Smarter Social Value: The Human Future of AI, Local Needs and Impact

In this thought-provoking session, we will unpack three converging themes: the growing expectation on organisations to demonstrate meaningful social value; the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence; and the need for tailored, evidence-led local needs analyses to drive quality outcomes.

Hosted by social-impact and technology pioneer Matt Haworth (Co-Founder of Impact Reporting, MeasureUp and Reason Digital as well as an ethical AI champion), we'll explore AI's impact and opportunities within social value.

Key themes

• The opportunity: how AI can scale social value measurement, local-needs diagnostics, and outcome-tracking more effectively.
• The challenge: what social value teams need to know about bias, explainability, data integrity and ethics in AI.
• Use case spotlight: AI-powered local needs analysis - why it matters, how it works, and how you can use it to strengthen bids, strategies and reporting.
• Trends & future view: emerging modes of AI (agentic models, synthetic data, generative approaches) and what they mean for social value leaders now.
• Practical guidance: first-steps, governance, tool-selection, and how to build an AI-ready social value function (without waiting for perfection).

By the end of this session you’ll have a fresh perspective on how to harness AI to accelerate your social value agenda — plus the questions you need to ask, the guard-rails to put in place, and the strategic opportunities ahead.

Who should attend: Social value leads, corporate responsibility managers, procurement and strategy professionals, local authority / public-sector buyers and those responsible for local needs assessments, measurement & reporting.

Registration link here: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/d04e822b-9be9-42ed-85a2-14db9011aeec@9e659007-7d5d-411d-a746-81a8cc64076a