Global Summit
AI for Good
View programme 8-11July 2025 - Geneva, Switzerland
AI for Good
Global Summit
8-11 July 2025 Geneva, Switzerland View programme

The United Nations’ leading platform on Artificial Intelligence to solve global challenges

AI for Good is identifying innovative AI applications, building skills and standards, and advancing partnerships to solve global challenges.

AI for Good is organized by ITU in partnership with over 40 UN Sister Agencies and co-convened with the Government of Switzerland.

Join the #AIforGood movement

Bringing stakeholders together to harness AI’s potential to solve global challenges.

AI standards for a better future

Developing AI standards to create more opportunities for innovation and digital transformation worldwide.

AI skills for everyone

Empowering people with the tools and knowledge to thrive in the AI era—nurturing the future wave of innovators. 

AI Governance Dialogue

Facilitating exchanges between key stakeholders on effective approaches to AI governance

AI for Good is identifying innovative AI applications, building skills and standards, and advancing partnerships to solve global challenges.

AI for Good is organized by ITU in partnership with over 40 UN Sister Agencies and co-convened with the Government of Switzerland.

Join the #AIforGood movement

Bringing stakeholders together to harness AI’s potential to solve global challenges.

AI standards for a better future

Developing AI standards to create more opportunities for innovation and digital transformation worldwide.

AI skills for everyone

Empowering people with the tools and knowledge to thrive in the AI era—nurturing the future wave of innovators. 

AI governance that works

Facilitating exchanges between key stakeholders on effective approaches to AI governance

Summit Speakers
Secretary-General
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International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Doreen Bogdan-Martin took office as Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) on 1 January 2023. Ms Bogdan-Martin was elected as ITU’s first-ever female Secretary-General by Member States at the Union’s Plenipotentiary Conference in Bucharest, Romania. Ms Bogdan-Martin was previously the Director of the ITU Telecommunication Development Bureau. She took office on 1 January 2019, becoming the first woman in ITU history to hold one of the organization’s top elected management positions. <div>Ms Bogdan-Martin is a strategic leader with more than 30 years’ high-level experience in international and inter-governmental relations and a long history of success advising governments around the world on policy and regulatory issues.</div> <div></div> <div>From 2008-2018, she led ITU’s Strategic Planning & Membership Department. She was instrumental in establishing the Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development, on which she has served as Executive Director for more than a decade, and was an architect of the annual Global Symposium for Regulators, the pre-eminent global event for digital policymakers, as well as director of ITU’s first global youth summit, #BYND. She pioneered and oversees ITU’s ongoing contribution to the EQUALS Global Partnership for Gender Equality in the Digital Age, and is leading ITU’s collaboration with UNICEF on the Giga project to connect all the world’s schools.</div> <div></div> <div>Ms Bogdan-Martin is a frequent speaker at top-level international policy events and has spearheaded ITU’s new Youth Strategy to more actively engage with the young people who are driving the next wave of digital transformation.</div> <div></div> <div>During her tenure as Director of BDT, she has led the implementation of a Results-Based Management system, improved internal accountability frameworks, and initiated a comprehensive review of reporting mechanisms across BDT’s global network of field and area offices, with a view to creating a more dynamic, responsive and fit-for-purpose organization.</div> <div></div> <div>Ms Bogdan-Martin holds a Master’s degree in International Communications Policy from American University in Washington, DC, post-graduate certification in Strategies for Leadership from the Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland, and is certified in Accountability and Ethics by the United Nations Leaders Programme.</div> <div></div> <div>She is an affiliate of the Harvard University Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society, a Generation Unlimited Champion, and a Champion of the EDISON Alliance led by the World Economic Forum. She serves on a number of advisory bodies, including the Geneva-Tsinghua Initiative, the SDG Lab Advisory Board, the UN Technology Innovation Labs, and the Alumni Expert Council of the Internet Governance Lab of American University in Washington D.C. She is also a qualified amateur radio operator.</div> <div></div> <div>Ms Bogdan-Martin is married with four children.</div>
President
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Republic of Estonia
President Alar Karis was born on 26 March 1958 in Tartu. President Karis graduated from the Estonian Agricultural Academy (now the Estonian University of Life Sciences) in 1981. He earned a Master of Science degree in parasitology in 1987, with his later research focussing on molecular genetics and developmental biology. President Karis worked at the Estonian Research Institute of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Science and later at the Estonian Biocentre of the Academy of Sciences. He has also worked at universities in Germany, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, and joined the University of Tartu as a professor in 1999. His research has been among the most widely cited internationally of any Estonian scientist of his generation. In 1999 President Karis founded the University of Tartu-spawned Visgenyx with Professor Eero Vasar, serving as a member of the management board until 2005. The company was involved in the development of transgene organisms for European biotech companies and universities. President Karis has served as the rector of both the Estonian University of Life Sciences and the University of Tartu. He has led the work of Universities Estonia (the national council of university rectors) a number of times. President Karis has served as the Auditor-General of the Republic of Estonia and as the head of the EUROSAI Working Group on Environmental Auditing (EUROSAI WGEA). President Karis was also the director of the Estonian National Museum. President Karis has previously been a member of the Academic Council and Academic Advisory Board of the President of the Republic and of the Research and Development Council; a member of the supervisory boards of the Estonian Fund for Nature, the European University Association, the Entrepreneurship & Living Environment Development Division of Enterprise Estonia, the International Council of Archives, the International Council of Museums and the museums of the University of Tartu and the Estonian Literary Museum; and the chairman of the supervisory boards of the Estonian Development Fund and the Estonian University of Life Sciences. He has also been a member of the World Cultural Council since 2011. Prior to becoming the head of state, President Karis served as the honorary consul to the Republic of Chile in Estonia for 10 years. He is a member of the Estonian Students Society and the Tartu Rotary Club. President Karis is married to Sirje Karis. They have three children.
Musician and Founder & CEO, FYI.AI, Goodwill Ambassador, AI Skills Coalition
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ITU
* virtual
As a creative artist, tech entrepreneur, the Founder & CEO of FYI, and a Goodwill Ambassador, AI Skills Coalition for the United Nations International Telecommunications Union, will.i.am has been recognized by a CLIO Award, an Emmy Award, nine Grammy Awards, the James C. Morgan Global Humanitarian Award, a TIME 100 Impact Award, the World Economic Forum’s Crystal Award, and an Honorary Fellowship by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET - UK). He is simultaneously a creative innovation advisor, futurist, multi-platinum Grammy-winning music artist, producer, entertainer and a tech entrepreneur as part of his cross-disciplinary career. He invests in and develops businesses in a range of sectors including the FYI Web 3.0 creativity & productivity tool, automotive, consumer-tech, fashion, food & beverage, software (AI, Natural Language Understanding, Voice Computing) and telecom. His early work as Futurist and market opportunity spotter was with Beats Electronics. As a founding equity stakeholder in the company, will.i.am was instrumental in helping to transform Beats By Dre™ into a global consumer electronics brand. Beats Electronics was purchased by Apple in 2014 for US$3 billion. will.i.am teams with the world’s leading companies helping them to embrace future technologies, what’s next in cultural trends and develop new business initiatives. Organizations he has collaborated with include Apple, Arizona State University, Coca-Cola, Deutsche Telekom, Formula 1, Honeywell, Intel, LG, Marvel Comics, Mercedes-AMG, Microsoft, Pepsi, Salesforce, SiriusXM and UPROXX Studios. In philanthropy will.i.am established his i.am Angel Foundation in 2009 to transform lives through education, inspiration and opportunity incorporating STEAM (science, tech, engineering, arts and mathematics) education resources and robotics clubs in schools. i.am Angel Foundation programs also include after-school tutoring and scholarship aid for university-bound students in underserved areas. With a 99% graduation rate, participating students are often the first in their families to attend a four-year college or university. Through a private-public partnership with Los Angeles Unified schools, the foundation has helped establish hundreds of after-school robotics clubs in high schools across the city. In collaboration with Arizona State University, his FYI.AI platform is being adapted to offer university-level courses, tutoring tools and student life resources. As an education advocate, will.i.am serves on the boards of advisors and directors of College Track, FIRST Global (student robotics), Smithsonian Science Education Center Advisory Committee, and the Iovine-Young Academy at University of Southern California. In recognition of his work in Artificial Intelligence and education, will.i.am was appointed Goodwill Ambassador, AI Skills Coalition, United Nations International Telecommunications Union in 2025. <span data-teams="true"> </span>
Chair and CEO
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Salesforce
Federal Councillor, Head of the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research (EAER)
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Switzerland
Chief Technology Officer and Vice President
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Amazon
Dr. Werner Vogels is Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com where he is responsible for driving the company's customer-centric technology vision. As one of the forces behind Amazon's approach to cloud computing, he is passionate about helping young businesses reach global scale, and transforming enterprises into fast-moving digital organizations. Vogels joined Amazon in 2004 from Cornell University where he was a distributed systems researcher. He has held technology leadership positions in companies that handle the transition of academic technology into industry. Vogels holds a PhD from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and has authored many articles on distributed systems technologies for enterprise computing.
Founder & CEO
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Amini
Time 100 AI
Kate Kallot is a world-class technologist who has received sustained global acclaim in tech for social impact, most notably for her work advancing technology access across Africa. She has received multiple accolades for her work, including being named TIME 100 most influential people in AI 2023. Kate is the Founder & CEO of Amini, an impact-driven AI startup solving Africa’s environmental data scarcity to support regenerating natural capital at scale. With over a decade of experience in leading AI innovation at global tech companies such as NVIDIA, Intel, and Arm, she has a proven track record of delivering cutting-edge technology solutions that drive social impact and transform communities. Kate is a recognized expert and influencer in the AI field, advising international organizations and governments on the potential and challenges of AI for good. <h3></h3>
Turing Award & Nobel Laureate | AI Pioneer & Deep Learning Visionary
*Joining remotely
Geoffrey Hinton received his BA in Experimental Psychology from Cambridge in 1970 and his PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Edinburgh in 1978.  He did postdoctoral work at Sussex University and the University of California San Diego and spent five years as a faculty member in the Computer Science department at Carnegie-Mellon University. He then became a fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and moved to the <a href="http://www.cs.toronto.edu/">Department of Computer Science</a> at the University of Toronto. He spent three years from 1998 until 2001 setting up the <a href="http://www.gatsby.ucl.ac.uk/">Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit</a> at University College London and then returned to the University of Toronto where he is now an emeritus distinguished professor. From 2004 until 2013 he was the director of the program on "Neural Computation and Adaptive Perception" which is funded by the <a href="http://www.ciar.ca/">Canadian Institute for Advanced Research</a>. From 2013 to 2023 he worked half-time at Google where he became a Vice President and Engineering Fellow. Geoffrey Hinton is a fellow of <a href="http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/">the Royal Society</a>, <a href="http://www.rsc.ca/">the Royal Society of Canada</a>, <a href="hhttp://www.aaai.org/">the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence</a> and a former president of <a href="http://www.cognitivesciencesociety.org/">the Cognitive Science Society</a>. He is an honorary foreign member of <a href="http://www.amacad.org/">the American Academy of Arts and Sciences</a>, the US National Academy of Engineering and the US National Academy of Science. He has received honorary doctorates from the University of Edinburgh, the University of Sussex, the University of Sherbrooke and the University of Toronto. His awards include the <a href="http://www.cnbc.cmu.edu/derprize/announce2001.html">David E. Rumelhart prize</a>, the <a href="http://ijcai.org/awards/">IJCAI award for research excellence</a>, the <a href="http://www.canadacouncil.ca/prizes/killam/">Killam prize for Engineering </a>, The <a href="http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Prizes-Prix/Index_eng.asp">NSERC Herzberg Gold Medal</a>, the IEEE Frank Rosenblatt medal, the IEEE James Clerk Maxwell Gold medal, the NEC C&C award, the BBVA award, the Honda Prize, the Princess of Asturias Award and the ACM Turing Award. Geoffrey Hinton designs machine learning algorithms. His aim is to discover a learning procedure that is efficient at finding complex structure in large, high-dimensional datasets and to show that this is how the brain learns to see. He was one of the researchers who introduced the <a href="https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/backprop.html">back-propagation</a> algorithm and the first to use backpropagation for learning word embeddings. His other contributions to neural network research include <a href="https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/boltzmann.html">Boltzmann machines,</a> <a href="https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/distrep.html">distributed representations</a>, time-delay neural nets, <a href="https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/mixex.html">mixtures of experts</a>, <a href="https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/helmholtz.html">variational learning</a>, <a href="https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~hinton/poe.html">products of experts</a> and deep belief nets.    His research group in Toronto made major breakthroughs in deep learning that have revolutionized speech recognition and object classification.
President
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Signal
<section class="section foundation is-medium"> <div class="container"> <div class="columns biography-container last-bio"> <div class="column biography"> <p class="body1">Meredith Whittaker is Signal's President and a member of the Signal Foundation Board of Directors.</p> <p class="body1">She has over 17 years of experience in tech, spanning industry, academia, and government. Before joining Signal as President, she was the Minderoo Research Professor at NYU, and served as the Faculty Director of the AI Now Institute which she co-founded. Her research and scholarly work helped shape global AI policy and shift the public narrative on AI to better recognize the surveillance business practices and concentration of industrial resources that modern AI requires. Prior to NYU, she worked at Google for over a decade, where she led product and engineering teams, founded Google's Open Research Group, and co-founded M-Lab, a globally distributed network measurement platform that now provides the world's largest source of open data on internet performance. She also helped lead organizing at Google. She was one of the core organizers pushing back against the company's insufficient response to concerns about AI and its harms, and was a central organizer of the Google Walkout. She has advised the White House, the FCC, the City of New York, the European Parliament, and many other governments and civil society organizations on privacy, security, artificial intelligence, internet policy, and measurement. And she recently completed a term as Senior Advisor on AI to the Chair at the US Federal Trade Commission.</p> </div> </div> </div> </section><section class="section foundation is-medium"> <div class="container"></div> </section>
Distinguished Professor and Dean
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Schwarzman College Tsinghua University
Dr. Lan Xue is a Distinguished Professor and Dean at Schwarzman College Tsinghua University. His teaching and research interests include global governance, crisis management, and science, technology and innovation policy. From 2000 to 2018, he served as Associate Dean, Executive Associate Dean and Dean of the School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University.  He also holds adjunct positions at Carnegie Mellon University and the Brookings Institution. Dr. Xue advises the State Council, chairs China's National Expert Committee on Next Generation AI governance, and is a member of the Standing Committee of the Chinese Association of Science and Technology. Internationally, he serves on the UN Sustainable Development Solution Network board, UN Committee of Experts on Public Administration, and UN Internet Governance Forum Leadership Panel. Dr. Xue is a recipient of Distinguished Young Scholar Award from National Natural Science Foundation of China, Cheung Kong Chair Distinguished Professor of the Ministry of Education, the Fudan Distinguished Contribution Award for Management Science, the Distinguished Contribution Award from Chinese Association for Science of Science and S&T Policy, and the Second National Award for Excellence in Innovation in China. He holds a PhD in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University.
AI & Climate Lead
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Hugging Face
TIME100 AI
<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Alexandra (Sasha) Luccioni is a Postdoctoral Researcher working on AI for Humanity initiatives at Mila - Quebec AI Institute, under the supervision of Yoshua Bengio. She obtained her PhD in Cognitive Computing from UQÀM in 2018 and spent two years working in applied ML, specifically in applying deep learning and NLP to different industrial applications. She is highly involved in community initiatives, serving on the Research and Policy Committee of Women in Machine Learning (WiML) and on the Advisory board of Kids Code Jeunesse.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->
Special Envoy of France for AI
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Full Professor at Université de Montréal, Co-President and Scientific Director of LawZero and Founder and Scientific Advisor 
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Mila
*Joining remotely
Yoshua <span class="marko6l4q15we" data-markjs="true" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="">Bengio</span> is recognized as one of the world’s leading experts in artificial intelligence and a pioneer in deep learning. Since 1993, he has been a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operational Research at the Université de Montréal. He is the founder and scientific director of Mila, the Quebec Institute of Artificial Intelligence, the world’s largest university-based research group in deep learning. He is a member of the NeurIPS board and co-founder and general chair for the ICLR conference, as well as program director of the CIFAR program on Learning in Machines and Brains and is Fellow of the same institution. In 2018, Yoshua <span class="marko6l4q15we" data-markjs="true" data-ogac="" data-ogab="" data-ogsc="" data-ogsb="">Bengio</span> ranked as the computer scientist with the most new citations, worldwide, thanks to his many publications. In 2019, he received the ACM A.M. Turing Award, “the Nobel Prize of Computing”, jointly with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made deep neural networks a critical component of computing. In 2020 he was nominated Fellow of the Royal Society of London.
Chair, Global Board of Directors
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Deloitte
<span lang="en-AE" data-olk-copy-source="MessageBody">Anna Marks is Chair of the Deloitte Global Board of Directors, responsible for leading the Deloitte Global Board in its role to govern and oversee the most significant matters that influence the strategic priorities and operations for Deloitte globally.</span> <span lang="en-AE">Anna is dedicated to driving responsible growth and positive societal impact through collaboration, effective governance and ethical leadership. She is passionate about the role of boards in building trust and resilience in a changing world - by providing constructive oversight and collaborating across their ecosystems to create long-term value for all.  She is a thought leader on topics including board performance, impact and organisational resilience.</span> <span lang="en-AE">Anna is also an active member of several advisory boards including the B20 International Advisory Caucus, the British American Business International Advisory Board and the World Economic Forum Community of Chairpersons. </span><span lang="en-GB">Anna is also a fellow and former board member of the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability in the UK. </span><span lang="en-AE">Prior to becoming the Deloitte Global Chair, Anna held leadership, board and executive roles for Deloitte North & South Europe (NSE) and Deloitte UK. She also has 20 years’ experience as a practicing audit partner.</span>
Professor, Computer Science @ UC Berkeley and Director
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Berkeley RDI (Berkeley center for responsible decentralized intelligence)
Dawn Song is a Professor in Computer Science at UC Berkeley and Co-Director of Berkeley Center on Responsible Decentralized Intelligence. Her research interest lies in AI, AI Safety, deep learning, security and privacy. She is the recipient of various awards including the MacArthur Fellowship, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the NSF CAREER Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, the MIT Technology Review TR-35 Award, ACM SIGSAC Outstanding Innovation Award, and more than 10 Test-of-Time Awards and Best Paper Awards from top conferences in Computer Security and Deep Learning. She has been recognized as Most Influential Scholar (AMiner Award), for being the most cited scholar in computer security. She is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow. She obtained her Ph.D. degree from UC Berkeley. She is also a serial entrepreneur and has been named on the Female Founder 100 List by Inc. and Wired25 List of Innovators.
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Giga

Giga

Giga
Giga, the joint initiative by UNICEF and ITU, is working to connect every school in the world to the internet. By using AI and open geospatial data, Giga maps school connectivity in real time and helps governments identify infrastructure gaps at scale.
Electric & hybrid vehicles

Electric & hybrid vehicles

BYD
Innovative green transport solution with ultra safety and cutting-edge technologies
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NTT contributes to a sustainable society through the power of innovation.
HPE

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is an American multinational information technology company focused on business solutions.
ELLIS - European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems

ELLIS – European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems

ELLIS - European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems
ELLIS is a pan-European AI network of excellence with aims to secure lasting international leadership of AI made in Europe by connecting top researchers in this field and by creating a multi-centric AI research laboratory.
BSI

BSI

BSI
BSI is a business improvement and standards company that partners with more than 77,500 clients globally across multiple industry sectors.
DeepGreenX

DeepGreenX

DeepGreenX
DeepGreenX's AI-driven platform tokenizes Real World Assets
République et canton de Genève

République et canton de Genève

République et canton de Genève
Canton of Geneva: A Hub of Innovation and Sustainable Development
Event VenuePalexpo International Exhibition and Convention Center
Geneva, Switzerland

Attending the AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva means immersing yourself in a city at the heart of international cooperation. The iconic Palexpo International Exhibition and Convention Center provides an inspiring setting for dialogue and action. Discover how AI can be a force for good in a city dedicated to global progress.

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Event VenuePalexpo International Exhibition and Convention Center
Geneva, Switzerland

Attending the AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva means immersing yourself in a city at the heart of international cooperation. The iconic Palexpo International Exhibition and Convention Center provides an inspiring setting for dialogue and action. Discover how AI can be a force for good in a city dedicated to global progress.

We are pleased to offer preferential rates to AI summit attendees. Check booking website 

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AI for Good Impact Awards

Celebrates exceptional achievements in the field of AI, recognizing innovative and impactful AI solutions that contribute to global progress, across three categories: AI for People, AI for Planet, and AI for Prosperity. Each category features both a Main Award and a Pro Bono Collaboration Award, honoring outstanding individual efforts and powerful partnerships between tech companies and changemakers.

Innovation Factory

Recognizes AI-driven solutions that improve human well-being, advance education, promote equality, and enhance public health. From healthcare innovations and inclusive learning tools to AI applications that support marginalized communities, this category honors technologies that create meaningful, positive change in people’s lives.

Canvas of the Future

The second edition of Canvas of the Future celebrates ITU’s 160 year legacy, inviting artists and AI innovators to showcase their talents and contribute to the global dialogue on the role of technology in shaping the future of digital connectivity, bridging divides, and a more connected and sustainable world.

AI for Good Film Festival

The goal of this international competition is to show how AI can enrich what is possible in storytelling and visual art, with a positive message on sustainability. The competition invites all creatives interested in exploring the possibilities offered by AI in the creation of scripts, storyboards, images, digital effects, and more to submit their original works, generated or improved through AI tools.

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What I’ve really seen is the fact that we can really effect amazing change, but we have to do this together […] and that’s what makes me so excited about what AI for Good is all about.

HRH Princess Beatrice

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