The first half (45 minutes) of this session will be a panel session: Humanitarian AI Literacy, Fluency and Readiness. This will be hybrid format (in-person and online).

The second half (45 minutes) will be interactive and in-person only. We will run a practical activity taken from our AI Literacy for Humanitarians training package.

Panel Moderator:

• Ana Pinto de Oliveira
  Ana is a Public Health Doctor and Professor of Global Health and Humanitarian Action at the Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences of the University of Algarve, Portugal. Since 2023, she has been a consultant for the WHO Vaccination Technical Group for the African region. She is currently an Independent Humanitarian Action Consultant in the field of health

Panellists:

• Andrew Nzimbi
  

  Andrew is an Independent Consultant with over 20 years of experience in the Humanitarian and Development Sectors, spanning multiple countries. He is keen on accountability to affected populations (AAP) and is a proponent of the use of people-centred approaches to develop evidence that is useful for supporting decision making. He is a humanitarian, researcher and trainer on AAP, Cash and Voucher Assistance and Humanitarian Standards.

• Bernadette Sexton
  

  Bernadette is the CEO of RedR UK. Her career spans development, good governance, institution building, tech for good, and human rights. She has held leadership roles including Chair at Concern Worldwide UK, CEO at Oxford Policy Management, in tech start-ups Moonshot CVE and Apolitical, and as international development programme lead at McKinsey. She holds an MBA, MSc in Public Service Policy & Management, and a BA in History and Politics.

• Primo Amrein
  Primo is the AI National Skills Director for Switzerland at Microsoft Philanthropies. In the past 19 years at Microsoft, Primo had different roles in Sales & Marketing, Team Leadership and Cloud Program Management. He previously worked for a strategy / management consultancy and a technology start-up. He holds a Technology Management Master of University St. Gallen and an international CEMS Certificate

• James Maltby
  

  James is an educator and creative technologist with over ten years’ experience as a senior digital manager and strategist within the non-profit sector. In his current role as Head of Digital Learning at Save the Children UK, he leads an award-winning team that creates online learning resources to improve the livelihoods of adults and children worldwide.

Workshop facilitator

• Victoria Webbe
  

  Victoria is a learning and development professional with experience in instructional design, facilitation, coaching, and knowledge management, including ten years in West and Central Africa. In her current role as Learning and Development Manager for RedR UK, Victoria is responsible for assuring the quality of RedR’s world class capacity strengthening programmes.