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Live from the United Nations: Securing Our Digital Future

United Nations | Livestream event | Live from the United Nations: Securing a Digital Future | Tuesday, September 24, 2024 at 5:30 PM ET | gzeromedia.com/globalstage

How can technology and artificial intelligence be harnessed to support the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and create a positive impact in the Global South? This question is top of mind for many gathering at the UN's 79th General Assembly in New York.

Our livestream panel discussion, "Live from the United Nations: Securing Our Digital Future" will examine these key issues on Tuesday, September 24 at 5:30 PM ET broadcasting live from inside United Nations headquarters as the first day of high-level General Debate concludes. Produced in collaboration between GZERO Media’s Global Stage series, sponsored by Microsoft, and the UN’s Complex Risk Analytics Fund (CRAF’d), our panel of prominent experts and leaders will explore how multilateral organizations are adapting to the realities of the 21st-century world.

The discussion will be moderated by Folly Bah Thibault, a journalist and senior presenter for Al-Jazeera English, and will feature a distinguished panel including:

  • Talal Al Kaissi, Acting Group Chief Global Affairs Officer, G42
  • Ian Bremmer, President and Founder, Eurasia Group and GZERO Media
  • Dr. Workneh Gebeyehu, Executive Secretary,Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD)
  • Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director, IMF
  • Amina Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General, United Nations
  • Petr Pavel, Czech Republic President
  • Guy Ryder, Under-Secretary-General for Policy, Executive Office of the Secretary-General
  • Brad Smith, Vice Chair and President, Microsoft
  • Anne Witkowsky, Assistant Secretary of State, Bureauof Conflict and Stabilization Operations
Watch live at gzeromedia.com/globalstage on Tuesday, September 24, 2024 at 5:30 PM ET.

Live from the United Nations: Securing Our Digital Future



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