Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Secretary-General, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Master of Ceremonies and Moderator: Femi Oke, Television presenter and Journalist
His Excellency, Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda
Amina Mohammed, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General
His Excellency, Dennis Francis, President of the 78th Session of the United Nations General Assembly [Video address]
Brad Smith, Vice-Chair and President of Microsoft, SDG Advocate [Video address]
Master of Ceremonies and Moderator: Femi Oke, Television presenter and Journalist
Maikel Wilms, Partner and Director, Boston Consulting Group (BCG)
Sophia the Robot, Hanson Robotics
Vigneswara Ihita Gangavarapu, Generation Connect
Roman Gojayev, Generation Connect
Master of Ceremonies and Moderator: Femi Oke, Television presenter and Journalist
Introduction
Tawfik Jelassi, Assistant Director-General for Communication and Information, United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Anchor SDG 1 — No Poverty - M-Pesa
Joakim Reiter, Chief External and Corporate Affairs Officer, Vodafone
SDG 2 — Zero Hunger
Ram Mahadevan, CEO, Jiva
SDG 3 — Good Health and Well-being
Ola Hodne Titlestad, Lead DHIS2 Global Implementation Team and Deputy Director of the HISP Centre, University of Oslo, and Monica Grace Amuha, Research and Grants Team Lead and EMIS Project Lead, HISP Uganda; PhD student, University of Oslo
SDG 4 — Quality Education
Noémie Bürkl, Head of Digitalisation Unit, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, BMZ
Sal Khan, Founder and CEO, The Khan Academy [Video address]
Siwon Choi, Singer, UNICEF Regional Ambassador for East Asia and Pacific and UNICEF Next Generation Global Leader [Video address]
Moderator: Sinead Bovell, Founder, Waye
Introduction
Boyan Slat, Founder and CEO, The Ocean Cleanup [Video address]
Anchor SDG 13 — Climate Action — Wipo Green
Daren Tang, Director General, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
SDG 6 — Clean Water and Sanitation
Sara de Moitié, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, Gybe
SDG 7 — Affordable and Clean Energy
NITHIO [Video address]
SDG 14 — Life below Water
Golestan Radwan, Chief Digital Officer, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
SDG 15 — Life on Land
Bourhan Yassin, CEO, Rainforest Connection
Fatou Jeng, Founder, Clean Earth Gambia, Gender climate negotiator for The Gambia to the UNFCCC
Moderator: Sinead Bovell, Founder, Waye
Introduction
Pamela Coke-Hamilton, Executive Director, International Trade Center (ITC)
Anchor SDG 9 — Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure — Giga
Chris Fabian, Co-Founder, Giga, and Her Excellency, the Right Honourable Salima Monorma Bah, Minister of Communication, Technology and Innovation, Sierra Leone
SDG 11 — Sustainable Cities and Communities
Khaled Almutairi, Executive Director of Emerging Technologies and Digital Maturity, Ministry of Municipal Rural Affairs and Housing, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
SDG 12 — Responsible Consumption and Production
Ganesh Swaminathan, Transparency Innovation Lead, OpenSC
SDG 8 – Decent Work and Economic Growth
Mats Granryd, Director General, GSMA
Tafara Makaza, Co-Founder and CTO, Fixa
Sarah Hendriks, Deputy Executive Director for Policy, Programme, Civil Society, and Intergovernmental Support, UN Women
Moderator: Sinead Bovell, Founder, Waye
Introduction
Kelly T. Clements, Deputy High-Commissioner, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
Anchor SDG 15 — Gender Equality
Felicitas Heyne, CEO, Audiopedia
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Actor, UNDP Goodwill Ambassador
SDG 10 — Reduced Inequalities
His Excellency, Bagdat Mussin, Minister of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospace Industry, Kazakhstan
SDG 16 — Peace and Strong Institutions
Omar Al-Assouli, Strategic Policy Advisor, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Karimot Odebode, Poet, Writer and Youth Activitst
Moderator: Sinead Bovell, Founder, Waye
Isabelle Mauro, Director General, Global Satellite Operators Association (GSOA)
Teresa Hutson, CVP, Technology for Fundamental Rights, Microsoft
Bae Kyoung Yul, President of the Korea Information Society Development Institute, Republic of Korea
Sigve Brekke, President and CEO, Telenor
Karim Lesina, Executive Vice President, Chief External Affairs Officer, Millicom
Karan Bhatia, Global Head, Government Affairs & Public Policy, Google
Ziyang Xu, Executive Director and CEO, ZTE — P2C Champion [Video address]
His Excellency, Mohammed Saud Al-Tamimi, Governor, Communications, Space, & Technology Commission (CST), Saudi Arabia
Rabab Fatima, Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States (UN-OHRLLS)
Master of Ceremonies and Moderator: Femi Oke, Television presenter and Journalist
Wendy Woods, Vice Chair, Social Impact, Climate & Sustainability; Managing Director & Senior Partner, BCG, Knowledge Partner SDG Digital
Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Secretary-General, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Ilan Goldfajn, President, Interamerican Development Bank (IDB)
Hans Vestberg, CEO, Verizon
Master of Ceremonies and Moderator: Femi Oke, Television presenter and Journalist
Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Secretary General, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development
Moderator: Rudra Chaudhuri, Director, Carnegie India
Launch of the Universal DPI Safeguards Initiative
Amandeep Singh Gill, United Nations Secretary-General’s Envoy on Technology
Keynote:
Ilan Goldfajn, President, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
Speakers:
His Excellency, Margus Tsahkna, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Estonia
His Excellency, Shri Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Minister of State, Electronics and Information Technology, India
Her Excellency, Cina Lawson, Minister of Digital Economy and Transformation, Togo
Guangzhe Chen, Vice President for Infrastructure, World Bank Group
Fireside Chat:
Vilas S. Dhar, President and Trustee, McGovern Foundation
Michael Running Wolf, Founder, Indigenous in AI/ML
Her Excellency, Esther Dweck, Minister of Management and Innovation in Public Services, Brazil
Her Excellency, Hala H. Elsaid, Minister of Planning and Economic Development Arab Republic of Egypt, Chair of The Sovereign Fund of Egypt
Dirk Messner, President of German Environment Agency & Coalition for Digital Environment Sustainability (CODES)
Nandan Nilekani, Chair & Co-founder Infosys and Founding Chair UIDAI
His Excellency, Ville Tavio, Minister for Foreign Trade and International Development, Finland
Her Excellency, Carme Artigas, Secretary of State for Digitization and Artificial Intelligence, Spain
Sharon Dijksma, Mayor of Utrech, Kingdom of the Netherlands and Chairperson of the Association of Netherlands Municipalities (VNG) (Representing United Cities & Local Governments)
His Excellency, Simplex Chithyola Banda, Minister of Trade and Industry, Republic of Malawi
Her Excellency, Salima Monorma Bah, Minister of Communication, Technology and Innovation, Sierra Leone
Lew Chuen Hong, Chief Executive, Infocomm Media Development Authority of Singapore
Jim Zemlin, Executive Director, Linux Foundation
Mashael Ali Yousef Al Hammadi, Assistant Undersecretary for Information Technology Affairs, State of Qatar
Doreen Bogdan-Martin, Secretary General, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Master of Ceremonies and Moderator: Femi Oke, Television presenter and Journalist