Carl Safina participates in the Interspecies Conversations Public Event 2020 in collaboration with the Coller Foundation, Google and MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms. Interspecies I/O's mission is to encourage, explore and facilitate interfaces for interspecies communication and approaches for deciphering the communication of non-human animals. With the aim to positively impact species conservation, welfare, empathy, compassion, enrichment, sustainability and understanding.

The day itself will feature Carl and other speakers such as technologist and novelist John Ledgard and prominent author and speaker on animal behaviour, Temple Grandin, hosting a multidisciplinary group of researchers in the areas of animal cognition and communication, neuroscience, anthropology, AI and computer sciences, philosophers, artists and musicians. Contributors will share and debate research, thoughts and ideas about interspecies communication and approaches to deciphering the signals of other animals.

The event will launch an exciting new research award, the Coller Prize for Interspecies Conversation and a Hall of Fame to celebrate and champion pioneering past research.

Learn more about the public event and the amazing speakers it will feature, and sign up here.