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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">***apologies if you receive this more than once***<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">If you are interested in socio-technical AI this webinar might interest you. Oct 30th 12:30 - 14:00. Details below, its free, all welcome.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Stuart Middleton will present his work on information extraction in a sociotechnical AI setting, along with others from the FloraGuard team. It will be 1.5 hours of short presentations and Q&A from
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<p style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif;color:#002451"><img width="1500" height="549" style="width:15.625in;height:5.7175in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:904f9ca1-9a30-41ae-9df3-c1acf361dfcc"></span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif;color:#00888A">Webinar | </span></b><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif;color:black">FloraGuard: Tackling
the Illegal Trade in Endangered Plants </span></b><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif;color:#00888A">Date: </span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif;color:black">Friday 30 October </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif;color:#00888A">Time: </span></b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif;color:black">12:30 – 14:00 UK Time </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif;color:#00888A">Registration: </span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif;color:black">Free; </span></b><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black"><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kew.org%2Fscience%2Fengage%2Fget-involved%2Fconferences%2Ffloraguard-webinar&data=04%7C01%7C%7C173efe23f4ea4014c1e308d870ea1a38%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C0%7C0%7C637383498050741228%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=AH45gXjyjl0yRiv3O7zI00tsrqoEd9QziUSm%2BA%2FucHA%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://www.kew.org/science/engage/get-involved/conferences/floraguard-webinar" shash="WPgvzbwUEMQCJKDiqn0yHkhtP0LhcSmqWoqJibYwCEcov1WayW8MEyDRgfbkNwfjPvTwYboR+JqhSGTi9+mRz9QdzP0bWh986TEKDIxhNTlPR25AhmjgynB/O4+klTGMpaLKLBFK4/0HY8c0deah7II/7it50tYLCxHAl7agQtk=" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif">reserve
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:black">Dear Colleague, </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:black">In recent years, the Internet has greatly expanded the possibilities for illegal plant trafficking, posing an increasing threat to biodiversity,
and creating</span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:black">challenges in controlling and preventing this criminal activity.</span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:black">Led by the University of Southampton, and partnered with UK Border Force and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the FloraGuard Project set out
to develop a cross-disciplinary approach to tackling this complex branch of the illegal wildlife trade.</span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:black">On 30</span><sup><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:black">th </span></sup><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:black">October,
please join the FloraGuard team who will be presenting the key findings of their research in talks spanning the fields of Criminology, AI Technology,</span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:black">Law
Enforcement and Conservation Science, as published in the <a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kew.org%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2F2020-10%2FFloraGuard%2520Tackling%2520the%2520illegal%2520trade%2520in%2520endangered%2520plants.pdf&data=04%7C01%7C%7C173efe23f4ea4014c1e308d870ea1a38%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C0%7C0%7C637383498050741228%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=xCWKwXYz4g870ZKjs5H%2BhOSS%2BWH0FGavAwJrv%2F7IqVo%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://www.kew.org/sites/default/files/2020-10/FloraGuard%20Tackling%20the%20illegal%20trade%20in%20endangered%20plants.pdf" shash="X/LcmdSb8t/u2uuImxDWanX9yFwd1901Lv4G0g4YBf/ZLHpNG3p049z2YBMTfpvuZHFjXfW2GmbXn7xaSs3X3cXW8bhkGwfVGohDfSjNBGb0D6kY86gaRW9xV2uj03tMLkHzIkGKZU34wsMnP1geHONLNCUgYCLrCQ4hyki9lxs=" title="https://www.kew.org/sites/default/files/2020-10/FloraGuard%20Tackling%20the%20illegal%20trade%20in%20endangered%20plants.pdf">
FloraGuard Report</a>.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">The webinar will feature as speakers: Dr. Anita Lavorgna, Associate Professor in Criminology and Dr. Stuart E. Middleton, Lecturer
in Computer Science, at the University of Southampton, Maurizio Sajeva, Professor of Plant Ecology at the University of Palermo, and Guy Clarke, Higher Officer, UK Border Force CITES Team. Dr Carly Cowell, Senior Policy Advisor (UK CITES Scientific Authority
for Flora), at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, will serve as moderator and will also join the Q+A Panel at the end of the session.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:black">Please see the </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><a href="https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kew.org%2Fscience%2Fengage%2Fget-involved%2Fconferences%2Ffloraguard-webinar&data=04%7C01%7C%7C173efe23f4ea4014c1e308d870ea1a38%7C4a5378f929f44d3ebe89669d03ada9d8%7C0%7C0%7C637383498050751186%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=qP%2F7qhWxYqhMrZy3IErIxXyyCt%2BP9yTR0Qx5qVUv9xM%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://www.kew.org/science/engage/get-involved/conferences/floraguard-webinar" shash="kLQVDDWnJQhnv6VGna2DqHPq+E5Dgzq187M8BAdbyx3oalTKSL83PAvZZCNAayuNRJ/89ZQPCtlaluQmNN7S6bgYDayB12D+bvwIWvB3zZtokoyTuAwLzTfBtjFU5YQeq1bkJ+cUlx4TmVkL97heKCp6XXSFOmIjq+EEkT76KSw=" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">registration
page</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:black"> for further details, and please feel free to share this invitation more widely. To contact the team, please email </span><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:CITES@Kew.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">CITES@Kew.org</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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