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Presented as part of a panel at the 2025 CRKN Member Summit and AGM, entitled "National Persistent Identifiers Strategy: Building an Interconnected and Open Research Ecosystem." CRKN and the Digital Research Alliance of Canada, joint caretakers of a national Persistent Identifier (PID) program, have developed a suite of practical tools and are drafting a set of future activities to directly support a national strategy across the entire Canadian research ecosystem. In 2025, this shared work has moved quickly from laying groundwork to operationalization. In this session, John Aspler (CRKN’s Canadian PID Community Manager), Lee Wilson (the Alliance’s Director of Research Data Management), and Eugene Barsky (Research Data Management Librarian at UBC) provide an update on the national PID program, highlighting significant advances toward the implementation of a National PID Strategy in Canada, including advances in research data visualization; significant national uptake in DataCite and ORCID consortial memberships; and exciting new PID implementations across our national funder systems. Moderated by Susan Haigh (Executive Director of CARL and Chair of the Canadian PID Advisory Committee), this session focuses on strengthening our collective understanding of how PIDs weave through our national research content to help make it accessible.