Speakers

Keynotes and Q&A Speakers

• Communication after a disaster: from Fukushima to CoVID-19 pandemic — Sae Ochi (Lecturer, Jikei University)

• How to get support for your science — Hitoshi Murayama (Principal Investigator, IPMU/MacAdams Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley/Faculty Senior Staff, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

• Scientists' and Producers' Happy Marriage: How we can be Collaborators — Yuri Sudo (Senior producer, NHK)

• Making a Conference Inclusive — Kumiko Usuda-Sato (Outreach Scientist, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan)

• Science for policy: from evidence to action — Chloe Hill (Policy Officer, European Geophysical Union)

• Levelling the playing field — Claudia Alves de Jesus-Rydin (Senior Programme Officer, European Research Council)

• Using poetry and games to develop dialogue between scientists and non-scientists — Sam Illingworth (Senior Lecturer, University of Western Australia)

• Science, media and storytelling — Jacopo Pasotti (Freelance science journalist)

• Science Education in the 21st Century — Sun Kwok (Honorary Professor, University of British Columbia)

• No Longer Optional: Why Scientists Must Engage With Political Society — Casey Dreier (Chief Advocate & Senior Space Policy Adviser, Planetary Society)

• Building a Purposefully Compassionate Science Community in Covid-times — Pamela Gay (Senior Education and Communication Specialist and Senior Scientist, Planetary Science Institute)

• Supporting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in STEM Fields — Lindsey Malcom-Piqueux (Chief Institutional Research Officer at the California Institute of Technology).

• Rocio Caballero-Gill (Researcher & Associate Faculty, Brown University/co-founder, Geolatinas)

• Hanna Song (Senior Director for Inclusion & Diversity, Caltech)

Panelists

• Elizabeth Tasker (Associate Professor, Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency)

• Daishi Matsukura (Founder & CEO; wov, inc.)

• Chaitanya Giri (Fellow of Space and Ocean Studies, Gateway House)

• Rieko Takahashi (Curator, National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan), Tokyo)

• Mirjana Pović (Professor of Physics, Ethiopian Space Science and Technology Institute and Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía)

• Simonetta Fraschetti (Professor in Ecology, University of Naples Frederico II)

• Ana Arana Antelo (Advisor to the Deputy Director General, Directorate General "Research and Innovation", European Commission)

• Pedro Russo (Assistant professor of Astronomy & Society, Leiden University)

• Emily T. Cloyd (Director, Center for Public Engagement, American Association for the Advancement of Science)

• Tony Baylis (Director, Office of Strategic Diversity and Inclusion Programs, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)

• Farah Qaiser (Science communicator)

• Craig McClain (Executive Director, Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium)

Moderators

• David Kornhauser (Director, Global Communication, Kyoto University)

• Alex Penn (Senior Research Fellow, University of Surrey)

• Caleb Scharf (Director of Astrobiology, Columbia University)

• Carl Zimmer (Science writer, New York Times)

• Lea Bello (Science video journalist)