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08.30 - 09.15 Collect your Badge

Registration desk is located on 100, Avenue de Suffren, 75015, Paris

09.15 - 10.15 Opening Ceremony and Welcome Address

• Mr. Tawfik Jelassi, Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information, UNESCO

  Keynote by H.E. Ms. Paula Bogantes Zamora, Minister, Ministry of Science, Innovation, Technology and Telecommunications, Costa Rica 

• Mr. Tomas Lamanauskas, Deputy Secretary-General, ITU
• Mr. Pedro Manuel Moreno, Deputy Secretary-General, UNCTAD
• Mr. Robert Opp, Chief Digital Officer, UNDP [remote]

Master of Ceremony: Ms. Clare O'Hagan, Senior Press Officer, UNESCO 

10.15 - 11.15 Bridging the Capacity Gap: Challenges and Opportunities

Panel Discussion 

Speakers

• Mr. Fadi Salem, Director of Policy Research Department, Mohammed Bin Rashid School of Government 

• Ms. Robyn Scott, CEO, Apolitical 

• Ms. Surabhi Pandey, Professor, Indian Institute of Public Administration 

• Mr. Gianluca Misuraca, Founder and Vice President on Technology Diplomacy, Inspiring Futures & AI4Gov-X Scientific Director

Moderator: Mr. Cedric Wachholz, Chief of Section of Digital Policies and Digital Transformation, UNESCO 

11.15 - 11.40 Citizen-Centric Digital Transformation

Fireside Chat

Speakers

• Ms. Vera Obonyo, Deputy Director, Kenya School of Government, eLearning and Development Institute (eLDi), Kenya

• Mr. Juan David Gutierrez, Associate Professor, School of Government, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia 

• Ms. Marzia Mortati, Professor, Politecnico di Milano, Department of Design , Italy

• Ms. Rumman Chowdhury, CEO, Humane Intelligence

   

Moderator: Mr. Prateek Sibal, Programme Specialist, Digital Policies and Digital Transformation, UNESCO

11.40 - 12.30 Low-resource AI and Sustainable Digital Transformation

Deep Dive Session

Speakers

• Mr. Calvain Nangue, PM Skills Development and Capacity Building, Smart Africa

• Ms. Ivana Drobnjak, Director of Computer Science, University College London, UK

• Ms. Julie Ravillon, Global CSR and Sustainability, Salesforce

• Mr. Marchel Dorsch, Senior Expert for Digital Change & Sustainability Transformation, German Environment Agency, Germany

Moderator: Ms. Leona Verdadero, Programme Specialist, UNESCO

14.30 - 14.45 Keynote Talk

• Ms. Mariana Mazzucato, Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value, University College London, UK [remote]

14.45 - 15.30 Developing National Strategies for Digital Capacity Building

Interactive Session

Speakers

• Ms. Maja Handjiska Trendafilova, Director, Regional School of Public Administration (ReSPA)

• Mr. Alejandro Milanesi, Advisor to the Secretary General, The Latin American Centre for Development Administration (CLAD)

• Mr. Coffi Dieudonné ASSOUVI, Director General, African Center for Administrative Training and Research for Development (CAFRAD)

• Ms. Dora Dei-tumi, Principal, Civil Service Training Centre, Ghana

• Mr. Ahmed Alghamdi, Chief Executive Officer of Capacity Building Sector, Saudi Arabia Data & AI Authority, Saudi Arabia

• Ms. Titiksha Vashist, Co-founder and Lead Researcher, The Pranava Institute, India

Moderator: Mr. Guilherme Canela, Director, Division of Digital Inclusion and Policies and Digital Transformation, UNESCO

15.30 - 16.45 Data Governance for the Digital Age

Panel Discussion

Moderator

• Mr. Tawfik Jelassi, ADG/CI, UNESCO 

Speakers

• H.E. Ms. Cristina Kiomi Mori, Vice-Minister, Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services, Brazil

• Mr. Tomas Lamanauskas, Deputy Secretary-General, ITU

• Mr. Pedro Manuel Moreno, Deputy Secretary-General, UNCTAD

• Mr. Stefaan Verhulst, Co-Founder/Chief Research and Development Officer/Director of the Data Program, The Governance Lab

• Ms. Bruna Sellin Trevelin, Legal Counsel, Hugging Face

16.45 - 17.30 AI Solutions for Marginalized Populations

Fireside Chat with Innovators

Moderator

• Mr. Jakob Rosin, Accessibility specialist and founder of Sparrow Access 

Speakers

• Ms. Mutale Nkonde, Founder, AI for the People
• Ms. Eugenia Urrere, Founder, Indigenius
• Mr. Emre Kazim, Co-Founder, Holistic AI, AI Governance & Safety Platform