Past Events

Event dates: 29–30 November 2022 The Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) will jointly host a high-level event titled Strengthening Multilateralism Through Science. In the context of the 50th anniversary of UNEP (UNEP@50) and the Stockholm+50 meeting brought by the UNGA Resolution A/RES/75/280, the two-day conference will […]

Event dates: 28–30 November 2022 Since 2011, the annual UN Forum on Business and Human Rights has congregated thousands of participants from governments, international organisations, business, trade unions, civil society, legal experts, and academia from around the world. Based on the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), the Forum has been a […]

Event date: 24 November 2022, 13:00–14:15 CET The UN Knowledge and Learning Commons and Diplo will host an online event to explore the future of digital knowledge in diplomacy, and how we could implement it in practice.  Speakers from both organisations will elaborate on the gap between the rhetoric of knowledge sharing and the actual […]

Event date: 23 November 2022, 16:00–17:30 CET The AI for Good platform will host the Securing Digital Inclusion Through AI webinar to look at some concrete measures that we could take to bridge the existing digital divide, and suggest actions that incorporate the use of AI tools in attaining digital inclusion.  The potential of AI […]

Event date: 22 November 2022, 16:00–17:30 CET  In this ITU webinar, speaker Prof. Muriel Médard will present her and her research group’s work on the development of the method titled Guessing Random Additive Noise Decoding (GRAND). In the recent debate on the adoption of 5G wireless technologies, the key issues of standardisation and maintaining data […]

Event date: 22 November 2022, 14:00–15:30 CET The Digital Health and Rights Project (DHRP) will be hosting the Digital Justice: How Social Media is transforming Young People’s Health and Rights webinar to share findings from a transnational participatory action study that examines young people’s experiences with digital health in Bangladesh, Colombia, Ghana, Kenya, and Vietnam.  […]

Event date: 16 November 2022, 18:30–20:30 CET The closed-door discussion co-hosted by the CyberPeace Institute, the Geneva Graduate Institute, and the Diplomatic Club of Geneva will centre on the threats of cyberattacks against the humanitarian sector and the role International Geneva should play. As humanitarian organisations become targets of cyberattacks, they must direct focus and […]

Event date: 21 November 2022, 16:00–17:00 CET The AI for Good platform will host the Machine Learning Supporting Ecology webinar to present success stories in which machine-learning technologies contributed to nature conservation.   Data has become increasingly abundant in every aspect of our life. An under-exploited area is the collection of data on animal ecology, where […]

Event date: 8 November 2022, 16:00–17:30 CET In this ITU webinar, speakers from the AI-EDGE Institute will discuss the synergies between two of the most transformative information technologies, namely: networking technology and artificial intelligence (AI). The AI-EDGE Institute envisions a new plane of distributed intelligence which entails distributed networks that are self-healing, adaptive, and self-optimised. […]

Event dates: 7–11 November 2022 Diplo is celebrating its 20th anniversary through its Diplo Week in Geneva, which will feature a series of open-door events for participants to learn about the cutting-edge AI applications and data analytical tools that Diplo has developed, as well as other exciting findings from Diplo’s research factory. From 7 to […]