Carrie O'Brien

Arribada Initiative is one of the most exciting R&D organisations you've never heard of, building low-cost, open-source technologies for wildlife, people and planet. This session will make you think about data collection in a completely new way: how do you locate a single item of humanitarian aid in a nutritional crisis, when there's no power or connectivity? How do you design and deploy a camera in the Cameroonian rainforest to save one of the world's most endangered mammals? How do you build a GPS device to track a sea turtle as she swims across the Atlantic? With technologies deployed on every continent, let us take you through some of Arribada's best tales from the field — including our time-lapse cameras in Antarctica, where data retrieval is more literal than you might expect — it doesn't take seconds, it takes days. This is not about unlocking, accelerating or leveraging; it's a rare insight into a fascinating global network of passionate engineers using their skills to obtain data that is genuinely for good, in a world where data problems are as logistical as they are technical.