My talk at Business4Better China 15 July 2015 On my journey in disaster relief.

1. Robin Low - Human
By Robin Low

2. Labels are for jars

3. This is my story

4. 9/11

5. Katrina

6. Asian Tsunami

7. Haiti Earthquake

8. Japan Tsunami

9. Deployed Relief 2.0
• Run the last mile of disaster relief
• Run Relief B2B
• Markets of Hope

10. Deployment
• Hurricane Sandy (Rockaway, NJ)
• Tacloban, Philippines
• Nepal Earthquake

11. Partners
• Occupy Relief Sandy (NJ)
–Amazon disaster registry
• Open Ecology
–Global Village Blueprint
• Etc.

12. What I learned
• Decisiveness
• Infrastructure gone, knowledge remains
• Anyone can be a hero
• Don’t get sad, angry or scared

13. NEVER HELP
• Engage
• Empower
• Enable
• Connect

14. What drives me?
• Ability to make change – behavioral change
• Explore new opportunities, meet new people
• Responsibility to share experience from other
disasters
• Test ideas, engage beneficiaries and create
prototype
• The idea that I’m not alone, and many people
support me in the work that I do