The potential for AI to help with some of our environmental challenges, including monitoring, reporting and helping deal with climate change.
What's it all about?
Artificial Intelligence is being used to tackle some of our greatest environmental challenges, including climate change, pollution and wildlife extinction. This session will focus on the opportunities for using AI to help us understand and address these issues in New Zealand.
This Techweek TV session will appeal to those in business, government and academia
You can drop into this event at any time.
This event does not require registration.
Monday 27 Jul
2:30pm - 3:00pm
Speakers
Matt leads Wellington based start-up Lynker Analytics – an environmental data
science and data infrastructure consultancy. Providing industrial research
and market ready AI systems, Lynker Analytics is the AI centre of excellence
for Lynker - a 480+ strong US science and technology company that provides
services to the US federal government.
Matt has worked in leadership roles across both the private and public
sector in New Zealand including stints at Transpower, New Zealand Post,
Eagle Technology and CoreLogic. Matt has a background in science, geospatial
technology, data and analytics including scientific research roles in NZ and
the UK. He has managed large multinational data, technology and analytics
projects and product developments including the first comprehensive database
and assessment of total ice volume on the Antarctic continent. He holds a
Master of Science (Hons) from Auckland University and has over ten
publications in peer reviewed journals.
Michael’s interest in the use of technology and innovation to make improvements for business and the community has underpinned his work across both public and private sectors. He is focused on finding solutions and developing new ideas in partnership with the community that make a real impact in the region and around the country. Christchurch is a leader in New Zealand innovation and, through the Christchurch City Council’s Smart Christchurch programme, Michael is excited to play a part in making Christchurch a better place to be.
Natasha is the Deputy Secretary of Strategy and Stewardship at the Ministry
for the Environment, and has worked for the Ministry since 2008. Prior to
that, she held roles with the Wellington and Tasman Councils and a
government role in Laos. Natasha is an authentic leader who is committed to
a vision of long-term environmental prosperity and the opportunity that the
Ministry has to be at the forefront of real change. In partnership with
Statistics NZ she leads the Ministry’s environmental reporting programme,
working to ensure New Zealanders have up to date information about the state
of our environment, and is a passionate supporter for the Ministry’s growing
work alongside young people.
Alongside her Deputy Secretary role, Natasha represented New Zealand at the
most recent OECD environmental performance review, is a Sponsor for MfE’s
Rainbow Network, and sits on the board of the Sir Peter Blake Trust.
As a GIS analyst for the Department of Conservation, Lindsay joined DOC’s Maukahuka Pest Free Auckland Island project as a data champion for the cat program. 36 hours’ boat ride away from mainland New Zealand, Lindsay and her colleagues found themselves in the middle of the subantarctics drowning in trail camera footage. They reviewed each image one by one and recorded what they saw. 80% of the footage turned out to be false triggers. There must be a better way to do this, she thought. The project shared its labelled footage with the wider AI community and ran it through their models. The project team who had zero experience with AI was able to see how AI could be used in its project and be applied wider in conservation.
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