SXSW 2020
Humanitarian AI: Disasters, Displacement & Disease
Description:
Despite humanity's incredible technological progress of the past century, natural disasters still threaten populations across the globe. From localized wars to disease outbreaks to fires and flooding, we are still at risk from some of the same hazards we have been for millennia. Today, however, humanitarian agencies and first responders are being given powerful new artificial intelligence tools to get them ahead of the threats, and help them save lives. Learn from experts with decades of field experience about how AI tools are currently being used in the U.S. and around the world.
Related Media
Other Resources / Information
Takeaways
- How, and why, is the U.S. government sharing DOD-developed AI tools with first responders and humanitarian agencies worldwide to save lives?
- Why are artificial intelligence tools developed for the military able to be used for disaster, disease, and refugee assistance?
- What new AI tools are just over the horizon that will offer even more resources to save lives and mitigate disasters?
Speakers
- Jeffrey Freeman, Senior Scientist, Disaster Health Response , Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
- Ashley Greiner, Emergency Public Health Epidemiologist, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Jason Brown, Chief, Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Relief Initiative, Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, United States Air Force
Organizer
Geoff Brown, External Communications Manager, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
SXSW reserves the right to restrict access to or availability of comments related to PanelPicker proposals that it considers objectionable.
Add Comments