INSCIENCE Conference

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Kyiv, ArtHall D12 / UNIT.City
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INSCIENCE Conference is a global popular-science conference and exhibition organized within the framework of the INSCIENCE project, which will take place on September 13-14 in Kyiv.


On September 13, at ArtHall D12 (Desyatynna Street, 12) there will be lectures and discussions on space and astrophysics, biotechnology and artificial intelligence, as well as an exhibition of science-based start-ups and inventions.

On September 14th at UNIT.City (Dorogozhytska St., 3) there will be workshops from our speakers on grant funding, project pitching, and writing to leading scientific journals, among others.
– startups and inventions pitching from academic institutions by scientists to participants and investors;
– networking.

SPEAKERS:

MICHAEL HESS @ NASA
a Space medicine operations division chief from NASA Johnson Space Center. This division is responsible for protecting the health and well being of astronauts and JSC workforce to enable human exploration of space.

ROBERT ZUBRIN @ MARS SOCIETY
is an aerospace engineer, writer and founder of the Mars Society. The author of The Case for Mars, a promouter of colonization of other planets and terraforming ideas.

COLIN RHYS @ VIRGIN HYPERLOOP ONE
is a creative director at Virgin Hyperloop One – an U.S. company that develop high-speed railways. Colin is responsible for launch at Dubai.

JAKUB BOCHINSKI @ COPERNICUS SCIENCE CENTER
is a polish astrophysicist, serves as the Head of Education Lab at the Copernicus Science Centre, Jakub serves as a Polish representative to the European Space Agency Advisory Committee for Education.To ensure the quality of science communication efforts in Poland he set up the Science Advocates Association in 2016 with a group of like-minded academics.

YULIA BEZVERSHENKO @ INSTITUTE OF THEORETICAL PHYSICS OF NAS OF UKRAINE
is a Deputy Head of the Council of Young Scientists of the NAS of Ukraine, a PhD. of physical and mathematical sciences, and vice-president of “Scientific Union” NGO, that is engaged in promoting science reforms in Ukraine.

YURII GOGOTSY @ DREXEL UNIVERSITY
is a Ukrainian-born scientist, working at Drexel University in the USA, where he researches nanomaterials. Several years ago, under his leadership, a group of scientists discovered a new family of nanomaterials – maxens, that make possible a new generation of smartphones screens, ultra-fast chargers, and filters for water purification, among others.

EITAN KATZ @ TECH FOR GOOD
is an Israeli innovation management expert, who created and ran the Hewlett Packard Enterprise software incubator – the world’s largest corporate incubator.

OLEXANDER REZNIK @ NAS OF UKRAINE
is a doctor of technical sciences, a researcher of neural networks at the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. He has been studying neurotechnology and artificial intelligence for more than fifty years. One of the topics of his research is dolphin communication and decoding their language.

ABOUT INSCIENCE

INSCIENCE – popularize science, brings together scientists and business, creates conditions for the development of innovations.

Project was founded by Olena Skirta – Speak2Me Speaker Training Coach, co-founder of Brain & Ukraine science popular conference, and Anna Orekhova – editor and curator of science and medicine at video platform IDEALIST.Media

We want to make Ukraine attractive for investment and show that science and innovation are a future without which the state can not develop.

Project has several directions:

  • INSCIENCE Conference with leading Ukrainian and foreign scientists, innovators and popularizators from NASA, Virgin Hyperloop One, Mars Society, Drexel University, Copernicus Science Center and NAS of Ukraine;
  • A program of science popularization among children in an interactive format;
  • Special projects in media;