We are calling for presentations from across the sector for our 2025 Conference STEM Matters: Building trust for thriving communities.

 

We are interested in presentations which centre around the concept of establishing and maintaining trust in science. We want to hear about the work you are doing within your organisations and your communities relating to this theme. How are you building trust and contributing to a community that thrives? What are the challenges and lessons learned? 

 

While we are exploring this theme, we also welcome submissions for presentations exploring other topics relevant to science engagement, and we love to hear updates from our members about what challenges and successes you have had since we last caught up. 

 

Timeframe

Submissions are open from now until 5:00pm AEST, Friday 11 July 2025. 

We try to accept as many submission from our members as we can, and ideally want to hear from every member organisation in attendance. We will be in touch within the weeks after the submission close to confirm details with you.

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Once we have received a range of submissions, we will begin to build out the conference program on the event site. Please note, we will continue to update this as we finalise speakers and onsite visits, and it will be subject to change.

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What we need from you 

In your submission please provide: 

• Short description on what your presentation (300-400 words). Note: we will use aspects of this description in our published conference program, so please write it with that in mind.

• What styles you think it would suit (panel, fireside chat, round table, shorter symposium presentation with similar talks, lightning update, plenary deep dive etc.) 

• There are options below for you to attach additional files and website links if this would support your submission, but this is not required.

 

Please note, we try to keep conference costs as low as possible and therefore unfortunately cannot not offer free attendance to speakers if they wish to attend the full conference.