SCANZ 2023 Conference Recordings

If you missed or want to revisit any of the sessions in our 2023 conference, you can do so below. Click on each button to be taken to the video for that session.

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KEYNOTE: Associate Professor Dianne Sika-Paotonu

Associate Professor Dianne Sika-Paotonu is the 2022 recipient of the Prime Minister’s Science Communication Prize, recognising her work as a leading voice on immunology and vaccines during the Covid-19 pandemic. She is the first Pacific winner of this award, that also acknowledged her efforts to engage and connect with communities, work towards improving prevention for rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease, and seeking to address heart health and cancer inequities, within Aotearoa New Zealand and the Pacific Region.


Panel: Using technology to capture the hearts and minds of New Zealanders

Facilitator: Daniel Walker

Featuring: Rob Appiardo, Maire Smith, Kiri Reihana

Lightning talks: session one

  • Waiaroha - an immersive illustrated freshwater science experience - Yasmine El Orfi

  • Myrtle rust on social media: Lessons learned - Jenny Leonard

Panel: Generative AI and science communication

Facilitator: Dacia Herbulock

Featuring: Simon McCallum, Ali Knott, Charlotte Gerke, Patrick Crewdson

KEYNOTE: DR KARAITIANA TAIURU

Ngāi Tahu/Ngāti Kahungunu/ Ngāti Toa & Rārua/ Ngāti Hikairo/ Tūwharetoa / Ngāti Hauiti / Ngāti Whitikaupeka/ Pākehā.

Dr Karaitiana Taiuru is a leading authority and a highly accomplished visionary Māori technology ethicist specialising in Māori rights with AI, Māori Data Sovereignty and Governance with emerging digital technologies and biological sciences. He brings extensive expertise in mātauranga, tikanga Māori, te Tiriti and advocacy for digital Māori rights and data sovereignty and a profound understanding of the intersection between Māori knowledge and emerging technologies.

Panel: Data democratisation

Facilitator: Dacia Herbulock

Featuring: Liza Bolton, Dr Karaitiana Taiuru, Keith Ng

KEYNOTE: Professor Rebecca Priestley

Professor Rebecca Priestley is a science writer and academic at Te Herenga Waka Victoria University of Wellington. Her new book, End Times, interweaves the stories of two periods in Rebecca’s life: a late 1980s encounter with evangelical Christianity amid the threat of the nuclear arms race, and a 2021 road trip haunted by the threats of climate change, conspiracy theories, and a massive overdue earthquake.

Lightning talks: SESSION TWO

  • Plain language is a solution to navigate the power, potential and perils of technology in science communication - Erica Mather

  • Navigating digital health communication - Emma Dunning

  • Inspiring Explorers: Science, Outreach, and 360° of South Georgia - Kaitlyn Martin

Lightning talks: SESSION THREE

  • No dumb questions: Sci-comm on music radio - Daniel Walker

  • Info- and Edutainment in Techtopia – Science Communication on Late-Night Shows in the 21st Century - Charlotte Gerke

  • Why we need to stop using pictures of call centre robots to talk about AI - Anna Pendergrast

  • Moonwalking with Attenborough - Max Balloch