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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Tuesday at the International Botanical Congress

The world’s favourite tree The world loves our eucalypts. Now Eucalyptus had become the world’s favourite tree for farming and today in Melbourne its genome is revealed at the International Botanical Congress. Other stories today include: a series of talks on how plants will respond to climate change; more on the future of wine and…
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Eucalyptus genetic secrets unlocked

The world’s most farmed tree has had its genome read, opening the way to new breeding, biofuel, and conservation opportunities. The genome of one of Australia’s biggest Eucalyptus trees, the Flooded Gum or Eucalyptus grandis, has now been mapped, allowing scientists and conservationists an insight into the secrets of an important piece of Australiana.
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Adapting crops and ‘natives’ to a changing climate

Posted on behalf of CSIRO CSIRO scientists are investigating the potentially damaging effects climate change will have on Australia’s agricultural crops and native plants as carbon dioxide concentrations, temperatures and rainfall patterns change. “We’re facing an urgent need to develop new crop varieties for anticipated conditions in 20 to 50 years,” said a team leader…
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The Acacia debate

A plant name dispute that has bubbled away for a decade has finally been resolved at the XVIII International Botanical Congress in Melbourne. The species concerned are the acacias, which until now has included the Australian wattles and the thorn trees of the Serengeti—both highly recognisable and iconic groups of plants.
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The Eternal Order in Nature: The Science of Botanical Illustration

Botanical illustration incorporates an extraordinary range of plant representations from flower paintings to finely detailed drawings of plants used for botanical purposes.  As an artform it is often based in science and as a scientific document it is often viewed as an artwork. 
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Species affected by climate change: to shift or not to shift?

Issued by CSIRO Ref 11/78 Relocating species threatened by climate change is a radical and hotly debated strategy for maintaining biodiversity. In a paper published today in the journal Nature Climate Change, researchers from CSIRO, University of Queensland and United States Geological Survey present a pragmatic decision framework for determining when, if ever, to move species…
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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.