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Species survival: How AI can help conservation

Discover digital solutions that could help in wildlife conservation.

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To protect nonhuman life on Earth, we need to give diverse life forms a digital focus. There is no digital platform for wild animals, trees, insects, and no way for them to make themselves known to us online.

Join Jonathan Ledgard as he explores new AI solutions that can help represent nonhumans, aid their survival and demonstrate more completely to us their way of moving through the world.

In this talk discover these interspecies services and how we can use fast evolving AI to help prevent existential risk to nonhuman life on Earth.

This event is part of the 26th Made in Prague Festival and AR Exhibition: Innovations for Sustainable Future at the 12 Stars Gallery, London, organised in collaboration with the Czech Centre.

Event type

This is a smaller event in the Conversation room.  This event will not be livestreamed.

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About Jonathan Ledgard

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Jonathan Ledgard is a leading thinker on advanced technology, nature and risk. He is a fellow at the Prague Artificial Intelligence Centre and a Visiting Professor in AI and Nature at the Czech Technical University. Previously, as a director at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, he helped invent drone delivery of medicines in Africa. He is an advisor to companies, governments, and inter-governmental institutions.



Separately, he spent 18 years as a foreign and war correspondent for The Economist newspaper, filing lead stories from over 60 countries – including a decade in Africa.



As J.M. Ledgard, he is an acclaimed novelist. Submergence, a New York Times Book of the Year, was adapted for Hollywood by Wim Wenders. Giraffe, set in Communist Czechoslovakia, is also optioned by Hollywood.



 

About Henry Mance

Hnery is looking at the camera, waering a blue jumper.
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Your chair for the evening is Henry Mance, chief features writer at the Financial Times. He has reported on a variety of environmental and animal welfare issues, and is author of 'How to Love Animals', a book of the year for The Times, Daily Telegraph, and The Guardian. Before joining the FT in 2010, he worked at a biodiversity think tank in Colombia.

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