Day 1 | |
Welcome and Introduction | Martin Wikelski, Ulrik Pagh Schultz Lundquist |
Scaling Up Behavioural Ecology | Blair Costelloe |
Whale conservation: drone-based monitoring, its promise, and barriers to global adoption | Maevatiana Ratsimbazafindranahaka |
Understanding the ecosystem of datasets in AI/Computer vision | Hemal Naik |
Deterring human wildlife conflict | Sam Penny |
Academic career paths, industrial options, and speaker stories | Steve Bullock; Sam Penny, Elzbieta Pastucha, Daniel Rubenstein |
Day 2 | |
Collective behaviours in wild Indian wolves | Adwait Deshpande |
Drones for Nature Conservation – New Paradigms to Extend Environmental Monitoring Missions | Salua Hamaza |
Navigating the social and political implications of using drones in conservation | Naomi Millner |
Autonomous Inference of Animal Behavior and Motion: How to Rapidly Annotate Behavior on Long Drone Videos? | Aamir Ahmad |
Poster session | Student participants |
Day 3 | |
How Machine Learning is Changing the Way Behavior can be Studied | Daniel Rubenstein |
On the Interface between Conservation and Animal Culture | Caroline Schuppli |
Aerial Robots for Biodiversity Surveys in the Amazon: Lessons Learned and Future Opportunities from the XPRIZE Rainforest Competition | Stefano Mintchev |
Talk and tutorial: Animal Tracking with TRex | Angela Albi |
Day 4 | |
Minimising acoustic drone disturbance to wildlife using species audiograms | Isla Duporge |
Workshop: What we talk about when we talk about design | Mike Costelloe |
Natural and bio-inspired technologies reveal the importance of information networks in the sky for movement efficiency | Hannah Williams |
Tour of the Imaging Hangar | Mathias Günther, Giovanni Reina |
Day 5 | |
Integrating LLMs in robotics and drones (session resources) | Alejandro Jarabo-Peñas |
Collective migration in soaring birds | Andrea Flack |
Releasing Robots into the Wild(Drone) | Tom Richardson |
AI for Nature: From Science to Impact | Tanya Berger-Wolf |
Panel discussion: Biology and Robotics: Challenges ahead and integration between different sciences | Tanya Berger-Wolf, Stefano Mintchev, Tom Richardson, Daniel Rubenstein |