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The AI for Good Global Summit will be holding this year in Geneva, Switzerland from 28-31 May 2019 with the theme: Accelerating progress towards the SDGs. The AI for Good Global Summit is the leading United Nations platform for global and inclusive dialogue on AI. The Summit is hosted each year in Geneva by the ITU in partnership with UN Sister agencies: XPRIZE Foundation and ACM.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has taken giant leaps forward in recent years, inspiring growing confidence in AI’s ability to assist in solving some of humanity’s greatest challenges. Leaders in AI and humanitarian action are convening on the neutral platform offered by the United Nations to work towards AI improving the quality and sustainability of life on our planet.
Organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) – the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technology (ICT) – in partnership with the XPRIZE Foundation, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and close to 30 sister United Nations agencies, the 3rd annual AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, 28-31 May, is the leading United Nations platform for inclusive dialogue on AI. The goal of the summit is to identify practical applications of AI to accelerate progress towards the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
WHAT: The summit attracts a cross-section of AI experts from industry and academia, global business leaders, Heads of UN agencies, ICT ministers, non-governmental organizations, and civil society.
The summit is designed to generate ‘AI for Good’ projects able to be enacted in the near term, guided by the summit’s multi-stakeholder and inter-disciplinary audience. It also formulates supporting strategies to ensure trusted, safe and inclusive development of AI technologies and equitable access to their benefits.
The 2019 summit will highlight AI’s value in advancing education, healthcare and wellbeing, social and economic equality, space research, and smart and safe mobility. It will propose actions to assist high-potential AI solutions in achieving global scale. It will host debate around unintended consequences of AI as well as AI’s relationship with art and culture. A ‘learning day’ will offer potential AI adopters an audience with leading AI experts and educators.
WHEN: 28-31 May 2019
WHERE: International Conference Centre Geneva, 17 Rue de Varembé, Geneva, Switzerland
WHO: Over 100 speakers have been confirmed to date, including:
- Jim Hagemann Snabe – Chairman, Siemens
- Cédric Villani – AI advisor to the President of France, and Mathematics Fields Medal Winner
- Jean-Philippe Courtois – President of Global Operations, Microsoft
- Anousheh Ansari – CEO, XPRIZE Foundation, Space Ambassador
- Yves Daccord – Director General, International Committee of the Red Cross
- Yan Huang – Director AI Innovation, Baidu
- Timnit Gebru – Head of AI Ethics, Google
- Vladimir Kramnik – World Chess Champion
- Vicki Hanson – CEO, ACM
- Zoubin Ghahramani – Chief Scientist, Uber, and Professor of Engineering, University of Cambridge
- Lucas di Grassi – Formula E World Racing Champion, CEO of Roborace…
