SkepTech

A Conference About Secularism and Innovation

30 speakers

Coverage of SkepTech

32 sessions

Day 1 from 5pm to 10pm Friday 5th April 2013

• 5:00pm Event Registration, Gaming Fundraiser

• 6:00pm Mind Reading

  presented by David Gamut

• 6:30pm Introduction

• 7:00pm Panel Discussion - Moderated by Geeks Without God

  presented by Greta Christina, Zach Weiner, Geeks Without God, Tim Wick, Molly Glover, Nick Glover, Tim Farley and Chelsea Du Fresne

• 8:00pm How to Get Money and Media

  presented by Jesse Galef

• 9:00pm Censorship Doesn’t Work: Comic Books as a Natural Experiment

  presented by Zach Weiner

Day 2 from 9am to 10pm Saturday 6th April 2013

• 9:00am Intro Activities

• 9:30am Panel Discussion: Sex in Cyberspace; Porn, Okcupid and the Internet

  presented by Greta Christina, Ben Blanchard, Stephanie Zvan, Jesse Galef, Jesse Menard and Miri Mogilevsky

• 10:30am Breakout: The Neuropsychology of Quitting

  presented by Brendan Murphy

• 10:30am Breakout: Star Trek and Humanism

  presented by Scott Lohman

• 11:00am Breakout: The Skeptic Social Network

  presented by Ben Blanchard

• 11:00am Breakout: FIRST – The Super Bowl of Smarts

  presented by FIRST Comm. Team

• 11:30am Breakout: Improving Your Memory

  presented by David Gamut

• 11:30am Breakout: The Uses and Abuses of Psychometrics

  presented by Stephanie Zvan

• 12:00pm Lunch

• 1:00pm The Ninjutsu of the Internet Savvy Skeptic

  presented by Tim Farley

• 2:00pm Hacking Evolution: Transhumanist Fantasies, Biological Realities

  presented by PZ Myers

• 3:00pm Panel Discussion: Anonymity and the Internet

  presented by Zach Weiner, Tim Farley, Chana Messinger, Kate Donovan and Beth Ann Erickson

• 4:00pm Putting the Fun Back in Infrastructure

  presented by Maggie Koerth-Baker

• 5:00pm Arguing Effectively on the Web

  presented by Greta Christina

• 6:00pm Dinner

• 7:00pm Don't Post First and Ask Questions Later

  presented by Hemant Mehta

• 8:00pm Hacktivism

  presented by JT Eberhard

• 9:00pm Panel Discussion: Will technology save us from ourselves?

  presented by Zach Weiner, Tim Farley, Maggie Koerth-Baker, Chelsea Du Fresne and Robbie Orlowski

Day 3 from 9am to 3pm Sunday 7th April 2013

• 9:00am Intro Activities

• 9:30am FDA, Where Are You?

  presented by Brianne Bilyeu

• 9:30am Geeks Without God - Interview - Zach Weinersmith

  presented by Zach Weiner and Geeks Without God

• 10:30am Geeks Without God – Interview - Greta Christina

  presented by Greta Christina and Geeks Without God

• 10:30am Panel Discussion: The Implications of Brain Tech

  presented by Brianne Bilyeu, Stephanie Zvan, Brendan Murphy, Patrick Manhatton and Dominic Mussack

• 11:30am Lunch

• 12:30pm Panel Discussion: Real World vs Cyberspace Activism

  presented by Brianne Bilyeu, JT Eberhard, Robbie Orlowski, Andrew Tripp, Miri Mogilevsky and Olivia James

• 1:30pm Closing Ceremony

  presented by Brendan Murphy

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