The Global Biodiversity Informatics Conference (GBIC) will convene 100 leading specialists in biodiversity science, informatics, conservation and policy in Copenhagen, Denmark from 2-4 July.

They will help build the foundations of a new strategy and roadmap to make best use of the growing suite of tools to record and connect data about the living world, providing scientific support for measures to tackle the crisis of biodiversity loss.

The increasing number of tools now available to assist us with measuring, recording and observing biodiversity, include:

Rapid gene sequencing technologies

A wealth of imaging and remote sensing systems

Physical and chemical sensors of all kinds

Global-positioning tools

• The information backbone and processing power of the web and modern high-performance computing
• A global workforce of biologists with greater understanding of evolutionary processes than ever before
• An army of amateur observers and potential contributors to our understanding.