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The Goal

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Identify

practical applications of AI

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Accelerate

progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals

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Scale

solutions for global impact

The AI for Good Global Summit is the leading action-oriented United Nations platform promoting AI to advance health, climate, gender, inclusive prosperity, sustainable infrastructure, and other global development priorities. AI for Good is organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) – the UN specialized agency for information and communication technology – in partnership with 40 UN sister agencies and co-convened with the government of Switzerland.

Organized by

Summit Speakers

Secretary-General
United Nations
*Video address
Secretary-General
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Advisor for the Learning in Machines & Brains
*presented remotely
CEO
OpenAI
*presented remotely
United Kingdom
Professor of Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley, Author 'Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control'
UC-Berkeley
Head of Google DeepMind Impact Accelerator
Google DeepMind
Co-Founder & Executive Director
Center for Humane Technology (CHT)
The Social Dilemma
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder, USA science envoy for AI
Humane Intelligence
CEO, Time 100 AI
Lelapa AI
CEO
Alothaim Investment AI and R&D Company
Rector
United Nations University
Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
Founder
Exponential View
Director General
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
Professor of Ethical & Social Artificial Intelligence
Umeå University
CEO
The Atlantic
Swiss State Secretary
Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA)
IBM Fellow
IBM
CEO & Co-Founder & Associate Professor (MBZUAI)
Pinscreen
First Deputy Managing Director
International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Executive Director
Linux Foundation
Award-winning artist, storyteller and strategist
Deputy Secretary-General
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Founder and CEO
AIE3
Chair of the AI for Good Impact Initiative
Director of the Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB)
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Senior Director of Robotics
Google DeepMind
Professor of Practice in Data Science
University of Virginia, School of Data Science
Head of Strategic Partnerships, Global Affairs
OpenAI
Researcher & Senior Director
Alibaba DAMO Academy
Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder
INBRAIN Neuroelectronics
Vice President of Policy and Government
Boston Dynamics
Senior Reporter for AI
MIT Technology Review
Vice-Minister for Policy Coordination
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan
Chief Executive Officer
Neurable
Director
IEEE
Professor
University of Texas at Austin
Ph.D. Student
Stanford University
Deputy to the Director and Chief of Telecommunication Standardization Policy Department, TSB
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Chief Digital Officer
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Founder
The Virtual Events Group (VEG)
Programme Chair, AI for Good Former Deputy Director, TSB,
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Deputy Executive Secretary
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UNESCWA)
Professor of Robotics and Perception
University of Zurich
Chief, Strategy and Operations, AI for Good
TSB International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Co-Founder & CEO
Inclusive Brains
Neurologist
Massachusetts General Hospital
Professor and Center Director,
NSF IUCRC BRAIN
Founder and President
Wandercraft
Professor
University of Oxford
Inventor, BBC "Click" Presenter
BBC News
Professor in Intelligent Interactive Systems and Director of the Uppsala Social Robotics Lab
Department of Information Technology of Uppsala University
CEO
Wyss Center
Professor and Head of the Biorobotics Laboratory
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
CEO and Co-Founder
Bitbrain
Head of the Institute of Neural Engineering
Graz University of Technology
Professor
RWTH Aachen
TU Delft
Chief Curator of Artistic Intelligence Visionary Initiative
R100 Studios
Full Professor, Department of Health Sciences and Technology
ETH Zurich
Tech Reporter
Euronews
Creative Technologist, Strategy Consultant, Directors Fellow MIT Media Lab; Founder
Co-Founder and CEO
Forest Neurotech
CEO
Kernel
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Technical University Berlin
Chair for Law and Ethics of the Digital Society, European New School of Digital Studies
European University Viadrina
Executive Director
The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania Law School
Professor
Politecnico di Milano
Professor of Atmospheric Physics
University of Oxford
Director & Professor
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
Professor of Computer Vision
University of Jena
Independent Research Consultant
Consultant
Professor and Chair of Sustainable Manufacturing
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Director of Machine Learning
Wikimedia Foundation
Professor
University of Minnesota Duluth
Founder and CEO
Cognixion
CEO and Co-Founder
Esper Bionics
Climate Activist and Executive Director
Adjunct Research Professor
Western University
Co-Founder at PropelFocus
CEO
NextMind
Founder and Executive Director
Global Emancipation Network (GEN)
Director A2RL
Aspire UAE
Adjunct Professor and co-Director
Rehabilitation Engineering Laboratory, ETH Zurich
Co-Founder and Managing Partner
Bracket Foundation
CEO
NetHope
Head of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI)
Founder & CEO
Precognition
Former UK Minister for Internet Safety and Security
CEO/Founder, Women at the Table and Co-Founder, Alliance for Inclusive Algorithms
Women@TheTable
Fusion Scientist
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Responsible AI Leader, Social Entrepreneur, Founder
Women in AI Ethics™
Unknown Person
Supervisor
Online CSEA Covert Intelligence Team (UK OCCIT)
Ambassador and Director of International Affairs
Swiss Federal Office of Communications
Chair of the Council of Europe Committee on AI
Ambassador at Large for Cyber Affairs
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Director, Futures Program
The Future of Life Institute
Ambassador, Permanent Representative
Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations Office and other international organizations in Geneva
Co-Founder & CVO
Bioniks
Secretary-General
International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
Sr. Director of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science
Shutterstock
President, Women in AI
Head of Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, Public Policy, EMEA
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Executive Director
Commission for Communications Regulation of Colombia (CRC)
Commissioner and Acting Chairman
Federal Telecommunications Institute (IFT) Mexico
Executive Vice Chairman
Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC)
Chairman
Information and Communication Technologies Authority (ICTA), Mauritius
Presidenta de Directorio
Unidad Reguladora de Servicios de Comunicaciones (URSEC), Uruguay
Chairman
The National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission of Thailand (NBTC)
Graduate student
University of Cambridge
Inaugural Professor of Artificial Intelligence Ethics and Neuroscience and the Deputy Director
Center for Ethics and History of Medicine at the Medical School of the Technical University of Munich (TUM)
Dean and University Professor of Robotics
Carnegie Mellon University
Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science; Director, Penn Program on Regulation
University of Pennsylvania
Vice President, Data Ethics
SAS
Vice President for Research
ETH Zurich
Deputy Executive Director
International Trade Centre (ITC)
Deputy Director General
UPU International Bureau
Professor of Law and Artificial Intelligence
University of Tübingen
Director of the CZS Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Law
Director, Information Law & Policy Centre, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
University of London
Head of Office and Digital Policy Adviser
European Parliament
Director
African Observatory on Responsible AI
Executive Director
TASC Platform
IBM Fellow
IBM T.J. Watson Research Lab
Co-Editor
Journal of Futures Studies
CEO
Emerging Rule
GENIA Latinoamérica
Associate Professor
OMNES EDUCATION - INSEEC
Founder
Source Transitions
Executive Director
SolveCC
Professor, Dept of Computer Science
University of Colorado Boulder
Research Director at INRIA Paris
Principal Research Scientist
NVIDIA
Senior Researcher
Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI)
Lead AI Scientist
Open Innovation AI
Adjunct Professor, Khalifa University
NEMO Standards Project Manager
Ericsson
NIST Fellow
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Principal Architect
Red Hat
Founder and Managing Director
Source Agility
Global Chief Technologist
Red Hat
Director of Sustainability & Social Impact
Arm
Focus Activity Manager Data & AI
CSEM
PhD Student in Neuromorphic Computing
CSEM
Co-organizer at TinyML Foundation
Founder & CEO
Fadwa AlBawardi Consulting Office
Emerging Tech Advisor
USAID Innovation, Technology, and Research Hub
Senior Data Scientist
USAID Innovation, Technology, and Research Hub
Co-founder and chief executive
Unbabel Labs
Chief Innovation Officer
KUKA
Director
United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR)
President of Government and Public Sector
Groq
Director National, European and International Digital Policy
Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport, Germany
Head Chief of Cabinet
Ministry of Information Society and Administration, North Macedonia
Ambassador
U.S. Department of State
General Director
Regulatory Body of Telecommunications, Government of Equatorial Guinea
Chief Data Officer (CDO)
Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications Republic of Estonia
President
Autorité de Régulation des Communications Electroniques et des Postes, Gabon
Chairman
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India
Deputy Director, Technology Division
USAID
Chief Information Officer
United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (UNJSPF)
Chair of the Council
The Communications Regulatory Authority of the Republic of Lithuania (RRT)
Senior Technology Architect
Malta Digital Innovation Authority
President
Office of Electronic Communications, Poland
Director General
Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ)
Chief Digital Officer
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Secretary-General
World Internet Conference (WIC)
CEO and Managing Director
Control Bionics
Co-founder
Neuroelectrics
Director
UNICC
Chief Information Officer and Director, Technology
World Food Programme (WFP)
Data Scientist
United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)
Executive Director
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
PostDoc
University of Oxford
Sr. Theme Coordinator Extreme Weather & Climate Dynamics
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Doctoral Researcher
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
ETH Zurich
State Councillor in charge of the Department of Economy and Labour
République et canton de Genève
Professor for Translational Immunology and Head of the Center of Immunomics
Berlin Institute of Health (BIH)
Professor of Genetic Epidemiology
University College London
Professor & Director, Institute of Physiology
Charité Berlin
Professor, University of Toronto
Professor, Applied Microbiology
Professor, Chair of Computational Modelling in Medicine
Charité Berlin
Professor, Gender-Sensitive Prevention Research
Charité Berlin
Composer
Full Professor in Next-Generation Smart Networks and Services
University of the West of Scotland (UWS)
Senior Director, Responsible AI Public Policy
Microsoft
Full Professor in Cognitive Networks and Services
University of the West of Scotland (UWS)
Next Generation R&D Engineer
Turkcell Technology
Senior Researcher
Rakuten Mobile, Inc.
Chief Researcher
Technology Innovation Institute (TII)
Research Manager Wireless Technology
Apple
Co-Founder & CTO
DeepSig Inc
Lecturer
University of Glasgow
Professor
Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU)
Postdoctoral Researcher, Radio Systems Research Group
Nokia Bell Labs
Director of standard and open source planning
ZTE
Senior Researcher
Huawei
Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science
ETH Zurich
Professor
Federal University of Technology Minna Nigeria
Senior Researcher
AMD Research and Advanced Development (RAD)
Scientific and Technical Officer
Group on Earth Observations (GEO)
Marco Zennaro Profile Picture
Research Scientist
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Professor of Urban Geography
University of Lausanne
Chief Technology Officer
Analytics for a Better World (ABW)
Tenure Track Researcher, Head of the CONTACT Unit
Italian Institute of Technology (IIT)
Bavarian AI Chair for Mathematical Foundations of AI
Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München
Professor/Founder XAI World Conference
Technological University Dublin
Doctoral Researcher
Brown University
Full Professor
Scuola Normale Superiore Di Pisa
Professor, Warsaw University of Technology
University of Warsaw
Chief Executive
LotusAI Ltd
Board Director, tinyML Foundation
Vice President of INEGI (Mexico) and Co-Chair of UN GGIM
National Institute of Statistics and Geography of Mexico (INEGI)
Head of Machine Learning
Dotphoton
Professor
Lund University
Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Information & Digital, and Chief Privacy Officer
3M
Professor
Pusan National University, South Korea
Data science Master’s student
Harvard University
Data science Master’s student
Harvard University
Data science Master’s Student
Harvard University
Director ICT and Disaster Risk Reduction Division
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP)
Research Scientist
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Associate Professor, Department of Telecommunication Networks
St. Petersburg State University of Telecommunications
Associate Professor, Department of Telecommunication Networks
St. Petersburg State University of Telecommunications
Chief Product and Technology Officer
DataTrails
Co-Chair of the IETF Supply Chain Integrity, Transparency and Trust Working Group
Head of International Organizations
Google
Director General
Consumer International
Senior Principal Architect
Adobe
Professor
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Convenor of JPEG Group
Director of Privacy Policy
Meta
Director Intellectual Property and Innovation Development Center
China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT)
Professor Visual Computing
Humboldt University of Berlin
Senior Techplomacy Delegate
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Deputy Head, Digital Foreign Policy Division
Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs
Associate Professor
Hongkong Polytechnic University
 Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)
Eli Lilly
Statistician, Mitigation division
UNFCCC
Professor of Robotics
Norwegian University of Science and Technology