Keynote Lecture by Joycelyn Longdon

Joyelyn Longdon is a 24-year-old, first year PhD student based at Cambridge University on the Artificial Intelligence For Environmental Risk (AI4ER) programme and an affiliated researcher on the ERC funded Smart Forests Project.

Her PhD research takes an interdisciplinary approach, combining machine learning, bioacoustics, forest ecology, indigenous knowledge and sociology to investigate the role of technology in forest conservation. She was awarded a Knowledge Exchange grant for this work by the Cambridge Conservation Initiative for its originality and potential for change within the conservation field.

She is the founder of ClimateInColour, an online education platform and community for the climate curious, making climate conversation more accessible and diverse.