Welcome to Impact First archive where you can learn more about past editions. Watch some of both live and pre-recorded sessions or explore past speakers, trainings and program.
Speakers from our past events
Here is an overview of the impactful speakers featured in our previous editions.
Challenges and Opportunities of the Use of Big Data in Humanitarian Settings
UNHCR
PLENARY SESSION
Towards an Integrated and Innovative Health Management Information System for Improved Decision Making for Maternal and Child Survival and Development in China
National Center for Women and Children's Health, CDC China
KEYNOTE
Using Data and SDGs to Improve Impact
CARE
PLENARY SESSION
A Black Swan in a Black Box
Acaps
PLENARY SESSION
Challenges and Opportunities of the Use of Big Data in Humanitarian Settings
UNHCR
PLENARY SESSION
Towards an Integrated and Innovative Health Management Information System for Improved Decision Making for Maternal and Child Survival and Development in China
National Center for Women and Children's Health, CDC China
PLENARY SESSION
Large-scale Digitized IMCI in Subsaharan Africa: On How AI Can Help Decrease Child Mortality & Morbidity, and Predict Epidemic Outbreaks.
Terre des Hommes Foundation
BREAKOUT SESSION
Leveraging Geospatial Data to Support Public Health Interventions
BlueSquare
BREAKOUT SESSION
Removing Barriers to Effective Data Use with the Zenysis Rapid Data Interoperability Platform
Zenysis
BREAKOUT SESSION
Leveraging Routine Data for Logistics Decision Making
Bluesquare
BREAKOUT SESSION
TransIT – Low-cost Transport Management System for International Development and Relief
Chemonics International
BREAKOUT SESSION
Added Value of Partnerships in Leveraging Innovative Digital Technology to Improve Tanzania’s Public Health Outcomes
Rasello, Cardno
BREAKOUT SESSION
Advancing Analytics through Systems Interoperability
BAO Systems
BREAKOUT SESSION
Health Information System Implementation in Unstable and Humanitarian Emergency Projects in MSF: Review of Use and Limitations
MSF Paris
BREAKOUT SESSION
Use of a Server Log as a Tool to Assess ICT Maintenance of DHIS2 to Understand and Address Factors Affecting Server up-time for Improved Data Reporting in Nigeria
CDC, AFENET
PLENARY SESSION
Re-imagining the Provision of Optimal Tuberculosis Care Using Digital Adherence Technologies
KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation
PLENARY SESSION
DHIS2 Overview
University of Oslo
PLENARY SESSION
Rights! Evidence! Action! How Frontline AIDS is using DHIS2 to Track its Contribution to SDG3 to Ensure no One Gets Left Behind.
Frontline AIDS
PLENARY SESSION
Sustaining Open Source Digital Public Goods
DIAL
PLENARY SESSION
Utilizing Remote Sensors to Monitor Temperature and Humidity for Ambient Health Products in the Supply Chain
Chemonics International
PLENARY SESSION
Applying Machine Learning to PEPFAR Data to Enhance Programmatic Insights - PoC
BAO Systems
BREAKOUT SESSION
Improving Visibility of Health Commodities at Public Health Facilities in Lagos State, Nigeria
Lagos MoH
BREAKOUT SESSION
Managing health Networks at Scale to Improve the Quality of Health Service Delivery: PSI’s Experience With the Health Network Quality Improvement System (HNQIS)
PSI
BREAKOUT SESSION
Mobile Device Management in DHIS2
eSHIFT | Inclus
PLENARY SESSION
Data Standards and Innovations to Improve the Availability, Quality, Analysis and Use of Malaria Data at Country and Global Levels
WHO
PLENARY SESSION
UNAIDS Health Innovation Exchange
UNAIDS
PLENARY SESSION
When Real-Time Data is Fighting Hunger and Malnutrition Using Non-intrusive Technology
Famoco
PLENARY SESSION
Optimizing the Use of Data for Decision Making in Low Resource Contexts
Cooper Smith
PLENARY SESSION
Introduction to UAVs and their Potential Integration Into Developing Countries’ Health Supply Chains; Details Surrounding the Necessary Stakeholder Coordination and Planning Leading Up to Implementation; Overview of UAV Flights and Use Cases
Chemonics International
PLENARY SESSION
Applying the Principles of Digital Development: Examining the Importance of Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration through the iDeliver Case Study
VecnaCares Charitable Trust
PLENARY SESSION
AI-Empowered Community Health Care
Living Goods
PLENARY SESSION
Transforming Millions of Children’s and Mothers’ Lives in China Through Healthy Family App
National Center for Women and Children's Health, CDC China
BREAKOUT SESSION
WISCENTD: Integrating Data to Fight Against Neglected Tropical Diseases
Technical University of Catalonia, BarcelonaTech
BREAKOUT SESSION
Leveraging OpenSRP to Improve Community Health Care Service Delivery, Strengthen Accountability, Aid in Decision-Making, and Generate Real Time Data for M&E on RMNCH and Malaria in Lake and Western Zone in 2019-2020
Jhpiego
BREAKOUT SESSION
Interoperable Cross-Sectoral Public Finance Management and Health Information Systems Contribute to Health Sector Service Delivery Improvement in Tanzania
Abt Associates Inc
PLENARY SESSION
ICT Feasibility: Understanding Key Factors
VecnaCares
PLENARY SESSION
Interoperability and Connectivity for AMR Surveillance - Theory and Practice
Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics
PLENARY SESSION
Changing the Paradigm of Decision Making in the Public Health Supply Chain Through Information Technology
World Bank | Palindrome Data | Public Health Institute of Malawi | Office of the US Global AIDS Coordinator and Health Diplomacy
PLENARY SESSION
Remote Stewardship and Support of Frontline Health Workers using their Mobile Phones: Key Learnings from Interventions using different approaches: WhatsApp, IVR, and Moodle
PSI
PLENARY SESSION
Designing AI Use Cases for Data Quality Using Advanced Algorithms
Jhpiego
PLENARY SESSION
Using Digital Dashboards to Strengthen a Media Movement: The Experience of MTV Staying Alive Foundation
Visualst | MTV Staying Alive Foundation | Databoom
PLENARY SESSION
Digital Ecosystems: Applying the 6 "P"s in the Transition to Digital Economies
Cardno International Development
BREAKOUT SESSION
Rapid Deployment of a Last-Mile Data Collection Tool
BAO Systems | HealthRight International
BREAKOUT SESSION
Use of Artificial Intelligence for TB Case Detection in Nigeria
InStrat Global Health Solutions
BREAKOUT SESSION
From Visualization to Utilization: Getting KAP COVID-19 Data to Decision-Makers
Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs
BREAKOUT SESSION
Introducing a Handbook for Mobile Data for Development
Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) | Data-pop Alliance
BREAKOUT SESSION
COVID-19 Vaccinations in a Digital World: Blockchain Solutions
IMPACT
PANEL
Investing in Fit for Purpose Sustainable Data Architecture
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | Georgetown Center for Innovation in Global Health | Malawi MoH Digital Health Division | Burkina Faso MoH | Cooper/Smith
PLENARY SESSION
Using Biometrics for Verified Impact at the Last Mile
Simprints Technology
PLENARY SESSION
COVID-19 Pandemic in Zanzibar
Abt Associates
PANEL
Improving Program Insights through Data Integration & Interoperability
BAO Systems | Jhpiego | FHI360
BREAKOUT SESSION
Predicting Retention and Viral Suppression in HIV Programs
Palindrome Data
BREAKOUT SESSION
Think Like a Technologist: Data Analytics and Decision-Focused Strategies for Global Health
Zenysis
BREAKOUT SESSION
DHIS2 and COVID-19 Vaccine Delivery Tools
HISP (University of Oslo)
BREAKOUT SESSION
Preparing Large Data Sets (for e.g. Mobile Network Operator Data) for Analysis
Cooper/Smith
BREAKOUT SESSION
Rapid Development of Digital Health Solutions for COVID-19 Response for the Ministry of Health: Design and Deployment Experiences from UNICEF, Lilongwe, Malawi
UNICEF Malawi
BREAKOUT SESSION
Building Sustainable NHIS Foundational Technical Blocks for Efficient Data Use: The MoH of Burkina Faso Initiatives on Data Rationalization, Data Use and NHIS Governance.
Burkina Faso MoH
PLENARY SESSION
Fireside chat: The Paradox of The Grand Bargain and The Global Pandemic
Digital Impact Alliance (DIAL) | ICAP | Compelling Works
Centro Cultural de Belém is a complex of artistic venues located in Belem in the city of Lisbon, Portugal.
Archive
Impact First was previously denominated Global Development Summit. The event started in 2019, and was rebranded as Impact First in 2022. In the past few years we have received speakers from all over the world, with whom we have been able to learn and grow as an event. In this page you’ll be able to get to get a feeling of how the previous events were.