Make for the Planet: what are the five marine Conservation Challenges?

What are the five marine conservation challenges inspiring today’s multidisciplinary teams of solvers, hackers, and makers? This session kicks-off the Make for the Planet competition at IMCC5 after five conservation experts... [ view full abstract ]

What are the five marine conservation challenges inspiring today’s multidisciplinary teams of solvers, hackers, and makers? This session kicks-off the Make for the Planet competition at IMCC5 after five conservation experts describe their challenges for the teams. Make for the Planet is an event where multidisciplinary teams are challenged to rethink conservation by brainstorming, iterating, and designing possible solutions to one of the five proposed conservation challenges. Teams will have access to a pop-up makerspace, as well as inexpensive electronics and 3D printers at IMCC5 to inspire physical representations or prototypes of ideas. Teams are encouraged to create solutions outside the box, along the leading edge of technological and scientific innovations.

Make for the Planet is an event to source new ideas to solve seemingly intractable conservation problems. We are in the middle of a period of extraordinary change on the planet, a sixth great mass extinction. Challenges will increase as billions emerge into middle class placing new demands on the planet, exacerbated by climate change. While traditional conservation science can define the problems, it does not possess all the solutions. We need new solutions, disciplines, and solvers engaged in conservation as powerful new tools for conservation exist in adjacent fields. One way to achieve this is by harnessing the power of exponential technologies, open innovation, and entrepreneurship to transform the efficacy and scale of conservation efforts. This is an event at IMCC5 to create real solutions – join us, and interact with the teams during the conference!

The Speakers that will be presenting the challenges are:

Andrew Thaler
Jane Lubchenco
Thomas Moore
Muhammad Hafiz Wan Rosli and Professor Dato' Dr. Aileen Tan
Shau Hwai
Lawrence Ang