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​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​The AI for Good Global Summit brings together policymakers, industry leaders, financial institutions, academia and civil society from developed and developing countries as well as United Nations agencies and other itnernational organisations. It is the key global forum ​​to discuss international understanding of the capabilities of emerging AI technologies and a unique opportunity to join the leadership dialogue.​

Confirmed speakers for AI for Good Global Summit include:

​ ​Mohamed Alkady​  President of Hart​ [USA]	Padmanabhan Anandan Vice President of Adobe Research India [India]​	Chinmayi Arun​ Executive Director of the Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University Delhi [India]​	Marie-Jose Bahnam​ Sr. Director, Foundation Priorities, at XPRIZE [USA]​
Amir Banifatemi​ Prize Lead of the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE, ​and Chair of Programme Committee	Philippe Beaudoin VP Research Group and Co-Founder at Element AI [Canada]​	Yoshua Ben​gio​ Head of Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA), and Canada R​esearch Chair in Statistical Learning Algorithms​  [Canada]	Irakli Beridze Senior Strategy and Policy Advisor at UNICRI​
Nic Bidwell Professor at University of Namibia [Namibia]​​​​	Antoine Blondeau Co-Founder and Chairman of  Sentient Technologies ​​[USA]​​	Anto​ine Bordes Senior Researcher at Facebook​ [USA]​	Cynthia Breazeal Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT and Director of the Personal Robots Group at  MIT Media Lab [USA] ​
Lars Bromley Principal Analyst at UNOSAT​	Paul Bunje​ Chief Scientist at the X​PRIZE Foundation [USA]​​​​	​Frits Bussemaker​ ​Secretary General, International Relations and Partner at CIONET​​	​Olly Buston​ Founder and CEO of Future Advocacy ​[UK]​
Alexandre Cadain CEO at Anima and co-lead of post-digital program at Ecole Normale Superieure [USA]​	Stephen Cave Executive Director of Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at University of Cambridge [UK] ​	​ Margaret Chan​ Director-General of ​World Health Organization (WHO)​	Andy Chen President & CEO of ​Catronic Enterprise, and Board Chair at  IEEE Computer Society [USA]
Moustapha Cissé Researcher at Facebook​ [USA]​	Rene Clausen Nielsen ‎Information Management Lead at IFRC	​Nicholas Davis Head of Society and Innovation at  World Economic Forum​	Peter Diamandis Founder of XPRIZE Foundation (Video Message) [USA]​
​Mady Delvaux-Stehres​ Member of the European Parliament, Vice-Chair of the Committee on Legal Affairs, Chair of the  Working Group on robotics​​​​​​	Virginia ​Dignum​​ ​​Associate Professor at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management of Delft University of Technology ​​[The Netherlands]	Pedro Domingos​ Professor of Computer Science and Engineering ​at University of Washington [USA]​	​ Chris Earney Deputy of UNHCR Innovation​, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)​
​ Sherif Elsayed-Ali Head of Technology and Human Rights, at Amnesty International​	Katsumi Emura​ Chair of Industrialization Roadmap Task Force, Strategic Council for AI Technology​ ​[Japan]​	​Ekkehard Ernst Chief of the Macroeconomic Policies and Jobs Unit, Research Department at International Labour Organization (ILO)​	Christopher Fabian​ Co-Founder of UNICEF Innovation​​
Ash Fonta​na Managing Director of ​ Zetta Ventures  [USA]​​	Urs Gasser Executive Director of Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society  at Harvard University [USA]​​​	Igor van Gemert Founder/CEO, SIM-CI [USA]​​	O​kan Geray Strategy Planning Consultant at Smart Dubai Office [UAE]
​Ian Goodfellow​ Staff Reseach Scientist at  Google Brain [USA]​​	Kenneth Goodman Director of Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy, and Co-Director of UM Ethics Programs at University of Miami (Remote)	Jamie Green Innovation Accelerator Projects Manager, WFP	António Guterres Secretary-General of the United Nations ​(Video message)​​
David Hanson Founder and CEO of ​Hanson Robotics [USA]​	Vicki Hanson​ President of ACM, and Distinguished Professor of Computing at the Rochester Institute of Technology [USA]	Barmak Heshmat​ Research Scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)​ ​[USA]​​	Peggy Hicks​ Director of Thematic Engagement, Special Procedures and Right to Development, at OHCHR​​
Mike Hinch​ey​ President of IFIP, and Director of Irish Software Engineering Research Centre (Lero) [Australia] [Ireland]​​	​ Michael Hopkins CEO of MHC International Ltd	Eric Horvitz Managing Director of Microsoft Research at Microsoft ​[USA] (Remote)​	David Hunter CEO of Optimal Agriculture​
Ratika Jain Executive Director, Manufacturing, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)​ [India]	Malavika Jayaram Executive Director of Digital Asia Hub	​ Johanna Jochim Special Projects Manager at WFP	Stephen Ibaraki​ Social Entrepreneur and Futurist - Chair REDDS Capital​ [Canada]
Frederike Kaltheuner Policy Advisor on data innovation at Privacy International​​	Konstantinos Karachalios​ Managing Director of IEEE Standards Association [USA]​​​​​	​Anja Kaspersen​ Head of Strategic Engagement and New Technologies, at ICRC​​	​ Elim Kay CEO of the Kay Family Foundation [USA]​​
Robert Kirkpatrick​ Director of UN Global Pulse​	Adam Klaptocz Co-founder and CTO of WeRobotics [Switzerland]	Jay Komarneni Founder & Chair of the Human Diagnosis Project at 'Human Dx'	Joseph Konstan​ Professor at the University of Minnesota [USA]
​​ Frank La Rue​ Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information at UNESCO​	​ Apala Lahiri Chavan​ President of Human Factors International (Middle East, Asia, Africa and Australia)​	Mark Latonero Lead researcher for the Data & Human Rights program at Data & Society [USA]​	Chaesub Lee Director of Telecommunication Standardization Bureau at International Telecommunication Union​
​ Jong Gun ​Lee Data Scientist at UN Global Pulse	​ Pet​er Lee​ Corporate Vice President of Microsoft AI and Research ​at Microsoft [USA]​​	Fei-Fei Li​ Director of Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab (SAIL), and Chief Scientist of AI at Google Cloud  [USA]​​​	Miguel Luengo-Oroz Chief Data Scientist at UN Global Pulse
Drudeisha Madhub​ Data Protection Commissioner's Office, Prime Minister’s Office of the Republic of Mauritius	Katherine M​aher Executive Director of Wikimedia Foundation​ [USA]	​Gary Marcus​ ​Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at New York University ​[USA]​​	Peter Marx Vice President, Advanced Projects, at GE​
​Lorna McGregor​ Director of Human Rights Centre at University of Essex ​[UK]​	Sean McGregor Oregon State University [USA]​	​ Alex Mejia Senior Manager at UNITAR	Olga Memedovic Chief, Europe and Central Asia Bureau, at UNIDO
​ Fengchun Miao Chief of ICT in Education at UNESCO	​ Sam Molyneux​ General Manager at Chan Zuckerberg Meta [USA]​	Ahmed Motala Human Rights Officer at OHCHR	Robin Murphy Professor at Texas A&M University, and Founder of Roboticists Without Borders [USA]
​ Rob Nail CEO of Singularity University ​[USA]​​	Izumi Nakamitsu​ Under-Secretary General and High-Representative for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA)	Kyle Nel Executive Director of  Lowes Innovation Lab​ [USA]	Mark R. Nelson Executive Director of Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) [USA]
Lydia Nicholas Senior Researcher at Collective Intelligence Nesta​ [UK]	Peter Norvig Dire​ctor of Research at Google​​​ [USA]​​	​Irmgard Nübler Senior economist, Research Department at International Labour Organization (ILO)	​ Luka Omladič​ Member of the UNESCO COMEST
Robert Opp​ Director of Innovation and Change Management at the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)​​​	​Marie-Hélène Parizeau Chair of UNESCO COMEST ​[Canada]​	Lynne Parker​ Professor at University of Tennessee-Knoxville [USA]​	John Quinn Pulse Lab Kampala [Uganda]​
Barry Ressler Chairman of the Board/CEO at International Space Medicine Consortium	​Pablo Rodriguez CEO of Telefonica Alpha​ [Spain]​​​	​ Francesca Rossi Professor at University of Padova, and Research Scientist at IBM Watson [Italy] [USA]​​​​​​​	Stuart Russell​  Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC-Berkeley, and Adjunct Professor of Neurological Surgery at UC-San Francisco [USA]
​ ​Neil Sahota​ World Wide Business Development Leader at IBM Watson [USA]​	Anders Sandberg James Martin Research Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute​, at  University of Oxford [UK]​​	Abha Saxena Coordinator of Global Health Ethics at WHO	Jü​rgen Schmidhuber​​ ​Scientific Director, Swiss AI Lab, IDSIA; Professor of AI, USI & SUPSI, Switzerland; President of NNAISE​NSE  [Switzerland]​
Salil Shetty Secretary General of Amnesty International​	​Marcus Shingles​ CEO of the XPRIZE Foundation [USA]​​	Cindy Smi​th​​ Director of United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI)	​​Rupert Stadler CEO and Chairman​ of the Board of Management of AUDI ​AG [Germany]​​​
Ch​ristian Steinruecken CTO of Invenia and King’s College, Cambridge	Uyi Stewart​ Director of Strategy, Data and Analytics at Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation ​[USA]​	Louise Story New York Times [USA]​	Sven Strohband CTO of Khosla Ventures​ [USA]
F​rançois Taddei Professor at Paris Descartes University [France]	​Zenia Tata Vice President, Global Impact Strategy at XPRIZE ​[USA]	​ Manuela Veloso​ Professor in Computer Science and Robotics ​at Carnegie Mellon University, and Former President of AAAI [USA]​​​​​	Wendell Wallach​ Consultant, Ethicist, and Scholar at Yale University's Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, and Senior Advisor to the Hastings Center, and the World Economic Forum​
​  Thomas Wiegand​ ​Professor at TU Berlin, and  Executive Director of  Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute [​Germany]​​​	​ Brian Witten Senior Director of Symantec Research Labs at Symantec​ [USA]​​​	Christiane Woopen Professor of Ethics and Theory of Medicine at University of Cologne (Member of International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO)	Lan Xue Cheung Kong Chaired Professor and Dean of School of Public Policy and Management at Tsinghua University​​​
Hongjiang Zhang​ Head of ByteDance Technical Strategy Research Center ​[China]	Houlin Zhao​​ Secretary General ​of International Telecommunication Union (ITU)​​​​​	Leila Zia Senior Research Scientist at Wikimedia Foundation	​Andrew Zolli Planet Labs (Remote)​
​ Naroa Zurutuza Information Poverty Lead at UNICEF Innovation​​​​​​			​​