Geneva
20th November 2026
🕙 9:30 to 17:30
📍 Palais des Nations (United Nations Office at Geneva)
The AI Trust Forum is special. It brings together brilliant thinkers, innovators, policymakers, and practitioners to learn, build relationships, and work together personally solving AI engineering, business, legal and ethical challenges at retreats held in cities around the world. That’s why we call it a “Forum”, not a “Conference”.
free event
Closing date for requesting your seat: 4th November 2026. Privacy Policy.
2
forums held, 2026
342
seat requests
83%
senior leaders
102
organizations joined
7
countries represented
Past Forum Fellows
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Avishan Bodjnoud
Political and Peace Building Affairs
United Nations -
Dona Sarkar
Director, Enterprise AI Advocacy
Microsoft -
Mike Bugembe
Chief Digital Officer
International Organization for Migration -
Frank Meehan
Co-Founder
Frontier/1 -
Karim Galzahr
Managing Partner
OKG Capital LP -
Hector De Rivoire
Director, Responsible AI Public Policy Microsoft
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Anusha Dandapani
Chief Data & AI
UNICC -
Chris Huntingford
Chief AI Officer
Center for Trustworthy AI -
Arnav Gupta
Vice President of Technology
Damco Solutions -
Andrew Welch
Managing Partner + Founder
Cloud Lighthouse
Shaping how AI is built, trusted, and used globally.
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Work alongside the greatest minds in AI engineering and policy.
Connect, learn, and spend quality time with brilliant people from around the world.
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Learn from original work and research by experts in their field.
Return home with knowledge, resources, and a network of AI leaders to back you up.
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Co-create strategy, frameworks, and tools to be used worldwide.
Executable outputs, not theory, having real influence in shaping the global standard.
Why this Forum
AI is moving from pilots into production inside the organizations people depend on. Every deployment involves decisions about which data is used, how a system is tested, who is accountable when an AI agent acts, and what oversight exists once it is live. Those decisions determine whether AI earns trust.
Only 46% of people worldwide say they are willing to trust AI systems, and 70% believe regulation is needed. Regulation and principles are essential. The people running AI programmes also need practical ways to apply them, and that is the work of this Forum.
This is a forum, not a conference. You won't sit through product demos, and no session favours a platform or vendor. You'll engage in symposia discussion, work in small groups with senior leaders who face the same problems, and leave with answers you can use.
“It really worked on big ideas - much more than I expected. The thoughts on human culture and flourishing and impact in jobs were well articulated”
Forum host
Delivered with our co-hosts
In Geneva the week of RightsX
The Forum takes place 2 days after the RightsX Summit on human rights and technology. Attending RightsX? Join us Friday to carry on discussions.
Not attending? The Forum is a standalone event, open to leaders from every sector.
Who should attend the AI Trust Forum?
Business Leaders
CEOs, COOs, CFOs, CPOs, VPs and Directors responsible for driving growth, innovation and organisational change.
Gain the strategic clarity, confidence and credibility needed to prioritize AI investments and accelerate enterprise adoption.
Technology Leaders
CIOs, CTOs, CAIOs, CDOs, Enterprise Architects, Heads of Engineering and AI leaders responsible for delivering AI at scale.
Learn from peers, solve real-world engineering challenges, and explore proven patterns for building reliable, production-ready AI systems.
Governance Leaders
Chief Risk Officers, Governance Leaders, in-house counsel, ethics teams, and heads of responsible AI focused on managing AI risk.
Stay ahead of evolving regulation, strengthen governance frameworks, and learn approaches to compliance, assurance and responsible AI.
Policy Leaders
Regulators, policy makers and their staffs, policy advisors, and leaders of non-governmental organisations shaping policy.
Collaborate with industry leaders and practitioners to develop informed, practical policy grounded in real-world implementation experience.
Legal Leaders
Lawyers, legal counsel, ethics specialists and regulatory advisers navigating the fast-evolving AI regulatory landscape.
Bridge the gap between technical and legal perspectives, interpret emerging requirements, and build multidisciplinary alliances to AI challenges.
Unique, highly collaborative sessions
A preview of the conversation
From AI governance and risk management to adoption, innovation and public trust, the AI Trust Forum creates space for candid discussion and practical action. While the Geneva programme is still taking shape, these sessions from our recent London and New York forums illustrate the calibre of speakers, topics and dialogue you can expect.
Trustworthy AI Is More
Than Safe AI
Trust depends on whom a system works for and whom it quietly fails. The covers representation before deployment, evaluation by population, and shared infrastructure for inclusive AI.
Symposium · New York
Anusha Dandapani, Chief Data & AI, UNICC
Strangers at the Gate: AI Diligence and Organisations That Survive It
Sooner or later, someone who has no reason to trust you will ask you to prove how your AI works. The answer has to exist before the question arrives.
Symposium · New York
Andrew Welch, Managing Partner + Founder, Cloud Lighthouse
From Intent to Enforcement
Two open-source tools, ASSERT and the Agent Control Specification, turn what an agent should and should not do into tests, and then into policy enforced while the agent runs.
Symposium · New York
Peicheng Shi, Responsible AI, Microsoft
Getting and Keeping Agents in Production (at Scale)
Building an agent is no longer the hard part. Keeping a population of them accountable is. Covering identity, ownership, observability and retirement - published with every co-author.
Working Session · London
Chris Huntingford, Chief AI Officer, Center for Trustworthy AI
The AI Workforce of the Future
Working Session · New York
What is a role when part of it is done by an agent? Where does accountability sit? Participants draft the role of the human, together.
Ana Welch, Chief Technology Officer, Center for Trustworthy AI
Frontier AI Governance: Keeping Pace with Emerging Capabilities
Governance that stays principled, operational and adaptive as capabilities advance, from evaluating risk to reporting incidents.
Symposium · London
Hector de Rivoire, Director Responsible AI Public Policy, Microsoft
From Sticky Notes to Trusted Agents
Before an AI agent can act, the business has to know what it is allowed to do. This session shows how to get your systems and data ready for AI agents, and what must stay the same every time.
Symposium · New York
Arnav Gupta, Vice President of Technology, Damco Solutions
How to Build Cyber-Secure Compute That You Own and Control
As organisations grow wary of handing their data and IP to closed models, control over compute matters more than ever. Hear what AI sovereignty means in practice, and how to run AI securely.
Symposium · London
Frank Meehan, Co-founder, Frontier/1
Who Benefits When AI Asks to Be Regulated?
Life sciences has been through AI’s regulation debate before. Drawing on pharmaceutical regulation, hear how to read any proposed AI rule for whose interests it really serves.
Symposium · London
Karim Galzahr, Managing Partner, OKG Capital
Request your seat
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Venue
Palais des Nations (United Nations Office at Geneva)
8-14 Avenue de la Paix
1211 Geneva
Switzerland
20th November 2026
9:30 - 17:00
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