During this very interesting AI-day at the Flemish Parliament, Klaas Deneudt from LifeWatch VLIZ will give a talk about "Artificial intelligence applications in marine biodiversity observations".

During the coffee and lunch breaks, the FlowCam software will be demonstrated. The FlowCam is part of the LifeWatch Marine Observatory.

This event will be in Dutch.

Training for data managers and data analysts of the SeaDataNet infrastructure.

The training activities will focus on the use of ODV (Ocean Data View) and DIVA software packages (Data-Interpolating Variational Analysis) in the Virtual Research Environment (VRE).

This workshop is open to all staff from ASSEMBLE Plus partner institutes and their marine biological stations, and is aimed at those working with long-term biological and omics datasets. The purpose of this workshop is

During this annual meeting, the EMODnet Biology partners, including LifeWatch Belgium, get together to discuss the progress, the status of data flow, and to evaluate the challenges and set the priorities for the renewal period.

This one-day event, co-ordinated by EMODnet Biology partners, will demonstrate the data products, tools and services developed through EMODnet Biology and made available via the Atlas of Marine Life. Focussing on Essential Ocean Variables and real-world use-cases, international experts will contribute to the discussion and provide feedback on the future direction of data product development.

This event is linked to the European Maritime Day conference and will also feature a range of posters and the opportunity to try the Atlas for yourself.

The annual science festival Pint of Science invites scientists to a bar in your neighbourhood to inform you about the latest news from the world of science. And all this in a casual, cozy atmosphere. On 20, 21 and 22 May, the international festival visits several cities in Belgium, including Ostend for the first time. As the sea is never far away in Ostend, we program two marine scientists on each of the three evenings.

This event will be in Dutch only.

The EMBS54 will take place in Dublin on August 25 to 29 2019. It will be hosted by University College Dublin, in the state-of-the-art O’Brien Centre for Science.

In addition to the traditional general session covering any and all aspects of marine biology, the focus will be on the follow themes:

The next big conference the BopCo team (federal LifeWatch Belgium partner) will be attending, is the 8th International Barcode of Life conference.

The four day event will have a filled scientific program with plenaries and specific themed parallel sessions as well as poster presentations.

Are you a Coder? Communicator? Data enthusiast? Or Entrepreneur? Join us at the second EMODnet Open Sea Lab hackathon and develop innovative solutions with marine open data to address blue society challenges!

The Open Sea Lab Kick-off event will mark the official opening of the applications to participate in the Open Sea Lab Hackathon 2019.

All talks will be streamed live and made available online on the website afterwards.

When: The event will take place from 14:00 to 17:00 on the 24 May 2019

Where: Royal Museums Of Fine Arts (Room U), in Brussels.