Last week, our team was in Lima for the International Conservation Technology Conference (ICTC 2026), hosted by WILDLABS, a community we're proud to support. More than a conference, ICTC was one of the rare spaces where the people building conservation tools and the people deploying them in the field are in the same room. For us, it was an opportunity to connect with like-minded colleagues, surface shared challenges, and identify where our work intersects with others. We left with new partnerships forming, sharper questions, and a clearer sense of where collaboration is not just possible but necessary.
It was also an opportunity to host a social event that reminded us why this community is so special. Hearing how people are tackling extinction from so many different angles, and feeling the genuine desire to find common ground and dare mighty things together, set exactly the right tone for the week ahead.
The Conference allowed us to participate in different moments: either hosting, co-organizing, speaking or participating.
Conservation technology only means something when it works in the real world. Nowhere was this clearer than in the work around Sentinel, our AI-powered tool built for the frontlines of biodiversity protection, deployed in the Peruvian Amazon to put critical data in the hands of the people who need it most. Seeing technology operate at that level of stakes, paired with the kind of ecosystem mapping that makes action possible, was a grounding reminder of why we do this work.
Fire is one of the most urgent and underserved threats facing ecosystems around the world, and a growing focus area for us. The conference was also an opportunity to co-facilitate a process with partners on the ground aimed at creating the conditions for the right innovations to emerge. With a growing focus on South America, we left with momentum and a responsibility to carry it forward.
The same energy carried into our work around the Amazon bioeconomy. Watching the innovators we support through the Con X Tech Prize innovators pitch solutions rooted in local biodiversity and communities, with conservationists, technologists, and funders in the same room, was a reminder that talent is everywhere, but opportunity is not. ICTC is exactly the kind of space that closes that gap.
Beyond any single session, what struck us most was the texture of the week, the conversations, the questions that didn't have easy answers, the seeds we planted, and the sense that this community is collectively leveling up.
Leaving Lima, what stays with us isn't any one idea. It's the feeling that we're at an inflection point, and that the work ahead, while hard, is exactly the kind worth doing. We're more ready than ever to dare mighty things, and we're not doing it alone!
