• Plenary: Financing humanitarian solutions that work in practice

• Beyond Delivering ‘More with Less’ – Innovating humanitarian supply chains for longevity, sustainability and operational resilience

• Scaling water and sanitation through partnerships – Rethinking the role of the private sector

• Innovative finance for water and sanitation – What can actually scale?

• Designing primary health systems for a climate-disrupted future

• Closing the climate delivery gap – Financing adaptation that works in fragile contexts

• Who takes the risk on adaptation? – Aligning DFIs, investors and enterprises to scale impact

• Reimagining humanitarian health – Beyond the current model, shaping what comes next

• Redefining private sector partnerships – How to fully integrate the private sector in humanitarian response

• Financing locally-led humanitarian action – Designing sustainable models that work at scale

• In the front and at the centre - Women, girls and the humanitarian reset

• Leadership through transition – Navigating power, proximity and organisational change in a contracting humanitarian sector

• Locally led, globally supported – Partner perspectives from the Middle East response

• AI in humanitarian action – What is actually working and can it scale?

• How can we make AI truly accountable to communities in crisis?

• Closing the data-to-decision gap – Practical pathways to turn insight into action 

• Operationalizing blockchain for scale in humanitarian aid

• Building safe and rights-based digital health ecosystems for children in the AI age

• From emergency food aid to scalable nutrition systems – Rethinking humanitarian response capacity

• Interactive Workshop: From humanitarian problem to financeable opportunity – Reframing problems beyond grants

• Islamic philanthropy and social investment – Unlocking sustainable financing for humanitarian and development action

• Matching humanitarian problems with the right financing models

• Are humanitarian organisations operationally ready for innovative finance?

• From implementation to scale – Linking partnerships and new capital to scale humanitarian financing

• Where next for humanitarian reform? From the Grand Bargain to the humanitarian reset: What tangible changes are needed to make real change to how humanitarian aid is delivered?

• Revitalizing GBV prevention and response in conflict amid a contracting humanitarian funding environment

• Integrating WASH, food security and climate resilience – Scaling innovative solutions in humanitarian settings

• Stitching the nexus together – Practical lessons from integrated programming

• Humanitarian access, but at what cost? – Navigating trade-offs between humanitarian principles and presence in a new global reality

• Rooted locally, scaled globally – Lessons in scaling co-created approaches 

• Beyond the buzzword – What it really takes to deliver locally led action?

• Coopetition in humanitarian assistance – Unlocking efficiency or adding complexity?

• The graduation approach and its emerging potential in humanitarian settings

• Procurement under pressure – Embedding compliance without slowing delivery

• Doing business with the UN – How to navigate procurement and win contracts

• AI roadmap for humanitarian supply chains – Moving from concept to reality

• Reimagining education in emergencies in a polycrisis world

• After the commitments – Turning political will into improved protection for aid workers

• Scaling mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS) in emergencies – The role of public-private philanthropy partnerships

• Bridging the first and last mile – Strengthening early warning systems in fragile and conflict-affected settings

• Resetting humanitarian standards – Equity, adaptation, and impact

The list of topics above are still a work in progress, more themes and topics will be added over the coming weeks. 

If you're interested in speaking or arranging a session, please contact andreas.schonning@aid-expo.com