Hi Stephanie, We are manufacturing an innovative AI-powered trail camera called DeterCam, and we are based in the UK: https://innovfactory.com/ 

The camera is equipped with our Edge AI technology, which allows it to detect only animals and send media (pictures/videos) only when an animal is present in front of the camera. This significantly reduces false triggers and power consumption.

Our Edge AI architecture allows the camera to operate for up to 1 year on battery power (assuming approximately 5 triggers per day). The system also allows full remote control from our cloud platform, including:

• Video duration
• PIR trigger settings
• Detection configuration
• Camera management and updates

The camera is equipped with a 4G module, allowing all media and detections to be uploaded directly to the cloud, meaning there is no need to physically collect data from the SD card.

We supply the complete solution, including manufacturing the battery packs ourselves. The total internal battery capacity can reach up to 32,500 mAh. To date, we have sold over 10,000 units worldwide.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

You can email me if you have any further questions: [email protected] 

Hi, are you looking to import these? Do you have any import tax considerations? This could impact which models you buy. I have been using Acorn models, very reliable and provide photo and 4K video with sound options.

Best wishes

Susan

Hello everyone!

My name is Emma Zuniga Martin. I am a Costa Rican-American who grew up in South Africa. My interests have always been in wildlife. I graduated from Purdue University in 2023 with a dual major in Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering Technology. I then gained valuable technical experience at Delta Airlines, my time there helped me realize that my primary goal is to apply my engineering background toward global conservation challenges.

Attending ICTC 2026 in Lima gave me back a "spark" and a clear grasp of interests. I was intrigued by the innovation and the challenges in data access, integration, and standardization. I’ve joined this community to connect with others interested in using technology for good. I hope to find my place in this workforce where I can contribute to ethical, effective and durable solutions.

Hello everyone,

My name is Manijhé, and I’m currently developing an independent field-based project called Kyosei Earth. The design is in response to the need for a global conservation community platform first to residencies/labs.

Starting with a very basic ecology studio via www.manijhe.art

I’m working from a low-infrastructure environment, where access to tools, electricity, and stable internet is limited. Rather than treating this as a barrier, I’ve been exploring how ecological practice can begin under these conditions — using observation, local knowledge, and small-scale systems.

My work sits at the intersection of:
• conservation ecology  
• ethnobotany and field observation  
• community-based systems  
• and what I am exploring as sumbiocracy — a form of commons governance grounded in ecological relationships  

I’ve recently started documenting this through the Kyosei Earth Journal, beginning with a first issue that focuses on perception, household ecology, and early-stage system design.

Alongside this, I’m also developing small-scale lab and living space designs that explore how forest communities might integrate:
– food systems  
– low-waste material cycles  
– and shared ecological responsibility  

I’m particularly interested in learning from this community, especially around:
• conservation in low-resource environments  
• tools that function with minimal infrastructure  
• community-led ecological monitoring  
• and long-term forest stewardship models  

I’m here to listen, learn, and contribute where I can.

While I am developing concepts around designing for conservation, here is an example design I would like to share for what I think my current research region (Hunza, Gilgit Baltistan) could truly benefit from at phase two. At phase one, I am building a community around my ecology studio to develop a global conservation platform first. Happy to discuss more ideas with potential collaborators who feel aligned with this way of thinking.

Thank you — I’m looking forward to the conversations here.

Hi everyone, I’m Collin. I’m a software engineer in the Atlanta area, and over the past year I’ve been building ecokeeper, a native habitat and garden-planning app focused on helping people understand their garden conditions and make more thoughtful planting decisions.

Most of my experience is in full-stack and mobile development, but my personal interests have been pulling me more and more toward native plants, ecological restoration, biodiversity, geospatial tools, and conservation technology. I’m here because I’d like to learn from people already working in this space and better understand where my technical background could be useful.

For this group, I’m hoping to connect with others who are early in the field, changing directions, or figuring out how to bring software, ecology, and real-world conservation work closer together.

Hi Kristof,

 Very cool that you made your own app like this! I'm not a movement ecologist, but I'd generally say this sort of thing will be more nice to look at than solves research questions. For example, most statistical models will show that proximity to water and human development are the strongest predictors of elephant movement. But it's still a very cool tool for outreach and communication with the general public or conservation decision makers! 

I can imagine a visualization like this being very helpful in communicating drivers of human-elephant conflict in SE Asia, where elephant movements outside of protected areas may be explained by the combination of attractive food crops, accessible water and shade refuge in tree plantations, and repulsive hazing by farmers. These sorts of things that can be modeled statistically don't necessarily translate well to the public - so visualization is really important! 

On a non-geospatial note, I would say that AR/VR also has a lot of potential for increasing public engagement/support for conservation. Getting individuals who may never go to East Africa to experience visually how increasingly severe droughts affects the landscape and promotes conflict between pastoralists and agriculturalists and wildlife could be really powerful. That's perhaps an area where game development expertise would be particularly useful. 

Cheers,

Brandon

I am glad to see more programmers coming into the conservation field.  The first big project I did that really got me involved with conservation work, was taking the path finding algorithms I used from learning game programming, and using them to detect and measure the distance of routes that turtles traveled up and down streams in a river drainage.  

Wolves, cool!

Will this then need collared wolves ?

Hi Daniel

It depends on what you want to be
If you really want to bring something new then I guess do a PhD

I have a weird background, applied mathematician, PhD in econ and now working on this
I am guessing that the transition is doable as the math is the same that's how I kept doing very different subjects

I am currently working in an french engineering school on international shipping and would love to translate AI for conservation of ocean and I have several ideas

So I would be happy to discuss them and if interested let me know?

Really excited about thie event. Please check your DM