Events

Feb 2512:00 am

RightsCon 2025 Hybrid Roundtable: Exploring Abuse Detection Challenges and Contextual Biases in AI-Driven Hate Speech Moderation

The discussion will explore how opaque algorithmic decision-making, data gaps, and governance structures exacerbate rather than mitigate harm, further entrenching digital inequalities.

Feb 252:00 pm - 3:00 pm

Empowered or Abused? Democracy and Gender Equality in the Digital Age

Organized by the Permanent Representation of Finland, the event aims to explore how the spread of disinformation and online gender-based violence undermine democratic processes and affects women in political spheres.

Feb 278:00 am - 12:30 pm

AI & Equality Public Sector (français) Genève

An exclusive series of workshops, in English and in French supported by the Canton of Geneva and facilitated by Women At The Table, to introduce the AI & Equality initiative and toolbox to Public Sector policy makers and technologists.

Feb 274:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Open Studio with Lilian Wanzare | AI4KSL: Bridging Language Barrier using Artificial Intelligence for Kenyan Sign Language among Deaf Learners

In this AI & Equality  open studion, Dr. Lilian Wanzare will focus on their ongoing research working with the deaf community to collect Kenyan sign language dataset, the challenges faced, the prototype models the team has developed and the feedback from the sign language community regarding the whole process. 

Mar 0612:15 pm - 1:30 pm

The 6th Edition of the International Gender Champions (IGC) Gender Debate

 In the tradition of Oxford Union debates, the motion debated on the occasion of this high-level event will be: “This house believes that digital and new emerging technologies are catalysts for accelerating gender equality.”

Mar 066:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Leveraging AI to accelerate gender equality – Women in Tech Switzerland

The “Leveraging AI to accelerate gender equality” event will explore how emerging technologies can be a catalyst for closing gender gaps across sectors.

Mar 121:15 pm - 2:30 pm

CSW69- IGC Digital and New Emerging Technologies Impact Group: Advancing Equity in the Digital Era

While the digital transformation bears vast potential to leapfrog progress towards SDG 5, the digital gender divide, persistent gender stereotypes, the under-representation of women and other marginalised communities in tech and decision making, significant gaps in digital literacy and a rise in technology-facilitated violence also threaten to exacerbate existing inequalities.

Mar 184:30 pm - 6:00 pm

CSW69: AI for Social Equality | Side Event

We are looking to catalyze a global conversation on algorithms that includes gender, race, class, caste and region at the core of the code. 

Convened by Women at the Table, IT for Change, Derechos Digitales, Association for Progressive Communications / APC, Pollicy