Events, Speaking,
& Workshops

Event Coordination

Our philosophy on events goes like this: they do not have to be boring.
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Is there anything more wonderful than someone saying they've “never attended a conference this fun before”?
That's the feedback we got on the 2024 conference we organized for the Honda Research Institute in Tokyo on robotics. Our work included creating a dozen different types of merchandise, arranging walk on music, generating graphics, editing video, and MC-ing the event.

Event Collaborations

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Pop! Tech logofurhat logoWhite house correspondent association logoSothebys logoYale logoRWJF Logo

We’ve attended several international academic conferences representing our client’s robot, including one at "AI for Good" held near the United Nations in Geneva. For this, we created thousands of pieces of merchandise and organized giveaways and promotions.
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We've conducted interviews for Convergent Research (a grantee of Schmidt Futures) and Furhat Robotics' conference. Our founder has spoken at SXSW Edu, Yale, OpenAI, and PopTech, among many other places.

Sarah Rose Siskind talking at SXSW Edu 2024

We created a live show with the Psychedelic Assembly that combined descriptions of peoples’ psychedelic visuals with the power of AI video technology to “animate” trips. One trip was even animated live over the course of the show.
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We’ve shot and edited an interview for Furhat robotics’ conference, given talks at the Open AI Headquarters, the Kennedy Center for the PopTech conference,  Yale University, and at an ISMPP event (a group for medical writers).

Sarah and Willa at the Psychedelic Assembly hosting an AI event

Workshops

In an era where science and communication often stand apart, scientists find themselves grappling with the challenge of engaging the public effectively. Whether it is climate or covid, topics in science affect the public at large and humor has been shown to increase information retention. Hello SciCom’s Science Comedy Workshop aims to bridge the gap between scientist and audience by making science accessible and entertaining. This workshop will provide practical, innovative, and personalized comedy and communication skills to STEM professionals.

Whether you have a specific project (Ted talk, branding, social media scripts, etc) you need help with, or just want to learn more about science communication, Hello SciCom offers 3-4 hour science comedy workshops where you can meet our team of award-winning comedians, writers, and scientists  to learn how to unleash the power of humor into science.
Book A Workshop
A room full of people chatting at small tables. They are taking part in a Hello SciCom Workshop.
What to expect
  • Specific skills, tools, and feedback to enhance public-facing communications
  • Keynote speech by Sarah Rose Siskind, given at SXSW, providing an overview of the science comedy landscape and case studies
  • Improv and comedy games to stimulate creative thinking.
  • Breakout groups led by Hello SciCom staff, made up of professional comedians, scientists, and writers, focusing on project-specific
  • A miniature commencement ceremony where participants will be given their Certification of Scientific Comedic Skills as well as personalized jokes, talking points, suggested reading, and feedback
A pie chart that indicates 80 percent
of attendees would “recommend this workshop to a friend or colleague”

Past Workshops

We led a communications workshop for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that drew 1,000+ RSVPs—one of their highest-turnout webinars. Engagement stayed high throughout, and multiple attendees wrote that this was one of the best webinars they’d ever attended at RWJF, with feedback that the event was not only funny but incredibly helpful for science communicators.

A poster for the Science Comedy Workshop on April 7th, 2024 at Caveat. The poster contains an image of a brain and the Caveat as well as Hello Sci Com logo.

On April 7th, Hello SciCom hosted a Science Comedy Workshop at Caveat in Manhattan. Attended by a wide range of STEM professionals from Neuroscientists to Aerospace Engineers, this event allowed our participants to let loose and find the humor in their messaging. A huge win for science comedy! But don't just take it from us, here are some testimonials, stats, and even a nifty video...

"I LOVED the Comedy Workshop! It gave me a totally new way to look at my field (neuroscience) and got my creative juices flowing for how I can teach others about my work with less jargon and more, well, fun!”

Speech Coaching

We have experience speech coaching a healthcare billionaire for an interview with Barack Obama, a speaker for Black in AI at the Congressional Black Caucus, and a software engineer for a comedy variety show at PubConf 2024. We also wrote the viral stump speech for North Carolina State Senate Candidate Kate Compton Barr.

Sarah Rose Siskind delivering speech
Sarah delivering a keynote speech on science comedy.

Sarah Rose Siskind
Keynote Speaker

Sarah has years of experience delivering keynotes at a variety of venues including SXSW Edu, the Kennedy Center for the PopTech conference, and at OpenAI's headquarters. She's spoken at a number of universities including Yale and Chapman University. She speaks about 1) science comedy & communication, 2) AI, robotics, creativity & comedy and 3) psychedelics. She hosts a show at Caveat theater in NYC about psychedelic science, sits on many psychedelic nonprofit boards, and writes a column for Psychology Today about, you'd never guess, psychedelics. Also, she did a bird call on the David Letterman show!

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Welcome to Hello SciCom

We help science and tech companies communicate their ideas in a way that is clear, accessible, and engaging.

We combine science, humor, and entertainment to make STEM ideas engaging to broad audiences, without sacrificing on scientific accuracy and nuance.

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