WILDLABS
World Wide Fund for Nature/ World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
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: May 2025
This month, we have three speed talks from Amir Patel, Kelsey Prediger, Luke Browne, and Ben Weinstein.
Amir Patel will start us off by discussing techniques to measure 3D motion of cheetahs. Then, Kelsey Prediger will share how Pangolin Conservation & Research Foundation combines Indigenous knowledge with technology like camera traps, Earth Ranger, and satellite tracking for pangolin conservation. Next, Luke Browne will walk us through Chocó Forest Watch, a free, open-source web application designed to lower the technical barriers to high-resolution deforestation and land use monitoring for conservationists. Finally, Ben Weinstein will share DeepForest, a python package for airborne object detection focused on biodiversity monitoring.
Sound fun? We'll see you there!
Agenda
- @amirpatel7625 | Enabling field biomechanics through multi-modal sensor fusion
- @Kprediger | Indigenous knowledge and technology for pangolin conservation
- @lukebrowne | Supporting local conservation with localized deforestation monitoring
- Intermission | The WILDLABS Quiz
- @benweinstein | Deepforest: airborne object detection
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