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AI and frontier technologies for good,
ITU Kaleidoscope academic conference, Geneva, Switzerland, 7-9 July 2026

Venue: Palexpo, located at Route Francoise-Peyrot 30, 1218, Geneva, Switzerland, hosted by the AI for Good Summit, Geneva, Switzerland.
Contact: kaleidoscope@itu.int

Time zone CEST (UTC+2)

Day 1 - Tuesday, 7 July 2026

08:00-09:30	Welcome and registration
09:30-10:00	Opening plenary MoC: Alessia Magliarditi, ITU Kaleidoscope Coordinator, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU Opening remarks: Seizo Onoe, Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU Welcome remarks: Jorge Cancio, Deputy Director of International Relations at the Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM), Switzerland Eva Ibarrola, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain; ITU Kaleidoscope General Chair
10:00-10:30	Keynote Session Session chair: Frederic Werner, Chief, Strategic Engagement Department & AI for Good, International Telecommunication Union, ITU Space computing: Endless frontiers and exploration Jian Wang, Chinese Academy of Engineering & Director of Zhejiang Lab, and Founder of Alibaba Cloud
10:30-10:45	Coffee break
10:45-11:15	Invited paper Session Chair: Yitian Xiao, Chief Scientist of the Deep-Time Digital Earth (DDE), Zhejiang International Research Center, China Recent developments in GeoGPT: A domain-specific Large Language Model for Geoscience John Ludden and Richard Chuchla, Co-Chairs, GeoGPT Governance Committee
11:15-12:30	Paper Session 1 – Global AI governance, sovereignty, and policy frameworks Session chair: Youlia Lozanova, Telecommunication Development Bureau, ITU S1.1 The amplified sovereignty paradox: AI governance lessons from small island developing states * Mohamed Shareef, Nexia Maldives, Maldives S1.2 Intersectional AI governance for higher education in Colombia: Toward ethical and sovereign digital futures in Latin America * Bibiana Ruiz, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia S1.3 AI-native SEP governance: A global framework for algorithmic essentiality, evidence grounding, and IP valuation of standard-driven innovation * Amrutha Moorthy and Mohana Krishnaiah, Patenti Technology Solutions, India S1.4Artificial Intelligence Governance at the Global Level: Policy, Ethics and Institutional Design Arevik Martirosyan, The Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Russia; Daria Karaseva, MGIMO University, Russia S1.5 Responsible AI in emerging markets: A governance by design model for scalable, ethical and inclusive AI deployments Derick Adil, Globe Telecom, Philippines
12:30-14:15	Lunch break
14:15-14:45	Keynote Session Session Chair: Cristina Bueti, ITU-T SG20 - IoT, digital twins & smart cities Counsellor, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU From digital twins to cognitive twins: closing the metacognitive loop for 6G and beyond wireless systems Ian Akyildiz, Technology Innovation Institute, UAE, and Editor-in-Chief of the ITU Journal on Future and Evolving Technologies (ITU J-FET)
14:45-15:30	Paper Session 2 – Ethics, responsibility, and trustworthy AI systems Session chair: Christoph Dosch, Former Chairman of ITU-R Study Group 6; ARD, Germany S2.1 From Innovation to integrity: Why Africa’s artificial intelligence future depends on ethics Andrey Ochepovsky, Kapersky Lab, Russian Federation; Yuliya Shlychkova and Gladys Yiadom, Kapersky, France S2.2 AGI for collective well-being: A policy vision for responsible innovation in social work lens Siva Mathiyazhagan, Eileen Tong, Elizabeth Houck, Bethlehem Terefe and Desmond U. Patton, University of Pennsylvania, USA S2.3 Responsible Generative AI in Practice: A Governance-Aligned Review of Methods, Benchmarks, and Policies Shaina Raza, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada; Sindhuja Chaduvula, Shweta Khushu and Deval Pandya, Vector Institute, Canada
15:30-16:00	Fast-Forward Exhibition Preview Session Session Chair: Erica Campilongo, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU Exhibitor 811: Project Harbour (University of Fribourg) Presenter: Samy Rima, University of Fribourg Exhibitor 812: DISCO, MOOVE and ULTR-AI (EPFL LiGHT, Harvard, Ashoka University, C4IR) Presenter: Trevor Brokowski, EPFL Exhibitor 813: MOOVE (EPFL LiGHT & Ashoka University) Presenter: Sahaj Vaidya, Ashoka University Exhibitor 814: Using satellite data to measure the impact of connectivity (UNIGE Geneva Research Lab for Digital Impact) Presenter: Nina Zachlod, UNIGE Exhibitor 815: Mitigating migration misinformation: A human-in-the-loop AI framework for policy and media transparency (Idiap Research Institute & EPFL) Presenter: David Alonso del Barrio, Idiap Exhibitor 816: Operationalizing AI ethics: Mapping the AI governance tool landscape (ETH Zurich) Presenter: Heidi Lee, ETH Zurich Exhibitor 817: AI for the global majority (Geneva Graduate Institute) Presenter: Ralph Müller, Geneva Graduate Institute Exhibitor 818: Automate incident triage for WHO's Global Surveillance and Monitoring System using agentic AI (UNIGE & WHO) Presenter: Pernette Bourdillon Esteve, WHO/UNIGE Exhibitor 819: Toward global large language models in medicine (UNIGE & Duke-NUS) Presenter: Rui Yang, Duke-NUS Medical School
16:00-16:15	Coffee break
16:15-16:45	Keynote Session Session Chair: Hao Qin, National University of Singapore, Singapore; ITU Kaleidoscope 2026 Scientific Committee member Hardware-aware photonic architectures for trusted and scalable quantum learning Elham Kashefi, Sorbonne Université, LIP6, CNRS, Paris, France; Quantum Software Lab, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK
16:45-18:15	Paper Session 3, part I – AI in healthcare and well-being applications Session chair: Ved P. Kafle, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan S3.2 Multi-modal health state monitoring system using wearable sensor and spatio-temporal graph attention Dhananjay Kumar and Chandru J, Anna University, India; Ved P. Kafle, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, India S3.3 When 99.98% is too good to be true: Preventing rule-induced overfitting in embodied clinical AI for surgical readmission prediction Bigomokero Antoine Bagula, University of the Western Cape & ISAT Laboratory, South Africa; Mbale K. Landry Mbaherya Sr, Universite Nouveaux Horizons, Congo; Olasupo Opeyemi Ajayi, University of Western Cape, South Africa and Queen’s University, Canada; Patrick Sello, University of Western Cape, South Africa & TT2L Healthcare Technology, South Africa; Jennifer-Anne Chipps, University of Western Cape, South Africa; Sean Broomhead, Health Information Systems Program (HISP), South Africa; Petra Brysiewicz and Damian Clarke, University of Kwazulu Natal, South Africa S3.5 International approaches to scaling AI in healthcare: Policy approaches balancing development of home-grown systems with procuring commercial products* Kathrin Cresswell, Robin Williams, Hajar Mozaffar, Sara Bea, Stuart Andreson, Xiao Yang and Lucas Seuren, The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom S3.6 Driver drowsiness detection on the edge Zenon Lamprou and Georgia Christodoulou, Catalink Limited, Cyprus; Konstantinos Avgerinakis, Catalink Limited, Greece
Time zone CEST (UTC+2) Day 2 - Wednesday, 8 July 2026

09:00-10:30	Paper Session 4 – AI for sustainable development: Education, inclusion, and society Session chair: Phillippa Biggs, Head, Emerging Trends Foresight Unit, General Secretariat, ITU • S4.1 Mapping schools for sustainable connectivity - a geospatial AI approach leveraging foundation models* Casper Fibaek and Rochelle Schneider, European Space Agency, United Kingdom; Abi I. Riley, Imperial College London, United Kingdom; Kelsey Doerksen, Oxford University, United Kingdom; Dohyung Kim, UNICEF, Switzerland • S4.2 Development of a low-cost real-time multilingual communication system with an embedded AI multimodal speech-to-speech translation system Thomas Basikolo, ITU, Switzerland; Abdulsalaman Azeez Akolade, Federal University of Technology Minna, Nigeria; James Agajo, Department of Computer Engineering, Federal University of Technology Minna Niger State Nigeria, member of the Academic Advisory Body on Emerging Technologies, ITU; Bello K. Nuhu, Ahmed Yinka, and Simon Achile, Department of Computer Engineering, Federal University of Technology Minna Niger State Nigeria • S4.3 Towards inclusive AI economies: Workforce, skills, and policy insights from India’s AI job creation roadmap Gobi Ramasamy, Deepthi Das and Jossy P. George, Christ University, India; Rupali Sunil Wagh, Jain University and Christ University, India • S4.4 Reuniting the fragmented body of emAI: A global analysis of embodied AI research and development * Leonhard Konstantin Cuzmin, Maastricht University, The Netherlands • S4.5 From SCATS to mobility justice: An AI-driven traffic control standard for heterogeneous African cities Eunice Adewusi and Simeon Nsabiyumva, African Leadership University, Rwanda
10:30-10:45	Coffee break
10:45-12:15	Paper Session 5 – Cybersecurity, privacy, and trust in AI systems Session chair: Duncan Sparrell, sFractal Consulting, USA S5.1 Resilience against adversarial concept drift in port scanning: Batch vs. incremental paradigms for green AI * Piero Andres Aliaga Fernandez & Jose Dario Menendez Acosta, Universidad Nacional de Ingenieria, Peru S5.2 AI-enabled internet voting as a secure digital public service: A biometric and ledger-based reference Architecture Himanshu Sharma, Indian Institute of Technology & Ministry of Communication, Government of India, India; Atul Joshi, Ministry of Communications, Government of India, India; Aditya Raj, IIT Patna, India S5.3 Towards trustworthy AI in telecom security: Integrating behavioral economics for explainable and sustainable threat detection Emilio Soria-Olivas and José Vila, University of Valencia, Spain; Regino Barranquero, IATA, Spain; Yolanda Gómez, DEvStat, Spain S5.4 A sequential model selection and optimization framework for security in zero touch network environments * Alharith Tawfig Elghasri, The Libyan International Telecom Company, Libya; Abdulbaset Mustafa Hamed, University of Tripoli, Libya S5.5 Adaptive ranks for personalized federated Large Language Models under parameter budget constraints Jinhua Chen, Franck Junior Aboya Messou and Keping Yu, Hosei University, Japan; Yuning Qiu, Riken Center for Advanced Intelligence Project, Japan; Ruman Ahmed, Divya Jha and Koji Yoneda, Sodick Co. Ltd, Japan S5.6 Comparative analysis of interpretive divergence in externally and regionally trained Language Models * Andrew Vance and Taylor Rodriguez Vance, Cyber Institute, USA
12:15-12:45	Fast-Forward Poster Preview session Session chair: Eva Ibarrola, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Spain; ITU Kaleidoscope General Chair P.1 Artificial Intelligence driven sign language interpreting avatars Estella Oncins and Pilar Orero, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain; Iris Serrat Roozen, Universitat de Valencia, Spain P.2 Valuation by absence: modeling evidentiary gaps in patent value assessment Amrutha Moorthy and Raghuram M S, Patenti Technology Solutions, India P.3 Edge-Native LLMs: A sustainable architecture for offline-first education in rural 6G networks Prince Dawson Tetteh, Kponyo J. Jerry, Ama Branoa Banful, Dickson Marfo Fosu, Juliet Arthur and Christian IdanFrowne, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana P.4 CarbonLens-Senegal: A multi-source Machine Learning approach for forest biomass estimation in tropical West Africa Kone Kassoum, Salomon Kouassi and Gabriel Fonlladosa, Data354, Côte d'Ivoire P.5 AI regulations, governance and ethical considerations: An Indian perspective Rajesh Kumar Pathak, Om Pradyumana, Misha Kapoor, Sulbha Bhaisare and Ritesh Kuma Dwivedi, National Informatics Centre, India P.6 Protecting synthetic telecommunications data : A legal review and proposed reforms Maria Alexandra Co Austria, Queen Mary, University of London, UK P.7 Reforming global AI governance: Institutional design for the next UN Secretary-General's mandate Ng Arian Man Lok, Generocity, Hong Kong P.8 Experimental demonstration of a real-time wideband OFDM generation in Sub-THz Eray Guven, Nesrine Benchoubane and Gunes Karabulut Kurt, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada P.9 Sovereign-aware AI and quantum governance: A multi-model prototype for sociotechnical policy evaluation Andrew Vance and Taylor Rodriguez Vance, Cyber Institute, USA P10 Augmenting Volatility Forecasting in Voluntary Carbon Markets: A Hybrid Large Language Model and GARCH-X Framework for India Garima Sogani, NITI Aayog & National Informatics Centre, India; Aparna Sharma, Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), India; Swapnil Morande, University of Naples, Italy; Shivang Rattan (India) P.11 Computer vision-enabled IoT framework for wildlife deterrence system in sustainable farming and livestock protection Nisha Varghese and Gobi Ramasamy, Christ University, India; Antoine Bagula, University of the Western Cape, South Africa and New Horizons University, Congo P.12 A Pan-African AI-enabled digital innovation ecosystem for health, education and decent work leveraging hybrid connectivity, data and frontier technologies to accelerate the SDGs Kilani Meriem, ESSEC Business School, France
12:45-13:45	Lunch break
13:45-14:45	Special Session - Anticipating the hot topics in tech Moderator: Christopher S. Yoo, Founding Director, Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition, University of Pennsylvania; member of the Academic Advisory Body on Emerging Technologies, ITU The ITU recently established an Academic Advisory Body. As it nears the conclusion of its first year of work, this session listens to the chairs of the four thematic groups of the academic advisory body on emerging tech— AI, quantum, space, and strategic foresight. What are their key findings? What should we be looking out for? Can academia, governments and policy-makers even keep up with ever-accelerating technology? This session is an opportunity for open exchange with a broader audience, enabling participants to ask questions and engage in discussion. Panellists: Hoda Al Khzaimi, Director of Center of Cyber Security, New York University Abu Dhabi Jerry John Kponyo, Director, Office of Grants and Research Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana Michael Best, Executive Director of the Institute for People and Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Nagla Rizk, Professor of Economics, Founding Director, Access to Knowledge of Development Center (A2K4D) Onsi Sawiris School of Business, The American University in Cairo Scott Pace, Director of the Space Policy Institute, Director of the Institute for International Science and Technology Policy and Director of the MA International Science and Technology Policy program at the George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs
14:45-15:15	Keynote Session Session Chair: Michael Best, Executive Director of the Institute for People and Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA From frontier to public good: governing AI and frontier technologies for inclusive productivity, trust, and sustainable prosperity Hoda Alkhzaimi, New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD); member of the Academic Advisory Body on Emerging Technologies, ITU
15:15-15:30	Coffee break
15:30-16:30	Special Session - Emerging research and applications at the frontier Moderator: Thomas Basikolo, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU This special session will showcase cutting-edge research on new and emerging areas in AI, with emphasis on how these technologies are being designed, adapted, and applied to advance telecommunications and the public good. Aligned with Kaleidoscope 2026’s focus on AI and frontier technologies, the session will bring together academic researchers to examine emerging AI methods, novel applications, and interdisciplinary work spanning intelligent networks, sustainable development, and innovation. Panellists: Gyu Myoung Lee, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom Talk: Agentic Artificial Intelligence of Things (ITU-T SG20) Hagit Messer, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tel Aviv University Talk: Wireless Communication for Good: A global initiative leveraging network signal measurements for rainfall monitoring Balaraman Ravindran, Head of the Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (RBC-DSAI), Indian Institute of Technology Madras; member of the Academic Advisory Body on Emerging Technologies, ITU Talk: Beyond benchmarks: Closing the deployment gap in High-stakes AI Ammar Muthanna, Professor, Scientific consultant, National Research institute of telecommunications, Russian Federation Talk: Edge Sandbox: A Resource-Aware Intelligent Architecture for Autonomous Network Celina Lee, Zindi co-founder and CEO Talk: Zindi: Building AI Research and Innovation Capacity Across Africa
16:30-17:30	Special Session - AI for Geospatial Intelligence Moderator: Ludovico Biagi, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Geomatics and Geodesy Area, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Panellists: Ali Mansourian, University of Lund, Sweden Talk: GeoLLMs and the future of spatial intelligence Julia Anna Leonardi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Talk: The young researcher's perspective on GeoAI Gregory Giuliani, University of Geneva & UNEP/GRID-Geneva, Switzerland Talk: Are we really delivering the promises of GeoAI or is it just a hype? Andrea Manara, Senior System Analyst, ITU Talk: Geospatial foundation models in practice
17:30-18:00	Paper Session 3, part II - AI in healthcare and well-being applications Session chair: Ved P. Kafle, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan S3.1 Clinically-grounded and human-centric machine learning system for personalized fertility diagnostics and early intervention using modular clinical, imaging and behavioural biomarkers Stuti Lyer and Risha Paladugu, Vellore Institute of Technology, India; Eve Yee Leng Ang, Saint Joseph's Institution, Singapore; Yunjun Jiang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Samanwita Mukherjee, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, India S3.4 Pocket diagnosis: Ex-yolo-driven real-time ophthalmic diagnosis with smartphone applications Kyamelia Roy, Siliguri Govt. Polytechnic, India; Subharthi Ray, Sinjita Gayen and Sheli Sinha Chaudhuri, Jadavpur University, India
Time zone CEST (UTC+2) Day 3 - Thursday, 9 July 2026

09:00- 10:30	Paper Session 6 – AI-Native networks, 5G/6G, and telecom architectures Session chair: Gyu Myoung Lee, Liverpool John Moores University, UK; ITU Kaleidoscope Scientific Committee member S6.1 XPipe: Explainable multi-stage LLM pipeline evaluation via causal attribution for telecommunications Franck Junior Aboya Messou, Shilong Zhang, Weiyu Wang, Tao Yu, Tong Liu, Jinhua Chen and Keping Yu, Hosei University, Japan S6.2 Toward deployable semantic communication in 6G: An SKMF-enabled wide-coupling framework with controlled exposure Zhe Zheng, Hao Chen, Jiaqiong Zhou, Hui Du and Ganggang Ma, Peng Cheng Laboratory, China; Nan Ma and Xiaodong Xu, Department of Broadband Communication, Peng Cheng Laboratory, China S6.3 AI-driven network orchestration under partial sovereignty: Architectural challenges and operational implications in critical networks Sara Çela, String Consulting, Albania S6.4 Hierarchical multi-objective learning for context-aware 5G RAN slice resource allocation Charles Ssengonzi, Ericsson, Sweden; Okuthe Paul Kogeda, University of Kwazulu Natal, South Africa; Thomas Otieno Olwal, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa S6.5 AI-native closed-loop self-healing for rural and edge telecom networks in NS-3: Randomised fault injection, explainable detection, and policy-grounded orchestration * Anirudh Nishtala, Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), India; Rishiraj Rakesh Kumar and Tarunika D, Manipal Institute of Technology, India S6.6 Platform limitations for 6G real-time applications Michael Recchia, AdaptNet AI Labs, USA
10:30-10:45	Coffee break
10:45-12:15	Paper Session 7 – Infrastructure, sustainability, and emerging tech ecosystems Session chair: Mostafa Hashem Sherif, Consultant, USA; ITU Kaleidoscope Technical Programme Committee Chair S7.1 An Innovation ecosystem ethics approach for quantum safe transitions Shamira Ahmed, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands; Maikki Sipinen, Finland; Patrick Bell, George Washington University, USA S7.2 AEGIS-6G: A comprehensive governance framework addressing critical gaps in sixth-generation AI-Native Networks Suryash Gautam, DoT, India S7.3 Coordination between networking and computing resources for energy saving in disaggregated computing in data centers* Atsuko Yokotani and Hideyuki Iwata, The Telecommunication Technology Committee, Japan; Shuta Numayama, and Tetsuya Yokotani, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan; Yuki Hatanaka, Graduate School, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan S7.4 Deep learning-based monitoring and control of hydroponic leafy vegetables for urban farming Dhananjay Kumar and Gowtham Rajasekaran, Anna University, India S7.5 Bridging language diversity: A retrieval augmented generation-based framework for information extraction in South Indian language documents Arokia Paul Rajan, Nisha Varghese and Gobi Ramasamy, Christ University, India; Antoine Bagula, University of Western Cape, South Africa and New Horizons University, Congo S7.6 Enforceable digital sovereignty in government cloud procurement Dickson Marfo Fosu, Juliet Arthur, Prince Dawson Tetteh, Ama Branoa Banful and Jerry John Kponyo, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana
12:15-12:45	Keynote Session Session Chair: Hao Qin, National University of Singapore, Singapore; ITU Kaleidoscope Scientific Committee member Resources and applications for advanced quantum networking Eleni Diamanti, Senior Researcher /Directrice de Recherche, Paris Centre for Quantum Computing, France; member of the Academic Advisory Body on Emerging Technologies, ITU
12:45-13:45	Lunch break
13:45-14:45	Special Session - Quantum science for society: Collaborating on real-world applications and educational pathways Moderator: Emily Edwards, Duke University, United States; ITU Kaleidoscope Scientific Committee member This lively and interactive discussion brings together diverse perspectives from across the quantum ecosystem to explore how advances in quantum science can translate into tangible impact. Emphasis will be placed on collaboration across disciplines and sectors, linking emerging technological capabilities with real-world applications and the educational pathways needed to equip the next generation to engage with these developments and contribute to the evolving global technology landscape. Panellists: Henry Ryder, Open Quantum Institute Araceli Venegas-Gomez, Founder, QURECA, Scotland Eleni Diamanti, Senior Researcher / Directrice de Recherche, Paris Centre for Quantum Computing, France; member of the Academic Advisory Body on Emerging Technologies, ITU Hao Qin, National University of Singapore, Singapore; ITU Kaleidoscope Scientific Committee member Frederico Brito, Director, Quantum Computing Hardware, Quantum Research Center, TII , UAE
14:45-15:15	Invited papers Session Chair: Youlia Lozanova, Telecommunication Development Bureau, ITU Anticipatory AI governance for cybersecurity: foresight, roadmapping and evidence informed-policy pathways From skills intelligence to transformation intelligence: A foresight-driven AI framework for curriculum modernization, workforce development and innovation ecosystems Rafael Popper, Warsaw University of Technology (WUT), Poland; Technology Partners Foundation (TPF), Poland; University of Manchester (UoM), UK; Futures Diamond (FD), UK
15:15-15:30	Coffee break
15:30-16:30	Special Session - AI for the Global Majority Moderator: Jérôme Duberry, Director of the Tech Hub at the Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland Opening remarks: Amanda Craig, General Manager for Responsible AI Policy, Microsoft This Kaleidoscope special session will showcase the AI for the Global Majority initiative, jointly led by the Geneva Graduate Institute and Microsoft in partnership with the ITU, convening four research teams working at the intersection of inclusive, responsible, and context-sensitive AI. Through a series of short presentations followed by a moderated discussion, the session will highlight practical, field-based approaches across diverse sectors and regions. Topics will include inclusive speech recognition for low-resource and multilingual contexts in Ghana, consumer protection and regulatory challenges in India’s AI-driven fintech sector, governance frameworks for public health AI systems, and cooperative models of AI development in Argentina. Together, these contributions offer complementary perspectives on how AI can better reflect linguistic diversity, protect vulnerable users, strengthen local capacity, and promote equitable, community-oriented innovation, providing concrete insights for advancing more inclusive AI ecosystems globally. Project 1 - Inclusive speech recognition for low-resource languages Jerry John Kponyo, Director of the Office of Grants and Research of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST); member of the Academic Advisory Body on Emerging Technologies, ITU Project 2 - Governing AI in indian finance: Consumer cisks and policy responses Tanushree Kaushal, Researcher and Lecturer in Feminist Political Economy of Global Finance, University of Bern Project 3 - Inclusive AI governance and capacity building for public health Jude Dzevela Kong, professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto Project 4 – Cooperative AI in Argentina: towards AI as a commons Cecilia Muñoz Cancela, Professor, researcher, cooperativist, and Ph.D. student in Social and Human Sciences at the National University of Quilmes
16:30-17:00	Keynote Session Session Chair: Mythili Menon, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU AI-Powered Greenhouse Monitoring for Yield Forecasting and Early Phytopathology Detection Azamat Zhilokov, Director of the Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russian Federation
17:00-17:30	Closing and Awards Ceremony Best paper awards and young author recognition Seizo Onoe, Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU Eva Ibarrola, ITU Kaleidoscope General Chair Mostafa Hashem Sherif, ITU Kaleidoscope Technical Programme Committee Chair Vijay Mauree, Head, Strategic Tech and Academia Initiatives Division, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU Alessia Magliarditi, ITU Kaleidoscope Coordinator, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU

An * denotes papers nominated for best paper award. 