Impact Days 2025

12–13 May 2025 | Vienna, Austria

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Cornelia Walther

Fellow and Founder HI@Hub

Wharton School. HI@Hub

Philadelphia, United States

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Humanitarian leader with 20+ years at the UN, driving social change. Now at Wharton as a Fellow, she pioneers research on hybrid intelligence and prosocial AI.

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Wharton School. HI@Hub

Wharton School. HI@Hub

University/Research Institute

Philadelphia, United States

The HI@Hub offers a safe space for stakeholders from academia, government, industry, the arts, and civil society to converge and curate the complementarity of natural intelligence and artificial intelligence in ways that serve people and planet. Anchored in the perspective that human life is multidimensional and solutions to bring out the best for all transdisciplinary, the HI@Hub curates an ecosystem to address technology with a candid, compassionate, and curious mindset. Beyond culture, class, creed and conventions we pursue 4 components - credo, community, curriculum, and coaching. Reach out to learn more.
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About me

Dr Cornelia C. Walther is a thought catalyst in hybrid intelligence and prosocial AI. Her scope combines theory and practice. As a humanitarian practitioner, she worked with the United Nations for two decades in large-scale emergencies in West Africa, Asia, and Latin America, focusing on hybrid advocacy and social and behavioral change. She collaborates with universities across the Americas and Europe as a lecturer, executive coach, and researcher. She is presently a senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Dental Medicine and the Wharton Initiative for Neuroscience (WiN)/Wharton AI and Analytics. She is affiliated with MindCORE and the Center for Social Norms and Behavioral Dynamics at the University of Pennsylvania.

Since 2021, her focus has been on aspirational algorithms and the potential to harness technology for social good; briefly, she has said artificial intelligence for inspired action (AI4IA). In 2017, she initiated POZE (Perspective Optimization Zeniths Exposure) in Haiti, which has since grown into a global transdisciplinary network of like-minded researchers and practitioners committed to inclusive social change.   

She writes regularly on ProSocial AI and Hybrid intelliengence on :

Forbes  https://www.forbes.com/sites/corneliawalther/

Psychology Today https://rb.gy/733q62

Knowledge at Wharton https://rb.gy/7yid9o

Recent Books (English and German):

https://link.springer.com/search?query=cornelia+walther&facet-content-type=Book

Recent Podcasts

2025-04-23.  Hybrid Literacy for Humanitarian. (Save the Children/Humanitarian Leadership Academy.)

https://www.humanitarianleadershipacademy.org/resources/double-literacy-harnessing-ai-for-humanitarians-and-social-change/

2025-04-18. Coaching with Hybrid intelligence and POZE. (Coaching Institute/Coaching revealed)

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/coaching-with-hybrid-intelligence-and-poze-with/id1727598664?i=1000703967683

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