AI for Good Global Summit 2020 | ITU | 31 August 2020 | Series of Virtual Event

Connecting AI innovators with problem owners for sustainable development

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.

• Influential audience
Leading minds in AI, business, government, civil society and international cooperation. Global coverage in world-renowned media.

• Action oriented
Project pitches by ‘AI Breakthrough Tracks’ mentored by expert audience. Projects aim for global impact in the near term.

• Exhibits and Demos
Latest innovations in AI on show, demonstrated by their supporting companies, governments and UN agencies.

• Join the movement
Network with like-minded innovators in search of global impact. Meet your partner for the next wave of innovation in AI.

Summit Goals:
• Connect AI innovators with problem owners, to identify practical applications of AI to accelerate progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals
• Ensure trusted, safe and inclusive development of AI technologies and equitable access to their benefits

2020 Speakers

Yoshua Bengio
Founder and Scientific Director, Mila - Quebec AI Institute

Anousheh Ansari
CEO, Space Ambassador; first female private space explorer; AI for Gender Inclusivity Breakthrough Co-Chair, XPRIZE Foundation

Stuart Russell
Professor, Author of "Human Compatible", UC-Berkeley

Muhammad Yunus
2006 Nobel Peace Prize Laureatel, Yunus Center

Riane Eisler
Social Systems Scientist, Cultural Historian, and Attorney

Lucas Joppa
Chief Environmental Officer, Microsoft

Shwetak Patel
Professor in Computer Science & Engineering, ACM Prize in Computing, University of Washington

Francesca Rossi
IBM fellow, AI Ethics Global Leader, Distinguished Research Staff Member, Board Member, Partnership on AI

Stella Tembisa Ndabeni-Abrahams
Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies, Republic of South Africa

Peter Heine Nielsen
Chess Grandmaster, Coach of World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen

Sebastian J. Kuhnert
CEO | CEO ChessX | COO Play Magnus, chess24

Kenneth Cukier
Author, Journalist, The Economist

Emmanuel Faber
Chairman & CEO, Danone

Michelle Avary
Head of Automotive and Autonomous Mobility, World Economic Forum

Mary Missy Cummings
Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Duke University

Lucas Di Grassi
CEO & Formula-E Racing World Champion; UN ambassador for clean air., Roborace

Seon Kui Lee
Director, Division of Risk Assessment & International Cooperation, Korea Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (KCDC)

Burr Settles
Head of Research & AI, Duolingo

Mmantsetsa Marope
Director, UNESCO-IBE

Stefan Germann
Chief Executive Officer; AI for Humanizing Health Solution Track Co-Chair, Fondation Botnar

LJ Rich
Inventor, BBC "Click" Presenter, BBC News

Bernhard Kowatsch
Head of Innovation Accelerator, United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)

John Kamara
Director, Machine Intelligence Institute of Africa (MIIA)

Marta Arsovska Tomovska
Director of the Public Administration Reform and Advisor for ICT and Innovation, Office of the Prime Minister of Serbia

Yuan Zhang
Director, Machine Vision Standardization and Strategy, China Telecom

Bryn Balcombe
Founder; Director & CSO, Roborace, Autonomous Drivers Alliance (ADA)

Melita Moore, M.D.
GEF Athletes & Players Commission; Head, Wellness Focus Group Team Physician NBA 2K League, WNBA & NBA, MedStar Health System

Tai-Myoung Chung
Professor, Department of Interaction Science, Sungkyunkwan University

Aimee Van Wynsberghe
Member European Commission high level expert group on AI, Co-director Foundation, TU Delft

Andrew Zolli
Vice President of Global Impact & Planet Fellow, Planet

Thomas Wiegand
FG-AI4H Chair, Professor, and Executive Director, Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute

Ursula Romero
GEF Digital, Technology, Innovation Commission, GEF Culture Focus Group; Managing Director, International Sports Broadcasting (ISB)

Alex Tsado
Co-founder & Board Chair, Alliance4ai

Anja Kaspersen
Director, United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs​​

Dave Troy
CEO, 410Labs

Chester King
GEF Board Member; Chair of GEF Education, Culture, Wellness Commission; CEO, British Esports Association

Judy Wawira Gichoya
Assistant Professor, Winship Cancer Instiute (Emory University)

Koen Schobbers
GEF Vice Chair, Athletes and Players Commission; Professional esports athlete, Strategist, Entrepreneur and TV personality

Jaimie Boyd
Chief Digital Officer, Government of British Columbia

Chong Geng Ng
GEF Board Member Co-Chair, Technical and Development Commission; President, Singapore Esports Association

Andy Coravos
CEO/Co-Founder, Elektra Labs

Ida Tin
CEO/Co-Founder, Clue

Kishau Rogers
CEO/Founder, Time Study Inc.

Antony Taubman
Director, Intellectual Property, Government Procurement & Competition Division, World Trade Organization (WTO)

Anne-Laure Thieullent
Vice President, Artificial Intelligence & Analytics Group Offer Leader, Capgemini Group

Pierre-Adrien Hanania
Global Offer Leader AI in PS, Capgemini Group

Sara Leila Margaret (Meg) Davis
Anthropologist, Graduate Institute

Rajat Khosla
Senior Director on Research, Advocacy and Policy, Amnesty International

Ulla Jasper
Policy Officer, Fondation Botnar

Yacine Ndiaye
Young Experts: Tech 4 Health” Council, Plan International

Davar Ardalan
Founder and Storyteller; AI for Culture preservation Solution Track Co-Chair, IVOW AI, Inc.

Sharada Mohanty
CEO & Co-Founder, AIcrowd

Sara-Jayne Terp
Disinformation lead, CTI League; Chair, CogSecCollab, Bodacea Light Industries

Renee Diresta
Trust and Technical Research Manager, Stanford Internet Observatory

Jan Feiling
Company Builder, Porsche Digital

Chamisa Edmo
Conversational AI Writer

Tracy Monteith
Senior Software Engineer, Microsoft

Harry Yeff (Aka Reeps One)
Artist and Director, Experience Design, Reeps100 Studios

Maria Axente
Responsible AI and AI for Good Lead, PwC UK

Soumya Swaminathan
Chief Scientist, World Health Organization (WHO)

Miguel Rodrigues
Reader of Information Theory and Information Processing; AI for Culture preservation Solution Track Co-Chair, University College London

Caitlin Kraft Buchman
Founder & CEO, Women@TheTable

Amir Banifatemi
General Manager, Innovation and Growth, XPRIZE

Kurt Rohloff
Associate Professor NJIT, Co-founder and CTO, Duality Technologies

Erica Tandori
Legally Blind Artist, Researcher and Academic

Ania Calderon
Executive Director, Open Data Charter

Anne Kelly Aikman
GEF Senior Advisor, Commercial Partnerships; GEF Brand, Marketing, Commercial & Communications Commission, Global Esports Federation

William Louis-Marie
CEO, World Squash Federation, GEF International Federations Advisory Council

Iñigo Bonilla Barroso
Director, Strategic Alliances & Business Development, Global Sports Innovation Center Powered by Microsoft (GSIC)

Xuan Ming Ng
Co-Founder, GNITX, GEF Selection Committee

Melissa Sassi
Startup Program Manager, IBM

Naomi Lee
FG-AI4H Vice-Chair, Executive Editor; AI for Humanizing Health Solution Track Co-Chair, The Lancet Journal

Nicole Washington
Technology Management Consultant, Angel Investor

Jon McCormack
Professor, Founder and Director, SensiLab

Aylin Caliskan
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, The George Washington University

Sasha Luccioni
Director of Scientific Projects & Postdoctoral Researcher, Mila - Quebec AI Institute

Sandra Westlake
Head of Global Partnerships, United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)

Pedro Antonio De Alarcon Sanchez
Senior Data Scientist, Telefonica

Frits Bussemaker
​Chair, Institute for Accountability in the Digital Age (I4ADA)

Jan Kleijssen
Director of Information Society - Action against Crime, Council of Europe

Wolfgang Victor Yarlott
AI Researcher, Florida International University

Isidro Laso Ballesteros
Deputy Head of Unit, European Innovation Council

Marco Bego
CIO, University Hospital (HC)

Maite Lopez
Professor, University of Barcelona, University of Barcelona

Neama Dadkhahnikoo
Technical Lead, Prize Operations, XPRIZE

Robert Oliver
World-renowned chef leading the Pacific Island Food Revolution

Alva Lim
Co-Founder and Director, Agora Food Studio

Marcius Extavour
Executive Director Prize Operations Energy & Resource, XPRIZE

Samira Ardalan
Author, Founder, Owner, Avicenna Cuisine

Lorin Fries
Founder & Lead Partner, FutureTable

Sasha Cahill
Advisor, IBM Cloud Hyper Protect Accelerator

Merijn Dols
Global Director of Open Innovation & Circular Economy of Food, Danone

Neil Sahota
World Wide Business Development Leader, IBM Watson

Skye Gilbert
Executive Director, Digital Square, PATH

Enrique Alvarado Hablutzel
Partner, Networks Development, Bamboo Capital Partners

Nicole Büttner
Founder & CEO, Merantix Labs

Max Cuvellier
Head of Mobile for Development (M4D), GSMA

Celina Lee
Co-Founder & CEO, Zindi Africa

Bryan Talebi
CEO and Co-founder, Ahura AI

Lorenzo Niola
Head of Ecosystem Development, Hatch CoLab

Eldad Elnekave
Chief Medical Officer, Zebra Medical Vision

Moojan Asghari
Co-Founder, Women in AI

Taniya Mishra
Director of AI Research, Affectiva

Joseph K. Hopkins
Founder and Senior Managing Partner, The IPRESTIGE Emerge Fund LLC

Toyosi Akerele-Ogunsiji
Data Science & Artificial Intelligence Leader, Social Entrepreneur and Policy Advisor, EdTech & Human Capital Development

Richard St-Pierre
Executive Vice Chairman, C2

Haneen Khalaf
Principal Project Manager, XPRIZE

Gary Stewart
Co-founder and CEO, The Nest

Paul Bosman
Head of (ATM) Infrastructure Division, Eurocontrol

Marco Rueckert
Head of Innovation, Searidge Technologies

Andrew Taylor
Chief Solutions Officer, NATS Services

Yannis Ioannidis
President & General Director, Athena Research and Innovation Center

Jean-Philip Poulin
Corporate Innovation Manager, CENTECH

Arun Shroff
Tech Entrepreneur & Startup Advisor and Mentor

Jackie Berry
Fulbright U.S. Scholar, Cognitive Scientist, American University in Cairo

Vukosi Marivate
ABSA UP Chair of Data Science, University of Pretoria

S. Ama Wray
Associate Professor, University of California Irvine

Jose Cossa
Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State University

Arthur Van Der Wees
Managing Director & Founder; co-founder of the Institute for Accountability in the Digital Age, Arthur's Legal

Bilel Jamoussi
Chief of the Study Groups Department, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB), International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

Michiel Bakker
Director of Global Programs for Real Estate & Workplace Services, Google

Emma Chow
Lead, Food initiative, Ellen MacArthur Foundation

Thomas Osborne
Director; Chief Medical Informatics Officer (CMIO) VA Palo Alto, VA National Center for Collaborative Healthcare Innovation (NCCHI)

Amanda Purnell
VHA Senior Innovation Fellow, VHA Innovation Ecosystem

Cody Simms
Partner and SVP, Techstars

Steven Griffiths
Senior Vice President, Research and Development, Professor of Practice, Khalifa University of Science and Technology

Nagaraj Gopisetty
Deputy CEO, Life Sciences Queensland (LSQ)

Andy Miah
GEF Education, Culture, Wellness Commission, GEF Education Focus Group; Chair in Science Communication & Future Media, University of Salford

Chris Overholt
GEF Board Member Chair, Digital, Technology, Innovation Commission President and CEO, OverActive Media

Caroline Kolta
Senior Associate, XPRIZE

Andrew Tauhert
VP of Partnerships and Strategic Engagements, XPRIZE Foundation

Kristen Lawson
Leader, Anthem Innovation

Mariya Filipova
Activated Patient; Transformation Catalyst; VP, Anthem Innovation

Bruce Pon
CEO and Co-Founder of BigchainDB GmbH; Co-Founder and Board Member, Ocean Protocol

Miguel Gil
Founder, United States Esports Association; GEF Digital, Technology, Innovation Commission

2020 Sponsors, Partners and Supporters

UN PARTNERS:
• UNAIDS
• THE WORLD BANK
• WMO
• WIPO
• WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
• WFP
• UNWTO
• UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY
• UNRISD
• CTBTO
• UNITED NATIONS Office for Outer Space Affairs
• UNODC
• UNODA
• unitar
• UNISDR
• UNIDO
• UNIDIR
• unicri
• unicef
• UNHCR
• UN HABITAT
• UNFPA
• United Nations Climate Change
• United Nation Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
• UN environment
• UNECE
• UNDESA
• UNCTAD
• UN WOMEN
• IOM
• IMO
• ILO
• ICAO
• GLOBAL PULSE
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
• UNDPA

CO- CONVENER:
• Switzerland

GOLD SPONSORS:
• acm
• The Kay Family Foundation
• Capgemini
• BOTNAR fondation
• ETRI
• immersion4

SUPPORTERS:
• aws
• pinklion
• Microsoft
• Crowd4SDG
• TRAX.GD
• MONASH University