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AI for Good Global Summit 2026
AI for Good is unlocking AI’s potential to serve humanity. AI for Good is organized by ITU in partnership with over 50 UN Sister Agencies and co-convened with the Government of Switzerland. It features in-depth talks and hands-on technology demonstrations showing how AI can accelerate sustainable development for the good of all.
About the AI For Good Global Summit 2026
AI holds great promise to advance many of the Sustainable Development Goals and targets. More than a Summit, more than a movement, AI for Good is presented as a year-round digital platform where AI innovators and problem owners learn, build and connect to help identify practical AI solutions to advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
The AI for Good Global Summit is the leading action-oriented United Nations platform promoting AI to advance health, climate, gender, inclusive prosperity, sustainable infrastructure, and other global development priorities. The 2026 edition will take place from 7 to 10 July 2026 at Palexpo under the theme Unlock AI’s potential to serve humanity.
Environment @ AI for Good Global Summit
Day 1, 7 July 2026
- 09:00 – 11:00 CEST | Workshop | From data centres to climate goals: International standards for a more energy efficient AI | Palexpo, Room Q
- 09:00 – 12:15 CEST | Workshop | AI in disaster resilience: Bridging science, standards and innovation | Palexpo, Room S
- 09:00 – 12:15 CEST | Workshop | From standards to science to action: Implementing and scaling sustainable AI across its lifecycle | Palexpo, Room R
- 11:00 – 11:30 CEST | Keynote | Predict and Optimize: AI for Sustainable Urban Heating | Palexpo, Solutions stage
- 11:00 – 12:00 CEST | Training | AI and sustainability: Using comics and pedagogical resources to address AI’s environmental impact in the classroom | Palexpo, Youth zone
- 14:00 – 14:30 CEST | Panel | AI for food security: Responsible innovation for resilient agrifood systems | Palexpo, UN AI Hub stage
- 14:00 – 17:15 CEST | Workshop | AI for early warnings for all: From innovation to impact | Palexpo, Room S
- 14:00 – 17:15 CEST | Workshop | GeoAI for our shared future: Geospatial foundation models and generative intelligence for people and the planet | Palexpo, Room R
- 15:00 – 15:30 CEST | Panel | Governing agentic AI in the supply chain: The role of the United Nations | Palexpo, UN AI Hub stage
- 15:00 – 16:00 CEST | Training | AI and sustainability: Using comics and pedagogical resources to address AI’s environmental impact in the classroom | Palexpo, Youth zone
- 17:00 – 18:30 CEST | Fourth meeting of the global initiative on resilience to natural hazards through AI solutions | Palexpo, Room W
Day 2, 8 July 2026
- 08:00 – 09:15 CEST | Breakfast | From ambition to impact: Industrial AI for sustainable impact | Palexpo, Leaders Lounge
- 09:00 – 17:00 CEST | Training | Planet protectors: GeoAI heroes for climate action | Palexpo, Youth zone
- 11:00 – 12:00 CEST | Training | AI and sustainability: Using comics and pedagogical resources to address AI’s environmental impact in the classroom | Palexpo, Youth zone
- 12:30 – 13:30 CEST | Workshop | Green digital transformations powered by AI | Palexpo, Room V
- 14:30 – 15:00 CEST | Panel | Supporting the deployment of sustainable AI on the ground: Moving from strategies to solutions | Palexpo, Solutions Stage
- 16:30 – 17:00 CEST | Panel | Strengthening food systems resilience with AI | Palexpo, Solutions stage
- 17:05 – 17:35 CEST | Keynote | Planetary intelligence: AI for the 21st century Earth | Palexpo, Centre stage
Day 3, 9 July 2026
- 10:00 – 10:30 CEST | Panel | The Early Warning Connectivity Map (EWCM) in action: Identifying populations beyond reach | Palexpo, Solutions stage
- 10:00 – 10:30 CEST | Panel | AI, robotics and space technology for humanitarian and food systems impact | Palexpo, UN AI Hub stage
- 10:30 – 11:00 | Panel | AI in anticipatory governance: From foresight to action | Palexpo, Solutions Stage
- 11:00 – 11:30 CEST | Panel | AI sustainability across the value chain: What role will you play? | Palexpo, Solutions stage
- 11:15 – 11:45 CEST | AI for water: Making every drop count | Palexpo, UN AI Hub stage
- 11:40 – 12:10 CEST | Panel | AI, Indigenous wisdom, and the future of humanity | Palexpo, Centre Stage
- 12:30 – 14:00 CEST | Lunch | UN Leaders roundtable lunch | Room X
- 13:00 – 13:30 CEST | Panel | Advancing AI solutions in agrifood systems through youth leadership | Palexpo, Youth Stage
- 14:00 – 16:00 CEST | Workshop | From risk to resilience: Accelerating AI solutions for climate‑driven human impact | Palexpo, Room 1
- 17:00 – 17:30 CEST | Nature speaks: Can AI help us listen? | Palexpo, Solutions Stage
- 18:30 – 20:00 CEST | “Raise” film screening | Palexpo, Centre stage
Day 4, 10 July 2026
- o9:00 – 12:15 CEST | Workshop | AI on the menu: Transforming digital food systems | Palexpo, Room T
- 14:30 – 15:00 CEST | Panel | Beyond earth: AI, space computing and humanity’s next frontier | Centre Stage
Highlights
Links
- Global Green Growth Index Receives AI for Good Innovative Impact Award | GGKP 7 July 2026
- Preliminary Report of the Independent International Scientific Panel on AI: Evidence-based assessment of opportunities, risks and impacts of AI | United Nations | 1 July 2026
- Beyond the Hype: AI, Human Well-being, and the Policy Choices Ahead | Claire Melamed and Paul Ladd, UN Foundation | 29 June 2026
- How bad is AI for the environment? | Yale Climate Connections | 24 June 2026
- AI’s environmental costs threaten water, land and climate | UN News | 4 June 2026
- Environmental Cost of AI’s Energy Use: Carbon, Water and Land Footprints | United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) | 3 June 2026
- Measuring what matters: Closing the gaps in assessing AI’s environmental impact | ITU | 2026