Humanitarian AI Today

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.