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: April 2025
This month, we have three speed talks from Julia Wiel, Jeremy Vuillermet, and Tom Denton, followed by a longer talk from Niki Amini-Naieni.
Julia Wiel will start us off by sharing a possible avenue for a broadly applicable standard for acoustic data sharing and publication. Then, Jeremy Vuillermet will discuss how to best visualize and gain insights from spatio-temporal data sets like camera traps and audio recordings. Next, Tom Denton will share more information about BirdCLEF+ 2025, a competition to apply machine-learning expertise to identify under-studied species based on their acoustic signatures in Colombia. Finally, Niki Amini-Naieni will tell us about CountGD, the first open-source, publicly available model that automatically counts objects in images specified by text only, visual examples only, or both together.
Sound fun? We'll see you there!
Agenda
- @JuliaWiel | A Standard for Bioacoustic Data: Safe and Sound
- @Jeremy_ | Visualizing Insights from Spatio-Temporal Data Sets
- @tomdenton |BirdCLEF+ 2025: Species identification in Colombia
- Intermission | The WILDLABS Quiz
- Niki Amini-Naieni | CountGD: Multi-Modal Open-World Counting
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