Ben Weinstein
I am a research scientist at the University of Florida. I develop automated tools for ecological monitoring to support research and conservation using machine learning…
Workshop Participants
Laura Pollock
Laura is an Assistant Professor in Biology at McGill University in Montréal, was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, and has a PhD from the Quantitative and…
Katharina Dittmar
Currently Acting Deputy Division Director for the Division of Biological Infrastructure (DBI) in the Directorate for Biological Sciences at the National Science Foundation. Joined NSF…
Alcione Silva
Founder of Connecting Food, a social impact foodtech that works on the intelligent management of surplus food donations. Food Engineer, Master in Sustainability from Fundação…
Miranda Dally
Miranda Dally, DrPH is a researcher at the Colorado School of Public Health’s Center for Health, Work & Environment and Department of Environmental and Occupational…
Suzanne Stluka
Dr. Suzanne Stluka is the Deputy Director for the Institute of Food Safety and Nutrition for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute…
Scott Loarie
Scott is the Executive Director of iNaturalist. Scott has BS & MS degrees in biology from Stanford and a PhD in environmental science from Duke.…
Emmanuel Dufourq
Emmanuel Dufourq leads the Machine Learning for Ecology Research Group at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences South Africa (AIMS) and is a senior lecturer…
Thomas Dabolt
Thomas (Tod) Dabolt is the distinguished Chief Data Officer and Geospatial Information Officer at the U.S. Department of the Interior. With a commendable 27 years…
Oisin Mac Aodha
Oisin Mac Aodha is a Lecturer in Machine Learning in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. He is also a Turing Fellow…
Maria Siqueira
Director of public policies and projects, Maria has a degree in International Relations, with extension at the Université de Strasbourg, and postgraduate degree in Food…
Kohei Watanabe
Kohei Watanabe is professor at Teikyo University (Tokyo, Japan) and research associate at the Malaysian Commonwealth Studies Centre, University of Cambridge (U.K.). He obtained his…
Jocelyn Boiteau
Jocelyn Boiteau is a Postdoctoral Associate at the Tata-Cornell Institute for Agriculture and Nutrition. She earned her PhD in international nutrition in 2021 from Cornell…
Justin Mankin
Justin is an associate professor of geography at Dartmouth and PI of Dartmouth’s Climate Modeling & Impacts Group. He also holds courtesy appointments in the…
Xiangtao Xu
I am an ecosystem ecologist with broad interests in other related fields of ecology and Earth System Science. My research revolves around the role of…
Marconi Campos Cerqueira Junior
Dr. Marconi Campos is the chief scientist of WildMon, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing globally accessible technology solutions to accelerate data-driven biodiversity and ecosystem…
David Thau
Dave Thau is WWF's Global Data and Technology Lead Scientist. He joined WWF in 2019, bringing with him over 30 years of software development experience.…
Lily Xu
Lily Xu is a postdoc at the University of Oxford with the Leverhulme Centre for Nature Recovery and incoming assistant professor at Columbia University. Her…
Stephanie O'Donnell
Stephanie O’Donnell joined Fauna & Flora in 2015 to establish and lead the WILDLABS Programme. Launched as a collaboration of four of the world’s leading…
Tanya Berger-Wolf
Dr. Tanya Berger-Wolf is a Professor of Computer Science Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Evolution, Ecology, and Organismal Biology at the Ohio State University,…
Drew Purves
Drew Purves is a Research Scientist at Google DeepMind. There, he is co-leading a new sustainability program, the goal of which is to leverage AI…
Jacob Levenson
Accomplished Senior Marine Biologist with 20 years of success providing strategic leadership and operational oversight for science and innovation programs, strategic partnerships with public aquariums…
Juan Sebastián Ulloa
I am currently a Scientific Researcher at the Center for Socio-Ecological Studies and Global Change of the Humboldt Institute in Colombia. With a Master's degree…
Kakani Katija
Dr. Kakani Katija is a Principal Engineer at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, a Research Associate at the National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian…
Saket Anand
Saket Anand is an Associate Professor at IIIT-Delhi. He completed his PhD from Rutgers University in 2013. His research interests span geometric computer vision, semi-supervised…
Theodore Schmitt
Ted Schmitt is the Senior Director, Conservation at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2). Prior to AI2, Ted has spent over 15 years leading…
Hannah Kerner
Hannah Kerner is an Assistant Professor of computer science in the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence at Arizona State University. She is pioneering new…
Millie Chapman
I am currently a postdoc at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis. My research is at the intersection of decision theory, ecology, and…
Ciira Maina
I am an Associate Professor at Dedan Kimathi University of Technology in Nyeri, Kenya where I teach electrical engineering and also conduct research in a…
Abu Hayat Md. Saiful Islam
Saiful Islam received his PhD in Agricultural Economics from University of Bonn, Germany in 2015 and holds a double Master’s degree in Agricultural Economics (Rural…
Sarah Evanega
Sarah is vice president of external relations at Okanagan Specialty Fruits, the company that developed the reduced food waste Arctic® Apple and that continues to…
Pete Pearson
Pete Pearson is the Global Initiative Lead for the Food Circularity program at WWF – the world’s leading independent conservation organization, whose mission is to…
Maximo Torero
My major research work lies mostly in analyzing poverty, inequality, importance of geography and assets (private or public) in explaining poverty, and in policies oriented…
Kiran Rupakhetee
Career bureaucrat with the experience of 37 years having expertise on broad areas related to agriculture, nutrition and social issues.
Richard Swannell
Richard is an environmental scientist with a strong track record of leading teams which tackle plastic pollution, reduce food waste and deliver more sustainable practices…
Gaspar Cuambe
Gaspar Cuambe is the current GAIN Mozambique a wide experience of programmatic and operational management accumulated over 30 years in several public and private institutions…
Brian Roe
Brian Roe is the Van Buren Professor in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics at Ohio State University. Roe attended the University of…
Ashek Mahfuz
I am a professional Food Technologist and expert in food fortification/processing and agriculture value chain by education. Currently, I am managing the Large-Scale Food Fortification…
Limbikani Matumba
A Professor of Food Analysis & Safety Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources (LUANAR). Offers a wealth of experience (> 15 years) in research,…
Ana Catalina Suarez Pina
Lawyer, Specialist in Senior Management from the University of Medellin, Master in Sustainable Development Management from the Universidad Externado de Colombia in Bogota, Senior Management…