Skepticon

Speakers

Saturday, 9.15am

Dr Karl is one of Australia’s best known science communicators – an official national living treasure”. He has degrees in Physics and Maths, Biomedical Engineering, Medicine…

Saturday, 3.30pm

Robyn is one of Australia’s leading science journalists and broadcasters, as well as being an official “national living treasure”. Primarily known as presenter of ABC’s The…

Saturday 12.30, Sunday 10.15am and 2.45pm

Benjamin is deputy editor of Skeptical Inquirer magazine and has written thousands of articles on a wide variety of topics, including urban legends, mysterious phenomena, critical…

MC and Sunday 9.45am

Alanta is a comedian and science communicator from Melbourne. With a background in international public health, she’s performed her solo science comedy shows including ‘Parasites Lost’,…

Sunday 10.15am and 3.15pm

Richard is an actor, writer, origamist, podcaster, and Skeptic, having joined the committee of Australian Skeptics Inc in 2001. Since then, he has been president (twice),…

Sunday 12.45pm

Ian is coordinator for the Australian Skeptics’ $100,000 challenge. He is qualified in physics, electrical engineering, and aerospace engineering. As a lecturer at University of NSW,…

Sunday 10.15am

Bill trained as an industrial chemist and is one of Australia’s leading researchers of UFOs/UAPs. He is a contributing editor for the International UFO Reporter and…

Sunday 2.45pm

Caitlin will be graduating with a PhD at UNSW, studying an infamous species she grew up around, the Sydney Funnel Web spider. Her research investigates little…

Sunday 10.15am

Paul is a researcher and author who became interested in paranormal phenomena in his mid-teens. Since then he has become one of Australia’s leading investigators of…

Sunday 2.15pm

Jason did his PhD at ANU, and then worked at Yale University in the USA before returning to Australia to take up a position at UNSW…

Saturday 2.30pm

Sue is a specialist emergency physician who first became active in battling pseudoscience when the anti-vaccine group, the AVN, became prominent in Australia. She joined the…

Saturday 12 noon

Annie is an actor, author and corporate trainer, committed to elevating the quality of critical thinking in business and life. She focuses on helping women avoid…

Saturday 11.30am

Philippa has been involved with Science Teachers Association of NSW for the last 25 years and is currently the co-ordinator for the Young Scientist Award Scheme….

Saturday 2.00pm

Amelia won journalism’s prestigious Walkley Award in 1989, followed by a successful career in corporate communications. She returned to study and graduated in 2017 from the…