Scaling Biodiversity Monitoring through Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Summary:

There is significant potential for artificial intelligence (AI) to contribute to our ability to monitor biodiversity at global scale in order to guide policies at global and national scales and target conservation resources where they are most needed. Challenges require innovation in both methods and the systems required to deploy them, and must be co-developed via close partnership across disciplines and geographies. This session will bring together experts across the fields of AI and ecology with focus on both research and practice to identify key gaps and bottlenecks, prioritize goals, and build collaborations for interdisciplinary solutions.

Speakers:

• Randall Jimenez, Conservation Scientist at IUCN
• Juan Sebastían Ulloa Chacón, Researcher at Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt
• Sara Beery, Assistant Professor at MIT,
• Stephanie O’Donnell, Executive Director at Wildlabs
• Peter Leimgruber, Director at Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
• Tanya Berger-Wolf, Professor at Ohio State University
• Ted Schmitt, Senior Director of Conservation, Ai2