AIFOD Geneva Summit 2026
Most governments start their AI journey at procurement.
That is roughly like buying a fancy house without the ground to put it on — it will remain an unrealized potential. A week in Geneva, in four moments.
The week
Four moments
- 01
The FAIR Passport for Solutions
The board opened the question of whether responsible-AI assessment can stop being a barrier to entry and start working as a passport — a legible score that lets credible smaller innovators demonstrate capability and reach new markets, instead of forcing them through separate and costly certification regimes in every jurisdiction.
Georg Zangl · Erin Black · Tianze Zhang · Yogesh Gupta · Bruce Mellado
- 02
Build, buy or share?
Small nations keep asking which of the three to pick. The panel reframed it: the question before the question is what a country actually needs to know before it decides anything at all — what capabilities it already has, which dependencies it can live with, and which it cannot afford to lose control over.
Georg Zangl · Fredrik Kocon · Danielle Brault · Kunal Panchamia
- 03
National Capability Transformation Blueprint
An adoptable runbook that starts where every honest transformation starts: with the baseline reality. Mapping the national AI procurement process in the working group led to the same place every time — know what you have, know where you are going, measure the gap. Then, and only then, procure.
Tomal K. Ganguly · Fredrik Kocon · Vibhav Mithal · Konrad Sztolc · Sönke Lund
- 04
FAIR inside a live government
The closing session presented the first integration of the FAIR evaluation into a live government environment — the point at which the framework stops being a document and starts producing evidence inside an administration that has to answer for its decisions.
Labeeqah Schuurman (Western Cape Government) · Erin Black · Tianze Zhang · Nobuyuki Ota
The principle
Know what you have. Know where you are going. Measure the gap. Then, and only then, procure.
People create capabilities. Capabilities enable transformation. AI accelerates outcomes.
Core principle · NCTB v4.7
Deployed in Geneva
The forum now runs on the layer it is standardising
tech reform deployed an institutional ProcesOS instance for AIFOD, so the forum can govern its own processes and capabilities — and run FAIR evaluation on the process layer itself. The standard and the organisation writing it are held to the same instrument.
Next
Nairobi,
February 2027
Until then: let us stay aligned on the purpose of this forum and, eventually, birth a FAIR world.
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