Using Codex and ChatGPT to Monitor Endangered Wildlife Without Disturbing It

About the Talk:

For technologist and conservationist Jason Holmberg and his team, Codex is becoming a co-researcher, helping them spend less time sorting wildlife data and more time exploring the questions that drive their work. Tracking animals has often meant catching them and attaching tags. His team’s tools offer a less invasive approach: recognizing individual animals by their spots, stripes, or fins in photographs. Codex helps organize those records and find possible connections between sightings, while scientists guide the research and check the results.

Jason works with a team at WildMe Lab that supports more than 2,700 biologists around the world. He’s already seeing how AI can ease the work behind the research: in one trout study, he says ChatGPT matched up 89% of the data in 15 minutes.

Join us to explore what working with Codex as a co-researcher looks like, the questions it opens up, and what becomes possible when scientists have more time for the work they care about. From pursuing new ideas to being in the field with the animals they’re working to understand and protect.

Speakers

Jason Holmberg

Executive Director @ Wild Me

Chris Nicholson

Member of Global Affairs Staff @ OpenAI

Agenda

5:15 PM

5:18 PM

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Opening / Closing

Opening Remarks

5:18 PM

5:43 PM

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Fireside Chat

5:43 PM

5:58 PM

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Q&A

Audience Q&A

5:58 PM

6:00 PM

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Opening / Closing

Closing Remarks

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5:15 PM - 6:00 PM GMT

October 29, 2026

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