Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival & Conservation Summit: Full Schedule

10:30am MDT

Cecil and Beyond: A Case Study Analysis

These high profile animal stories were focal points of massive media coverage that galvanized unprecedented public engagement and shifted consumer behavior, impacting commercial enterprise and public policy. What can we learn, moving forward?
Made possible in part through support from the National Science Foundation

Facilitator

Jeff Flocken

North American Regional Director, International Fund for Animal Welfare

Jeffrey Flocken is the North American Regional Director for the International Fund for Animal Welfare where he leads the organization’s team of legislative professionals in the US and Canada advocating for global, national, and local policy initiatives on behalf of animals. Before... Read More →

Speakers

Carole Baskin

Founder & CEO, Big Cat Rescue

Carole Baskin is the Founder and CEO of Big Cat Rescue in Tampa, FL which is home to more than 70 lions, tigers, leopards, cougars, bobcats, servals, caracals and ocelot. She is working to protect wild cats in the wild by ending the captive trade in them as pets, props and part... Read More →

Ian Michler

Co-owner, Invent Africa Safaris

Ian has spent the last 27 years working as a safari operator, specialist guide, consultant and photo-journalist across Africa. Currently, he is the Consultant and Lead Character for the campaign documentary Blood Lions (www.bloodlions.org). Ian lives in South Africa where he is c... Read More →

Will Travers, OBE

President, Born Free Foundation

Will Travers, OBE, is an internationally-renowned wildlife expert and President of the Born Free Foundation. He co-founded the charity alongside his mother, actress Virginia McKenna OBE and the late Bill Travers MBE in 1984. The organisation works to stop individual wild animal suffering... Read More →

Brent Stapelkamp

Photographer & Conservationist, The Soft Foot Alliance Trust

Brent Stapelkamp is a Zimbabwean born conservationist and wildlife photographer who has spent the last decade studying lions and specializing in mitigating the conflict between them and livestock owners in Zimbabwe. He lives with his wife, Laurie Simpson, and their nine year old son... Read More →

Monday September 25, 2017 10:30am - 11:30am MDT
Explorers Room Jackson Lake Lodge

Session, Cat Conservation, NSF, Science Communication

9:00am MDT

Big Data for Media

While "Big Data" and "artificial intelligence" have become buzzwords in the media industry, in the future, these practices will become a matter of survival in the brutally competitive digital media ecosystem. Dozens of major media companies around the world have leveraged their audience usage data to understand, engage, delight and retain their customers. Martha Stone will give a world overview of how media companies are rolling out their data practices to emulate the success of global heavyweights like Google and Facebook, by personalizing customers' experiences on their digital platforms. Brad Dancer will describe National Geographic Partners' Big Data and AI best practices and strategy that point to the future of the company.
Made possible in part through support from the National Science Foundation

Speakers

Brad Dancer

Executive Vice President of Insights, Analytics, & Data Strategy, National Geographic

Brad Dancer is Executive Vice President of Insights, Analytics & Data Strategy, overseeing all aspects of National Geographic Partner's customers and audiences. Dancer manages a team of market researchers, data scientists, digital/social analysts and TV media experts to help NGP grow... Read More →

Martha Stone

CEO, World Newsmedia Network

Martha L. Stone is a media industry author, speaker, and consultant. She is CEO of the World Newsmedia Network and owner of the Big Data for Media Week conferences in New York, London, and Hong Kong, where Artificial Intelligence is a main focus. She founded and has organized the... Read More →

Tuesday September 26, 2017 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
Explorers Room Jackson Lake Lodge

Session, NSF, Science Communication

10:30am MDT

Bringing Science to Conservation

Curated by HHMI Tangled Bank Studios
Conservation was long been hampered by a shortage of data and lack of a theoretical frameworks. But now, more than ever before, new forms of data and sophisticated experimental designs are informing, empowering and transforming conservation.
Made possible in part through support from the National Science Foundation

Facilitator

John Rubin

Executive Producer, HHMI Tangled Bank Studios

John Rubin is executive producer at HHMI Tangled Bank Studios. He turned to documentaries after completing his PhD at MIT in cognitive science. Rubin has written, produced and directed films for the signature PBS series Nature, American Experience and NOVA as well as for National... Read More →

Speakers

Paola Bouley

Associate Director of Lion Conservation, Gorongosa National Park

Paola Bouley is Associate Director of Lion Conservation for Gorongosa National Park in Central Mozambique, a program she co-founded in 2012. Her team focuses on strategic actions to secure lion and leopard landscapes across the Gorongosa Ecosystem, and includes the first Mozambican... Read More →

Jane Lubchenco

Marine Biologist

Jane Lubchenco, University Distinguished Professor at Oregon State University, is a marine ecologist with expertise in the ocean, climate change, and interactions between the environment and human well-being. She served as Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and... Read More →

Rob Pringle

Professor - Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University

Rob Pringle is a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University. Research in Pringle's laboratory combines field experiments, theoretical models, and forensic DNA-based analyses to understand the ecology and conservation of African savanna... Read More →

Laura Prugh

Biologist

Laura Prugh obtained a BA in Biology from Earlham College, and she then conducted her PhD at the University of British Columbia on the foraging ecology of coyotes in the Alaska Range under the supervision of Charley Krebs. She conducted postdoctoral work at UBC and UC Berkeley, and... Read More →

Session Producer

Anne Tarrant

HHMI Tangled Bank Studios, Managing Director

Anne Tarrant is the Managing Director for HHMI Tangled Bank Studios. Anne is an Emmy-Award nominated producer with over 20 years of experience in cable television including working at multiple cable networks and production companies as well as a six-year stint running her own production... Read More →

Tuesday September 26, 2017 10:30am - 11:30am MDT
Grizzly Jackson Lake Lodge

Session, NSF, Science Communication

11:30am MDT

NSF Focus Group: Building Consensus on Expertise

Delve deep into how you earned your stripes as an expert content producer. What led you down this career path? How do you recognize expertise in the field? You insight will advance NSF sponsored research into science communication, and will help craft a legacy of rigorous, research-based professional development at JH WILD conferences.
Made possible in part through support from the National Science Foundation

Tuesday September 26, 2017 11:30am - 12:30pm MDT
Antelope 1 Jackson Lake Lodge

Session, NSF

12:00pm MDT

NSF Focus Group: Continuing the Conversation

Join the Jackson Hole NSF research team for an informal focus group on developing excellence in STEM communication. Share insights about your professional journey to help us identify the most important resources for supporting the success of emerging professionals.
Made possible with support from the National Science Foundation

Wednesday September 27, 2017 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT
Grizzly Jackson Lake Lodge

Session, NSF

9:00am MDT

Finding Truth in the Mis-information Age

Seriously, what IS a fact? How do we stay credible and gain an audience’s trust in a world filled with fake news and manipulated or distorted information.
Made possible in part through support from the National Science Foundation

Facilitator

Paula S. Apsell

Senior Executive Producer, Director, NOVA & ScienceNOW, WGBH Science Unit

Paula Apsell is the Senior Executive Producer of NOVA and NOVA scienceNOW and the Director of the WGBH Science Unit. She has worked in radio and television at both WGBH and WCVB, and has served on the board of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, the Brandeis University... Read More →

Speakers

Debbie Banks

Campaign Leader for Tigers & Wildlife Crime, Environmental Investigation Agency

Debbie Banks (MSc Conservation), has over 20 years of experience investigating environmental crime with the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), including illegal wildlife trade, illegal mining and illegal trade in ozone depleting substances. She has developed, deployed and participated... Read More →

David Dugan

CEO and co-founder, Windfall Films

David Dugan is CEO and co-founder of Windfall Films, a UK independent with a strong track record in science and natural history documentaries. He has been a final judge at Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival. He has produced many science series, including the Emmy-award-winning series... Read More →

Marcos Orellana

Director - Environment and Human Rights Division, Human Rights Watch

Marcos A. Orellana is the director of the Environment and Human Rights Division at Human Rights Watch. He has worked most recently at the Washington DC-based Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL). At CIEL, Marcos collaborated with many environmental and human rights groups... Read More →

Thursday September 28, 2017 9:00am - 10:00am MDT
Explorers Room Jackson Lake Lodge

Session, NSF, Science Communication