Exclusive Wash-up Session by Alexandre Zapolsky

• Our President could not miss the opportunity to highlight the importance of this major international conference which took place at the Unites Nations Headquarters in New York City, earlier in July, on 9th and 10th.

50+ speakers and panelists - 500+ participants

• Because when a topic is identified as critical and tackled together by such high level institutions it clearly means that it will have major implications and impact at a worldwide level in a near future involving all stakeholders.

Whereas the Tech planet is running after AI innovation, the AI ecosystem is running after true open source alternatives for the sake of civilization.

And it is just a beginning...

• A big THANK YOU to the organizers : Office of the UN Secretary-General's Envoy on Technology, Amandeep Gill, Omar Mohsine and United Nations Office of Information and COmmunications Technology to make happen 

Back on the key messages :

1. Advocate for a true open source AI ;

   
   " A true open-source AI is an AI without any restriction of use, with a model that is delivered with a full transparency about the methodology that have been used to train the model and with a full access to the dataset that has been used to train the model [...] "
    

2. Preserve the diversity of languages, cultures and civilizations ;

   
   " We need to have diversity in AI. We should not belong on to only few major models that have been trained only in English datasets and only represent the west side point of view of the world. We need to have a full diversity on points of view, on approaches and visions of the world [...] "
    

3. Let's make a "Rendez-vous" all in Paris for AI Action Summit to be held in France on February 10 and 11, 2025 ;

   
   " So if you want to go further on this discussion and to understand how all together we could tackle these challenges, please put on your agenda the dates of the Paris Summit for AI, on the 10th and 11th of February. At LINAGORA, we will keep on working on these issues and we will push those challenges at the highest level as possible [...] "