Dr Amandeep Singh Gill, Under-Secretary-General and Special Envoy for Digital and Emerging Technologies
Dr Bärbel Kofler, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
Julie Delahanty, International Development Research Centre
Shekar Sivasubramanian, WadhwaniAI
AI promises to transform lives through lifesaving health advice, early warning systems, and food security—but only if it speaks everyone's language. For billions speaking local languages across Africa and Asia, this remains an urgent and critical barrier to inclusive development. Join Global South ministers, UN leaders, technologists, and major funders as they unveil pioneering solutions, positioning linguistic diversity as the gateway to addressing data sovereignty, compute access, and achieving transformative AI equity at scale.