Conservation Action Café: Overcoming assessment bottlenecks for biodiversity and conservation: how can technology and knowledge innovation help?

Despite massive advances in the delivery of conservation data through the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species© and other knowledge products over recent years, these crucial tools risk becoming victims of their own success. While institutions across society make use of such information, no sustainable models have yet been developed to ensure comprehensiveness and currency of the underlying data. This Conservation Action Café will explore how current and upcoming advances across knowledge might help to free conservation information from this bottleneck, across IUCN standards and beyond. It will encompass high-level plenary interventions, as well as ignite-style presentations harnessing interactive technologies to allow participants to focus in on the opportunities for advancing conservation knowledge innovation across topics including artificial intelligence, citizen science, genomics, indigenous & local knowledge, mobile technology, data modelling, remote sensing, and social media.