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: February 2025

This month, we have three speed talks from Grace Melone, Esteban Rodofili, and Stephanie Mitchell, followed by a longer talk from Stefano Puliti. 

Grace Melone will kick off this month's Variety Hour to talk about using computer vision to image and analyze bumblebee behaviour. Esteban Rodofili will discuss developing workflows to automatically detect and measure migrating whales. Then, Stephanie Mitchell will speak about enhancing epidemic intelligence for wildlife disease surveillance on Kenyan conservancies. Finally, Stefano Puliti will walk us through advancing 3D Forest Vision through the power of open science.

Sound fun? We'll see you there! Register here.

Agenda

• Grace Melone | ​Using computer vision to image and analyze bumblebee behaviour with high temporal resolution
• Esteban Rodofili | Can We Study Whale Migration from Space?: automatically detecting migrating whales
• Stephanie Mitchell | Enhancing Epidemic Intelligence for Wildlife Disease Surveillance on Kenyan Conservancies
• Intermission | The WILDLABS Quiz
• Stefano Puliti | Advancing 3D Forest Vision through the Power of Open Science