Living Data 2025: Unified Information Driving Transformation

Living Data 2025 in Bogotá, Columbia, October 21-24, 2025 is a joint conference that brings together members of biodiversity networks and hundreds of scientists, researchers, practitioners, and experts from around the world. 

Conference attendees share their knowledge and experience to transform the understanding of the state and trends of biodiversity and learn how work together contributes towards conserving the living world. 

NEON, Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTER), Environmental Data Initiative (EDI) and Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) are co-organizing a session at the Living Data Conference. The session will focus on partnering to facilitate synthesis of biodiversity data, especially with the rise of AI and machine learning tools. 

Biodiversity data providers, data aggregators, and data users are invited to be part of the session and present on their experiences. For more information or to submit a lightning talk, please visit the session description (ID: 6799373) and reach out to Eric Sokol (esokol@battelleecology.org) or Marty Downs (downs@nceas.ucsb.edu). The abstract deadline is May 20.