Charles Conley helps mission-driven organizations turn fragmented information, emerging technology, and complex operating environments into trusted data foundations and practical AI-enabled systems.
Not AI theater. A career built around making complex data useful in the places where decisions carry real consequences.
As Director of GIS and Technology, Charles served as the organization’s technology solution lead, helping shape scalable tools, data strategies, and partner-facing systems for vulnerable communities.
Read the Cadasta profileCo-developed Cadasta’s Global Impact Dashboard 2.0, integrating project and CRM data into maps, dashboards, and metrics for partners, policymakers, and practitioners.
View the project storyWorked with humanitarian and development organizations to strengthen how geography, information management, and technology support planning, coordination, and operational decisions.
View public speaker profileContributed to early humanitarian information systems and research integrating diverse datasets for mine-action planning, socioeconomic analysis, and field decision support.
Read selected researchA bridge between technical possibility, organizational reality, and measurable public value.
Set priorities, define roadmaps, assess readiness, and align data and AI investments with mission, operating constraints, and the decisions people actually need to make.
Connect systems, workflows, data models, visualization, and field tools into sustainable platforms that can be reused and scaled across programs and partners.
Build the policies, standards, quality controls, and human-in-the-loop practices required for trustworthy data and responsible AI use.
Transform multiple data streams into decision-ready products for leaders, program teams, field staff, partners, and communities.
Make complex technology understandable to executives and stakeholders while remaining credible with technical practitioners and implementation teams.
AI value does not begin with the model. It begins with trusted data, clear governance, and systems people can use.
This positioning keeps the story credible: Charles’s advantage is not hype. It is the ability to connect data foundations, responsible technology choices, operational context, and mission outcomes.
Deep domain experience, with a throughline of better information for better action.
Information management, mine action, landmine-impact surveys, data integration, and field decision support.
Nonprofit and global-organization engagement focused on geography, GIS, and mission-driven technology adoption.
Technology strategy, platform scale, partner tools, data visualization, and land-rights information systems.
Helping organizations connect data maturity, responsible AI adoption, and operational intelligence.
Charles is positioned for executive and senior advisory roles where data, AI, technology, and public value must work as one system.
Connect with Charles