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Keynote - Developing sustainable solutions to tackle the forcibly displaced people escalating trend in the world’s forgotten and emerging crises
Raouf Mazou, Assistant High Commissioner for Operations, UNHCR
Fixing Disaster Relief – How can we evolve to better prepare for and prevent the next crises?
Panelists:
Michael Capponi, Founder/President, Global Empowerment Mission
Danny Sriskandarajah, CEO, Oxfam GB
Lanre Williams-Ayedun, Senior Vice President, International Programs, World Relief
Unni Krishnan, Global Humanitarian Director, Plan International
Alina Kurska, Director of International Affairs, Global Empowerment Mission
Addressing the acute global food and hunger crisis – what is the evolving role of the aid and development actor?
Panelists:
Richard Blewitt, Executive Director International, British Red Cross
Astrid Thesen Tveteraas, Assistant Director, Department for Climate and Environment, Section for Food, Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation
Unni Krishnan, Global Humanitarian Director, Plan International
Gian Carlo Cirri, Director Geneva Global Office, World Food Programme
Matthias Amling, Team Lead Anticipatory Humanitarian Action and Networking, Welthungerhilfe
Innovating Digital Cash Assistance - Whose problems does tech really solve?
Panelists:
Tori Samples, Senior Product Manager, Stellar Development Foundation
Joseph Oliveros, Senior Officer, Cash Transfer Programming Innovations, IFRC
Kathryn Taetzsch, Global Director, Humanitarian Cash & Voucher Based Programming, World Vision International
Anna Kondakhchyan, Head of Cash and Markets (with oversight of CashCap), NORCAP
Keynote – Saving Humanity 2.0 - What more could ‘non-traditional actors’ do to advance humanitarian action?
Jochen Stark, Executive National Director, Plan International Switzerland
Keynote - On the forgotten frontlines: how to make a difference for the people affected today and tomorrow
Daniel Littlejohn-Carrillo, Head of Resource Mobilisation, ICRC
Keynote - Private finance for humanitarian goals
Nena Stoiljkovic, Under Secretary General for Global Relations, Humanitarian Diplomacy and Digitalization, IFRC
System Change in the Humanitarian System - What role can experimentation, innovation and localisation play?
Panelists:
Ian Burbidge, Head of System innovation and Change, Start Network
Gloria Soma, Executive Director, Titi Foundation
Kate Simpson, Director, Systemcraft Institute
Juliet Parker, Director, ALNAP
Tackling the ‘shadow pandemic’ – Can we turn the tide on gender based violence?
Panelists:
Tanya Gilly Khailany, Vice-President and Co-Founder, SEED Foundation
Mary Okumu, Senior Director/Head of Technical Unit, ForAfrika
Asia Al-Mashreqi, Chair, Sustainable Development Foundation Yemen
Caoimhe de Barra, CEO, Trócaire
The Role of Tech in Crisis Response - How to extend access to tech to include forgotten crises
Panelists:
Jacek Siadkowski, CEO and Co-founder, Tech To The Rescue
Sandra Topić, Environmental Equity Business Developer, AWS Social Responsibility & Impact
Santiago Mendez Galvis, EMEA Head of Philanthropy, Lenovo Foundation
Caroline Masboungi, Child Protection Specialist, GBViE Innovations and Service Delivery, UNICEF
Alison Court, Chief Transformation Officer, Oxfam
Shaping climate action in forgotten crisis - Humanitarian supply chain policy to practice
Panelists:
Simon Missiri, Director Global Humanitarian Services and Supply Chain, IFRC
Thomas Thompson, Chief, Strategic Engagement, Supply Chain Division, UN World Food Programme
Bruno Jochum, Founder, Climate Action Accelerator
Susan Hodgson, Director of Humanitarian Supply Chain, Save the Children International
Jonas Stumpf, Director, Global Programmes, Help Logistics
Keynote - We are all in this together: The joint efforts needed in order to reach the UN-SDGs in 2030
Marie Gad, Deputy Director of Global Development and Sustainability, Confederation of Danish Industry
Evolving climate finance – How can we ensure climate finance reaches fragile markets?
Panelists:
Simon Meldrum, Innovative Finance, Private Sector & Innovation Unit, IFRC
Philip Hardwick, CEO, HCBL
Nathalie Olijslager, Director Stabilization and Humanitarian Assistance, Netherlands Ministry Foreign Affairs
Albashir Ibrahim, Executive Director, NEXUS Consortium, Somalia
The light in the Biodiversity tunnel – Did the ‘Global Biodiversity Framework’ pave the road to success or are we trying to drive without a functional engine?
Panelists:
Baomiavotse Vahinala Raharinirina, Special Advisor to the President, Government of the Madagascar
Anne Valto, Senior Development Impact Advisor, Finnfund
Thomas Thompson, Chief, Strategic Engagement, Supply Chain Division, UN World Food Programme
(Moderator) Victoria Romero, Biodiversity Policy Officer, IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature)
Marie Gad, Deputy Director of Global Development and Sustainability, Confederation of Danish Industry
Levelling the playing field – how can we turn the tide on eradicating extreme poverty?
Panelists:
Nathalie Laidler Kylander, President and CEO, Trickle Up
Stephan Maurer, Representative in Geneva, Danish Refugee Council
Sadna Samaranayake, Chief Strategy Officer, BRAC
Theresa Stienen, Policy Manager, J-PAL Europe
The water crisis and climate change – Transitioning beyond technical solutions to a holistic system-of-systems approach
Panelists:
Heather Marshall, Technical Principal – Water and Infrastructure Systems Advisory, Mott MacDonald
Jyoti Banerjee, Co-founder, North Star Transition
Partha Hefaz Shaikh, Director of Policy, Programmes and Advocacy, WaterAid Bangladesh
Andrew Roby, Senior Water Security Adviser, FCDO
James Dalton, Head - Water and Land Management Team, The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
Mobilising private capital for the SDGs – myth or reality?
Panelists:
Gary Forster, CEO, Publish What You Fund
Thomas Venon, Executive Director, Centre for Development Finance Studies
Maria Jose Romero, Development finance expert, EuroDAD
Chris Walker, Deputy Vice President of the Office of Development Policy, U.S. International Development Finance Corporation
Emre Karabekirogullari, Director of Investments, Sarona Asset Management
COP28 - How do we close the gap between the world’s expectations and today’s reality?
Panelists:
Steve Varley, EY Global Senior Advisor on COP28, and former Global Vice Chair of Sustainability, EY
Philip Valahu, CEO, Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG)
Baomiavotse Vahinala Raharinirina, Special Advisor to the President, Government of the Madagascar
Alexis Gazzo, Partner, Sustainability, EY
Marc Pfitzer, Chief Commercial Strategy, Tree Global
How can we boost cross-sector engagement for crisis-resilient health systems?
Panelists:
Omer Saka, Partner, Life Sciences and Public Health, EY
Charles Bark, CEO, HiNounou
Alistair McGuire, Head of Dept of Health Policy, London School of Economics
Kalipso Chalkidou, Head of Health Finance, The Global Fund
The evolving role of the private sector – How can the private sector deliver a more meaningful development and crisis response?
Panelists:
Peter Harrington, Associate Director, Arup
Sabine Heide, Global Key Account Manager, Danoffice IT
Lorena Muñoz Carmona, Sustainability and Partnership Manager, BRIGHT Products
Ole Lyngshede Lund, Global Head of Aid & Relief, Scan Global Logistics
Marte Bratlie, Founder, RemovAid
Solving the Global Learning Crisis - Why hundreds of millions of children globally still cannot read and what needs to be done about it
Panelists:
Tomas Kessl, Head of Partnerships & Business Development, EIDU
Corina Gardner, CEO, IDP Foundation
Atish Gonsalves, Global Education Research & Innovation Lead, International Rescue Committee
Kate Radford, Country Lead for Ghana, EdTech Hub
John Soleanicov, Co-Lead of the Learning Schools Portfolio, Jacobs Foundation
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