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SAVE THE DATE FOR 2025! We are taking The BIG Event to The Royal Institution, London from Wednesday 16th - Friday 18th July 2025. Pop it in your diary now!
BIG event 2024 Cardiff 24th-26th July 2024 To the Welsh capital we go! Yes, for real this time. We did attempt to visit Cardiff back in 2020. And then again in 2021... But this time we are determined to make it happen. Cardiff is a city with a very long tradition of songs, rugby and a vibrant Sci-Comm community. Cardiff University (one of our venues) is right in the heart of the civic centre and has a beautiful parkland, an historic castle, a world-class museum and Victorian arcades all within a 5 minute walk. Cardiff is compact (much like the BIG Event), culture-packed and ready for the most hotly anticipated conference on any STEM communicator’s calendar. The University has modern lecture theatres, labs and various meeting spaces available to host the melting pot of creative ideas that make up the BIG Event. And if all the outstanding interaction becomes too much, you can always take a little walk down the corridor in Sherlock’s mind palace and play spot the Dr Who location. Plus, we guarantee the sun will be shining.* *There just might be clouds in the way... Joking aside, Cardiff actually has more hours of sunshine a year than the UK national average. Accommodation We’ve reserved rooms in the student halls for those wanting cost-effective and extremely convenient accommodation at the BIG Event. But book quickly as these rooms are on a first-come-first-served basis! Accommodation at the BIG Event 2024, Cardiff University What is the BIG Event? The BIG Event is a three day get-together every summer to share skills and experiences, develop professional links and keep up-to-date with the STEM engagement field. This is the place to hone your skills and recharge your professional batteries, pick up great ideas and show off your talents to peers.
It provides an unmissable opportunity to squeeze the skills and ideas out of all the STEM engagement people you can in a short space of time. It’s like power juice for STEM communicators.
The content for the BIG Event is created by the members. And the people who say they get the most out of it are the people who contribute the content. This will be a hybrid BIG Event. As many sessions as possible will be delivered as hybrid events, so if you can't get to Cardiff in-person, you can still join us online. View previous year's programmes below: Bursaries BIG bursaries provide financial assistance to enable members to attend one of our events. BIG offers a handful of bursary places which will:
For full details and to apply, see our Bursaries page REGISTRATION Registration opens from 21st May, 2024 Your registration to the BIG Event entitles you to a free 12-month membership to BIG, with all its benefits. General event registration (non-speakers)
Speakers registration (Check your email for the booking code)
Hybrid registration
Travel and accommodation is not included in any of the conference rates, however, we are in the process of securing University en-suite accommodation very close to the BIG Event location. More information to come after the Easter Break. *Early Bird requires full payment on or before 20th May, 2024. If full payment isn't received by 20th May, your registration will be honoured at the Full Price until 3rd June, 2024. After this point, if we still haven't received full payment, your registration will be cancelled. Cancellation and Refund PolicyPayment for all events must be received by the day of the event. If payment is not received by the day of the event, your attendance cannot be honoured at the event. We can, by prior arrangement only, honour your attendance at the event if an official purchase order number has been generated and is being processed by your organisation’s finance department. If you wish to cancel your registration:
In the event of non-attendance at the event, refunds will not be given. |
