AI For Developing Countries Forum

512,000 lines leaked. Replicated in hours. And it wasn't a hack, it was recklessness. Georg Zangl & Larry Keating on why closed source AI defence is crumbling — and why open source developers may be the only force that can stop a handful of LLM giants from controlling everything

Johanna Hill, WTO AI as the accelerator across every development goal that matters. Johanna Hill, Deputy Director-General: education, healthcare, agriculture, finance, manufacturing, supply chains. AIFOD Geneva Summit | 12–14 Aug | UN Office Geneva #AIFOD #WTO #AIForDevelopment

Hon. E. P. Chet Greene, Antigua and Barbuda Import algorithms you didn't design. Deploy platforms you don't govern. Watch your data's value get captured elsewhere. What's left of sovereignty? Data is a national asset. AIFOD Geneva | 12–14 Aug | UN Geneva #AIFOD #DataSovereignty

Tianze Zhang, AIFOD Co-Founder Most of what shapes your life, you didn't choose. For most of history, that was the end of it. AI is the first tech in a long time that can rewrite that script. AIFOD Geneva Summit | 12–14 Aug | UN Office Geneva #AIFOD #FairFuture

Johannes Wedenig, UNICEF By 2050, 1 in 4 people on Earth will be African. Whose AI shapes their world? youth digital identity is the foundation of African agency in the AI age. AIFOD Geneva Summit | 12–14 Aug | UN Office Geneva #AIFOD #DigitalIdentity #AfricaAI

Hammad Ali Nasir, Pakistan Education is expensive. Knowledge should be free. Hammad Ali Nasir: AI finally returns knowledge to what it was meant to be — borderless, available, yours. AIFOD Geneva Summit | 12–14 Aug | UN Office Geneva #AIFOD #BorderlessKnowledge #GlobalSouth

Vuk Vegezzi, VISIUM Everyone collects data. Few actually own it. Vuk Vegezzi, VISIUM: the ones who don't are quietly setting themselves up to lose in a decade nobody's ready for. AIFOD Geneva Summit | 12–14 Aug | UN Office Geneva #AIFOD #DataOwnership #DataStrategy

Prof. Michael Gerlich - SBS Swiss Business School World-class tutoring used to cost a fortune. Or a passport. for the first time, AI delivers it to a village school as readily as a Swiss university. AIFOD Geneva Summit 12–14 Aug - UN Office Geneva #AIFOD #DataOwnership #Strategy

AI is free. You're just not the one paying yet. 800M users. 2.5B daily prompts. Only 5% paying. Manohar Kosuro & Gladwin Mendez on why conversational native advertising is the future — and why trust is the only thing standing between you and a fully monetised mind. #AIAds #AI

Sam Xu, Geno Speed gets headlines. Equality changes lives. Sam Xu, Founder of Geno, sees AI as a rare chance to level the playing field for every nation, every individual. AIFOD Geneva Summit | 12–14 Aug | UN Office Geneva #AIFOD #AIForGood #DigitalEquity

Naomi Kaduwela, Kavi Global When did you last use AI in your mother tongue? For most of the world, the answer is never. AIFOD Geneva Summit | 12–14 Aug | Naomi Kaduwela, Kavi Labs: inclusion starts with language. UN Assembly Hall Office Geneva #AIFOD #LanguageAI #GlobalSouth

Dr. Monu Krishnan, SkinVision Every breakthrough started as an idea. What set it apart? Someone acted. Dr. Monu Krishnan, CPO of SkinVision: the first-move advantage belongs to whoever takes the step. AIFOD Geneva Summit 12–14 Aug UN Office Geneva #AIFOD #FirstMover #HealthTech

Tokens are the new money. Your performance review may soon depend on how many you spend. Eric Famanas, Shiva Kumar, Fabrizio Degni & Erin Black on why human-in-the-loop is dead — and why human-in-control is the only framework that matters now. #AITokens #HumanInControl

AI designed the chair. But it has never sat in one. Dorian Vanhorenbeeck, Founder of DV-Concept, on why good design requires human experience — and why the creators who feed their own vision into AI will always outpace those who let it take the wheel. #AIDesign #HumanCentredAI

Big AI models mean nothing without local application. Mikael Loefstrand on data sovereignty and why global AI knowledge must serve local needs. AIFOD Bangkok Summit 2026 — United Nations Conference Centre, Bangkok. #AIDataSovereignty #GlobalAI

Nollywood. Bollywood. Telenovelas. AI is rewriting the creative economy — and the Global South has the most at stake. Fredrik Kocon on why the shift from doing to directing could be the Global South's greatest AI opportunity yet. #AICreativeEconomy #GlobalSouth

Your AI wasn't hacked. You left the door open. Georg Zangl, Co-Founder & CTO at MudoZangl, breaks down why AI companies are trading security for speed, and why your biggest vulnerability isn't your machine — it's your people. #DataSovereignty #AICodeSecurity

"If nobody says something, everyone is complicit." Deniz Sherifoglu on building AI for underrepresented languages and why governments need to meet the people already solving tomorrow's problems. AIFOD Bangkok Summit 2026 — UNCC Bankgok. #AIFODBangkokSummit

$750 billion spent. AGI promised by 2028. One academic calls it preposterous. AIFOD's Global Advocate Expert Series — @DrDGWilliams, breaks down why LLMs are still just probability engines, and why the Global South is being written out of the AI story before it's even finished.

Elon Musk says forget retirement. The Global South says forget access. In our Global Advocate Expert Series, Nobuyuki Ota & John Nwachukwu debate whether AI abundance is a future for everyone, or a privilege for those who already have the power to get there first. #AI #news