Agenda 2025

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*The agenda is still in development, with more sessions will be announced shortly. The agenda, timings and speakers are subject to change.

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09:50
  1. AidEx Stage
    10 mins
10:00
  1. AidEx Stage
    30 mins
  2. Duty of Care Pavilion and Conference Stage
    15 mins
    Opening remarks of the Duty of Care pavilion at AidEx 2025
10:20
  1. Development2030 Stage
    10 mins
  2. Duty of Care Pavilion and Conference Stage
    60 mins
    Considering these intersections of escalated risks to aid worker safety and decreased budgets for organisations delivering aid or international development programming; how can we support the safety a …
10:30
  1. AidEx Stage
    75 mins
  2. Development2030 Stage
    45 mins
  3. Workshop Room 1
    60 mins
  4. Innovative Finance Pavilion and Conference
    45 mins
    This presentation introduces a new structural aid model inspired by years of working on structuring and financing international projects delivering public service and welfare infrastructure. It propos …
  5. Discussion Room
    60 mins
  6. Workshop Room 4
    60 mins
    In today’s challenging humanitarian landscape—marked by shrinking space, complex crises, and reduced funding—ensuring access to health services has never been more critical. This workshop, led by Prem …
  7. Workshop Room 2
    60 mins
    Join Fleet Forum’s Fleet Collaboration Challenge, an interactive workshop open to all participants. Step into the role of a humanitarian fleet manager facing shrinking budgets, ageing vehicles and com …
11:15
  1. Development2030 Stage
    75 mins
    Finance for adaptation programmes is essential to deliver climate resilience and sustainable development in developing and transition economies. This session will explore what needs to change to make …
  2. Innovative Finance Pavilion and Conference
    60 mins
    As the global funding landscape shrinks, the humanitarian sector must evolve or risk falling behind. Diaspora-led initiatives are pioneering innovative financing models that support and scale what loc …
11:35
  1. Duty of Care Pavilion and Conference Stage
    55 mins
    In this session, Protect Humanitarians present the Community of Practice on staff care, mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) for humanitarian personnel, currently being developed and support …
13:30
  1. Development2030 Stage
    60 mins
    When the SDGs were adopted in 2015, climate change was already recognized as a global challenge, but today it has become the defining force reshaping the entire agenda. From extreme weather to food in …
  2. Workshop Room 4
    45 mins
14:25
  1. Duty of Care Pavilion and Conference Stage
    40 mins
    In today’s humanitarian landscape, aid organisations face escalating physical, digital, and legal risks—while operating under increasing financial strain. Amid crises, insecurity, and staff burnout, t …
15:00
  1. Workshop Room 1
    60 mins
    How can we stop scrambling after crises and plan ahead better? This interactive session dives into how humanitarian actors can shift from reactive response to proactive ones, using smarter supply chai …
  2. Workshop Room 2
    60 mins
    As the global funding landscape shrinks, the humanitarian sector must evolve or risk falling behind. Diaspora-led initiatives are pioneering innovative financing models that support and scale what loc …
15:20
  1. Duty of Care Pavilion and Conference Stage
    55 mins
    Technology is only as useful and cost effective when leveraged with creative processes and innovative systems within organisations. This session will explore how organisations can effectively utilise …
16:15
  1. Development2030 Stage
    75 mins
  2. Workshop Room 1
    60 mins
    As humanitarian actors turn to AI to improve crisis response, new risks arise, especially in conflict zones where data processing can inadvertently cause harm, increase vulnerability, and even skew th …
  3. Workshop Room 2
    60 mins
    The Waste Management in humanitarian Operations: Reduction and minimisation (https://wormproject.eu/) session focuses on waste management processes, and the opportunities in bio-based materials in pro …
16:30
  1. Duty of Care Pavilion and Conference Stage
    40 mins
    Reflections on the recent Mauchline v. CADUS legal proceedings in Berlin.
10:00
  1. AidEx Stage
    30 mins
  2. Duty of Care Pavilion and Conference Stage
    50 mins
    Many of the services that enable context appropriate Duty of Care, such as emergency medical response, legal advice, and risk insurance, are primarily delivered by private actors. In fact, security fu …
10:30
  1. AidEx Stage
    75 mins
  2. Development2030 Stage
    30 mins
  3. Workshop Room 2
    120 mins
    Harvard Humanitarian Initiative logo
  4. Workshop Room 1
    60 mins
    In fragile and conflict-affected settings, humanitarian actors often operate without access to the data, tools, and science needed to anticipate and respond to climate shocks. This interactive session …
  5. Innovative Finance Pavilion and Conference
    45 mins
  6. Discussion Room
    60 mins
  7. Workshop Room 4
    60 mins
11:05
  1. Duty of Care Pavilion and Conference Stage
    50 mins
    The workshop addresses how escalating risks and shrinking budgets can undermine an organisation’s Duty of Care and uses systems thinking to explore more sustainable, collaborative ways to protect staf …
12:10
  1. Duty of Care Pavilion and Conference Stage
    55 mins
    This workshop looks at how non specialist staff can provide first response psychological care to staff members who are struggling. Following an overview of the philosophy and theory of mental health f …
13:35
  1. Duty of Care Pavilion and Conference Stage
    55 mins
    Despite decades of commitments, women remain underrepresented in global security efforts. When women lead, missions are stronger, trust runs deeper, and peace lasts longer. As one of the largest SRH s …
14:15
  1. Innovative Finance Pavilion and Conference
    45 mins
14:40
  1. Duty of Care Pavilion and Conference Stage
    50 mins
    This session will explore how learning and development for risk management can be strategically adapted and deployed as a cost-effective tool to strengthen field teams, uphold duty of care, and mitiga …
15:00
  1. AidEx Stage
    75 mins
    Recent funding pushbacks and recalibrations shifting donor priorities, and protracted crises amidst the humanitarian reset — have strained humanitarian financing. Local organizations, despite being th …
  2. Workshop Room 1
    60 mins
    Funding constraints and growing crises are putting more strain on the humanitarian sector, highlighting the need for innovative, community-driven solutions. DEMAC – Diaspora Emergency Action & Coordin …
  3. Workshop Room 2
    60 mins
    What’s your real cost of risk? Explore the benefits of adopting a Total Cost of Risk (TCOR) approach for organisations in the humanitarian and aid sector. TCOR goes beyond traditional insurance costs, …
  4. Discussion Room
    60 mins
  5. Innovative Finance Pavilion and Conference
    45 mins