Agenda Overview - 2026

Session topics include:

  • Plenary: Financing humanitarian solutions that work in practice
  • Beyond Delivering “More with Less” – Innovating humanitarian supply chains to deliver amid shrinking budgets
  • Reimagining humanitarian health – Beyond the current model, shaping what comes next
  • Redefining private sector partnerships – How to fully integrate the private sector in humanitarian response
  • Financing locally-led humanitarian action – Designing sustainable models that work at scale
  • Locally led solutions for women & girls in humanitarian crises – How do we scale innovation and truly shift power?
  • Leadership through transition – Navigating power, proximity and organisational change in a contracting humanitarian sector
  • Locally led, globally supported – Partner perspectives from the Middle East response
  • Closing the climate delivery gap – Financing adaptation that works in fragile contexts
  • Who takes the risk on adaptation? – Aligning DFIs, investors and enterprises to scale impact
  • AI in humanitarian action – What is actually working and can it scale?
  • How can we make AI truly accountable to communities in crisis?
  • Closing the data-to-decision gap – Practical pathways to turn insight into action 
  • Operationalizing blockchain for scale in humanitarian aid
  • Building safe and rights-based digital health ecosystems for children in the AI age
  • From emergency food aid to scalable nutrition systems – Rethinking humanitarian response capacity
  • Designing primary health systems for a climate-disrupted future
  • Interactive Workshop: From humanitarian problem to financeable opportunity – Reframing problems beyond grants
  • Islamic philanthropy and social investment – Unlocking sustainable financing for humanitarian and development action
  • Matching humanitarian problems with the right financing models
  • Are humanitarian organisations operationally ready for innovative finance?
  • From implementation to scale – Linking partnerships and new capital to scale humanitarian financing
  • Where next for humanitarian reform? From the Grand Bargain to the humanitarian reset: What tangible changes are needed to make real change to how humanitarian aid is delivered?
  • Integrating WASH, food security and climate resilience – Scaling innovative solutions in humanitarian settings
  • Innovative finance for water and sanitation – What can actually scale?
  • Scaling water and sanitation through partnerships – Rethinking the role of the private sector
  • Stitching the nexus together – Practical lessons from integrated programming
  • Humanitarian access, but at what cost? – Navigating trade-offs between humanitarian principles and presence in a new global reality
  • Rooted locally, scaled globally – Lessons in scaling co-created approaches 
  • Beyond the buzzword – What it really takes to deliver locally led action?
  • Coopetition in humanitarian assistance – Unlocking efficiency or adding complexity?
  • The graduation approach and its emerging potential in humanitarian settings
  • Procurement under pressure – Embedding compliance without slowing delivery
  • Doing business with the UN – How to navigate procurement and win contracts
  • AI roadmap for humanitarian supply chains – Moving from concept to reality
  • Reimagining education in emergencies in a polycrisis world
  • After the commitments – Turning political will into improved protection for aid workers
  • Scaling mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) in emergencies – The role of public-private philanthropy partnerships
  • Bridging the first and last mile – Strengthening early warning systems in fragile and conflict-affected settings
  • Resetting humanitarian standards – Equity, adaptation, and impact

And many more to be announced...

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