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: September 2025

This month, we have three speed talks from Luke Ditria, Tim Fallon, Ismael Brack, and a long talk from Jared Marley. 

Luke Ditria will start us off by sharing his experience designing and building "high power" devices to operate continuously in remote locations while running various AI and computer vision algorithms. Then, Tim Fallon from EVERYWHERE Communications will discuss how they work with EarthRanger to address communication and data challenges in conservation. Afterwards, Ismael Brack will share potential errors and solutions for counting moving objects through drone mosaic images. Finally, Jared Marley will explain how we can finance a healthier wildlife tech ecosystem.

Sound fun? We'll see you there!

Agenda

• @LukeD | Designing and Building Edge Compute Devices
• Tim Fallon | EVERYWHERE Communications: Empowering Conservation Through Innovation
• @Ismael_Verrastro_Brack  | Counting Animals in Drone Orthomosaics: Errors, Solutions, and Abundance Estimation
• Intermission | The WILDLABS Quiz
• @jared | Keystone Businesses: Fostering an Efficient Wildlife Tech Ecosystem