UN Digital Cooperation Day — Speakers
Abisoye Coker-Odusote
Director-General & Chief Executive Officer, NIMC
Adauto Modesto
Deputy Minister of Management and Innovation and Public Services, Brazil
Akiko Murakami
Executive Director, Japan AI Safety Institute
Alex Wong
Senior Advisor, Office of the ITU Secretary General
Alpesh Shah
Managing Director, IEEE Standards
Amitabh Kant
Former India G20 Sherpa & Former CEO, NITI Aayog
Amr Aljowaily
Director of Directorate of Citizens and Diaspora Organizations, African Union
Anacláudia Rossbach
Executive Director, UN-Habitat
Andre Bechtold
President, SAP Industries & Experiences
André Viccini
Diplomat, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Brazil
Andrew Jackson
Group Chief AI Officer, G42
Angela Busheska
UN Secretary-General's Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change
Anne Marie Engtoft Meldgaar
Tech Ambassador, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark
Antoine Sebera
CEO, RISA
Armando Manzueta
Vice Minister for Public Innovation and Digital, Dominican Republic WG Member
Arunabha Ghosh
Founder-CEO, Council on Energy, Environment and Water
Ayaka Suzuki
Director of the Strategic Planning and Monitoring Unit, United Nations
Azamat Zhamangulov
Minister of Digital Development and Innovative Technologies, Kyrgyz Republic
Bagdat Mussin
Chairman of the Board, Kazakhtelecom
Bosun Tijani
Minister for Digital, Nigeria
Brigitte Hoyer Gosselink
Director, AI & Social Impact, Google
Carlos Abellán
Founder, Quside
Catherine Lefebvre
Senior Advisor, Open Quantum Institute
Chris Meserole
Executive Director, Frontier Model Forum
Cina Lawson
Minister, Togolese Ministry of Digital Economy and Transformation
Claver Gatete
Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary, Economic Commission for Africa
Craig Ramlal
Executive Director, Artificial Intelligence Innovation Centre, University of the West Indies
Danil Kerimi
Member, WIPO Oversight Advisory Committee
Dave Amos
Assistant Professor of City Planning, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo & City Beautiful Creator
Deepak Mishra
Lead Researcher, CHIPS Framework, ICRIER, & World Bank India
Dirk Messner
President, German Environment Agency, Coalition for Digital Environmental Sustainability
Doreen Bogdan-Martin
Secretary-General, International Telecommunications Unions
Ekitela Lokaale
Permanent Representative, Kenyan Mission to the United Nations
Eleonore Fournier Tombs
Head of Anticipatory Action and Innovation, UNU-CPR
Elham Tabassi
Director, Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology (AIET) Initiative, The Brookings Institution
Elizabeth Atori
Executive Director, ISER
Elizabeth Garber
Founder, Humanitech
Elizabeth Kelly
Head of Beneficial Deployments, Anthropic
Eugenia Kargbo
Senior Heat Strategist Africa & CHO, Freetown City Council
Fabro Steibel
Executive Director, ITS Rio
Felix Mutati
Minister of Technology, Zambia
Frederic Werner
Chief of Strategic Engagement, ITU
Gerd Müller
Director General, UNIDO
Gina Ortiz Jones
Mayor, San Antonio
Guilherme Alberto Almeida de Almeida
Brazilian Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services
Haroldo Machado Filho
Senior Programme Officer, Climate Action Time, Executive Office of the UN Secretary-General
Heidy Rombouts
Director General for Development Cooperation & Humanitarian Aid, Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Himanshu Gupta
CEO & Co-Founder, ClimateAi
Ivy Lau-Schindewolf
Head of International Organizations, Global Affairs, OpenAI
Jason Slater
Chief AI, Innovation and Digital Economy Officer, UNIDO
Joseph Nganga
Vice President for Africa, Global Energy Alliance for People & Planet
Jumee Song
Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, Siegel Family Foundation
Justina Nixon-Saintil
Vice President & Chief Impact Officer, IBM
Kalpak Gude
Head of Global Regulatory Affairs, Project Kuiper at Amazon
Kat Kuai
Innovation Strategist, United Nations Development Cooperation Office
Kate Weber
Head of Governance and External Affairs, Google
Kevin Thompson
Chief Operating Officer in Sustainability, GeSI
Komal Sharma Talwar
Founder, TT Consultants & XLSCOUT
Lennon Medeiros
CEO, Visao Coop
Luis Neves
Global CEO, GeSI
Maha Hosain Aziz
Adjunct Associate Professor, New York University
Mallory Knodel
Head of Digital, ARTICLE 19
Marc Rotenberg
Executive Director & Founder, Center for AI and Digital Policy
Marcel Dorsch
Executive Director & Founder, Umweltbundesamt (UBA)
Marco Rossi
Director of Standardization, International Organization for Standardization
María González Veracruz
Secretary of State for Digitilization & AI, Spain
Maria Ressa
CEO, Rappler
Maria Theresa Parreira
PhD Candidate, Cornell University
Martin Tisné
CEO, AI Collaborative
Matsuo Yutaka
University of Tokyo, Department of Technology of Innovation
Matthias Kloth
Head of Digital Governance and Sport Department, Council of Europe
Max Cuvellier
Head of Mobile for Development, GSMA
Michael Pittelkow
Senior Director Government Affairs, SAP
Michael Schlein
President & CEO, Accion
Miroslav Polzer
Executive Director, International Association for the Advancement of Innovative Approaches to Global Challenges
Natasha Crampton
VP and Chief Responsible AI Officer, Microsoft
Mohamed El Zarkani
Resident Coordinator, Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean
Mohamed Mashaka
Director, Information Systems and Services Development at Ministry of ICT
Mphatso Sambo
Principal Secretary, National Registration Bureau, Malawi
Nabiha Syed
Executive Director, Mozilla Foundation
Nakul Jain
CEO & Managing Director, Wadhwani AI Global
Natasha Crampton
VP and Chief Responsible AI Officer, Microsoft
Noah Cowit
CRA AI Education Fellow, Computing Research Association
Osama Manzar
Founder and Director, Digital Empowerment Foundation
Payal Dalal
Executive Vice President, Mastercard Foundation
Pedro Manuel More
Deputy Secretary-General, UNCTAD
Peter Bruck
Chairperson, World Summit Awards
Philip Thigo
Special Envoy on Technology, Office of the President of Kenya
Rebeca Grynspan
Secretary-General, UNCTAD
Reina Otsuka
Global Lead of the Digital for Nature and Climate, UNDP
Richard Gevers
Deputy Director, Delivery Service Unit, President's Office, South Africa
Rikin Gandhi
Founder, Digital Green
Sally Wentworth
CEO, InternetSociety
Sam Gill
President & CEO, Doris Duke Foundation
Sami Muqeem
Vice President, Saudi Data and AI Authority
Sangbu Kim
Vice President for Digital, World Bank
Selwin Hart
Assistant UN Secretary-General for Climate Action, UN-CAT
Sigmund Freund
Minister of Public Administration, Dominican Republic
Sikhulekile (Khule) Duma
Director, Private Office of the President, Republic of South Africa
Sunil Wadhwani
Co-founder, Wadhwani AI Global
Tawfik Jelassi
Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information, UNESCO
Tomáš Drucker
Minister of Education, Research, Development and Youth, Slovak Republic
Túlio Andrade
Chief Strategy and Alignment Officer, Incoming COP30 Presidency
Vanessa Gray
Director-General, ITU
Veronica M. Nduva
Secretary-General, East African Community
Vilas Dhar
President, Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
Vimal Mahendru
Vice-President & Chair of Standardization, International Electrotechnical Commission
Whitney Baird
CEO, USCIB
Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr
Mayor, Freetown
Zhimin Chen
Vice President & Executive Director of the Center for Global Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Governance, Fudan University
