Humanitarian AI Today

Colin Koop, a Design Partner with the architecture firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) speaks with Brent Phillips, Producer of the Humanitarian AI Today podcast series. Colin and Brent discuss architecture, the future of AI education and Colin’s work on MIT’s Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing building and also Colin’s design philosophy embracing complexity and harmony and bringing into...

Humanitarian AI Today's host Mia Kossiavelou speaks with Christopher Hoffman, Managing Director of Humanity Link and Chairman of the Humanitarian Innovation Funding Committee and board member of Sawa World, about his work building partnerships between companies and humanitarian agencies, humanitarian operations, innovation and humanitarian applications of artificial intelligence.

Jean-Martin Bauer, Senior Digital Advisor from the United Nations World Food Program speaks with Daniel Huttenlocher, the inaugural dean of MIT’s Schwarzman College of Computing, board chair of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and board member of Corning Inc. and Amazon.com. Jean-Martin and Daniel discuss MIT’s new college, AI education, humanitarian applications of artificial int...

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...

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 in...

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...

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 transf...

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...

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 sta...

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.