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TechTalks: Innovation Driving Transitions
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From Wednesday January 1, 2025 to Wednesday December 31, 2025
Offered by AFD's Emerging Tech Lab, the #TechTalk webinars offer a space to explore the major digital changes that are transforming development.
What is a Tech Talk?
Are you wondering how digital transformation is shaping the future of countries? What opportunities it offers, what limitations it imposes, and what strategies enable solid and sustainable technological deployment?
For one hour, experts, practitioners, and researchers share their perspectives and provide food for thought. Together, they re-examine development challenges in light of technological innovations and their concrete impacts.
Whether you work in the sector or are simply curious about the technologies that are disrupting the world, #TechTalks give you the keys to understanding how digital technology is influencing economic, social, and environmental transitions around the world.
Upcoming webinars
TechTalks are organized roughly once per quarter. Check out the upcoming sessions below, along with the Livestorm registration links for each webinar.
AI and the Future of Work in the Global South: Job Apocalypse or Job Opportunity?
When? July 9, 2026
Moderation:
- Moderated by Anastésia Taieb, AI and New Technology Officer at AFD, and Gabrielle Leroux, Higher Education Lead at AFD
Speakers:
- Patrick Feuerstein, Principal Investigator for Fairwork Germany, Research Fellow at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB)
- Mophat Okinyi, Founder & CEO of TCA (Techworker Community Africa), AI & Human Rights Advocate, former Content Moderator
- Jacki O’Neill, Director of Microsoft Research Africa
Watch the replays
AI and the Future of Work in the Global South: Job Apocalypse or Job Opportunity?
Published on July 10, 2026
Unseen and Unheard: How Technology Facilitates Gender-Based Violence and What We Can Do About It
Published on November 27, 2025
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