You asked, I listened! Events added since the last edition are marked 🆕 so you can jump straight to what's new this week. In case you missed last week’s listing, items new last week are marked today by ⏮️ 🆕.
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
🆕 22 July to 08 October 2026 | Online | The Asia-Europe Training on Science and Technology Diplomacy 2026 for young professionals, organised by Asia-Europe Foundation (Note: culminates with the Asia-Europe Science and Technology Youth Summit in October (see below)
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
June 2026
⏮️🆕 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
🆕 15 June - 17 July 2026 | Geneva, Switzerland | UN Human Rights Council — 62nd Regular Session (AI-related agenda items), organised by the United Nations (Note: on the agenda: (1) a thematic report by the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and Association on “the impact of digital and AI-assisted surveillance on assembly and association rights, including chilling effects” — examining how state surveillance technologies suppress civil society, human rights defenders, journalists, and minorities; and (2) a study by the HRC Advisory Committee on AI and good governance (per Resolution 57/5).)
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 and Schmidt Sciences (*) (Register for in-person in Hà Nội here; Register for in-person in HCMC here.)
🆕 21-22 July 2026 | Chiang Mai, Thailand | Asia Region Anti-Trafficking Conference (ARAT) 2026, organised by Global Learning Community
🆕 21-23 July 2026 | Singapore | IAPP Asia Forum 2026: Privacy, AI Governance, Cybersecurity, organised by IAPP (*)
🆕 22 June 2026 | Bangkok, Thailand | The Algorithm in the Courtroom: How Artificial Intelligence is Reshaping Justice and the Rule of Law Across Asia and the Pacific, organised by the UNDP Regional Hub Bureau for Asia and the Pacific
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
🆕 04-05 July 2026 | Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zeland | AI Safety New Zealand Conference 2026, organised by AI Safety Australia & New Zealand
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
🆕 07-08 July 2026 | Sydney, Australia | Australia AI Safety Forum 2026: Shaping Australia’s Role in AI Safety and Governance, organised by Gradient Institute, RAND, Timeus, Good Ancestors, University of Sydney and CSIRO, funded by the Australian Government
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
🆕 09-11 July 2026 | Seoul, South Korea | B/ordering the Global: Transnational Feminist Critiques from Asia, organised by Asian Centre for Women’s Studies at Ewha Womens University
🆕 10 July 2026 | Seoul, South Korea | AI4GOOD@ICML 2026 - Trustworthy AI for Good Workshop, organised by various Universities with Schmidt Sciences, Cooperative AI Foundation, International Association for Safe and Ethical AI, and AIM Intelligence (*)
10 July 2026 | Seoul, South Korea | TAIGR 2026 Second Workshop on Technical AI Governance Research, organised by AI Governance Initiative, Oxford Martin School and the University of Oxford
⏮️🆕 10 July 2026 | Geneva, Switzerland | AI For Good Global Summit 2026, organised by International Telecommunications Union
14-15 July 2026 | Kumamoto, Japan | 2nd Global Nature Positive Summit, organised by Nature Positive Initiative (et al) under patronage of the Japanese Ministry of the Environment (*)
15-17 July 2026 | Bangkok, Thailand | 12th Sustainable Development Conference (SDC2026), organised by Tomorrow People Organization
16-28 July 2026 | Chengdu, China | APEC Digital Week, organised by APEC and Government of the People’s Republic of China
🆕 17-18 July 2026 | Hong Kong, SAR | 2026 EASP Annual Conference: Social Policy in Asia in an Era of Multiple Disruptions, organised by the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong
20-21 July 2026 | Cebu, Philippines | 9th ASEAN Smart Cities Network Annual Meeting, organised by ASCN
21-23 July 2026 | Chiang Mai, Thailand | Asia Region Anti-Trafficking Conference, organised by the Global Learning Community
22-23 July 2026 | Singapore | IAPP Asia Forum 2026: Privacy Forum + AI Governance + Cybersecurity Law, organised by IAPP (*)
🆕 22-24 July 2026 | Shanghai, China | World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) 2026, organised by the government of the People’s Republic of China
The rest of this calendar covers events through March 2027 on AI governance, platform accountability, digital rights, anti-trafficking, and media freedom — with a particular eye on civil society, researchers, and advocates working in the Global South — and with a note on who's actually behind each one. Several have deadlines in the coming weeks. Paid subscribers see all of it.
