Moderator

Strategist, Tech4Good, PoliSync

Sandra Uwantege Hart is a humanitarian specialist and consultant with 15 years experience managing humanitarian programs with UN agencies and INGOs in over a dozen countries globally, implementing projects in cash and voucher assistance, financial inclusion, food security, and livelihoods recovery. She now works as a technical expert, advisor and researcher for local and international organizations and social impact-focused companies exploring inclusive innovation. Currently, most of her work consists of being an interlocutor between the humanitarian and technology sectors - conceptualizing, designing and managing community-inclusive, context-adapted Web3 (blockchain) and digital payment systems. In 2020, Sandra co-founded the startup Umoja Labs (formerly Emerging Impact) and is the award winning creator of Oxfam International's Unblocked Cash Project (2018-2021).

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Panelist

AI specialist and Head of Operations, Institute for Global Negotiation

Tea Mustać is a data protection and AI governance expert at Spirit Legal, specializing in helping companies develop and implement AI technologies and establish compliance processes. She frequently conducts workshops and webinars for institutions like Beck Akademie and speaks at international conferences such as the Web Summit. Tea co-hosts the RegInt: Decoding AI Regulation podcast and is co-author of The AI Act Compact: Compliance, Management & Use Cases in Corporate Practice. Recognized with the European Young Lawyers Award (2022) and the My Data is Mine Award (2024), a fellow of the European Law Institute and the Head of Operations of the Institute for Global Negotiations, she is a respected voice at the intersection of law and technology.

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Panelist

Managing Director, PoliSync; Visiting Lecturer, Geneva Graduate Institute

Dr. Cannon is Managing Director at PoliSync with 20+ years’ experience in policy research, teaching, and policy communications. She leads a UN project on the securitisation of migration, and a six-part webinar series with leading nonprofits on AI for Social Good. She co-authored the 2024 UN report on migrants’ contributions and advises international actors on research, strategy, digital tools, and policy impact. She holds a PhD in International Relations from the Geneva Graduate Institute.

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Panelist

Faculty Instructor and Senior Researcher, Harvard University, Initiator of Frontline Associates. Lead Author of the Field Manual on Frontline Humanitarian Negotiation.

Claude Bruderlein is a faculty researcher and instructor on frontline negotiation at Harvard University. His research focuses on the use of digital technology and artificial intelligence in support of frontline negotiators. In 2023, he co-founded Frontline Associates, a community of negotiators focused on enhancing and disseminating best practices in the realm of complex frontline negotiation. Mr. Bruderlein holds teaching appointments at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Harvard T. Chan School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts.

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