AI in Action

Lessons from the YBI Network

What does AI actually look like in practice?
For the final session of YBI’s AI Month, hear directly from two YBI members about how they’re experimenting with AI to improve impact measurement, support entrepreneurs and transform their work, and hear the lessons, challenges and opportunities they’ve uncovered along the way.


Already registered? Join the webinar below:

  • Sam Kundu (CURAD), Apollo Segawa (CURAD) and Soyeon Lee (Impact Square)

  • 28th October

    10-11am (GMT)        

  • Live event

    Faciliated within Zoom

  • Duration

    60 minutes

About this session:


To close YBI’s AI Month, we’re putting the spotlight on real experiences from within the YBI network.


In this peer-learning session, Impact Square (South Korea) and CURAD (Uganda) will share how they are exploring and applying AI in their own work - from impact measurement and MEL to agribusiness incubation, entrepreneurship development and MSME support.


Impact Square will share their experience developing Impactology AI, a solution designed to turn documents organisations already have, such as investor decks, business plans and programme data, into a structured impact report aligned with the IMP framework. The tool can suggest relevant outcomes and indicators along the way, and can also help organisations supporting multiple businesses apply a consistent impact measurement process across an entire cohort. You’ll hear about the thinking behind the solution, what they’ve learned from developing it, and how they’re applying AI to MEL and impact measurement.


CURAD will share how they are exploring and applying AI across their work in agribusiness incubation, entrepreneurship development, training and MSME support. They’ll share some of their innovations, experiences and lessons from experimenting with AI, followed by an opportunity for participants to ask questions and explore the ideas further.


This is a chance to move beyond the theory and hear what AI looks like when Enterprise Support Organisations start testing, adapting and applying it in the real world.

By the end of the session, participants will:

  • Discover practical ways YBI members are using AI in their day-to-day work. 
  • See examples of how AI can support MEL, impact measurement and reporting. 
  • Explore how AI can be applied to entrepreneur support, training and business development. 
  • Learn from the experiences, experiments and lessons of other YBI members. 
  • Identify ideas and approaches they could explore within their own organisation. 
  • Have the opportunity to ask questions and share their own experiences of using AI. 


A practical, peer-led session to bring YBI’s AI Month to a close - with ideas you can take away and explore in your own work.



Meet the expert

Sam Kundu 

Founder of Verde Nexus 

Md. Rashed Mamun is the Founder of Verde Nexus, which helps governments, development partners, and mission-driven organizations achieve greater development impact, and Extryve, which helps businesses achieve stronger commercial outcomes through AI-enabled process transformation.

Previously, he led Bangladesh Youth Enterprise Advice & Helpcentre (BYEAH), Youth Business International's member organization in Bangladesh. Over the past decade, he has worked across nine countries, contributing to the design and delivery of development programmes and advisory engagements with a combined portfolio of approximately USD 30M.

His work sits at the intersection of AI, programme management, research, and organizational systems, with a focus on helping teams use AI ethically to improve reporting, decision-making, and operational effectiveness while keeping human judgment at the centre
Meet the expert

Apollo Segawa 

Executive Director CURAD Uganda. MBA, Edinburg Business School Scotland UK. Masters Food Tech, Univ of Johannesburg SA, Bsc Food Tech, Makerere Univ Uganda; Honours Degree in Physiology; Univ of Witwatersrand SA

A Food technologist, Agribusiness, food systems and enterprise development specialists. Segawa is currently the Executive Director of the Consortium for enhancing University Responsiveness to Agribusiness Development Limited (CURAD), a public-private partnership initiative established with the aim of producing innovative young agro entrepreneurs and agribusiness leaders to champion productivity. As an experienced food scientist and Value addition expert, Apollo has a passion for agribusiness value chains, food systems, product development, quality control and quality management systems development assurance and audit in the food industry and has previously served at numerous organizations including the University of Johannesburg as Lecturer, Uganda Development Corporation (UDC) and Uganda Industrial Research Institute (UIRI). Segawa is also the chairman, Agribusiness Incubation alliance of Uganda(ABIAU).
Meet the expert

Soyeon Lee 

Manager, Impact Square

  • Manager at Impact Square, specializing in impact measurement and management (IMM)
  • Experienced in conducting impact measurement and evaluation projects for government and public-sector organizations, nonprofit foundations, and impact-driven businesses in Korea
  • Currently leads Impactology AI an initiative focused on integrating AI into IMM practices