The AI for Good Global Summit 2026 will take place from 7 to 10 July at Palexpo in Geneva. The event is organized by the International Telecommunication Union in partnership with more than 50 UN agencies and co-convened with the Government of Switzerland. The summit website says the 2026 edition will again focus on practical AI deployment, standards, skills and policy.
This will be the seventh edition of the summit. ITU said on 25 March that AI for Good 2026 will bring together participants from government, industry, academia, civil society and the technical community for four days of sessions, demonstrations and exhibitions in Geneva.
For robotics and physical AI, the programme is already relevant. The official summit agenda includes sessions and activities such as “Embodied AI for multimedia technologies: From perception to human collaboration,” “Physical AI, Agentic AI, and citiverse,” “Turn your smartphone into an AI robot!,” “Fun with robotics: Perceive, decide, act!,” “Thymio AI exploration: Hands-on robotics and machine learning,” and the “Robotics for Good Youth Challenge Grand Finale 2026.”
The summit is not limited to conference talks. Palexpo describes it as a free four-day public event with more than 150 exhibitors of robotics and AI applications, an AI art gallery, a youth zone on 8 and 9 July, and interactive workshops. Palexpo also says more than 1,000 AI experts, policymakers, UN representatives and civil-society participants are expected.
The event is also set up as a showcase for applied systems rather than only frontier-model debate. In its 25 March summit preview, AI for Good highlighted areas such as robotics, embodied AI, geospatial intelligence, autonomous vehicles and quantum technologies as part of the 2026 exhibition and demo environment.
On the speaker side, the public speaker roster already points to a broad mix of institutions and companies. Listed organizations include Google DeepMind, NVIDIA, Hugging Face, Cloudflare, Salesforce, WIPO, UNICEF, UNECE, ISO, IEC and the World Food Programme, alongside universities, startups and government bodies.
The policy track will also be more prominent this year. According to the official summit page, the inaugural Global Dialogue on AI Governance, established under UN General Assembly resolution A/79/L.118 on AI and hosted by the UN Secretary-General with ITU support, will take place back-to-back along the margins of the 2026 summit.
Swiss Federal Councillor Albert Rösti is scheduled to open the summit in July, adding political visibility on the host-country side as well.
Beyond the main conference programme, the 2026 edition also includes side activities such as the AI for Good Film Festival, the AI for Good Impact Awards, Innovation Factory programming and youth-oriented challenges and workshops.
