Speakers

Mara works on shaping the public sector strategy at the Schwab Foundation for Social Enterprise, focusing on engaging public social innovators, strengthening government partnerships, and advancing public-private collaboration. She also supports the use of data to help stakeholders learn from shared experiences.

Previously, she was Academic Co-Director of the Government Outcomes Lab at the University of Oxford. With two decades of experience, she specialises in applying academic insights to decision-making for social impact, particularly in outcomes-based funding across governments, foundations, and international development.

She is an experienced decision modeller with a strong interest in impact metrics and data-driven decision-making.

Richard is the Director of Triggerise Stichting and Chief Operating Officer (COO). He is responsible for the Triggerise platform and leads project implementation in African countries, having a background in global health program design, management, monitoring and evaluation.

Richard will tell us about the 'Tiko platform'. Tiko connects people with local service providers, by building ecosystems of local health services, community organisations and micro-entrepreneurs. It also generates real-time data to measure the impact of projects and evaluate how effective the incentives or nudges from the platform are.

Tom is an Associate Director in Social Finance’s digital and data team – bringing new tools to the core SF work on systems change.

Tom spent the formative part of his career working on the design and delivery of services under outcomes-based contracts, notably in welfare-to-work, and brings a ‘how will it work on the ground’ perspective to questions of new contracting models, or technologies.

Over the last five years, he has focussed on the effective use of data in non-profit settings, with a particular focus on appropriate business models, technology and governance for data infrastructure. He has recently worked on a series of projects scoping the ways in which development impact bonds could benefit from use of new technologies