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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 explore the theme of Principles to Power: Embedding Accountability in the AI Era. For years, the Responsible Tech field has been guided by ethical frameworks, voluntary commitments, & emerging standards. Today, the challenge is clear: how do we translate those ideas into systems of governance, oversight, & design that ensure innovation does not come at the expense of safety, rights, or trust?
The Responsible Tech Summit is designed as a curated convening for 375 leaders that helps align & shape the direction of the movement. Participants will include global governance leaders, AI researchers, industry practitioners, policy experts, civil society advocates, & philanthropic leaders who are building the infrastructure of accountability for the digital age. Through keynotes, panels, & conversations, attendees will explore topics such as accountability by design, platform oversight, youth online safety, the Responsible Tech economy, & the evolving global regulatory landscape.
All ticket proceeds fund free resources & services for the Responsible Tech community that our organization provides. Can't make it in person? The event will be livestreamed for free on All Tech Is Human's YouTube page, where recordings will also be available afterward.
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Speakers for the Responsible Tech Summit 2026
Camille Franois - President, ROOST
Eli Pariser - Co-Director, New_ Public
Cathy ONeil, Founder, Author, Mathematician & Data Scientist, O'Neil Risk Consulting & Algorithmic Auditing
Rumman Chowdhury, CEO, Humane Intelligence PBC
Alex Bores, Assembly Member, New York Citys 73rd District
Beth Goldberg, Founding Executive Director of Humanity AI
Sinead Bovell, Founder, WAYE
Alexis Wales, Chief Information Security Officer, GitHub
Alison Lee, Chief R&D Officer, The Rithm Project
Amanda Craig, General Manager of Responsible AI Public Policy, Microsoft
Anya Schiffrin, Director, Media Program, Columbia University (SIPA)
Carrie Varoquiers, Chief Impact Officer, Workday
Joshua Elder, Senior Vice President & Head of Grantmaking, Siegel Family Endowment
Julie Cordua, CEO, Thorn
Fernanda Del Castillo, Director of AI Governance, Mastercard
Kathy Pham, Faculty & Senior Fellow, Product & Responsible AI, Harvard University
Kristin Hansen, Executive Director, Civic Health Project
J. Trevor Hughes, President & CEO of IAPP
Shreya Singh Hernndez, Senior Manager, Aspen Digital, The Aspen Institute
Melanie Plaza, Chief Technology Officer, AE Studio
Courtney Radsch, Director of the Center for Media & Digital Governance, Open Markets Institute; Fellow, Brookings Institution
Andrew Rasiej, Founder, Civic Hall
Clement Wolf, Director, Responsible AI Strategy, Google
Hale Sirin, Program Scientist, Schmidt Sciences AI & Advanced Computing Institute
Jeff Collins, Director of Trust & Safety, Amazon Web Services
Alisar Mustafa, Head of AI Safety, Duco Experts
Agenda
10:00 - 11:00 am ET | Check-in & Networking
11:00 - 11:10 am | Welcome remarks
11:15 - 11:45 am | Panel: Beyond Benchmarks: Turning Evaluations into Enforceable Standards
11:50 - 12:00 pm | Lightning talk
12:05 - 12:35 pm | Panel: Safety by Design: Accountability at the Intersection of AI, Industry, & Advocacy
12:40 - 1:40 pm | Lunch
1:45 - 2:05 pm | Fireside Chat: Open-Source, Open Questions: Transparency in the Age of AI
2:10 - 2:40 pm | Panel: Shared Risk, Shared Responsibility: Rethinking Responsible AI Governance
2:45 - 3:05 pm | Fireside Chat: Alignment in Practice: Building AI That Wants to be Good
3:05 - 3:30 pm | Networking break
3:30 - 4:00 pm | Panel: Trust as Strategy & the Fight Against AI-Enabled Fraud
4:05 - 4:15 pm | Keynote
4:15 - 4:25 pm | Lightning Talk
4:30 - 5:00 pm | Panel: Rebuilding the Commons: Community & Pluralism in the AI Era
5:05 - 5:25 pm | Fireside Chat: Looking Back to Look Ahead: Co-Designing AI After a Decade of Tech Lessons
5:25 - 5:30 pm | Closing remarks
*See the full agenda & bios of our speakers here.
Sponsors for the Responsible Tech Summit 2026
Special thanks to our strategic partners, Columbia World Projects, Forum One, & Highspring, for helping bring this critical conversation to life.
Workday
Workdayoperates at the heart of the enterprise HR, finance, & IT where the margin for error is effectively zero. By tightly coupling AI with the context, guardrails, & trusted processes that run the business, Workday goes beyond AI that assists work to agents that do the work & drive measurable outcomes. More than 11,500 organizations worldwide, including more than 65% of the Fortune 500, trust Workday to deliver.
Mastercard
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry, connecting consumers, financial institutions, merchants, & governments in more than 200 countries & territories. The company is committed to building a sustainable, inclusive digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere.
Pinterest
Pinterest is a visual search & discovery platform where people find inspiration, curate ideas & shop products all in a positive place online. Headquartered in San Francisco, Pinterest has over 600 million monthly active users worldwide.
Microsoft
Microsoft is a global technology leader empowering every person & organization on the planet to achieve more through its platforms & productivity tools. The company is committed to advancing responsible AI & ensuring emerging technologies are developed & deployed safely & ethically.
Siegel Family Endowment
Siegel Family Endowment takes an inquiry-driven approach to grantmaking, informed by the scientific method. As technology reshapes society, we fund organizations asking critical questions about its impact on learning, work, & infrastructure. Founded in 2011 by David Siegel, co-founder & co-chairman of Two Sigma, we advance technology in the public interest, supporting research & initiatives that imagine a more inclusive, resilient technology-driven society.
AE Studio
AE Studio is an applied AI & AI alignment company that builds software products for clients while advancing research on making advanced AI systems safe & beneficial. Its recent work with Anthropic, GRAM, trains dangerous knowledge into removable modules so it can be stripped from a model before release. AE Studio reinvests its commercial success into neglected approaches to AI alignment research. Learn more at ae.studio.
Google
Google's mission is to organize the world's information & make it universally accessible & useful. As a leader in AI & computing, the company is focused on developing technology responsibly to benefit people & society.
Kapor Foundation
The Kapor Foundation works at the intersection of racial equity & technology to expand access to K-12 computer science & postsecondary tech pathways, improve tech accountability & worker protections, & increase investments in infrastructure & innovation. We advocate for policy changes, build the capacity of partners, conduct research, support partners through grantmaking, & invest in entrepreneurship & VC. We believe that when technology includes diverse perspectives & is harnessed to address societal challenges, we can transform the tech ecosystem for Black, Latine, & Native communities, & society as a whole. Kapor Foundation works collectively with the Kapor Center family of organizations, Kapor Capital, & SMASH to reimagine & reconstruct a more inclusive & equitable technology sector.
Check out Kapor Foundation's Responsible AI Principles for Advancing a More Equitable Innovation Future.
IAPP
The IAPP is a policy-neutral, not-for-profit association founded in 2000 with a mission to define, promote & improve the professions of privacy, AI governance & digital responsibility globally.
Civic Health Project
Civic Health Project is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing scalable solutions to the dangerous divisions that threaten American democracy. Since our founding in 2019, we have supported more than 75 academic researchers, grassroots practitioners, creatives, & technologists who are helping reduce polarization, strengthen civic norms, & foster social cohesion.Today, Civic Health Project focuses primarily on exploring the vast potential of promising new technologies to help resolve conflict, improve civil discourse & deliberation, foster social cohesion, & uphold societal norms.
Normsy.ai, our flagship in-house project, brings this mission to life. It identifies toxic content in real time & equips users to respond with respectful, trust-building messages grounded in social science & supported by artificial intelligence. We are also part of the initiative The Forum,a new model for civic leadership at a time when trust is low, division is high, & the need for credible, citizen-led solutions has never been greater.
GitHub
GitHub is the worlds leading platform for agentic software development powered by Copilot to build, scale, & deliver secure software. Over 225 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate, & more than 140,000 organizations have adopted GitHub Copilot.
Cinder
Cinder is the industrys first Trust & Safety operations platform to help organizations combat Internetabuse at scale. We provide Trust & Safety teams with a single system to manage complex integrityoperations & investigations to create a safe environment for their users.
Interested in sponsoring our summit or forming a strategic partnership? Email us at hello@alltechishuman.org.
About All Tech Is Human
All Tech Is Human is the coordination layer & connective tissue for the Responsible Tech ecosystem. By uniting key individuals across civil society, government, industry, academia, & philanthropy, we provide a sandbox for solution-building & socialization to influence key levers of change.
We specialize in taking a whole-of-ecosystem approach to tackling thorny tech & society issues, shaping the Responsible Tech movement, & ensuring that our tech future is aligned with the public interest.
We are the premier gathering for the Responsible Tech community, convening thousands of people globally.
We curate the defining resource for the movement, the Responsible Tech Guide, used by academia, industry, civil society, & policy professionals.
We have the largest online community for the Responsible Tech movement hosted on Slack with over 15,000 members across 117 countries.
We have the go-to job board for the community, our curated Responsible Tech Job Board & related talent pool.
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