Hannah Underwood, Founder, How Might We Community

Hannah is a self confessed charity data geek and Founder of How Might We Community. She benefits from oodles of experience using data in purpose-driven and impactful organisations. She spent 16 years as the CEO of North East youth charity The Key, as well as serving as a Trustee and Non-Executive Director for various wonderful organisations including DataKind UK, Livin Housing, Virgin Money Foundation and Newcastle University. She's also earned her stripes as a data strategy consultant and a tech start-up Founder, before dreaming up the vision for How Might We Community.

Hannah is all about building communities, open infrastructure, sharing skills, championing the North East and taking real action to help people and communities to unlock their potential. When she's not trying to make the world a better place you might find Hannah chasing her three small (and often grubby) children, around various parts of Northumberland or being utterly terrified on stage as an amateur stand-up comedian.

Talk Title: How Might We help charities bridge the AI Chasm. Not Fall Into It?

Synopsis: AI is moving at breakneck speed, and for charities, it could be either a catapult or a cliff edge.

In this provocative keynote, Hannah explores the stark fork in the road the social sector now faces. Will data and AI supercharge social impact, or will it widen the digital gulf so dramatically that charities and the communities they serve become permanently left behind?

Blending real-world examples of simple, accessible data and AI applications with bold ideas for how charities could lead at the bleeding edge of innovation. Hannah shows how charities can rise to their existential challenge of needing to do  more with less, but only if we act with urgency, curiosity, and open collaboration.

Because when the most vulnerable in society are at risk of being left out of the future, it’s time to ask: How Might We change lives, together?

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