You’re invited to the WILDLABS Variety Hour, our monthly community event connecting you to the exciting projects, research, and ideas that are happening in conservation tech right now.
You never know what you’ll find and who you’ll meet at our Variety Hour, and that’s part of the fun! You might catch speed talks from community members working around the world, learn from a leading conservation tech expert, discover a new tool, test your wildlife trivia skills, find a great opportunity - maybe you’ll even do all of the above.
The WILDLABS Variety Hour isn’t a show, or a lecture, or a workshop. It's an engaging, fun, and interactive gathering, giving you a welcoming space to share your own projects and resources, ask and answer questions, have insightful conversations, meet collaborators, make friends, and get to know the conservation tech community in a new way.
Great ideas and discussions are sparked when people who share a passion for conservation tech unite. When you come along to the Variety Hour, you’re joining a space full of people who care about conservation tech just like you; when you leave the Variety Hour, we hope you’ll take away fresh inspiration and the knowledge that you belong to a global community who are making an impact in our field all around the world.
The Variety Hour: November 2025
This month, we have three speed talks from Laura Boffi, Andrew Cook, and Sarah Radford, with a long talk from Ștefan Istrate.
Laura Boffi will start things off by sharing a project that draws on the profound bond between reindeer and herders to map forests, pastures and snow change. Next, Andrew Cook will tell us about a national platform for passive hedgehog monitoring that combines low-cost sensors, 3D printing, and community collaboration. After, Sarah Radford will talk about autonomous insect camera traps that are part of the system, including all-in-one bioacoustic recorders with insect camera traps. Finally, Ștefan Istrate will discuss how spending time analyzing biased data will lead to training better models.
Sound fun? We'll see you there!
Agenda
- @lauraboffi | The Embassy of Reindeers: A Participatory Project with Finnish Reindeer Herders
- @Huffythehedgehog | From Garden Shed to National Network: Project HEDGE
- @Sarita | ecoPi in the Wild: Autonomous Insect Camera Traps for Conservation
- Intermission | The WILDLABS Quiz
- @stefan_istrate | SpeciesNet: Lessons from building and deploying a global species classifier
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