Tedious lecture? No thanks. Dull workshop? Absolutely not. The WILDLABS Variety Hour is an opportunity to share projects, ask questions, get answers, meet collaborators, make friends, have enlightening conversations, and engage with the conservation tech community in a new way.
The best part? With every Variety Hour having a different panel of guest speakers, you can never predict what you'll learn or who you'll meet! You might catch a speed talk from a community member working halfway around the world, learn from a leading conservation tech expert, discover a new tool, test your wildlife trivia skills, or find a new opportunity. Maybe you'll even do all of the above!
Joining Variety Hour means coming together with other folks passionate about conservation tech. The energy and excitement of sharing this space create the perfect conditions for great ideas and discussions to ignite.
By the time you leave, you'll not only have learned something new but also feel empowered knowing you're part of a global community making an impact worldwide.
The 2025 Variety Hour schedule
Keep the last Wednesday of the month free for The Variety Hour! We'll keep this list updated as registration goes live. You'll also find all upcoming events in our Events Calendar.
- February 26: Featuring talks from Grace Melone on using computer vision for bumblebee monitoring, Esteban Rodofili on studying whale migration from space, Stephanie Mitchell on enhancing epidemic intelligence for wildlife disease, and Stefano Puliti on 3D forest vision. Recording available!
- March 26: Featuring talks from Janey Fugate on the Global Initiative on Ungulate Migration, Santiago Martinez Balvanera on using Whombat to build a citizen science platform for annotating bat recordings, Samantha King on Marine Monitor (M2), and Akos Ledeczi on an animal-borne acoustic gunshot detector. Recording available!
- April 30: Featuring talks from Julia Wiel on a standard for acoustic data sharing, Jeremy Vuillermet on how to visualize spatio-temporal data sets like camera traps and audio recordings, Tom Denton on BirdCLEF+ 2025, a competition to apply machine-learning expertise to identify under-studied species based on their acoustic signatures in Colombia, and Niki Amini-Naieni on CountGD. Recording available!
- May 28
- June 25
- July 30
- August 27
- September 24
- October 29
- November 26
Do you want to speak at an upcoming Variety Hour Show? Email community@wildlabs.net with a short outline of what you'd like to present and we'll see if it's a fit for one of our upcoming events.
Catch up on past episodes:
All episodes are available on our YouTube channel!
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