ASC national conference 2012 – PCO appointed; time for brainstorming

We’ve appointed Waldron Smith Management as the professional conference organiser for ASC 2012. They worked well with us previously when they were the PCO for the very successful 2007 World Congress of Science Journalists, held in Melbourne and hosted by ASC.

Our next steps will be to work with the PCO to develop the conference budget and get the basic infrastructure moving. Then Rod Lamberts, the chair of our national conference organising committee, can unleash the keen ASC committee to start working on the program and numerous other details.

Brainstorming is welcome across the nation. Last year the NSW branch held a brainstorming session which produced a lot of ideas that Tim and Kali incorporated into the conference. I encourage all the branches to organise similar events as soon as feasible to dream up what they would like to see as part of the conference. Send the results to Rod (he will attend these events if possible) and he will collate them for his team.

The conference will be in Sydney from 27-29 February, with perhaps a welcoming event on Sunday 26 Feb.

Jesse Shore
National President

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About Jesse Shore

Jesse Shore is passionate about engaging the community with science and in looking for ways to weave together the arts and sciences. He has been developing science based exhibitions and events since 1984, and was President of the Australian Science Communicators from 2010-2012. His business, Prismatic Sciences, produced five travelling exhibitions for the Royal Australian Chemical Institute for the 2011 International Year of Chemistry and he manages the ongoing national tour. He previously worked at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney as an exhibition project leader and Senior Curator of sciences. While at the museum he was one of the founders of the Ultimo Science Festival, a major National Science Week activity. He is currently collaborating with an artist to create artworks which have a science slant.

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