UN Digital Cooperation Day — Speakers
Adauto Modesto
Deputy Minister of Management and Innovation and Public Services, Brazil
Akiko Murakami
Executive Director, Japan AI Safety Institute
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
Arunabha Ghosh
Founder-CEO, Council on Energy, Environment and Water
Anacláudia Rossbach
Executive Director, UN-Habitat
Andre Bechtold
President, SAP Industries & Experiences
Andrew Jackson
Group Chief AI Officer, G42
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
Ayaka Suzuki
Director of the Strategic Planning and Monitoring Unit, United Nations
Bagdat Mussin
Chairman of the Board, Kazakhtelecom
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
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
Dirk Messner
President, German Environment Agency, Coalition for Digital Environmental Sustainability
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
Doreen Bogdan-Martin
Secretary-General, International Telecommunications Unions
Ekitela Lokaale
Permanent Representative, Kenyan Mission to the United Nations
Elizabeth Kelly
Head of Beneficial Deployments, Anthropic
Eleonore Fournier Tombs
Head of Anticipatory Action and Innovation, UNU-CPR
Elham Tabassi
Director, Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology (AIET) Initiative, The Brookings Institution
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
Haroldo Machado Filho
Senior Programme Officer, Climate Action Time, Executive Office of the UN Secretary-General
Himanshu Gupta
CEO & Co-Founder, ClimateAi
Ivy Lau-Schindewolf
Head of International Organizations, Global Affairs, OpenAI
Joseph Nganga
Vice President for Africa, Global Energy Alliance for People & Planet
Kevin Thompson
Chief Operating Officer in Sustainability, GeSI
Gerd Müller
Director General, UNIDO
Gina Ortiz Jones
Mayor, San Antonio
Jason Slater
Chief AI, Innovation and Digital Economy Officer, UNIDO
Jovan Kurbalija
Executive Director, Diplo Foundation
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
Azamat Zhamangulov
Minister of Digital Development and Innovative Technologies, Kyrgyz Republic
Komal Sharma Talwar
Founder, TT Consultants & XLSCOUT
Laura Bingham
Professor of Practice & Inaugural Executive Director, Institute of Law, Innovation, and Technology, Beasley School of Law, Temple University
Lennon Medeiros
CEO, Visao Coop
Luis Neves
Global CEO, GeSI
Maha Hosain Aziz
Adjunct Associate Professor, New York University
Marcel Dorsch
Executive Director & Founder, Umweltbundesamt (UBA)
Marc Rotenberg
Executive Director & Founder, Center for AI and Digital Policy
Marco Rossi
Director of Standardization, International Organization for Standardization
Maria Theresa Parreira
PhD Candidate, Cornell University
Mallory Knodel
Head of Digital, ARTICLE 19
Martin Tisné
CEO, AI Collaborative
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 Mashaka
Director, Information Systems and Services Development at Ministry of ICT
Nabiha Syed
Executive Director, Mozilla Foundation
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
Rebeca Grynspan
Secretary-General, UNCTAD
Reina Otsuka
Global Lead of the Digital for Nature and Climate, UNDP
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
Sigmund Freund
Minister of Public Administration, Dominican Republic
Silas Adekunle
Co-founder & CEO, Awarri & Reach Industries
Sangbu Kim
Vice President for Digital, World Bank
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
Veronica M. Nduva
Secretary-General, East African Community
Vimal Mahendru
Vice-President & Chair of Standardization, International Electrotechnical Commission
Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr
Mayor, Freetown