Webinar #5 | Harness AI for efficient, localised humanitarian action

Empowering Local Actors with AI

AI has the potential to revolutionise humanitarian response, from disaster relief to conflict zones. But how do we ensure local communities have access to these powerful tools? This session explores how AI can lower capacity barriers, equip grassroots organisations, and support ethical humanitarian interventions.

Tuesday 10 June, 2 - 3pm CEST

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Meet the speakers

  • Sandra Uwantege Hart

    Moderator

    Strategist, Tech4Good, PoliSync

    Sandra Uwantege Hart is a humanitarian specialist and consultant with 15 years experience managing humanitarian programs with UN agencies and INGOs in over a dozen countries globally, implementing projects in cash and voucher assistance, financial inclusion, food security, and livelihoods recovery. She now works as a technical expert, advisor and researcher for local and international organizations and social impact-focused companies exploring inclusive innovation. Currently, most of her work consists of being an interlocutor between the humanitarian and technology sectors - conceptualizing, designing and managing community-inclusive, context-adapted Web3 (blockchain) and digital payment systems. In 2020, Sandra co-founded the startup Umoja Labs (formerly Emerging Impact) and is the award winning creator of Oxfam International's Unblocked Cash Project (2018-2021).

    Read more about Sandra here.

  • Rory Crew

    Panelist

    Technical Advisor - Data and Digitisation

    Rory joined CALP in October 2022 and is a cash and social protection systems specialist with a focus on data and innovation. 

    Previously, Rory was a systems consultant supporting the UN, NGOs and national governments to design, document and implement social protection programmes. Prior to that, Rory was Deputy Director, Finance and Systems for the Somali Cash Consortium. 

    Rory is a UK-Chartered Accountant, holds a BSc in Economics and lives in Upstate New York. 

    Read more about Rory here.

  • Marie McAuliffe

    Panelist

    Head, Migration Research Division, IOM

    Marie McAuliffe is the head of the Migration Research Division at IOM headquarters in Geneva and Editor of IOM’s flagship World Migration Report. She is an international migration specialist with more than 20 years of experience in migration as a practitioner, program manager, senior official and researcher.

    Marie has researched, published and edited widely in academic and policy spheres on migration and is on the editorial boards of scientific journals International Migration and Migration Studies, and is an Associate Editor of the Harvard Data Science Review. She edits IOM’s World Migration Report in partnership with leading migration researchers (2018 edition with Prof Martin Ruhs, 2020 edition with Prof Binod Khadria and the forthcoming 2022 edition with Prof Anna Triandafyllidou).

    Read more about Marie here.

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