Catch up with The Variety Hour: May 2023

Event / 24 May 2023

Catch up with The Variety Hour: May 2023

Join us this month to learn about the new Luminous tracking collar from Margo, the $11M XPRIZE Wildfire, a 4-year competition to innovate firefighting technologies that will end destructive wildfires, a community project about developing a system for monitoring snow leopards in Kyrgyzstan, and take away some top tips from the WILDLAB editor about showcasing your work for conservation tech readers.

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24 May 2023 - this event is in the past.
4:00 pm ~ 5:00 pm Europe/London
Recording Available

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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. Brought to you with the support of our partner Amazon Web Services (AWS), we're excited to bring you a whole new season right through 2023.

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: May

This month, Jared Marley joins us to talk about his team's new Luminous tracking collar, Andrea Santy will introduce the $11M XPRIZE Wildfire, a 4-year competition to innovate firefighting technologies that will end destructive wildfires, Ellie Warren will share the things she wished you knew about effectively showcasing your work for conservation tech readers, and Luciano Foglia will talk about his efforts to develop a system for monitoring snow leopards in Kyrgyzstan. Sound interesting? We'll see you there!

Agenda

Jared Marley | New Release: Margo Luminous Tracking Collar
Andrea Santy | XPrize Wildfire: $11m competition to innovate firefighting technologies
Ellie Warren | Showcasing your work for conservation tech readers, top tips from our Editor
Luciano Foglia | Developing a sensor system for monitoring Snow Leopard in Kyrgyzstan

Past Recordings

Can't wait for this Variety Hour? Why not check out our past events! You can find all of the on our YouTube Channel.

Variety Hour April | Jorge Fernández Berni joins us to talk about his team's new spin off BiodAIverse, Leila Guici shares key takeaways from GSMA and REDAA research into the role digital solutions can play in improving natural resource management, focusing particularly on the power dynamics of using such technologies among local communities. We'll hear from two project Ruth Oliver is leading - one using GPS data to look at wildlife behavior during the pandemic and the other looking at how camera trapping data can close biodiversity data gaps. And finally, Henrik Cox and the Sentinel AI team will walk us through their efforts to build a system to make wildlife monitoring as easy as possible.
Variety Hour March | Rachel Lim joins us to talk about the the Silverstand Biodiversity Accelerator+, Sako Arts shares the work of FruitPunch AI, which is helping impact organisations and conservation projects crowdsource AI solutions. Carly Batist shares an update about Arbimon, a tool for ecoacoustic data. Tom August, who leads our popular Autonomous Camera Traps for Insects group, shares the collaborative work underway to develop better tools for insect monitoring.
Variety Hour February | Learn about Google Earth Engine vs Microsoft's Planetary Computer with Gilberto Câmara, ChatGPT for Conservation with Josh Seltzer, an introduction to Moveapps with Andrea Kölzsch, and learn about Abhijit Kumar Nageshkumar's project aiming to build a radio telemetry system to track turtles in India.

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Event / 24 May 2023