Responsible Tech Summit speakers, upcoming livestreams, and upcoming gatherings!
Plus our Responsible AI courses are now on LinkedIn Learning, an upcoming workshop on inter-party trust, and a working group tackling nudification apps
👋Well, hello! We are starting with an exclamation point because we’re excited to announce ten confirmed speakers for our big in-person Responsible Tech Summit happening October 29 that will also be livestreamed to a global audience.
We’re also excited to announce the launch of our Responsible AI Foundations Professional Certificate through LinkedIn Learning; we’re aiming to create additional courses throughout 2026, so reach out our way if you have ideas for collaboration, or would like to sponsor future courses.
📰In today’s newsletter. you’ll also read about our upcoming livestream on AI & Law (March 5) and Age Assurance (March 19). We’re also sending out invitations to NYC workshop on inter-party trust in AI with Mastercard, and are gathering interest for our working group on nudification apps.
For in-person gatherings, we’re collaborating with Forum One to put together AI & Philanthropy – A Strategic Leadership Forum on April 16 in Washington, DC, and our a partner for a March 12 NYC-area event on online scams featuring New York Attorney General Letitia James. And for those of you in the Bay Area, we didn’t forget about you. There will be a ATIHx gathering in Oakland in late April.
Now, onto the newsletter! 👇
We building the premiere gathering for the global Responsible Tech movement
On October 29, All Tech Is Human will convene the Responsible Tech Summit at The New York Times Center in Manhattan, bringing together leaders from across the Responsible Tech ecosystem for a day of dialogue, collaboration, and action. The summit will serve as the premiere gathering for the global Responsible Tech movement, connecting voices from civil society, government, industry, academia, and philanthropy who are working to ensure technology advances in ways that align with the public interest.
At a time when artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping society, the conversation is shifting from broad principles to real-world accountability. The 2026 summit will center around the theme “From Principles to Power: Embedding Accountability in the AI Era.” For years, the Responsible Tech field has been guided by ethical frameworks, voluntary commitments, and emerging standards. Today, the challenge is clear: how do we translate those ideas into systems of governance, oversight, and design that ensure innovation does not come at the expense of safety, rights, or trust?
The Responsible Tech Summit is designed as a highly curated convening for 375 leaders that helps align and shape the direction of the movement. Participants will include global governance leaders, AI researchers, industry practitioners, policy experts, civil society advocates, and philanthropic leaders who are building the infrastructure of accountability for the digital age. Through keynotes, panels, and conversations, attendees will explore topics such as accountability by design, platform oversight, youth online safety, the Responsible Tech economy, and the evolving global regulatory landscape.
This will be the first Responsible Tech Summit that will be livestreamed and we’re looking forward to welcoming more people from across the globe. The event page is being released in our next newsletter, so stay tuned for more info and more speaker announcements!
Building on previous summits that have featured leading thinkers such as Sherry Turkle, Tim Wu, Frances Haugen, Justin Hendrix, Amba Kak, Rob Reich, Nora Benavidez, Nina Jankowicz, Yael Eisenstat, Jameel Jaffer, Melissa Fleming, Katie Harbath, and Nabiha Syed, the 2026 gathering will continue to elevate the voices shaping the future of technology governance. Confirmed speakers include leaders such as Rumman Chowdhury, Cathy O’Neil, Eli Pariser, Camille François, Sinead Bovell, Renée Cummings, Ayah Bdeir, Joshua Elder, Anya Schiffrin, Julie Cordua.
Want to be involved? Reach out here.
Two upcoming livestreams to attend:
How is AI changing the role of lawyers? All Tech Is Human is hosting a special 30-minute livestream exploring the rapidly evolving intersection of AI and the legal profession. Join us this Thursday, March 5!
Let's talk about Age Assurance! Join us for our livestream on Thursday, March 19th at 1pm ET for Beyond Parental Controls: Rethinking Age Assurance & Digital Agency for Youth.
We will be welcoming expert Anneke Buffone, PhD, a behavioral and computational social scientist and the founder of CLARA (Clear AI Risk Assurance). Before founding CLARA, Anneke spent nearly seven years at Meta, where her final two years focused on cross-platform age assurance research across Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp.
Drawing on this experience, Anneke brings rare insight into how technical systems and human behavior interact to shape youth experiences online. Now, through CLARA, she is pioneering independent, ethically funded safety research (combining surveys, interviews, red team testing, and real-world data) to develop actionable safety taxonomies, platform ranking systems, and interventions that help kids build digital agency and literacy.
🤔Do you have a suggestion for a future livestream? Let us know here!
In-Person Gathering:
The rapid rise of Artificial Intelligence presents a foundational moment for philanthropy and for civil society. AI is no longer a future consideration — it is actively reshaping how nonprofits deliver services, how foundations evaluate impact, and how both make decisions about resource allocation. And yet many organizations are paralyzed by the hype surrounding AI, unsure of how to invest, implement, and govern the technology responsibly.
This off-the-record roundtable will convene a small group of senior foundation and nonprofit leaders for a candid dialogue about what AI adoption actually looks like at the leadership level: where it’s working, where the governance gaps are real, and how funders and implementers can move in closer alignment.
This gathering is being organized by All Tech Is Human and Forum One and will take place on April 16 from 3-7pm. To express your interest and/or share your ideas, please fill out our form below.
AI is transforming every industry, and responsible deployment requires both technical knowledge and ethical frameworks. This learning path equips technologists, product managers, and policy professionals with skills to identify AI risks, implement governance structures, and ensure accountability across predictive, generative, and agentic systems.
Our courses are taught by two incredible leaders in Responsible AI, Renée Cummings and Rebekah Tweed.
You'll take:
📌Governing Agentic AI Systems
📌History of Responsible AI: From Principles to Professionalization
📌Operationalizing AI Governance: Strategy and Foundations
📌Principles of Responsible AI: Identifying, Understanding, and Mitigating Risks
Our work developing these courses stems from the support of The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation
Upcoming in-person workshop and online working group
🗣️We are putting together an all-day workshop in NYC to be held on Thursday, March 26, that will focus on the central question: What should a framework for inter-party trust entail? We are aiming to create meaningful standardization, ideal metrics, benchmarks, and documentation practices to demonstrate that an AI system is accurate and effective. This workshop is being done in collaboration with Mastercard. Express your interest through our form above; this workshop is being led by ATIH advisor Leah Ferentinos.
✍️Are you involved in reducing the prevalence and harms associated with nudification apps? Join our online working group, which will be creating an actionable guide (”How to Tackle Nudification Apps”) that provides an overview, unpacking the complexity of the topic (design, education, regulation, hosting, financial transactions, etc.), and multistakeholder recommendations. Related to this topic, we have partnered with Cornell Tech for a May 21 gathering exploring the TAKE IT DOWN Act.
If you missed our last livestream, watch below:
We recently welcomed Numa Dhamani (Head of Machine Learning at iVerify) and Maggie Engler (Member of Technical Staff at Microsoft AI), who are the authors of Introduction to Generative AI--now in the second edition. We went beyond the hype and dug into the need for interdisciplinary teams, humans in the loop, and our tendency to anthropomorphize our AI interactions.
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