Helen is a gifted and passionate speaker who has given talks to a wide range of audiences both academically and commercially.
She has spoken at conferences, award ceremonies, schools, universities, museums and festivals as well as giving both keynote and after dinner speeches. Previous clients include The Guardian, BlueDot Festival, the Hay Literary Festival, the Women of the Future conference and New Scientist Live among many others.
Helen speaks on a wide variety of topics and is very happy to work with brands, organisations and institutions to tailor her talks to best suit the event at hand. Helen is also an experienced host and moderator and has chaired events for many organisations, including government agencies, COP24, the Institute of Civil Engineers and the IBC. Highlights include chairing a debate between Ed Miliband & George Monbiot for Intelligence Squared, and live-hosting a whole day of events at London’s Science Museum during Tim Peake’s launch to the International Space Station. Her focus when moderating events is always on bringing the best out of the panellists while pushing on new ideas, to generate constructive and illuminating discussion in a friendly respectful atmosphere. Helen has a clear commitment to open and honest debate, even in the most challenging situations.
Helen has been part of many stage shows, including “Robin & Brian’s Christmas Compendium of Reason” at the Hammersmith Apollo, the Cosmic Shambles tour in Australia and New Zealand, and Space Shambles at the Royal Albert Hall. The enthusiasm she is known for on screen is just as infectious on stage, and she loves sharing the entertaining aspects of even the most serious science.
Her popular TEDx talk has amassed 1.8 million views to date.
Upcoming & Latest Talks
Join this festival event in which Helen discusses the spectacular story of Earth's dynamic ocean and our human relationship with it…
All of the Earth's ocean, from the equator to the poles, is a single engine powered by sunlight - a Blue Machine…
Join Helen as she dives deep to illuminate the murky depths of the ocean engine…
Everything Electric NORTH is a fun-filled, knowledge packed festival of electrification …
At the Hay Festival, Rare Earth will be recording an episode in front of a live audience for the first time…
Hay Festival Hay-on-Wye 2024 runs from 23 May till 2 June. In this event, Helen Czerski and marine biologist Helen Scales speak to the Festival’s Sustainability Director Andy Fryers about our vast oceans…
The fabulous Cheltenham Science Festival is coming up (June 4th-9th), and Helen’s hosting loads of interesting sessions…
Past Events
Helen will be supporting Everything Electric - powered by Fully Charged, the global smash hit event coming to ExCel London. A fun-filled, knowledge-packed, festival of electrification …
Helen joins Canterbury Festival on Monday 23 October 2023 to talk about her new book Blue Machine…
Helen joins the festival on Saturday 21 October 2023 to talk about her new book Blue Machine – How the Ocean Shapes our World…
Off the Shelf Festival of Words, presented by the University of Sheffield, celebrates books, words and ideas…
At this New Scientist Live event, Helen will be talking about her book (published on 1 June 2023) “Blue Machine: How the Ocean Shapes our World” …
Helen joins the Wigtown Book Festival to talk about her new book, Blue Machine …
Helen gives a fascinating insight into the powerful force of the ocean …
THE WORLD’S NO.1 HOME ENERGY & ELECTRIC VEHICLE SHOW is coming to Vancouver!
Helen joins the Wilderness Festival to talk about her brand new book Blue Machine…
In this series, Humanists UK Chief Executive Andrew Copson hosts unscripted, one-on-one discussions over the course of 60 minutes …
Helen joins the Thinking Digital Summer Conference to talk about her brand new book…
Helen joins Chalke Valley History Festival to talk about her brand new book Blue Machine – How the Oceans Shape our World…
Helen is joining the festival to talk about her brand new book Blue Machine: How The Ocean Shapes our World. The talk will take place on the water, in a floating container…
Join us for the official homecoming launch event for Blue Machine, Helen’s exploration of the “ocean engine”…
All of Earth's oceans, from the equator to the poles, are a single engine powered by sunlight - a blue machine.
Helen is chairing this Cheltenham Science Festival event. With Tim Smedley and Priti Parikh…
Do you speak East African Elephant? How about Sperm Whalish? The natural world is full of remarkable conversation beyond human hearing.…
Earth is home to a huge story that is rarely told – that of our ocean. Not the fish or the dolphins, but the massive ocean engine itself: what it does, why it works, and the many ways it has influenced animals, weather and human history & culture…
In conversation with science editor of The Times Tom Whipple, Helen will discuss how, since the beginning of human civilisation, the oceans have been central to the way human societies have evolved…
Helen dives deep into the depths of the Earth's oceans and illuminates the engine that powers them all - the energy from sunlight…
Helen is supporting 2 events at the festival, a Climate debate, and a talk about the Oceans.
In this brand new series from The Cosmic Shambles Network, in association with The Royal Institution, join Helen, Robin Ince and two guests for a dinner party of ideas. Each guest will …
Coming for the first time up North for this three day programme of events…
Helen will be at Guernsey Literary Festival talking about her book (scheduled for publication on 1 June 2023) “Blue Machine: How the Ocean Shapes our World”…
The Fully Charged Show returns to Farnborough International, Farnborough…
Cosmic Shambles returns to Kings Place in London for two nights of the usual cavalcade of science, comedy, music and mayhem…
Helen discusses climate mass migration with award-winning science journalist, author, broadcaster and speaker, Gaia Vince…