Workshop Agenda and Speaker Recordings

Friday, 01 September

- Evening – Participants arrive Narok, Kenya

Saturday, 02 September

Breakfast (On own)

9:00 - Welcome and Introductions: Why are we here? (Jared Stabach, NZCBI)

9:30 - WRTI Ecosystem-wide Monitoring (Joseph Mukeka, WRTI)

10:00 - Rear-Seat Observer (RSO) Mara Results (Gordon Ojwang’, DRSRS/RUG)

10:30 - Coffee/Tea Break

11:00 - Introduction to BisQue: Overview of the BisQue infrastructure (B. S. Manjunath, UCSB)

11:30 - Bisque Demonstration: Overview (Connor Levenson/Satish Kumar, UCSB)

12:00 - Lunch (Provided - Zebu)

13:00 – BisQue: Hands-on demonstration (e.g., digital data upload, imagery annotations) - Connor Levenson/Satish Kumar, UCSB

14:30 – Coffee/Tea Break

15:00 – BisQue: Hands-on demonstration (e.g., model fitting, validation statistics) - Connor Levenson/Satish Kumar, UCSB

17:00 – Dinner (On own)

Sunday, 03 September

09:00 – Recap and Questions (Jared Stabach, NZCBI)

09:30 – Bisque: Study Summary/Dashboard (Connor Levenson/Satish Kumar, UCSB)

10:30 – Coffee/Tea Break

11:00 – Advances:

Oblique Camera Counts (Howard Frederick, TAWIRI) – Virtual

Counting Large Mammals from Space (Zijing Wu) – Virtual

12:00 – Lunch (Provided – Zebu)

13:30 – Advances:

Microsoft AI Hub - Nairobi (Girmaw Tadesse, Microsoft AI for Good) – Virtual (Tentative)

CowNet (Caleb Robinson, Microsoft AI for Good) – Virtual

Boma Detector (Akram Zaytar, Microsoft AI for Good) – Virtual

15:00 – Coffee/Tea Break

15:30 – Next Steps (Jared Stabach, NZCBI)

16:00 – End of Workshop