Artificial Intelligence (AI) with Purpose Summit

0900 – 0930  Welcome Remarks
- Luis Neves, Chief Executive Officer, GeSI.org
- Declan Kirrane, Chair, UN Science Summit
- Dame Wendy Hall, Regius Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton

0930 – 1030 Our Vision for an AI with Purpose
- Dame Wendy Hall (Moderator), Regius Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southampton
- Mary de Wysocki – Chief Sustainability Officer, Cisco
- Haksoo Ko - Chairman of the Republic of Korea’s Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC)
- Daisy McGregor - Deputy Director, International AI Strategy at the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
- Gary Marcus – Founder and Executive Chairman of Robust.AI, Author and Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Neural Science at NYU

1030 – 1100  International Collaboration – Opportunities and Challenges
- Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Secretary-General, International Telecommunications Union (ITU)
- Jim Gowen, SVP Procurement & Supply Chain and Chief Sustainability Officer, Verizon and GeSI Board Chairman

1100 – 1130  Tea and Coffee Break 

1130 – 1215  Capacity Building: Research, Education and Skills Development
- Nizar Kammourie (Moderator) – President, Sawaco
- Magdalena Skipper – Editor-in-Chief, Nature and Author of Special Feature in UNAIAB Report
- Chris White – President, NEC Labs Americas
- Noshir Contractor - Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral
Sciences at Northwestern University
- Dimitris Metaxas - Board of Governors Professor in the Dept. of


1215 – 1300  Capacity Building: Digital Infrastructure Modernization
- Kevin Thompson (Moderator) – Chief Operating Officer, GeSI.org
- Jonathan Spalter – President and CEO, US Telecom
- Faith Taylor – Chief Sustainability Officer, Kyndryl
- Lukas Lhotsky – President, FX Innovation
- Elena Morettini – Global Head of Sustainable Business, Globant

1430 – 1530  Building Trust in Data: Collaborative Approaches for AI Innovation and 
Economic Growth
- Mei Lin Fung (Moderator) - Cofounder People-Centered Internet with Vint Cerf
- Ran Balicer - Chief Innovation Officer & Deputy DG at Claitt Health
Services
- Niraj Bhargava – Founder and CEO, NuEnergy.ai
- LeKiesha French – CEO, Future in Colour, Special Advisor to US Presidential
Candidate Kamala Harris on AI
- Tshilidzi Marwala – Rector of the United Nations University, UN Under-Secretary General, and Artificial Intelligence Engineer
- Yannis Ioannidis – President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

1530 – 1630  AI’s Role in Delivering on the UN’s Summit of the Future and Post-SDG 
Agenda
- Eudy Mabuza (Moderator) – Senior Science and Innovation Representative, Dept of Science and Innovation, South Africa
- Alessandro Gropelli – Deputy Director, ETNO
- Virginia Dignum – Professor of Responsible Artificial Intelligence at Umea
University
- Ambassador Philip Thigo – Special Envoy on Technology for the Republic of Kenya
- Estela Aranha – Special Adviser to the Minister of Justice and Public Security, Federal Government of Brazil

1630 – 1700  Closing Remarks and Our Shared Path Ahead
- Carme Artigas – Co-Chair UN Advisory Board on AI and former Secretary of State for Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence, Spain
- Amandeep Singh Gill – UN Secretary General’s Envoy on Technology
- Luis Neves – Chief Executive Officer, GeSI.org
1700 – 1800  Reception