Innovation Consultant, World Food Programme (WFP) Innovation Accelerator

Andrea Kobor is an innovation expert, Design Thinker, and facilitator. She spent the last decade supporting impact-driven organizations to maximize the value they bring to their beneficiaries mostly in Asia and Africa. Currently, she works as a program designer and client lead in the WFP Innovation Accelerator - bringing large-scale innovation journeys to life for partners such as UNFPA, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, WHO, and more.

Technology & Innovation IT Officer, World Bank Group

Innovation techie, Design Thinking evangelist, knowledgeable in Emerging Tech, experience with starting a non-profit & in deploying technology in challenging places. Member of the Technology and Innovation Lab within the Information Technology Services (ITS) VPU at the World Bank Group.

Program Manager, Global Evaluation Initiative

Program Manager at GEI with extensive experience supporting organizations and institutions to make better decisions by collecting and using evidence. His specific areas of expertise include evaluation, monitoring system development, strategic and program planning, institutional and capacity development, and process facilitation.

Co-founder, Samelogic

Co-founder of Samelogic - a Silicon Valley venture backed startup which helps companies validate features with embedded mockups and user feedback; obsessed with product, user research, growth, design, and the board game Settlers of Catan.

Vice President for Measurement and Impact, Bixal

Bixal’s vice president for measurement and impact, she manages the MEL portfolio and leads Bixal’s data science and analytics practice, with a focus on supporting federal partners in achieving their critical development goals. With over 30 years of experience directing and evaluating international development projects worldwide, she has worked in Ghana, Ethiopia, Haiti, Lebanon and across Asia.

Programme Manager

Kevin Dubon is an industrial engineer with specializations in Data Science, Machine Learning and Deep Learning for Computer Vision. Kevin runs T&M (Thinkers & Makers), an entrepreneurial community focused on digital training to boost careers and transform businesses throughout Central America. Prior to this, Kevin led training programs through Smart City Honduras, was the program manager for the incubation program Honduras Digital Challenge, and won the Technological Innovation Prize for the development of Amino Diagnostics.

Head of Frontier Innovations, United Nations World Food Programme

Head of Frontier Innovations at the United Nations World Food Programme. He leads a team that explores how frontier technologies - such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, and robotics - can be harnessed to catalyze impact within the context of humanitarian assistance and food security. Previously, he worked for USAID as Senior Innovation Advisor where designed multi-million dollar programs to advance social and environmental prosperity across the globe.

Director—Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, Learning and Adaptation (MERLA), Panagora Group

Michael is an experienced practitioner in MEL, adaptive management and ICT4D.  He served as a planning and evaluation advisor to U.S. Embassies and USAID Missions in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh, and as Associate Director for Policy and Evaluation with the Millennium Challenge Corporation. Michael completed an Associateship with the Pulte Institute for Global Development at Notre Dame on the use of data science methods in decision-making for social impact. He actively publishes on the implications of blockchain technology on social impact, data sovereignty and innovations in methods.

Division Lead, IMC’s Digital and Data Governance and Transformation team

Division Lead for IMC’s Digital and Data Governance and Transformation team, focusing on digitalization, improved data use for development and humanitarian activities, and responsible data. Areas of expertise include data governance, responsible data, digital inclusion, gender and ICTs, and ICT entrepreneurialism.

Operations Officer, Caribbean Development Bank

Trade and business development expert with 18 years’ experience in small business development, trade and export promotion, market intelligence and economic research, and currently Operations Officer at the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB).