WILDLABS
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: July 2026
This month, we have three speed talks from Baisakhi Khatua, Eduardo León Solórzano, Sofia Guest, and a long talk from Jesse Turner.
Baisakhi will begin with a talk on how satellites, drones, and AI can be used to monitor mangrove health and detect ecosystem stress, dieback, and recovery. Eduardo will then introduce ChatMPA, an AI-powered platform that helps make scientific knowledge and management information more accessible for Marine Protected Areas in Mexico. For our final speed talk, Sofia will present CanAvian, a national data space that connects Canada's leading avian biodiversity data systems to improve interoperability, data sharing, and collaboration. Finally, Jesse will conclude the session by presenting an open-source, animal-borne acoustic monitoring toolkit that integrates low-power acoustic sensors into wildlife GPS collars to enable new approaches to studying animal behavior and environmental change.
Sound fun? We'll see you there!
Agenda
- Baisakhi Khatua (@BAISAKHI ) | Seeing the Forest for the Trees: How Satellites & AI Are Diagnosing Mangrove Health
- Eduardo León Solórzano | ChatMPA: Bringing AI-Powered Decision Support to Marine Protected Areas in Mexico
- Sofia Guest | CanAvian: Furthering Biodiversity Research Through A National Data Space
- Intermission | The WILDLABS Quiz
- Jesse Turner (@jcturn3 ) | An Open Toolkit for Animal-Borne Acoustic Monitoring
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