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Event / Catch up with The Variety Hour: September 2024

Hear about autonomous drones, marine GPS tags, open-source Python packages, and no-code custom AI.

Event / Catch up with The Variety Hour: May 2025

Hear about field biomechanics, Indigenous knowledge, deforestation monitoring, and airborne object detection.

Event / Catch up with The Variety Hour: June 2025

Hear about elephant acoustic monitoring, landmarking x-ray images, open source conservation, and environmental governance and management...

Member / Santiago Martinez Balvanera

Member / Diane Kim

Member / Akos Ledeczi

Akos Ledeczi is a professor of computer science and computer engineering at Vanderbilt University. His research interests include wireless sensor networks and introductory computing education. He has been leading a conservation technology project for about 6 years..

Member / Julia Wiel

PhD students on bioacoustics, both for marine and terrestrial environment. From the data collection in the field in remote areas, to the analysis using AI. I am eager to help developping cutting-edge technologies to bring up the voice of the wildlife!

Member / Niki

I am an AI and computer vision DPhil (PhD) student at the University of Oxford working on developing open-world counting models to automatically count objects (and animals) in images and other visual data.

Member / Amir Patel

I am an Associate Professor (Robotics & AI) at University College London (UCL). I am particularly interested in cheetahs and develop remote sensors to study them.

Member / Luke Browne

Director of Conservation for FCAT

Member / tom denton

machine educator

Member / Seema Lokhandwala

An elephant biologist with over eight years of experience in wildlife conservation, specialising in elephant communication, behaviour, and ecology. Skilled in leading and managing conservation initiatives while collaborating effectively with local communities and government agenc

Member / Seamus Lombardo

Impact and Sustainability Team at Planet Labs - Working to integrate satellite data with on-the-ground conservation technology for scalable biodiversity monitoring.

Member / Emily Dorne

Lead Data Scientist and developer of zamba, a tool for automatic species classification from camera traps

Member / Phil Atkin

Embedded software developer of 40+ years experience, hardware designer.

Member / Aamir Ahmad

Aerial Roboticist, Professor, Biodiversity and Conservation Enthusiast

Member / Alexander Merdian-Tarko

Tackling food waste using ML at REWE Group

Member / Ben Weinstein

Member / Vincent BLANQUÉ

GIS & EO Specialist with almost 20 years experience working with GIS in different topics. I am now working in Digital Tranformation Team at UNEP-WCMC mainly focus on Protected Planet programme to upgrade National and Global Stats for Target 3.1 (30x30) and UN Biodivesity Lab.

Member / David Gaynor

Spent my life developing conservation solutions. Currently Mass detection of wildlife snares using airborne Synthetic Aperture radar, Sonic Guardian GSM virtual fence array, Analog gunshot detector for satellite collars, RFID monitoring. Reintroduction biology lion cheetah

Member / Jessica Kendall-Bar

Dr. Jessica Kendall-Bar is a Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellow at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego. Her research combines engineering, data science, ecology, and visualization to measure behavior and physiology of marine animals amidst a changing climate.

Member / Diane Detoeuf

A Social Science Technical Advisor at WCS with over a decade of experience, Diane specializes in digital tools for social sciences and safeguards. She leads training in both English and French for field programs, with expertise in theories of change and monitoring.

Member / Sara Olsson

Systems Engineer at Edge Impulse, experiencce with hands-on edge machine learning for wildlife conservation

Member / Ho Kooi Chee

A Marine Conservationist based in Malaysia