Humanitarian AI Today

Humanitarian AI Today’s guest host Jean-Martin Bauer, Senior Digital Advisor from the United Nations World Food Program speaks with Gaurav Menghani, Research Engineer from Google about efficient deep learning, on-device ML and humanitarian applications of artificial intelligence.

Humanitarian AI Today’s guest host Jeremy McKane with the Ocean Currency Network speaks with Ritwik Gupta, a machine learning research scientist from the University of California, Berkeley, and Fernando Paolo, a machine learning engineer with Global Fishing Watch, about two upcoming events: AI + HADR 2021 an Artificial Intelligence for Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response workshop and the xView3 Challenge prize competition to identify the best computer vision algorithms to advance the fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing.

Humanitarian AI Today’s guest host Mark Dalton from the United Nations speaks with Monica Lam, Professor and Faculty Director of Stanford University's Open Virtual Assistant Lab (OVAL) about her team's work and the importance of voice technology to the humanitarian community.

Humanitarian AI Today's host Mia Kossiavelou speaks with Vilas Dhar, the president of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation, a $1.5 billion 21st century philanthropy advancing artificial intelligence and data solutions to create a thriving, equitable, and sustainable future for all. A technologist, lawyer and human rights advocate, Vilas is a global thought leader on the intersection of artificial intelligence and technology in the social sector.

Humanitarian AI Today’s guest host Mark Dalton from the United Nations speaks with Jean-Martin Bauer, a Senior Digital Advisor at the World Food Program, about WFP data collection and hunger mapping initiatives and uses of artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Humanitarian AI Today’s guest host Sarah Spencer and Lars Peter Nissen from ACAPS who produces the Trumanitarian podcast series interview each other and discuss humanitarian operations, humanitarian applications of artificial intelligence, data, decision making and their work and research. Lars Peter has worked in the humanitarian field for the past 20 years and is experienced in both sudden-onset disasters and protracted crises. Lars is passionate about transforming humanitarian action and believes that unlocking the potential of collaboration is key to achieving this. He is the Director of www.acaps.org and teaches at Copenhagen University specializing in Disaster Management. Sarah Spencer, is an independent consultant and Civil Servant in the British Government. She has worked for two decades in support of communities affected by conflict, instability and disasters and is passionate about unlocking the power of frontier technologies to improve humanitarian action.

Humanitarian AI Today’s guest host Jodi Hilton speaks with Allison Cohen, Applied Projects Lead, AI for Humanity at Mila, about Mila’s AI for Humanity program, her work, background and thoughts on AI for Good and Humanitarian AI.

Humanitarian AI Today’s guest host Fay Schofield speaks with Jinho Choi, Sarah Fillwock and James Finch from Emory University about “Emora” their team’s Alexa Prize winning socialbot, conversational AI and humanitarian applications of socialbots and emerging digital assistants like Alexa.

Humanitarian AI Today's host Mia Kossiavelou speaks with Leo Frey, Deputy Head of Division at Germany's Relief Coalition (Aktion Deutschland Hilft) about Leo’s work at ADH, crisis response and using technology to improve humanitarian operations.

Humanitarian AI Today's host Mia Kossiavelou speaks with Steve Hellen, Senior Information Technology Director for Field Systems at Catholic Relief Services. Steve helps CRS’ programs worldwide improve their efficacy by incorporating digital tools such as mobile, data analytics, and emerging technologies like AI.

Humanitarian AI Today's host Mia Kossiavelou speaks with Xoán Fernández García, a consultant specializing in social innovation, technology and entrepreneurship for development, sustainability and digital transformation with years of expertise working across Latin America.

Humanitarian AI Today's host Mia Kossiavelou speaks with Sarah Spencer, an independent consultant and Civil Servant with the UK Department for International Development, specializing in social development, conflict related programing and providing guidance on incorporating frontier technologies, AI and machine learning into existing and planned humanitarian programming.

Humanitarian AI Today's host Mia Kossiavelou speaks with Valentina Pavel, Legal Researcher at the Ada Lovelace Institute about the Institute, a UK-based research and deliberative body working to ensure data and AI work for people and society. Valentina is leading the Changing Regulations workstream of the Rethinking Data program, a project designed to change the data governance ecosystem by transforming how we talk about data through our narratives, developing people-centered data practice, and envisioning a positive vision for the future of data regulation. Valentina is a former Mozilla Fellow at Privacy International where she developed the Our Data Future project and she previously worked as a digital rights policy advisor with ApTI Romania, member of the European Digital Rights (EDRi) network.

Humanitarian AI Today’s guest host Fay Schofield from the Tech for Good Live podcast series speaks with Seth Goodman who is a Data Engineer with AidData, a research lab at the College of Willam & Mary’s Global Research Institute. Seth developed GeoQuery, AidData’s free spatial data platform and he supports AidData’s machine learning initiatives.

Humanitarian AI Today's host Mia Kossiavelou speaks with Kate Dodgson and Robert Trigwell about the Humanitarian Data Science and Ethics Group and DSEG’s new Framework for the Ethical Use of Advanced Data Science Methods in the Humanitarian Sector. Kate is a consultant with the Data Science Initiative in the Hague and Rob is an Analytical, Knowledge and Output (AKO) Unit Lead at the United Nations International Organization for Migration.

Humanitarian AI Today's host Mia Kossiavelou speaks with Laura Walker McDonald, Senior Director of Insights and Impact at the Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) and former member of the Humanitarian Innovation Fund’s Funding Committee, about humanitarian AI, Dial, the Humanitarian Innovation Fund and HIF’s search for new Funding Committee members.

Humanitarian AI Today's host Mia Kossiavelou speaks with Pamela Chestek, an attorney with extensive experience in open source software who is a member of the Open Source Initiative's Board of Directors and Chair of OSI's License Committee. Mia and Pamela discuss open source initiatives, intellectual property law, open source licenses and the subject of open data.

Humanitarian AI Today's host Mia Kossiavelou speaks with Brian Dolan, CEO of Verdant.AI, a startup studio that builds enterprise grade AI products and supports companies working to solve the UN's sustainable development goals. Brian is a cyberneticist humanitarian actor bridging the worlds of math and analysis for the good of humanity. For Humanitarian AI’s upcoming virtual summit, Brian will start the interview with a lightning talk and then speak more about Verdant. AI, his work, entrepreneurship in Africa, AI in digital therapeutics, and discuss how one of Verdant's studio companies is helping farmers by bringing liquidity to the biomass supply chain.

Humanitarian AI Today's host Mia Kossiavelou speaks with Doulkifli Boukraa from the University of Jijel, Algeria about his work, students, the tech scene in Algeria and about his Graphs4Good hackathon project applying Neo4j graph algorithms to gain insights from question / answering systems such as StackExchange.

Humanitarian AI Today's host Mia Kossiavelou speaks with Daniel Dardani, a Technology Licensing Officer with MIT's Technology Licensing Office, about intellectual property law relevant to artificial intelligence and humanitarian AI.

Humanitarian AI Today's host Mia Kossiavelou speaks with Susi Mai and Jeremy McKane, organizers of the UltraMarine Ocean Summit, about their work building communities taking action around ocean conservation.

Humanitarian AI Today's host Mia Kossiavelou speaks with Sean Griffin from Disaster Tech and Leo Meyerovich from Graphistry about their Graphs4Good hackathon project scaling Covid-19 behavior change and anti-disinformation.

Humanitarian AI Today's host Mia Kossiavelou speaks with Matt Cloyd about Aspen, Matt's Neo4j Graphs4Good Hackathon project. Aspen is a simple to use markup language for creating graph data: https://aspen-lang.org/

Humanitarian AI Today's host Mia Kossiavelou speaks with Lambert Hogenhout Chief of Data Analytics, Partnerships and Technology Innovation at the United Nations and Vivek Khetan an AI Researcher at Accenture Labs about their Graphs4Good Hackathon project linked to the Sustainable Development Goals

Humanitarian AI Today's host Mia Kossiavelou speaks with Karin Wolok, Community Development Manager with Neo4j about Neo4j's Graphs4Good Hackathon, graph database technology and collaboration with humanitarian organizations.

Humanitarian AI Today's host Mia Kossiavelou speaks with Maria Axente, Responsible AI and AI for Good Lead with PwC and Director of Outreach at AI Commons, about Maria's work and thoughts on responsible AI and the role of AI in achieving the global Sustainable Development Goals.

Humanitarian AI Today's host Mia Kossiavelou and producer Brent Phillips speak with Eric Talbert from MedShare, a humanitarian organization sourcing and directly delivering medical supplies to communities in need around the world, about questions humanitarian actors would like to be able to ask popular digital assistants like Alexa, Cortana, Google or Siri.

Humanitarian AI Today's host Mia Kossiavelou speaks with Rudradeb Mitra, founder of Omdena, a global platform where changemakers build ethical and inclusive AI solutions to real-world problems through collaboration.

Humanitarian AI Today's host Mia Kossiavelou speaks with Sameer Maskey Adjunct Associate Professor at Columbia University and Founder of Fusemachines, an AI solutions & services provider empowering everyone to leverage AI by running schools in underserved communities and connecting talent with job opportunities.

Humanitarian AI Today's host Mia Kossiavelou speaks with Stefania Druga Ph.D. student at the University of Washington researching AI literacy for families and founder of Hackidemia and Cognimates.

Humanitarian AI Today's host Mia Kossiavelou speaks with Alfredo Kalaitzis from Element AI about Element AI’s cutting edge AI for Good work.

Humanitarian AI Today's host Mia Kossiavelou speaks with Ruba Ishak from Ground Truth Solutions and Gary Forster from Publish What You Fund about their work in the humanitarian transparency and open data space, their upcoming webinar and thoughts on humanitarian AI

Humanitarian AI Today's host Mia Kossiavelou speaks with Mike Kaul, Director of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Applications at the Defense Innovation Unit about humanitarian AI and the DIU's xView Challenge.

Humanitarian AI Today's host Mia Kossiavelou speaks with Ran Goldblatt about his work at New Light Technologies, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and humanitarian AI

Humanitarian AI Today's host Mia Kossiavelou speaks with Nathaniel Manning, CEO of Ushahidi, about humanitarian AI and Dispatcher, a new Ushahidi project which Nat will be heading using machine learning to match community resources with local needs.

Humanitarian AI Today's host Mia Kossiavelou speaks with Natasha Freidus about humanitarian AI and her work on NeedsList, a real-time needs registry for disaster relief and humanitarian aid.