Where technology and social impact interact - speaking with Samira Khan

The Blue Marble

Today we're chatting with Samira Khan. Samira works at the intersection of social impact + tech at Salesforce. She's focused on impact measurement and the SDGs and has worked on global social impact and innovation across corporations, governments, and the social sector for over twelve years. Samira's work spans the Americas, the Middle East, and Asia. She is a former strategy /management consultant at Accenture; and while with A.T. Kearney in Southeast Asia, played a leading role in starting their social impact organization. Samira is also passionate about youth empowerment toward the SDGs and gender.

We speak about social entrepreneurship, what that means today and how its important, where technology is being put to good use both in the for profit and not for profit sectors and of course touch on the current situation - the impact and changes being seen following the disruption of 2020.

Samira can be found@samiraakhan on Twitter / LinkedIn.