Morning Session
09.00am: Keynote by Prof Wayne Getz (University of California, Berkeley)
Title: Modeling Foundations of Wildlife Conservation
Moderator: Prof Gill Dobbie
10.00am: Tutorial
Title: AI for Conservation – Challenges and Needs
Speaker: Dr. Daniel Wilson (University of Auckland) and Prof. Yun Sing Koh (University of Auckland)
10.30am: Morning break
11.00am: Demonstration/Talk by Dr Zhongqi Miao, Microsoft
Title: Pytorch-Wildlife and Project SPARROW: A Collaborative Deep Learning Framework for Conservation
11.30am: Demonstration by Di Zhao, University of Auckland
Title: ReWildID and CARE Toolkit
12.00pm: Application-Focused Short Talks (Selected Submissions)
Decoding Illicit Wildlife Trade Networks with Artificial Intelligence
Speakers: Hannah Murray, Meredith Gore, Bistra Dilkina
Moderator: Prof Gillian Dobbie
12.30 – 1.30: Lunch Break + Informal Networking (on your own)
Afternoon Session
1.30pm: Keynote by Prof Tanya Berger-Wolf (Ohio State University)
Title: AI for Nature: From Science to Action
Moderator: Associate Prof Lingqiao Liu
2.30pm Early-Career Researcher Presentations
A Preliminary Study on Taxonomy-Guided Incremental Learning for Animal Recognition
Speakers: YangQianQian Chen, Ruixuan Gao, Tie Liu, Qijun Zhao
Optimizing Sensor Placement with Greedy Algorithms: A Case Study in Wildlife Camera Trapping for Habitat Monitoring
Speakers: Hannah Murray, Arielle Parsons, Amrita Gupta, Justin Suraci, Bistra Dilkina
Advancing Wildlife Conservation through Multimodal Animal Re-Identification with Environmental Metadata
Speakers: Yuzhuo Li,Di Zhao,Tingrui Qiao,Yihao Wu,Bo Pang,Yun Sing Koh
A Multimodal Bayesian AI Framework for Multispecies Ecological Monitoring with Indigenous Knowledge Integration
Speakers: Mahule Roy, Subhas Roy
Moderator: Dr Xinyu Zhang
3.30pm Afternoon break
4.00pm: Interactive Small-Group Discussions
Moderator: Prof Gill Dobbie
4.30pm: Panel Discussion “How does AI impact wildlife conservation?”
Chair: Dr Daniel Wilson
Panel: Prof Lingqiao Liu, Prof Wayne Getz, Dr Chen Wang (Earth Science NZ)
5.30pm: Closing by Prof. Yun Sing Koh & Dr. Daniel Wilson
Key takeaways, Roadmap for community building