The X2 project conducted an expert workshop at National University of Singapore on July 24, 2008, with academics from NUS and Nanyan Technological University, and members of the Singaporean government. The workshop generated a map of the future of science, with particular attention to science in Singapore.

One of the more interesting discussions at the Perimeter Institute-sponsored conference Science in the 21st Century involved the role that Web 2.0 technologies could play in the dissemination of tacit knowledge in science.

At a Perimeter Institute-sponsored conference Science in the 21st Century, MIT professor David Kaiser reported on research he's been conducting on the training of physicists in the post-World War II period, and in particular on the discourse about the need to produce more scientists in response to international competition. Kaiser argues that there are clear similarities between arguments about competitiveness today and technical competition with the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s. As the abstract for his talk explains,