For the first time at a Cochrane Colloquium, we took the conversation #BeyondTheRoom. Beyond the Room is a digital conference service, started in 2016 by André Tomlin from the Mental Elf. Its aim is to increase the reach and impact of health events by live tweeting and podcasting from them, to involve people virtually and facilitate a much more democratic conversation. 

Our Beyond the Room team included  @SarahChapman30 @TheJackLeahy @Mental_Elf @MightyCasey @DBadenoch @sally_crowe Selena @CochraneUK and  @Laconic_doc They have recorded podcasts with some of the speakers and presenters at the Colloquium - Have a listen!

• Richard Morley, the Consumer Engagement Officer at Cochrane
• GP Margaret McCartney talks about evidence-based medicine, relationships and trust
• Dr. Christine Borgman and Dr. Irene Pasquetto chat about their Cochrane Collaboration presentation "How and why do scientists reuse others’ data to produce new knowledge?
• Holger Schünemann, Chair in Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics at McMaster University talks about the GRADE framework
• Jennifer Johannesen chats about her keynote presentation
• Lisa Hinton, Deputy Director for Applied Research at the Health Experiences Research Group in Oxford, talks about Health Talk: a source of free, reliable information about health issues, which features videos of real-life experiences shared by patients.
• Dorothy Oluoch talks about keynote on mothers' experiences in neo-natal hospital wards
• Andy Oxman, Research Director of the Global Health Unit at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, talks about the Informed Health Choices project and Key Concepts for critical thinking about treatment claims.
• Dalila Martínez on her journey from doctor to patient to medical researcher
• Mark Taylor, The Head of Impact for the Central Commissioning Facility of the National Institute for Health Research, talks about research impact, his own experience of multiple sclerosis, and how Cochrane can involve patients in their work.
• Emma Cartwright and Jess Rees, Cochrane's Rosamund Snow Prize Recipients  (Part 2). 
• Lyubov Lytvyn, a McMaster University PhD student, talks about including patients in the research that builds medical evidence.
• Dr. Victor Montori talks about his work creating a patient revolution in healthcare, and his message to Cochrane about what real "patients included in research" might look like.
• Ruth Elwood Martin and Mo Korchinski talk about their work in Canada with women in prison: Arresting Hope - Women Taking Action in Prison Health Inside Out.
• Gregor Smith, an MD and Deputy Chief Medical Officer of Scotland, talks about #RealisticMedicine and the development of a Scotland Atlas, modeled on Jack Wennberg's Dartmouth Atlas.
• Katty Brooks and Dr Erin Walker talk about involving young people in meta-synthesis projects.
• Therese Kristine Dalsbo and Marita Sporstol Fonhus, two Norwegian Cochrane reviewers, talk about their recent systematic review entitled: Patient‐mediated interventions to improve professional practice.