With less than two weeks to go, we are proud to announce another great addition to our list of speakers – professor of biology and bestselling author Richard Dawkins!

You probably know him, but here is the short version: Millions have read his books, which have been sold in over 30 languages, and many have seen his television documentaries on BBC and Channel Four. Furthermore he is the founder of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, which supports scientific education, critical thinking and evidence-based understanding of the natural world in the quest to overcome religious fundamentalism, superstition, intolerance and human suffering.

Don’t allow yourself to miss the fantastic opportunity of hearing Richard Dawkins among many others in Copenhagen 18-20. June 2010!

We have decided to extend the Early Bird discount until April 15. In that way, we hope even more of you will be able to meet James Randi, AC Grayling, Taslima Nasrin and all the other great speakers we have lined up for you.

We are proud to announce that we will have one of the grand old men of the atheist and skeptical movement in Copenhagen. James Randi will be one of our featured speakers! If you were not convinced about your participation in the conference before, now you have no excuse not to buy your ticket.

I guess you all know James Randi, but just to give the short version:
James Randi started as a professional magician but is now best known as a skeptic and investigator of paranormal claims. He founded the “James Randi Educational Foundation” that investigates paranormal, supernatural and pseudoscientific claims. Randi is widely known for the “Million Dollar Challenge”, where the JREF offers $1,000,000 to anyone who can prove their supernatural claims under test conditions. So far, no one has collected the prize and psychics and the like tend to ignore the challenge.

Randi is truly one of key figures in the skeptical movement and can take credit for the fact that groups of skeptics are appearing all over the world.

We are happy to share the news with you – and we look forward to seeing you all in Copenhagen this June.

We just added some more details about the extra activities we offer the participants: Friday evening we have godless entertainment with comedian Robin Ince and musician Mushi. Saturday there is dinner by the canal with the speakers – a perfect opportunity to network and meet likeminded people. Sunday we end the conference with a 2½ hours sight-seeing of Copenhagen.

Finally, it is possible to buy tickets for the conference. You can read more about the different tickets on this homepage, and you can buy them at Billetlugen: http://www.billetlugen.dk/other/9612/

Hurry and you get the Early Bird discount of DKK 250 / US$ 50.

Since you are reading this you have probably noticed already, but the website is functional. We are still working on the details but you can see the list of speakers (which will expand a bit more) and find information on the conference in general. Soon, the tickets will be available.