Join us Wednesday, 26 June for the 75th UN Charter Day, marking the signing of the UN Charter on 26 June 1945 in San Francisco. On this occasion, United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) is hosting a program to reflect on global developments not foreseen when the Charter was drafted but which, wisely used, could contribute to the realization of its purposes and principles.

Our speaker will be Dr. David A. Bray, whose talk Artificial Intelligence, the Internet and the Future of Data: Where Will We Be in 2045? , will examine the impact of technology on the mission of the UN 100 years after its creation.

Dr. Bray has served as Executive Director for the People-Centered Internet Coalition focused on providing support and expertise for community-based projects that measurably improve people’s lives using the internet. Business Insider named him one of the top “24 Americans Who Are Changing the World under 40" and he was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum for 2016-2021, a Marshall Memorial Fellow and a Senior Fellow with the Institute for Human-Machine Cognition.

Dr. Bray’s talk will be followed by reflections of discussants and a larger conversation with the audience. The invited discussants include:

• Fabrizio Hochschild, United Nations Under Secretary-General and Special Adviser on the Preparations for the Commemoration of the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of the United Nations

• David Silbersweig, Stanley Cobb Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School

• Mariko Gakiya, Director, Global Leadership for Health, Peace and Human Security, Boston Global Forum

• Nam Pham, Department of Business Development and International Trade , State of Massachusetts

• Atefeh Riazi, UN Assistant Secretary-General, Chief Information Technology Officer , United Nations Office of Information and Communications Technology

Registration is only required for people planning to attend the event in person at UN Headquarters in New York. If you would like to join the discussion online you can watch the event live at webtv.un.org.

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Registration is required for all attendees and will close at 12:00 p.m. on Thursday, 20 June 2019. The name submitted for registration MUST match the name on the attendee's government-issued photo ID (no nicknames or initials should be used for registration). Please note that only one registration per person is allowed, and all attendees must register under their own names and the name must match their government ID.

On the day of the event, attendees should arrive at the Visitor’s Entrance of the United Nations (First Avenue and 46th Street) no later than 9:00 a.m., to allow time for ticket pick-up and security screening. The Eventbrite ticket is NOT the admissions ticket for this event; only participants with an admissions ticket issued by the United Nations will be admitted to the venue. All attendees will be requested to present a government-issued photo ID to obtain their tickets and to enter the event.

Dr. David A. Bray