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​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​AI and frontier technologies for good,
ITU Kaleidoscoope 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
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MoC: 
Alessia Magliarditi, ITU Kaleidoscope Coordinator, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU
    • Keynote address: Seizo Onoe,​ Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU​

10:00-10:30
Keynote Session

Session chair: 

Space computing: Endless frontiers and exploration

Jian Wang, Chinese Academy of Engineering & Director of Zheijang 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 Policy Committee​

​​​​​11:15-12:15
​Paper Session 1 – Global AI governance, sovereignty, and policy frameworks - Part 1


Session chairYoulia 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​

    • S1.4 Artificial 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, Russian Federation
12:15-14:15
Lunch break
​​​​​14:15-14:45
​Paper Session 1 – Global AI governance, sovereignty, and policy frameworks - Part 2


Session chairYoulia Lozanova, Telecommunication Development Bureau, ITU
    • S1.5 Positioning Malaysia in the global AI governance landscape: Pathways toward an AI nation
      Nashah Bashah, Taylor’s University College, Malaysia

    • S1.6 Responsible AI in emerging markets: A governance by design model for scalable, ethical and inclusive AI deployments
      Derick Adil, Globe Telecom, Philippines
14:45-16:15
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 ​The liability decoupling theorem for autonomous AI systems. A formal framework for proportional responsibility in multi-actor AI harm events
      Mujuni Innocent Taremwa, The Brand Factory, Uganda

    • S2.4 Who is Responsible? The data, models, users or regulations? A review on responsible generative AI
      Shaina Raza, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada; Sindhuja Chaduvula, Shweta Khushu and Deval Pandya, Vector Institute, Canada

    • S2.5 Effective human oversight for high-risk AI systems: A five-dimensional governance framework
      Xiaotong Sun, University of Turku, Finland

    • S2.6 From black box to glass box: Establishing epistemic integrity and scalable verifiability in generative AI for global health
      Gagan N and Soumya Sahoo, GE HealthCare, India
​16:15-16:30
Coffee break​
16:30-17:00
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

17:00-18:30
​Paper Session 3 – 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

    • S3.2 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; 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

    • S3.4 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

    • 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
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Time zone CEST (UTC+2)​

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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 AI for all: Advancing equitable and sustainable digital Shiksha in rural Bharat
Aashish Jain, GNCT of Delhi, India; Rohit Khokher, Vidya Prakashan Mandir Ltd, India

​• S4.2 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

S4.3 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; Vishnu Ram OV, ITU Independent Researcher; Bello K. Nuhu, Ahmed Yinka, and Simon Achile, Department of Computer Engineering, Federal University of Technology Minna Niger State Nigeria

S4.4 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

S4.5 Reuniting the fragmented body of emAI: A global analysis of embodied AI research and development *
Leonhard Konstantin Cuzmin, Maastricht University, The Netherlands

S4.6 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 chairDuncan Sparrell, Fractal 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 *
      AndrewVance and Taylor Rodriguez Vance​ , Cyber Institute, USA
​12:15-12:45
Fast-Forward Poster Preview session 

Session chairEva 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 Pattern-guided deep feature fusion for scalable diabetic retinopathy screening
      Megha Agarwal, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, India; Shailendra Sagar, Ministry of Communications, India

    • P.7 Protecting telecommunications data trifold: A policy framework for protecting synthetic data
      Maria Alexandra Co Austria, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

    • P.8 Regulating the listening wall: Privacy-by-design requirements for intelligent noise control systems in smart cities
      Mark Anthony Arcayan, Seoul National University, South Korea

    • P.9 Reforming global AI governance: Institutional design for the next UN Secretary-General's mandate
      Ng Arian Man Lok, Generocity, Hong Kong

    • P.10 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.11 Sovereign-aware AI and quantum governance: A multi-model prototype for sociotechnical policy evaluation
      Andrew Vance and Taylor Rodriguez Vance, Cyber Institute, USA

    • P.12 Algorithmic decarbonization contracts: A formal framework for executable carbon constraints in AI-mediated systems
      Deusdedit Ruhangariyo, Conscience for AGI, USA

    • P.13 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, India; Swapnil Morande, University of Naples, Italy; Shivang Rattan, Freelance, India

    • P.14 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.15 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:​​
  • 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
  • Jerry John Kponyo, Dean of Quality Assurance & Planning Office, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Nigeria) 
  • Michael Best, Executive Director of the Institute for People and Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA​
  • Nagla Rizk, PhD, Professor of Economics, Founding DIrector, Access to Knowledge of Development Center (A2K4D) Onsi Sawiris School of Business, The American University in Cairo

14:45-15:15

Keynote Session

Session Chair: Mike Best, Geogia Institute of Technology, USA; member of the Academic Advisory Body on Emerging Technologies, ITU

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
    • Ammar Muthanna, Professor, Scientific consultant, National Research institute of telecommunications, Russian Federation
      Talk: Edge Sandbox: A Resource-Aware Intelligent Architecture for Autonomous Network
16:30-17:30​
Special Session - AI for Geospatial I​ntelligence​

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 pesearcher'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 

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 (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, 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 orchestration
      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, China (member of the Academic Advisory Body on Emerging Technologies, ITU)
12:15-12:45Keynote 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
14:45-15:15 Invited papers

Session ChairYoulia Lozanova, Telecommunication Development Bureau, ITU

Anticipatory AI governance for cybersecurity: foresight, road mapping and actionable policy pathways

Foresight-Driven AI Skills Intelligence for Curriculum Modernisation: Early Insights from the SKILLBRIDGE Observatory

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 M​ajority​

Moderator: Jérôme Duberry, Director of the Tech Hub at the Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland

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: Bilel Jamoussi, Deputy Director of TSB & Chief, Study Groups & Policy Department (SPD), 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)​
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.​ ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​