You asked, I listened! Events added since the last edition are marked 🆕 so you can jump straight to what's new.
Today’s Events^ dispatch contains curated posts — currently through March 2027 — to keep you updated on knowledge shaping moments outside the mainstream Northern discourse. Please feel free to submit any upcoming events — seminars, conferences, webinars, workshops, trainings, etc — that you feel are relevant by dropping me a note.
Training Opportunities
Self-Paced | Online | Unlocking AI for Nonprofits, by NetHope and Microsft (*), Cost: Free
Self-Paced | Online | AI and Human Rights 101, by United Nations Global Compact, Cost: Free
Fellowship Opportunities
🆕 The Heinrich Böll Foundation is funding a Global Majority AI Fellowship to support civil society from the Global South to attend the inaugural UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva from 6-7 July 2026. https://us.boell.org/en/2026/05/12/global-majority-ai-fellowship
Calendar 2026
June 2026
08-10 June 2026 | Manila, Philippines | DRAPAC26 Assembly, organised by EngageMedia, Foundation for Media Alternatives, and DAKILA Philippine Collective for Modern Heroism
🆕 08-10 June 2026 | Hà Nội, Việt Nam | ASEAN Future Forum 2026, organised by the Government of Việt Nam
09-12 June 2026 | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia | Global Health Security Conference 2026, organised by Global Health Security Conference (*)
10-11 June 2026 | Singapore | Super AI 2026, organised by Super AI (*)
11 June 2026 | Online (Singapore) | Assessing the Impact of Singapore’s Digital Economy Agreements, organised by the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
12-13 June 2026 | Bangkok, Thailand | International Conference on Human Rights and Post-Authoritarian Transitions (ICHRPAT-26), organised by Atlantic Federation for Technical Education & Research (AFTER)
13-14 June 2026 | Bangkok, Thailand | International Conference on LGBTQ+ Equality, Policy Reform and Human Rights, organised by Research Foundation
🆕 17 June 2026 | Singapore (Webinar) | Gearing Up for Article 6 in Southeast Asia: Lessons from Malaysia and Indonesia, organised by ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute Climate Change in Southeast Asia Programme
17-19 June 2026 | Bangkok, Thailand | The 14th International Conference on Advances in Information Technology - “Trustworthy AI and Cybersecurity: Foundations for a Resilient Digital Future”, organised by School of Information Technology (SIT), King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) and IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (IEEE CIS)
18-19 June 2026 | Geneva, Switzerland and online | UNIDIR Global Conference on AI, Security and Ethics 2026, organised by UNIDIR
🆕 19-21 June 2026 | Hà Nội and HCMC, Việt Nam & Online | Global South AI Safety Hackathon, organised by Apart Research, antoàn.ai, Schmidt Sciences (*) (Register for in-person in Hà Nội here; Register for in-person in HCMC here. Online here.)
22-26 June 2026 | Vientiane, Lao PDR | 89th Meeting of the ASEAN Committee on Science, Technology and Innovation (COSTI-89) and Related Meetings, organised by ASEAN
23-24 June 2026 | Kuching, Sarawak | Diffusion Borneo 2026 ignited by Slush’D, organised by Digital Districts Malaysia (*) (want to be a speaker, click here)
23-25 June 2026 | Dalian, China | WEF: Annual Meeting of the New Champions, organised by World Economic Forum (*)
22-25 June 2026 | Jakarta, Indonesia | Global Sustainable Development Congress, organised by Times Higher Education
22-26 June 2026 | New York City, United States | UN Open-Source Week, organised by the United Nations
25 June 2026 | Webinar (Singapore) | Impacts of the Energy Crisis on Southeast Asia: Perspectives on Indonesia and Malaysia, organised by ISEAS Yusof Ishak Institute
25 June 2026 | Online (Singapore) | Can Southeast Asia safeguard strategic autonomy in critical minerals as US-China rivalry deepens?, organised by the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
25-27 Jun 2026 | Kumamoto, Japan | International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Metaverse and Artificial Companions in Education and Society (AI-MetaACES) 2026: “Cultivating Symbiotic Ecosystems: Agency, Ethics, and Identity in AI-Mediated Worlds”, organised by Asia-Pacific Society of Computers in Education (APSCE)
27 June - 03 July 2026 | Seoul, South Korea | AIED 2026, organised by the International AI in Education Society
29-30 June 2026 | Bangkok, Thailand, and virtual | Seventh Global Conference on Climate and SDGs Synergies, organised by UN ESCAP
July 2026
02 July 2026 | Paris, France | Tech Diplomacy Global Institute: Annual Global Forum, organised by Tech Diplomacy Global Institute and UNESCO
04-07 July 2026 | Geneva, Switzerland | AI for Good Global Summit, organised by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU)
04-08 July 2026 | Jakarta, Indonesia | PACIS 2026: Leapfrogging the Future with Artificial Intelligence, organised by the Association for Information Systems
06-11 July 2026 | Seoul, South Korea | 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning, organised by ICML (*)
06-07 July 2026 | Geneva, Switzerland | Inaugural Global Dialogue on AI Governance, organised by the United Nations
07-10 July 2026 | Geneva, Switzerland | AI for Good Global Summit 2026, organised by ITU and the Government of Switzerland
08-10 July 2026 | Tokyo, Japan | 2026 International Conference on AI for Health and Education, organised by Waseda University
08-10 July 2026 | Singapore | 6th SEASIA Biennial Conference - Forging Southeast Asia’s Futures, organised by Nanyang Technological University
09 July 2026 | Singapore | Reuters NEX Asia 2026: “Shifting influence. Defining decisions.”, organised by Reuters (*)
🆕 09-10 July 2026 | Bangkok, Thailand | International Hybrid Conference on Looking for New Direction: Emerging Research in Politics, Rights, Sustainable Development, and Technology, organised by Chulalongkorn University, Mahidol University Institute of Human Rights and Peace Studies, Global Campus of Human Rights Asia Pacific, Thammasat University, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Mai University and Asian Institute of Technology
