ming Tang, NHS England
  3. OpenSAFELY and Talking Therapies - David Clark
  4. OpenSAFELY Schools - Seb Bacon
  5. OpenSAFELY and clinicians’ trust - Mark Coley
  6. Trust and privacy - Nicola Byrne, National Data Guardian
  7. Session 5 Q&A panel discussion, with closing remarks by Ben Goldacre and Peter Bennett

Once more: huge thanks to everyone who attended the event, and everyone who did a presentation, or ran a workshop. OpenSAFELY is nothing without this fantastic community of people.