Program Key Themes and Discourses
Explore top talks, breakthrough ideas, and session times across the Businessabc AI Global Summit.
AI, Sustainability, and the Next Era of Global Innovation
First Half day
Education / Governments AI Trust Narrative - Society / AI Business models
“Trust, Transformation, and Inclusion: Charting AI’s Role in Society’s Next Chapter”
Trusted AI - Embedding transparency and accountability in AI systems across education, government, and business.
2.Transformational Learning - Redesigning education for continuous upskilling and civic readiness in an AI-driven world.
3.New Social Contracts - Aligning AI business models with public interest, empowering societies to shape, not just react to, technological futures.
Registration & Networking
Attendees check in, collect materials, and connect with peers over coffee and light refreshments.
Opening Remarks - AI Trust Narrative - Society, Education, Government, Business
Welcome Address by Conference Chair - Introduction to the conference theme and objectives.
Topic
Building multi-sector AI trust frameworks: Transparency, governance, and engagement. • Public literacy campaigns: Demystifying AI for societal resilience and informed participation. • Government as model user: Open standards and procurement ethics. • Trust gaps: Algorithmic bias, data misuse, and the erosion of institutional credibility.
Speakers
Panel - AI: Shaping The Future & Redefining The Present
Topic
Automation today: AI’s current impact on jobs, governance, and services.• Designing for tomorrow: Responsible foresight in AI development.• Present-future overlap: AI in climate forecasting, healthcare diagnostics, and policymaking.• Ethical fault lines: Surveillance, algorithmic bias, and the erosion of human agency.
Moderator
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Coffee Tea Break
Special Conversation - Ai - Continuous Education, Ubi, Social Economic Strategies
Topic
Lifelong learning in the AI age: Reskilling and upskilling across career stages. • AI-enhanced UIs: From reactive interfaces to anticipatory learning platforms. • Human-centred design: Accessibility, neurodiversity, and UX for all ages. • Challenge: Keeping pedagogical values intact amid hyper-personalised, gamified content.
Moderator
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Panel - AI and Social Economic Models - Government Society
Topic
Rethinking economic value: AI and the decoupling of labour and productivity. • Universal basic infrastructure: Data access, connectivity, and compute as public goods. • Policy experimentation: Sandboxes, digital twins, and dynamic tax models. • Risk: Reinforcing inequality through biased economic modelling and automation-led job displacement.
Moderator
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Second Half day
AI Business trust growth - action plan - AI Arms race /AI Divide - AI Supply chain -AI Business Economy
North star narrative “Beyond Efficiency: Building Regenerative, Inclusive Value Loops with AI.”
Regenerative - AI that yields net-positive impact (carbon, biodiversity, skills, local economies).
2.Inclusive - closing, not widening, socio-economic and capability gaps.
3.Profitable - showing the CFO why sustainability is now value-accretive rather than a compliance line-item.
Special Conversation - Trust, Growth, Risk, Opportunity: The Ai Paradox
Topic
Why has the “social licence” become a gating factor for AI scale-ups?• What does growth look like when carbon, compute and governance costs are priced in?• Risk = existential and operational—how do we quantify both?
Moderator
Panel AI Swot: Mapping The Enterprise Reality
Topic
Strength: Competitive moat via data + models.• Weakness: Talent scarcity, legacy tech debt, opaque models.• Opportunity: New sustainability-driven markets (circular economy, precision ag, green finance).• Threat: Regulation outpacing adoption; compute supply-chain fragility.
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Panel - Redefining Business Responsibility In An AI-first World
Topic
From CSR to AI-SR (AI Sustainability & Responsibility).• Model audit trails; carbon-aware model training; forced-labour-free supply chains.• Publishing “AI environmental product declarations”.
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Tea & Networking Break
Call-to-Action Wall
Ask attendees to jot one commitment or open challenge on a digital board.
Panel - AI Investment Diplomacy
Topic
AI in Investment Facilitation & Cross-Continental Collaboration: How AI bridges investors, governments, and entrepreneurs across Africa and Europe. • AI for Policy Alignment & Development Acceleration. • AI in Trust-Building & Multi-Stakeholder Ecosystems: Case studies on AI-driven transparency in projects.
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Panel - AI Efficiency, Resilience, Growth + Sustainability Case
Topic
Where is AI really delivering EBIT uplift today?• Shock-testing: How AI re-routes supply chains under geopolitical, climate shocks.• Human capital uplift—re-skilling vs. redundancy trade-offs.
Moderator
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Firechat - Building A Regenerative AI Governance Blueprint For 2030
Topic
Lay out a 5-step blueprint:1. Carbon Budgeting for Models 2. Inclusive Data Sourcing 3. Transparent Risk Scoring 4. Value-Share Mechanisms (profit + societal dividend) 5. Continuous Audit Loops powered by LLM agents
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Comments & Summit Summary - Ai Business - Summary Interactive Debrief
Topic
Moderator surface themes from the Call-to-Action Wall.• Ask each panellist for one 30-day commitment they’ll take back to their org.• Publish commitments on the summit site for accountability.
Moderator