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Schedule of events
Digital@UNGA Affiliate Sessions are independently organized sessions taking place alongside the Digital@UNGA Anchor Event during UN High Level Week 2026. They can be in-person, virtual, or hybrid. Each event is linked to one of three thematic journeys: Digit’all Innovation, Digit’all Inclusion, or Digit’all Future.
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Click to download the Affiliate Sessions Overview document 16 – 20 September 2026
Wednesday, 16 September
Time TBDAI Evaluations for Social Good
Organizer(s): Humane Intelligence
and Morgan StanleyVenue: 1585 Broadway, New York, NY
10036, United States
More information: https://humaneintelligence.org/get-involved/events/
Registration required;
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Thursday, 17 September
17:00–19:30AI, Jobs, and Development: Perspectives for and from the Rest of the World
Organizer(s): MIT Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and Schmidt Sciences
Venue: Schmidt Sciences Offices, Union Square, New York, NY, United States
Registration required;
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Friday, 18 September
11:00 – 12:30Beyond Access: Co-Creating the Next Generation of Inclusive Digital Learning
Organizer: Center for Programming and Digital Creativity “KIBERone Banja Luka”
Venue: Nikole Tesle 13, 78000 Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovin
Registration required; email: Dragana Babić, draganacizmovic@gmail.com
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Friday, 18 September
10:15 – 11:15UNGIS: Stronger Together — Advancing Digital Cooperation Across the UN System
Organizer: United Nations Group on the Information Society (UNGIS)
Venue: Amartya Sen Conference Room, UNDP Headquarters, New York
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Sunday, 20 September
09:00 – 10:00From Access to Agency: Closing the AI Opportunity Gap for the Next Generation
Organizer: PURE Global
Venue: Fully virtual
Registration required: Dr. Shyla Talluri, info@thepureglobal.org
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Sunday, 20 September
11:00 – 14:00Education Systems in the Age of AI: What’s Changed, What’s Next?
Organizers: UNESCO, UNICEF, Global Partnership for Education (GPE), ITU, and Cambridge University Press & Assessment
Venue: Scandinavia House, 58 Park Ave, New York, NY
Focal point: Malek Ben Cheikh, m.ben-cheikh@unesco.org
Registration required;
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Sunday, 20 September
13:00 – 17:30AI for Global Progress: An Innovation Showcase
Organizer: Google Cloud
Venue: Google Hudson Square Campus, New York, NY
Registration required;
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Sunday, 20 September
Time TBDAfrica AI Village: Building Partnerships and Institutions That Will Shape Africa’s AI Future
Organizer: Qhala
Venue: In-person, Nairobi, Kenya
Registration required: Michelle Ogolla, mitchelle.ogolla@qhala.com
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Sunday, 20 September
Time TBDAfrica AI Governance Summit
Organizer: Lawyers Hub
Venue: Hybrid, TBD
Registration required; email: info@lawyershubafrica.com
Click card for more information21 September 2026
Monday, 21 September
09:00 – 10:30Human Centric Cities in the Age of AI: Connectivity, Inclusion and
Opportunity for AllOrganizers: ITU Global Initiative on AI
and Virtual Worlds: Discovering the
Citiverse and Universitat Autònoma de
Barcelona
Venue: Fully virtualNo registration required.
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Monday, 21 September
11:00 – 12:00EQUALS Anniversary: 10 Years Closing the Gender Digital Divide
Organizers: EQUALS Global Partnership (ITU, UN Women, GSMA, ITC, UNU, and other partners)
Venue: UN Women HeadquartersClick card to learn more.
Monday, 21 September
12:15 – 14:00The AI Workforce Blueprint: Preparing Young People, Employers, and Education Systems for 2035
Organizer(s): JA Worldwide, JA Asia Pacific, JA Institute and Ecosystm Group
Venue: 230 West 38th Street, 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10036, United States
Registration required: Howard Leong, howard.leong@jaworldwide.orgClick card to register
Monday, 21 September
13:00 – 15:00The Status of Digital Children’s Rights Roundtable
Organizer: Digital Child Rights
Foundation
Venue: TBD (UN Headquarters)Registration required; email: Peter Joziasse,
info@digitalchildrights.org
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Monday, 21 September
13:00 – 15:00Powering the Digit’All Future: Girls in Energy Villages for Digital Inclusion in the Global South
Organizer(s): DoTheDream Youth Development Initiative, Alliance of Social Transformers for Sustainable Development, and Conference of NGOs in Consultative Relationship with the United Nations
Venue: STUF United Fund Place, 800 2nd Avenue, Suite 804, New York, NY 10017Registration required: Adebusuyi Olutayo Olumadewa, admin@dothedreamydi.org, energy@dothedreamydi.org, dodedream@gmail.com
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Monday, 21 September
14:00 – 16:00Q-Lab: Agentic AI and Youth’s Digital Wellbeing
Organizers: NYU GovLab and Sync Digital Wellbeing Program
Venue: New York City (exact venue to be
confirmed)
More information:
https://thegovlab.org/ | https://sync.ithra.com/
Registration required;
Registration closes 14 September 2026. Selected participants will receive the venue details and agenda upon confirmation.
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Monday, 21 September
15:30 – 16:30From Connectivity to Opportunity:
Empowering Women and Youth
Through Digital Innovation, AI and
Climate ResilienceOrganizer: ADIFEVEA World
Venue: DaVinci Meeting Rooms, 42
Broadway, Floor 12, New York, NY
10004, USA
Registration required; email: Armen Matabishi
Rugereza, armenmath12@gmail.com
Monday, 21 September
17:00 – 20:00Anchor event: Digital@UNGA 2026
Building a Digit’all Future TogetherOrganizer(s): ITU, UNDP
Venue: Hybrid, Delegates Dining Room,
United Nations, 1 United Nations Plaza,
New York, NY 10017Registration required.
Click card to learn more.22 – 25 September 2026
Tuesday, 22 September
09:00–17:00
(two-day event, 22–23 September)6th UNGA Digital Health Symposium
Organizers: Maynooth University and Seton Hall University
Venue: Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey
Focal point: Prof. Martin Curley, Martin.Curley@mu.ie
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Tuesday, 22 September
10:00 – 11:30Learn, Earn, Lead: Building Inclusive AI Opportunity Pathways for African Youth
Organizer: Bankable Wisdom
Venue: Fully virtualRegistration required: Precious Chinedu Azuonwu, azuonwuprecious@gmail.com
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Tuesday, 22 September
10:00 – 11:00Verifiable and Accountable AI: Trust
Infrastructure for an Inclusive Agentic Era
Organizer: Management Company Elixir
LLC (Ukraine)
Venue: Fully virtualRegistration required.
More Information: Oleh Vasylenko,
oleg@vasylenko.tel
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Tuesday, 22 September
10:00 – 12:00Building Trusted and Inclusive Digital Public Infrastructure: AI, Digital Government and Cybersecurity for Sustainable Development
Organizer: Internal Resources Division (IRD), Ministry of Finance, Government of Bangladesh, in collaboration with partners
Venue: Pending (hybrid)
Focal point: Engr. Md. Selim Reza, sa@ird.gov.bd
Registration page pending
Tuesday, 22 September
14:00 – 15:30Bridging Central Africa’s Digital Divide: Public-Private Partnerships for Youth, Trade, and Inclusive AI in the Sahel
Organizer(s): Nation Builders University (USA), in partnership with the American Red Cross
Venue:520 W 49th St, New York, NY, United States (hybrid event)More information: https://nationbuilderuniversity.com/
Registration required: Hiroua Goare Bienvenu, info@nationbuilderuniversity.com
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Tuesday, 22 September
14:00 – 15:00Women in DataLab: Democratizing Data Science, AI and Leadership for Women in LATAM
Organizer(s): Women in DataLab and Datos con Gladys, with academic support from ICMC, University of São Paulo (USP)
Venue: Fully virtual, broadcast from São Carlos, BrazilRegistration required: Gladys Choque Ulloa, info@womenindatalab.com
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Tuesday, 22 September
15:30 – 17:00AI and Ageing: Inclusive Pathways for Older Persons in a Digital World
Organizers: KAIST, ITU and EY
Venue: Pending
Focal point: Moon Choi, moonchoi365@gmail.com
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Tuesday, 22 September
17:00 – 18:00From Principles to Deployment:
Visionaries Building Trusted GenAI for the Digit’all FutureOrganizer: WomenInGenAI
Venue: Microsoft — One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza
885 2nd Avenue, 34th Floor
New York, NY 10017Registration required; email Tatyana Kanzaveli,
tkanzaveli@gmail.com
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Tuesday, 22 September
Time TBDLocal Knowledge in the Age of AI: Preparing Communities for the Digital Future
Organizer: Blanchard House Institute
Venue: Hybrid, TBCRegistration required; email: Joan Ai,
joan@blanchardhouseinstitute.org
Wednesday, 23 September
07:45–09:30The Implementation Gap: Who Delivers Global AI Governance?
Organizer:Tech Diplomacy Global Institute (TDGI), in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan
Venue: 1501 Broadway, New York, NY 10036
Registration required: Participation by invitation only. secretariat@tdgi.org
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Wednesday, 23 September
10:00 – 11:30An AI Powered Human Rights Data
Exchange for Everyone, EverywhereOrganizer: UN Human Rights and Partners
Venue: Hybrid, TBCRegistration required; email: Amy Shelver,
amy-louise.shelver@un.org
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Wednesday, 23 September
13:00 – 15:00Governing AI in the Real World: From Frontier Innovation to Global Action
Organizers: Institute for AI International Governance, Tsinghua University (I-AIIG),
United Nations University Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR), The International Association for Safe & Ethical AI (IASEAI)
UNU Hub for the Project of Promoting Ethical and Responsible Artificial Intelligence, UNU AI Network
Venue: United Nations University Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR), One Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, 885 2nd Avenue, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10017Focal point: Alice Chen Fan, alicefanc@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn
More information: https://aiig.tsinghua.edu.cn/en/info/1031/1712.htm
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Wednesday, 23 September
13:00 – 15:30AI Red Lines: From Prohibition to Enforcement
Organizer(s): Center for AI and Digital Policy and Minderoo Foundation, from the Pro-Human AI Coalition
Venue: New York, NY 10016, United States (exact address provided to confirmed participants)Registration required: Space is limited. Please register your interest to attend at info@caidp.org
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Wednesday, 23 September
14:00 – 15:30 (TBC)Building an Inclusive Future for All: The WSIS Action Lines as a Framework for Global Digital Cooperation
Organizers: ITU, UNDP, Egypt, South Africa, ICC and APC
Venue: Permanent Mission of Egypt in New York (TBC)Focal point: Prateek Dubey, prateek.dubey@itu.int
Wednesday, 23 September
14:00 – 17:00Women in AI: The Global Launch — From Access to Agency
Organizer: iamtheCODE Foundation
Venue: PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, 300 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10017, United StatesClick card to reigster
Wednesday, 23 September
Time TBCWho Is Forming the Boy in the Digital Age? AI, Digital Life, and the Future of Boys & Young Men
Organizer: Boys Lead Foundation, with programming and knowledge contributions from the BEXT Institute for Boys and Men
Venue: PendingRegistration required: Owolabi Williams, info@boyslead.org
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Thursday, 24 September
08:30-10:30Sovereign AI: What Do States Actually Control?
Organizers: Tech Diplomacy Global Institute (TDGI)
Venue: 1501 Broadway, New York, NY 10036Registration required: Participation by invitation only. secretariat@tdgi.org
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Thursday, 24 September
08:30 – 11:00A Closed-Door Dialogue on the Future of Digital Services Talent
Organizer: GrandResolve: Strengthening the Foundation for Digital Services
Venue: Midtown Manhattan, New York, NY, United States (exact address provided to confirmed participants)Registration required: Wendy Shlensky, wendy@grandresolve.org
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Thursday, 24 September
10:00 – 11:30Scaling Industrial AI Responsibly: From Readiness to Action
Organizers: UNIDO and IBM
Venue: IBM, 1 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10010, United StatesBy invitation only. To express interest, please contact Wernhard Berger, w.berger@unido.org
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Thursday, 24 September
12:00 – 14:00Responsible AI for Child Protection
Organizer(s): Just Rights For Children (JRC), Athena Infonomics and APLYD
Venue: Pending
Registration required: Gitika Sharan, gitika.s@athenainfonomics.com
Registration link pending.
Thursday, 24 September
14:00 – 15:30Youth Evidence to AI Governance: Building a Digit’all Future With the Next Generation
Organizer: SDG Youth Connect
Venue: Pending
More information: SDG Youth Connect https://sdgyouthconnect.org/
Registration: Derin Ege Sezgin, derin@sdgyouthconnect.org
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Thursday, 24 September
15:30 – 17:00Development Data Partnership: Private-Sector Intelligence for Better Development Decisions
Organizers: UNDP and LinkedIn
Venue: LinkedIn Office, 350 Fifth Avenue, New York (hybrid)Focal point: Aparna Bhushan, aparna.bhushan@undp.org
Registration link coming soon.
Thursday, 24 September
18:00 – 21:00Governing at the Speed of AI: A High-Level Evening on International Coordination for Crisis Preparedness at UNGA 81
Organizer: AI Safety Connect (AISC), co-hosted by the Permanent Missions of Canada, Estonia and Kenya to the United Nations, the United Nations Foundation, UNESCO and UNDP
Venue: Delegates’ Dining Room, United Nations Headquarters, New York
Focal point: Steffica Warwick, steffica.warwick@aisafetyconnect.org
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Thursday, 24 September
Time TBCHarnessing Trusted AI for NCD Prevention: Scaling the Be He@lthy Be Mobile 2.0 Initiative
Organizers: Vital Strategies, ITU and REACH Digital, with support from WHO, the UN Inter-Agency Task Force on the Prevention and Control of NCDs and Mental Health, and the Friends of the UN Inter-Agency Task Force
Venue: Vital Strategies, 100 Broadway, 4th Floor, New York (hybrid)
Participation by invitation only.
To express interest: Sara Pressman, spressman@vitalstrategies.org
Friday, 25 September
10:00 –17:00Youth Digital Futures Summit 2026: AI, Inclusion and Ethical Digital Transformation for a Sustainable Tomorrow
Organizer: Sustainable Development Council
Venue: United Nations Conference Centre (UNCC), Bangkok, Thailand
Registration required; email: Datchanamoorthy
Ramu, datchana@unsdc.org
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Date TBC (During UN High-Level Week)
Time TBCThe Pacific Divide: Competition, Cooperation, and the Future of AI
Organizer: American Society for AI, China
Venue: Pending
Registration information pending.
Focal point: Aaron Poynton, aaron.poynton@asfai.orgOctober – November 2026
14 October
09:00–14:00 Tashkent timeTech Diplomacy Asia Symposium: Marking the First Anniversary of the Samarkand Declaration on Tech Diplomacy
Organizers: Tech Diplomacy Global Institute (TDGI) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Uzbekistan
Venue: Pending, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Participation by invitation only
Focal point: Ayumi Moore Aoki, ayumi@tdgi.org
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10 November
Time TBDLes futurs numériques des villages
inclusifs : Construire ensemble un
avenir Digit’allOrganizer: Union Syndicale des
Agriculteurs (USA), Togo
Venue: Fully virtual
Registration required; email: Mr. Nabe Kanfiegue,
agriculteurstogo2005@gmail.com