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Hey all, Would love to invite you to our next Science: Disrupt event on 6th June at Digital Science (by Kings Cross) on the theme of Disrupting the Conversation. Here's the info below, hope to see some of you there! --- Science is going through a revolution. The world of tech, startups, makers, innovators and collaborators are beginning to be welcomed in to the scientific ecosystem in a way never seen before. Science: Disrupt <http://sciencedisrupt.com/> brings together the innovators, iconoclasts and entrepreneurs intent on creating change in science. Join us for our 6th London Session, where we tackle the COMMUNICATION of SCIENCE! We'll be talking about reaching new audiences, immersive new media, effecting policy change...and of course anything else you want to add in our Q&A panel! Our wonderful speakers are: Max Sanderson: Max is a podcast producer and journalist, who specialises in science. Past work has featured on the National Geographic Channel, the Discovery Channel, BBC Radio 4, and The World Service. Max is currently the producer of Guardian’s ‘Science Weekly Podcast’. Kelly Oakes: Kelly has been the Science Editor for Buzzfeed UK since 2013, and has built the science offering in the UK from scratch. Prior to BuzzFeed, Kelly ran the Scientific American blog 'Basic Space', worked at BBC Future and the Institute of Physics. Andrew Steele: Andrew is Chair of Science is Vital, the UK's science funding lobbying body. He is also the creator of Scienceogram and Lab, Camera, Action - 2 veritable science communication projects on making sense of science funding through data, and communicating odd scientific wonders on YouTube. He is also a PostDoc researcher at the Francis Crick Institute. Cathy White: Cathy is Founder and Director of CEW Communications, specialising in European Startup communications. She was previously Head of Communications for Tech City UK, and Communications and Marketing Manager for Seedcamp, the first round fund that invests in pre-seed and seed stage tech startups. Cathy also runs GeekGirlMeetup UK and hosts their podcast GeekGirl Meets. Sign up (for free!) here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/london-sessions-disrupting-the-conversation-tickets-33019797102?aff=PsciCom Thanks, Gemma -- *Gemma Milne* Technology & Science Journalist Co-Founder // Science: Disrupt @gkmilne1 <http://www.twitter.com/gkmilne1> www.gemmamilne.co.uk ********************************************************************** psci-com how-to: Once subscribed, send emails for the list to [log in to unmask] If not subscribed, either subscribe here https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=psci-com or send requests for items to be posted on your behalf to [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe (or silence messages while away) send an email (any subject) to [log in to unmask] with one of the following messages (ignoring text in brackets) • signoff psci-com (to leave the list) • set psci-com nomail (to stop receiving messages while on holiday) • set psci-com mail (to resume getting messages) Contact list owner at [log in to unmask] Small print and JISCMail acceptable use policy https://sites.google.com/site/pscicomjiscmail/the-small-print **********************************************************************