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5 | 5 | The WildDrone Summer School was held in September 2025 at the [Max Planck Institute for Animal Behavior](https://www.ab.mpg.de) in Konstanz, Germany. Sessions were delivered by 26 leading researchers and experts in animal behaviour, AI, robotics, and more, with 31 student participants from across the EU and the world. |
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7 | | -## Sessions |
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9 | | -Slides are linked below where available, and [collated on Figshare](https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.8051500). |
| 9 | +View the [programme](summer-school/programme) including published proceedings, and [student posters](summer-school/posters). |
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11 | | -| Session | Presenter | |
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13 | | -| **Day 1** | | |
14 | | -| [Welcome and Introduction](http://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.30207115) | [Martin Wikelski](https://www.ab.mpg.de/person/98226), [Ulrik Pagh Schultz Lundquist](https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/en/persons/ulrik-pagh-schultz-lundquist) | |
15 | | -| [Scaling Up Behavioural Ecology](https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.30207295) | [Blair Costelloe](https://blaircostelloe.com) | |
16 | | -| [Whale conservation: drone-based monitoring, its promise, and barriers to global adoption](https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.30208063) | [Maevatiana Ratsimbazafindranahaka](https://rmaevatiana.com) | |
17 | | -| [Understanding the ecosystem of datasets in AI/Computer vision](https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.30195937) | [Hemal Naik](https://www.hemalnaik.com) | |
18 | | -| [Deterring human wildlife conflict](https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.30195826) | [Sam Penny](https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuel-penny-01aa2220b) | |
19 | | -| Academic career paths, industrial options, and speaker stories | [Steve Bullock](https://steve.engineer); [Sam Penny](https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuel-penny-01aa2220b), [Elzbieta Pastucha](https://www.linkedin.com/in/elżbietawpastucha/), [Daniel Rubenstein](https://eeb.princeton.edu/people/daniel-rubenstein) | |
20 | | -| **Day 2** | | |
21 | | -| Collective behaviours in wild Indian wolves | [Adwait Deshpande](https://www.ab.mpg.de/person/111829) | |
22 | | -| Drones for Nature Conservation – New Paradigms to Extend Environmental Monitoring Missions | [Salua Hamaza](https://saluahamaza.eu) | |
23 | | -| [Navigating the social and political implications of using drones in conservation](https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.30207892) | [Naomi Millner](https://www.bristol.ac.uk/people/person/Naomi-Millner-b593e7f6-07c1-4d0c-9ba2-3060a1353848/) | |
24 | | -| Automatic Animal Behavior Inference Tutorial: How to Rapidly Annotate Behavior on Long Drone Videos? | [Aamir Ahmad](https://www.aamirahmad.de) | |
25 | | -| [Poster session](summer-school/posters) | Student participants | |
26 | | -| **Day 3** | | |
27 | | -| How Machine Learning is Changing the Way Behavior can be Studied | [Daniel Rubenstein](https://eeb.princeton.edu/people/daniel-rubenstein) | |
28 | | -| On the Interface between Conservation and Animal Culture | [Caroline Schuppli](https://www.ab.mpg.de/person/110356) | |
29 | | -| Aerial Robots for Biodiversity Surveys in the Amazon: Lessons Learned and Future Opportunities from the XPRIZE Rainforest Competition | [Stefano Mintchev](https://usys.ethz.ch/en/people/profile.MjczNjI4.TGlzdC8yODUyLDMyMDE5NzIyMg==.html) | |
30 | | -| Talk and tutorial: Animal Tracking with Trex | [Angela Albi](https://www.linkedin.com/in/angela-albi-401a3968/) | |
31 | | -| **Day 4** | | |
32 | | -| Minimising acoustic drone disturbance to wildlife using species audiograms | [Isla Duporge](https://eeb.princeton.edu/people/isla-duporge) | |
33 | | -| Workshop: What we talk about when we talk about design | [Mike Costelloe](https://costelloecreative.com) | |
34 | | -| Natural and bio-inspired technologies reveal the importance of information networks in the sky for movement efficiency | [Hannah Williams](https://www.ab.mpg.de/person/104107) | |
35 | | -| Tour of the Imaging Hangar | [Mathias Günther](https://www.ab.mpg.de/person/103344/2724), [Giovanni Reina](https://www.giovannireina.com) | |
36 | | -| **Day 5** | | |
37 | | -| Integrating LLMs in robotics and drones ([session resources](summer-school/resources#integrating-llms-in-robotics--drones)) | [Alejandro Jarabo Peñas](https://portal.findresearcher.sdu.dk/en/persons/alejp) | |
38 | | -| Collective migration in soaring birds | [Andrea Flack](https://www.ab.mpg.de/person/98269) | |
39 | | -| Flying Drones for Nature Conservation in the WildDrone Project | [Tom Richardson](https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/tom-s-richardson) | |
40 | | -| AI for Nature: From Science to Impact | [Tanya Berger-Wolf](https://cse.osu.edu/people/berger-wolf.1) | |
41 | | -| Panel discussion: Biology and Robotics: Challenges ahead and integration between different sciences | [Tanya Berger-Wolf](https://cse.osu.edu/people/berger-wolf.1), [Stefano Mintchev](https://usys.ethz.ch/en/people/profile.MjczNjI4.TGlzdC8yODUyLDMyMDE5NzIyMg==.html), [Tom Richardson](https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/en/persons/tom-s-richardson), [Daniel Rubenstein](https://eeb.princeton.edu/people/daniel-rubenstein) | |
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