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AI Standardization Roundtable Report: The future of AI, regulation and industry development

Diane Mievis, Director of EU Public Policy at Cisco, outlined Cisco's development of cloud
and security solutions that integrate AI. She stressed the need for global AI governance to help
ensure that AI systems are safe, secure, and reliable. She highlighted that Cisco advocates for
open international AI standards, including on topics such as data management, information
technology security, and sustainability. She called for enhanced stakeholder engagement in
the development of such standards.

Catharina Maracke, Head of Standardization Policy at Nokia, urged AI stakeholders to maintain
the international perspective required for AI governance frameworks to be sustainable over
the long term.

Karim Rabie, Principal Architect at Red Hat, a provider of enterprise open-source solutions,
emphasized the importance of the alignment with OpenSource Community groups and the
private sector to accelerate the adoption of the published standards, and stressed the need
for clearly defined AI terminology to ensure common understanding among AI stakeholders.

Evan Xiao, Vice President at Huawei Technologies, addressed the importance of the AI
ecosystem. He discussed the need to develop technical solutions and strategies working
together within the ecosystem. He noted the significance of international collaboration for
standardization and interoperability to avoid technological fragmentation and ensure smooth
adoption, a key challenge for vendors. He highlighted the opportunity build AI standards
together, across regions and countries that bring value to all.

Full List of Speakers
1 ITU [Siezo Onoe and Bilel Jamoussi]
2 ISO [Serjio Mujica]
3 IEC [Philippe Metzger]
4 WIC [Ren Xianliang]
5 IEEE [Karen McCabe]
6 Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. [Xiao Ran and Chang Xin]
7 Nokia [Catherina Maracke]
8 Cisco [Nicole Isaac]
9 Turkcell [Ali Taha Koç]
10 RedHat [Karim Rabie]
11 CAICT [Yu Xiaohui]
12 Switzerland/Europe [Thomas Schnieder]
13 US Department of State [Steve Lang]
14 India DoT [Niraj Verma]
15 Uruguay [Dr Mercedes Armednia Falco]
16 UNEP [Golestan Sally Radwan]
17 UNIDO [Ana Paula Nishio de Sousa]

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