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2023 SCHEDULE

Explore the schedule of SCI:COM 2023 and discover the talks, panels and workshops and great speakers for this year.
9:00
Networking

Doors Open

Grab a coffee, visit the booths, network a bit or just take a stroll around and familiarise yourself with our event platform.
9:30
Main Stage

Welcome: Prof Philip Nolan

Professor Philip Nolan leads Science Foundation Ireland and is responsible for the transition to a new research and innovation agency, launching in 2024. Prof Nolan will open the conference and speak about what the new agency will look like and how the change will affect the science communication landscape.
  • Claire O'Connell
  • Philip Nolan
9:55
Main Stage

Fiona Fox

In this session, Fiona Fox from the Science Media Centre in London will talk about the organisation's work in connecting media with academia for more evidence-based reporting. Fiona will explore case studies where the SMC able to intervene in news cycles to correct poor science reporting and give immediate an accurate scientific information to journalists working on break news. Fiona will also discuss the newly announced Irish pilot of the SMC, launching in 2024.
  • Fiona Fox
10:20
Stage

Do our audiences really understand what's going on with AI?

In this panel, we will explore how we should be communicating artificial intelligence today. Do images of robots help or confuse? Are we over-emphasising the dangers or the limits? How do we talk about AI in a way that is useful for the general public and industry?
  • Claire Carroll
  • Marguerite Barry
  • Cian Hughes
  • Jonathan McCrea
11:20
Lobby

Coffee / Poster Session

Grab a coffee and mingle!
11:50
Red Stage

Private Parts: How to communicate health research when it's personal.

Breakout session
In this session, we look at communicating the science around menopause and sexual health. How do we talk about supposedly taboo subjects? Is humour appropriate? And where does the science come in?
  • Dr. Aoife Nic Shamhráin
  • Zara Molphy
  • Mohamad Saab
  • Claire O'Connell
11:50
Black Stage

The Childhood Development Initiative: Doodle Steam

Breakout session
  • Clare Bohan
  • Nicola O'Reilly
  • Gaye Healy
11:50
Blue Stage

Is Our Sci-comm Really Inclusive?

Breakout session
In this breakout, we will hear from three experts in inclusive communication about how to genuinely engage with audiences that are traditionally over looked when it comes to sci-commm.
  • Jackie Gorman
  • Mairéad Hurley
  • Elaine Quinn
  • Phil Smyth
12:50
Lobby

Lunch / Poster Session

13:50
Main Stage

Toxic Relationships: A Play

Surprise Performance!
14:05
Main Stage

Biodiversity, what's really going on in Ireland?

The Citizen's Assembly on Biodiversity sounded a clear alarm: we need to protect Irish species and habitats before it's too late. But what are we really doing about it?
  • Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin
  • Eoghan Daltun
  • Claire O'Connell
  • Elaine McGoff
15:05
Lobby

Coffee / Poster Session

15:30
Main Stage

Just Stop Oil & Climate Activism

In this session, Alex de Koning from Just Stop Oil will talk about the organisation, its campaigns and goals and how it has been featured in media. Is civil disobedience and disruption effective as a means of science communication.
  • Alex de Koning
  • Jonathan McCrea
16:00
Main Stage

Keynote: Richie Sadlier

In this closing keynote, Richie Sadlier (Author, Psychotherapist and football pundit), will talk to us about the realities of being a teenager today and how to communicate with boys about extremely sensitive and private subjects. He will also address a lot of misconceptions when it comes to teenage boys and girls and how they are stereotyped and portrayed in the media and society.
  • Claire O'Connell
  • Richie Sadlier
16:40
Main Stage

Closing Comments

17:15
Bar

Afterparty

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