[Online] Sarah Maston - Project 15 + Alasdair Davies - Arribada Initiative

Sponsored by PJG Creations Ltd, Tech Nottingham, Stkrs & JetBrains.

About the Event:

We'll be kicking off at 18:30GMT for an open networking chat on Zoom, before kicking our talks off at 7PM.

Do feel free to head over to https://zoom.us & create yourself an account as well as downloading the client to your favourite machine!

We'll also be streaming the Meetup on YouTube.

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What we'll be doing:

Sarah Maston - Microsoft Project 15:

Sarah will be talking about how Microsoft are creating an open source software platform designed to accelerate conservation and ecosystem sustainability projects with the latest Internet of Things (IoT) technologies.

Alasdair Davies - Arribada Initiative.

Alasdair will be talking about his work in conservation with ZSL Whipsnaid Zoo.

Where zoo keepers have compiled the world's largest collection of thermal images of elephants.

The pictures show elephants in every pose as they play, eat and hang out in their enclosure at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo.

The 30,000 "selfies" are being used in a conservation project to help save endangered elephants.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-56186595

Our speakers:

Sarah Maston:

Sarah is a Senior Solution Architect at Microsoft, Founder of Project 15 from Microsoft and Inventor of Project Edison

You can reach her at:

Twitter - https://twitter.com/maston
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/smwmaston/
GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/project15/
Project 15: https://microsoft.github.io/project15/

Alasdair Davies – Arribada Initiative

Alasdair Davies is Technical Director of the Arribada Initiative and a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow.

He has 14 years’ experience developing, designing and deploying conservation technologies for conservation organisations globally, including the Zoological Society of London, the National Geographic Society and the World Wide Fund for Nature.

His primary focus is the development of open source conservation technologies, with his most notable achievement the release of the first open source Argos satellite transmitter reference design.

Alasdair founded the Arribada Initiative in 2017 to unlock access to open source conservation technologies, specializing in low-cost telemetry, biologging and passive acoustic monitoring technologies.

Arribada’s current clients include the European Space Agency, the UK Space Agency, the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

You can reach him at:

Twitter - https://twitter.com/Al2kA

Swag:

We'll be giving away a JetBrains license to one lucky attendee!