Call for Panelists
Submit your position brief with a brief bio
(See submission guidelines below)
Important Dates
Submission deadline: July 20, 2026
Notification: August 10, 2026
Presentation slides due: August 30, 2026
Panel Goals and Objectives
This panel will bring together experts from academia, industry, government, and professional societies to examine the challenges and opportunities in developing, deploying, and operating sovereign AI systems in developing countries—within a global landscape increasingly shaped by dominant platforms and models. It will provide a forum to explore how these countries can build AI systems that reflect their values, cultural identities, and socio-economic and political priorities, while still benefiting from the scalability and capabilities of established global AI ecosystems.
Global AI platforms can significantly accelerate development, lower costs, provide robust cloud and energy infrastructure, and enable access to a worldwide pool of expertise. Yet, their Widespread adoption—particularly in developing contexts—can also lead to unintended consequences, including erosion of digital sovereignty, forms of digital or AI dependency, geopolitical vulnerability, brain drain, epistemic inequities, and misalignment with local values.
Call for participation
Digital and AI sovereignty has implications in many critical areas of a nation’s security, economy, education, national security, technology policy and regulation, legal systems, ethics, geopolitics, to name but a few. If you have expertise in any of these areas and are interested in the evolution of AI technology in developing countries, we invite you to join our panel discussion by submitting a brief position statement that includes the topic of your presentation, your affiliation, and a brief bio to the following panel organizers.
Contact information
• Thomas Dousseu. Conference General Chair. Email: general-chair@paaiss.com
• Charmaine Delisser, University of Technology, Kingston, Jamaica. Email: charmsdelisser@gmail.com
• David White, University of Technology, Kingston, Jamaica: Email: utechedujm.onmicrosoft.com
------------------------------------------------------ ~ ------------------------------------------------