Advancing trustworthy AI for disaster resilience
We bring together researchers, engineers, emergency responders, and humanitarian organizations to build artificial intelligence that protects lives before, during, and after natural disasters.
Our focus
Our work follows the lifecycle of every disaster.
Anticipate
Early warning, risk modeling, and preparedness so communities can act before disaster hits.
Respond
Real-time situational awareness, coordination, and decision support when every minute counts.
Recover
Rebuilding faster and more equitably, and growing long-term resilience.
What we're building
Concrete, current work — not hypothetical. Nine tracks, one hackathon, real disaster-response gaps:
Our values
Human-first AI
People, dignity, and safety come before the technology.
Open collaboration
We work in the open and share what we build.
Accessible by design
Tools that reach the communities and responders who need them — not just those with the most resources.
Science over Secrecy
We publish, collaborate, and build in the open whenever possible.
Our mission
We believe advanced AI should serve people first. Our mission: gather researchers, engineers, responders, and humanitarians around one commitment — technology in service of human dignity, in our most urgent hours.
When earthquakes, floods, wildfires, and storms upend lives, hours decide outcomes. We research, build, and share AI that helps communities anticipate, respond to, and recover from disaster — faster, fairer, and within reach of everyone who needs it.
Our vision
We envision a future where every community, regardless of geography or resources, has access to trustworthy AI that helps reduce suffering before disasters happen, supports responders during crises, and accelerates recovery afterward.
Our approach
We build to the standards real responders use — Sendai, HXL, CAP, Sphere, and the UN cluster system — rather than reinventing them from scratch. It starts with a researched, verified map of the frameworks disaster response already runs on. Read the research →
Venezuela Earthquake Response Hackathon
We're kickstarting everything on July 8 at 11:15 UTC, when 99% of humanity is experiencing daylight simultaneously. Builders, responders, and humanitarians from anywhere in the world. One goal: ship technology that helps people survive and recover from the earthquakes that just struck Venezuela.
- Format
- Online · Global
- Kickoff
- Wed, Jul 8
- Build
- Jul 8 – Aug 11
- Demo day
- Thu, Aug 13
There’s a place for you here.
We’re bringing together researchers, engineers, first responders, and humanitarians who want to put AI to work for people in crisis. Whether you write code, study disasters, coordinate relief, or simply share the vision — there’s a place for you here.