MEDIA FOR science conferences

Your conference creates news stories

Conferences are an opportunity to get your research field in front of the press

You’ve invested time and energy on getting top thought leaders together in one place. We can help you to make the most of it, from winning a bid, through to connecting journalists with speakers during the conference.

Conference organisers face special pressures that we understand. We led successful bids to bring two international conferences to Australia and then ran one of them: the World Conference of Science Journalists

We’ve supported over 20 major science and technology conferences

We’ve helped conferences large and small.

Highlights include generating over two hours of national television and 15 hours of radio features and talk for the 19th Congress of Genetics in 2003, and announcing the discovery of the Higgs Boson in conjunction with the International Conference on High Energy Physics, where we handled over 150 media requests.

Conference organisers face special pressures that we understand. We led successful bids to bring two international conferences to Australia and then ran one of them: the World Conference of Science Journalists, which attracted 620 delegates.

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23rd Congress of Genetics

1,600 delegates, and over 100 speakers. We created 40 stories, delivered through 14 media releases. Coverage highlights include The Australian, The Age, The Guardian, and across ABC radio and online. STORIES

26th World Mining Congress

3,000 delegates. We delivered 12 media releases, resulting in over 340 pieces of coverages across TV, print, online and radio. STORIES

United Nations DPI/NGO Conference “Advance Global Health”

2,000 delegates from 300 NGOs. We created and coordinated the media program in collaboration with the UN media team. STORIES

36th International Conference on High Energy Physics

800 delegates. Coinciding with the announcement of the Higgs Boson at CERN, resulting in thousands of stories including 3 front pages, TV news coverage & 150 interview requests. STORIES

Stories from conferences

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The biggest discovery of 2016 was gravitational waves, but what’s next?

Wednesday 7 December 2016 Have more been found, what is Australia’s role, and why should we care? Back in February 2016 it was Professor David Reitze who announced to the world that gravitational waves had been discovered at LIGO, 100 years after Einstein predicted them. And now they want to find more. Last Thursday LIGO…
READ MORE → The biggest discovery of 2016 was gravitational waves, but what’s next?
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Nanodiamonds to highlight cancer; plasma in the workplace; super-light night-vision glasses; science-art created by Synchrotron light; and more

Wednesday 7 December 2016 Hear about these stories and more at the Physics Congress in Brisbane this week. More at www.scienceinpublic.com.au/physicscongress Researchers available for interview, contact Toni Stevens on 0401 763 130 or toni@scienceinpublic.com.au Nanorubies and diamonds make your cancer cells stand out in a crowd (Melbourne) Near-infrared fluorescent nanomaterials could help surgeons better identify…
READ MORE → Nanodiamonds to highlight cancer; plasma in the workplace; super-light night-vision glasses; science-art created by Synchrotron light; and more
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Australia set to ride the quantum computing wave

Tuesday 6 December 2016  Scientists available for interview from the Physics Congress in Brisbane We have the technology! The first simple quantum computers are being built all over the world as decades of research and development culminate in technology that accurately builds structures atom by atom. Researchers already have practical plans for building usable quantum…
READ MORE → Australia set to ride the quantum computing wave
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Australia helping to crack fusion power, bringing the energy of the sun down to earth for a zero carbon future

Tuesday 6 December 2016 It’s the world’s biggest experiment—a multi-billion machine, with first results in 2025. Speakers from around the world, including senior advisor to the ITER project Professor Jean Jacquinot, will speak at the Physics Congress in Brisbane about the global race to master the process that powers our sun. Researchers from ANU will…
READ MORE → Australia helping to crack fusion power, bringing the energy of the sun down to earth for a zero carbon future
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Arc welders in the operating room; the physics of kangaroo’s knees; no more exploding smartphones; women in leadership; and more

Tuesday 6 December 2016 Hear about these stories and more at the Physics Congress in Brisbane this week. More at www.scienceinpublic.com.au/physicscongress Researchers available for interview, contact Toni Stevens on 0401 763 130 or toni@scienceinpublic.com.au, or AJ Epstein on 0431 544 392. No more exploding smartphones: Australia-China supercapacitor collaboration (Brisbane) The perils of lithium-ion batteries are well…
READ MORE → Arc welders in the operating room; the physics of kangaroo’s knees; no more exploding smartphones; women in leadership; and more
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Australian scientists stalking, sensing and trapping elusive dark matter

Monday 5 December 2016 Scientists available for interview from the Physics Congress in Brisbane Media contacts Toni Stevens 0401 763 130 toni@scienceinpublic.com.au Niall Byrne 0417 131 977 niall@scienceinpublic.com.au Australian physicists are using all the skills of experienced hunters in their quest for dark matter, the 85 per cent of matter in the Universe we have…
READ MORE → Australian scientists stalking, sensing and trapping elusive dark matter
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Satellites the size of bread; why making anti-matter matters; telescopes on a chip; our neutrino world and more

Monday 5 December 2016 Hear about these stories and more at the Physics Congress in Brisbane this week. More at www.scienceinpublic.com.au/physicscongress Researchers available for interview, contact Toni Stevens on 0401763130 or toni@scienceinpublic.com.au A new constellation of Australian satellites – packed up and ready for launch in 2017 (Canberra) Australia is heading into space: Professor Christine…
READ MORE → Satellites the size of bread; why making anti-matter matters; telescopes on a chip; our neutrino world and more
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Shape shifting particles; underground labs; QLD’s forgotten Nobel Prize winner; and more

Sunday 4 December 2016 Highlights from Day 1 of the Physics Congress Australian and international researchers available for interview throughout the week For more highlights, and daily updates visit www.scienceinpublic.com.au/physicscongress Our neutrino world – explained by 2015 Nobel Prize winner Professor Takaaki Kajita We live in a world of neutrinos. Thousands of billions of neutrinos—mostly…
READ MORE → Shape shifting particles; underground labs; QLD’s forgotten Nobel Prize winner; and more
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A week of physics stories – starting Monday: our neutrino world; hunting dark matter; Australia’s role in big international science; and more

  Australian scientists stalking, sensing and trapping elusive dark matter Gravitational waves. Have more been found, what is Australia’s role, and why should we care? Our neutrino world – explained by 2015 Nobel Prize winner Takaaki Kajita The world’s biggest experiment – a multi-billion machine, with first results in 2025, hear from those working on…
READ MORE → A week of physics stories – starting Monday: our neutrino world; hunting dark matter; Australia’s role in big international science; and more

How can we help you?

Niall Byrne +61 417 131 977 | niall@scienceinpublic.com.au

Sarah Brooker on +61 413 332 489 | sarah@scienceinpublic.com.au

Our team are located in Adelaide, SA and Melbourne, VIC.