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On Monday-Tuesday, 6-7 July 2026, at 05:00 UTC, the United Nations will host the Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva. Established by the UN General Assembly, the AI Dialogue is the United Nations platform where all governments, private sector, academia and civil society will convene to discuss international cooperation, share best practices and lessons learned, and facilitate open, transparent and inclusive discussions on artificial intelligence governance. The Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence (IISPAI) will also present its preliminary report during the event.
Day 1 – Setting the Scene: Science, Context and Shared Understanding (Monday 6 July)
Online Side Event (Zoom)
05:30 UTC – Participation Without Power: Technology Sovereignty, Data Sovereignty and the AI Divide in South Asia (Zoom)
CODATA – lead, with CSIR–NIScPR, DST–CPR IISc, Tribhuvan University, UPES
Plenary ABC
6:30 – 7:30 UTC – Opening Ceremony (UN Web TV)
Master of Ceremonies — Co-Chairs of the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance:
H.E. Ambassador Egriselda López – El Salvador
H.E. Ambassador Rein Tammsaar – Estonia
Featured Speakers & Artists:
Annalena Baerbock – President of the General Assembly
António Guterres – Secretary-General of the United Nations
Doreen Bogdan-Martin – Secretary-General, ITU
Khaled El-Enany – Director-General, UNESCO
Amandeep Singh-Gill – USG and Special Envoy for Digital and Emerging Technologies, ODET
Gadi Sassoon – Musical Artist
7:30 – 8:30 UTC – Plenary presentation of the annual report of the multidisciplinary Independent International Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence (UN Web TV)
Yoshua Bengio – Co-Chair, AI Panel
Maria Ressa – Co-Chair, AI Panel
Menna El-Assady – Working Group 1 (AI Science, Advances & Trajectories), AI Panel
Joëlle Barral – Working Group 2 (Societal Applications), AI Panel
Loreto Bravo – Working Group 3 (Economic Implications), AI Panel
Balaraman Ravindran – Working Group 4 (Security, Systems & Environmental Implications), AI Panel
Rita Oluchi Orji – Working Group 5 (Human Rights, Information & Democracy), AI Panel
Anna Korhonen – Working Group 6 (Cultural & Individual Flourishing), AI Panel
Haitao Song – Working Group 7 (Management Practice & Frameworks), AI Panel
8:30 – 10:30 UTC – High-level governmental plenary segment: Harnessing the benefits of AI for all through inclusive and interoperable approaches (UN Web TV)
Featured Speakers: to be confirmed
10:30 – 11:30 UTC – High-level multi-stakeholder plenary segment: Harnessing the benefits of AI for all through inclusive and interoperable approaches (UN Web TV)
H.E. Bosun Tijani – Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Nigeria
Tshilidzi Marwala – Rector and USG, United Nations University
Kate Kallot – Founder and CEO, Amini AI
Rumman Chowdhury – CEO and Co-Founder, Humane Intelligence
Yi Zeng – Wu Yuzhang Chair Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Whitney Baird – President and CEO, US Council for International Business (USCIB)
Lunch & Side Events (11:30 – 13:00 UTC)
11:30 – 12:10 UTC – Empowering Vulnerable Voices: Human-Centric Safeguards in AI Governance (Zoom)
LILY AI Safety Alliance
12:00 – 12:45 UTC – Equity Lens: AI Guardrails for Fair Talent Selection, Recognition, and Opportunity (Zoom)
Working Group on Equal Opportunities (AKC) – German Physical Society (DPG)
Breakout Room A — Thematic Breakout Cluster 1: AI opportunities and implications (social, economic, cultural, ethical, linguistic, technical)
13:00 – 16:00 UTC – Thematic Breakout Cluster 1 (UN Web TV)
Thematic Cluster Co-Chairs:
H.E. Marc-Alexandre Doumba – Minister of Digital Economy & Innovation, Gabon
Rashid Khan – Co-Founder, Yellow.ai
Fireside Chat:
H.E. Alar Karis – President of Estonia
Doreen Bogdan-Martin – Secretary-General, ITU
Panel 1:
Leslie Teo – AI Panel
Lacina Koné – Director General and CEO, Smart Africa
Jamila Venturini – Co-Executive Director, Derechos Digitales
Yossi Matias – Vice President, Google
Lan Xue – Professor and Dean, Tsinghua University
Mary Robinson – Former OHCHR Commissioner
Panel 2:
Philip Thigo – Special Envoy on Technology, Kenya
Kitty van der Heijden – ASG and Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF
Deema Al Yahya – Secretary-General, Digital Cooperation Organization (DCO)
Jian Wang – Founder, Alibaba Cloud
Bilal Mateen – AI Panel
Caitlin Kraft – Founder and CEO, Women at the Table
Facilitated by UNEP and UNIDO (Inter-Agency Working Group on AI)
Breakout Room C — Thematic Breakout Cluster 2: Bridging AI divides (capacity-building, access, digital foundations)
13:00 – 16:00 UTC – Thematic Breakout Cluster 2 (UN Web TV)
Thematic Cluster Co-Chairs:
H.E. Dominic Smith – Minister of Public Administration and AI, Trinidad and Tobago
Jovan Kurbalija – Executive Director, DiploFoundation
Fireside Chat:
H.E. Félix Ulloa – Vice President, El Salvador
Khaled El-Enany – Director-General, UNESCO
Panel 1:
H.E. Samba Diouf – Minister of Communications, Telecommunications & Digital, Senegal
Pedro Manuel Moreno – Acting Secretary-General, UNCTAD
Andrew Wilson – Deputy Secretary General-Policy, International Chamber of Commerce
Girmaw Abebe Tadesse – AI Panel
Katharina Frey – Co-Founder and Executive Director, ICAIN
Arutyun Avetisyan – Acting Director, Institute for System Programming, Russian Academy of Sciences
Shikoh Gitau – Founder and CEO, Qhala
Panel 2:
H.E. Sid Ali Zerrouki – Minister of Post and Telecommunications, Algeria
Eugenio Vargas Garcia – Ambassador, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil
Vukosi Marivate – AI Panel
Alessandra Sala – Senior Director / Global President, Shutterstock / Women in AI
Urvashi Aneja – Founder and Director, Digital Futures Lab
Crystal Rugege – Managing Director, C4IR Rwanda
Facilitated by UNDP and UNDRR (Inter-Agency Working Group on AI)
Online Side Events (Zoom) — Evening
16:00 – 17:00 UTC – Building Technical Sovereignty: AI Safety and Security Capacity as a Governance Foundation in the Global South (Zoom)
Asuntos del Sur · Global Council for Responsible AI
16:30 – 17:15 UTC – From Principles to Practice: Building Global Capacity for Responsible and Safe AI Through Certification, Workforce Development, and Inclusive Governance (Zoom)
Association for Responsible AI (ARAI)
17:00 – 17:45 UTC – Artificial Intelligence in Developing Countries: Opportunities, Challenges, and Inclusive Governance (Zoom)
University of York
Day 2 – Reflections, Convergences and the Way Forward (Tuesday 7 July)
Online Side Events (Zoom) — Morning
05:00 – 05:45 UTC – From New Delhi to New York: Implementing Inclusive AI (Zoom)
CCAOI
05:00 – 06:30 UTC – AI and Job Creation (Zoom)
Internet Governance Forum – Dynamic Coalition on Digital Economy (Project CREATE)
05:00 – 06:30 UTC – Driving Digital Inclusion in the Age of AI: How Women and Countryside Communities Can (Zoom)
Philippine ICT Innovation Network – Digital Innovation for Women Advancement (DIWA)
Thematic Discussion 3 — Safe, secure and trustworthy AI: interoperability and compatibility of approaches
7:00 – 10:00 UTC (UN Web TV)
Thematic Discussion 4 — Respecting, protecting and promoting human rights: transparency, accountability and human oversight
7:00 – 10:00 UTC (UN Web TV)
10:00 – 11:30 UTC – Lunch & Side Events (breakout)
Additional details to follow.
11:30 – 13:00 UTC – AI Governance Initiatives and Approaches: Experiences, Lessons and Complementarities
13:00 – 14:30 UTC – High-level governmental plenary segment: Harnessing the benefits of AI for all through inclusive and interoperable approaches (UN Web TV)
14:30 – 16:00 UTC – Multi-stakeholder plenary meeting with a high-level governmental segment: Dialogue of Dialogues – Reflections, Complementarities and the Way Forward (UN Web TV)
Closing / Online Side Event
16:00 – 16:30 UTC – Closing Ceremony (UN Web TV)
Additional details to follow.
16:00 – 16:45 UTC – Governing Cultural Knowledge in the Age of AI: Multilingual Heritage, Metadata, and Human Stewardship (Zoom)
Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM)
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