Question 1

What does Shahzad Asghar speak about?

Accepted Answer

Shahzad Asghar speaks on applied artificial intelligence in the United Nations and the wider public sector. Recurring topics are moving agentic AI from pilot to production, AI governance under the NIST AI Risk Management Framework and the EU AI Act, sovereign AI strategy and data residency, AI security and assurance, last-mile AI delivery in low-connectivity settings, and building AI capability inside a public institution.

Question 2

Where has Shahzad Asghar spoken?

Accepted Answer

He has presented at UN 2.0 events to more than 300 senior officials from 36 UN agencies on AI implementation in humanitarian operations, at regional cybersecurity workshops for IT and security professionals across the MENA region, and at UNHCR innovation forums for inter-agency technology coordination teams.

Question 3

How do you book Shahzad Asghar for a speaking engagement?

Accepted Answer

Speaking enquiries go to shahzad.cdcu@gmail.com. Sessions are delivered in person or remotely and range from a 30-minute executive briefing to a full-day workshop, covering keynotes, panels, workshops, and executive briefings.

Question 4

What recognition has Shahzad Asghar received?

Accepted Answer

DigitalAAP, his refugee feedback system, was selected for the UN Global Pulse Accelerator programme in its third cohort and is listed in the UN Innovation Network innovation library. His $2.5M Digital Transformation Programme at UNHCR Jordan achieved 83% efficiency gains between 2018 and 2024, and Microsoft and AWS partnerships generated more than $1M in refugee-centred project funding.

Question 5

What has Shahzad Asghar published on AI?

Accepted Answer

His published writing includes a first-hand account of three agentic AI systems built inside the UN and the delivery lessons most humanitarian pilots miss, an analysis of how English-dominated training data imposes a cost on multilingual populations, and an examination of why AI agents that work in demonstrations fail in production.

Speaking and Publications

Selected speaking engagements

UN 2.0 Events

Regional Cybersecurity Workshops

UNHCR Innovation Forums

Selected publications

Last-Mile AI: A Practitioner Framework for Delivering Artificial Intelligence Under Infrastructure, Language, and Governance Constraints

I Built 3 Agentic AI Systems Inside the UN — Here's What Most Humanitarian Pilots Get Wrong

When 95% of AI's Brain is English, the Rest of the World Pays a Tax

Why Your AI Agent Looks Magical in the Demo and Broken in Production

Recognition and visibility

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