How AI can accelerate social impact

Data insights for housing, homelessness, and affordability

AI conversations often stay abstract — focused on possibilities, predictions, or future potential. In this session, we’ll explore what it looks like when AI is applied to a real-world challenge with meaningful human impact.
Join Peter Moon for a presentation and live demonstration exploring how data and AI were used to better understand housing distress, affordability, and homelessness trends through the creation of a Housing Distress Index.
Through examples, stories, and a walkthrough of the work itself, Peter will share both the process and practical realities behind building something actionable in a complex social landscape.

Together, we’ll explore:

• What role humans should play
• What role AI should play
• How to move from an idea to something useful and actionable
• What outcomes become possible when data, technology, and community impact intersect
• Lessons and implications that emerged along the way

The session will include a live demonstration of the Housing Distress Index, along with reflections on what worked, what proved difficult, and what this kind of work may suggest for the future of AI-enabled social impact initiatives.

Additional themes we’ll explore include:

• How AI can support social impact work in practical ways
• Balancing human judgment with AI-enabled insights
• Translating complex housing and affordability data into usable signals
• The realities of building something meaningful in ambiguous conditions
• Lessons learned from applying AI outside of purely commercial contexts

This session is grounded in real experience rather than hype, ideal-state narratives, or technical theory. You’ll have a chance to ask questions, reflect on what you’re hearing, and connect with others interested in how technology, data, and human-centered problem solving come together in practice.

Agenda

• Welcome and kickoff
• Presentation and demonstration with Peter Moon
• Attendee Q&A and discussion
• Networking and connection in breakout rooms

About our guest of honor
Peter Moon is a Co-founder and Partner at Navicet and Co-founder of Lunous, a nonprofit organization focused on using data and technology to support community and social impact outcomes. His work spans strategy, systems thinking, organizational change, and practical applications of AI and data insights to help organizations better understand and navigate complex challenges.

No matter your background or area of practice, whether you work directly with AI and data or are simply curious about how these tools are shaping real-world decision-making, this session invites you to reflect on what responsible, human-centered progress can look like in practice.

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Thanks to our sponsor Navicet www.navicet.com