Responsible Tech Summit 2026. From Principles to Power: Embedding Accountability in the AI Era
At a time when artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping society, the conversation is shifting from broad principles to real-world accountability. The 2026 summit will explore the theme of Principles to Power: Embedding Accountability in the AI Era. For years, the Responsible Tech field has been guided by ethical frameworks, voluntary commitments, and emerging standards. Today, the challenge is clear: how do we translate those ideas into systems of governance, oversight, and design that ensure innovation does not come at the expense of safety, rights, or trust?
The Responsible Tech Summit is designed as a highly curated convening for 375 leaders that helps align and shape the direction of the movement. Participants will include global governance leaders, AI researchers, industry practitioners, policy experts, civil society advocates, and philanthropic leaders who are building the infrastructure of accountability for the digital age. Through keynotes, panels, and conversations, attendees will explore topics such as accountability by design, platform oversight, youth online safety, the Responsible Tech economy, and the evolving global regulatory landscape.
All ticket proceeds fund free resources and services for the Responsible Tech community that our organization provides. Can't make it in person? The event will be livestreamed for free on All Tech Is Human's YouTube page, where recordings will also be available afterward.
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Speakers for the Responsible Tech Summit 2026
Camille François - President, ROOST
Eli Pariser - Co-Director, New_ Public
Cathy O’Neil, Founder, Author, Mathematician & Data Scientist, O'Neil Risk Consulting & Algorithmic Auditing
Rumman Chowdhury, CEO, Humane Intelligence PBC
Alex Bores, Assembly Member, New York City’s 73rd District
Beth Goldberg, Founding Executive Director of Humanity AI
Sinead Bovell, Founder, WAYE
Alexis Wales, Chief Information Security Officer, GitHub
Alison Lee, Chief R&D Officer, The Rithm Project
Amanda Craig, General Manager of Responsible AI Public Policy, Microsoft
Anya Schiffrin, Director, Media Program, Columbia University (SIPA)
Britta Holmberg, Deputy Secretary General and Program Director, World Childhood Foundation
Carrie Varoquiers, Chief Impact Officer, Workday
Joshua Elder, Senior Vice President and Head of Grantmaking, Siegel Family Endowment
Julie Cordua, CEO, Thorn
Fernanda Del Castillo, Director of AI Governance, Mastercard
Kathy Pham, Faculty & Senior Fellow, Product & Responsible AI, Harvard University
Kristin Hansen, Executive Director, Civic Health Project
Renée Cummings, Professor of Practice in Data Science, University of Virginia
J. Trevor Hughes, President and CEO of IAPP
Shreya Singh Hernández, Senior Manager, Aspen Digital, The Aspen Institute
Melanie Plaza, Chief Technology Officer, AE Studio
Courtney Radsch, Director of the Center for Media & Digital Governance, Open Markets Institute; Fellow, Brookings Institution
Andrew Rasiej, Founder, Civic Hall
*See the full agenda and bios of our speakers here.
Sponsors for the Responsible Tech Summit 2026
Special thanks to our strategic partners, Columbia World Projects, Forum One, and Highspring, for helping bring this critical conversation to life.
Workday
Workday operates at the heart of the enterprise – HR, finance, and IT – where the margin for error is effectively zero. By tightly coupling AI with the context, guardrails, and trusted processes that run the business, Workday goes beyond AI that assists work to agents that do the work and drive measurable outcomes. More than 11,500 organizations worldwide, including more than 65% of the Fortune 500, trust Workday to deliver.
Mastercard
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry, connecting consumers, financial institutions, merchants, and governments in more than 200 countries and territories. The company is committed to building a sustainable, inclusive digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere.
Pinterest is a visual search and discovery platform where people find inspiration, curate ideas and shop products — all in a positive place online. Headquartered in San Francisco, Pinterest has over 600 million monthly active users worldwide.
Microsoft
Microsoft is a global technology leader empowering every person and organization on the planet to achieve more through its platforms and productivity tools. The company is committed to advancing responsible AI and ensuring emerging technologies are developed and deployed safely and ethically.
Siegel Family Endowment
Siegel Family Endowment takes an inquiry-driven approach to grantmaking, informed by the scientific method. As technology reshapes society, we fund organizations asking critical questions about its impact on learning, work, and infrastructure. Founded in 2011 by David Siegel, co-founder and co-chairman of Two Sigma, we advance technology in the public interest, supporting research and initiatives that imagine a more inclusive, resilient technology-driven society.
AE Studio
AE Studio is an applied AI and AI alignment company that builds software products for clients while advancing research on making advanced AI systems safe and beneficial. Its recent work with Anthropic, GRAM, trains dangerous knowledge into removable modules so it can be stripped from a model before release. AE Studio reinvests its commercial success into neglected approaches to AI alignment research. Learn more at ae.studio.
Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. As a leader in AI and computing, the company is focused on developing technology responsibly to benefit people and society.
Kapor Foundation
The Kapor Foundation works at the intersection of racial equity and technology to expand access to K-12 computer science and postsecondary tech pathways, improve tech accountability and worker protections, and increase investments in infrastructure and innovation. We advocate for policy changes, build the capacity of partners, conduct research, support partners through grant making, and invest in entrepreneurship and VC. We believe that when technology includes diverse perspectives and is harnessed to address societal challenges, we can transform the tech ecosystem for Black, Latine, and Native communities, and society as a whole. Kapor Foundation works collectively with the Kapor Center family of organizations, Kapor Capital, and SMASH to reimagine and reconstruct a more inclusive and equitable technology sector.
IAPP
The IAPP is a policy-neutral, not-for-profit association founded in 2000 with a mission to define, promote and improve the professions of privacy, AI governance and digital responsibility globally.
Civic Health Project
Civic Health Project is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing scalable solutions to the dangerous divisions that threaten American democracy. Since our founding in 2019, we have supported more than 75 academic researchers, grassroots practitioners, creatives, and technologists who are helping reduce polarization, strengthen civic norms, and foster social cohesion. Today, Civic Health Project focuses primarily on exploring the vast potential of promising new technologies to help resolve conflict, improve civil discourse and deliberation, foster social cohesion, and uphold societal norms.
Normsy.ai, our flagship in-house project, brings this mission to life. It identifies toxic content in real time and equips users to respond with respectful, trust-building messages grounded in social science and supported by artificial intelligence. We are also part of the initiative The Forum, a new model for civic leadership at a time when trust is low, division is high, and the need for credible, citizen-led solutions has never been greater.
GitHub
GitHub is the world’s leading platform for agentic software development — powered by Copilot to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 225 million developers, including more than 90% of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to collaborate, and more than 140,000 organizations have adopted GitHub Copilot.
Cinder
Cinder is the industry’s first Trust and Safety operations platform to help organizations combat Internetabuse at scale. We provide Trust and Safety teams with a single system to manage complex integrityoperations and investigations to create a safe environment for their users.
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About All Tech Is Human
All Tech Is Human is the coordination layer and connective tissue for the Responsible Tech ecosystem. By uniting key individuals across civil society, government, industry, academia, and philanthropy, we provide a sandbox for solution-building and socialization to influence key levers of change.
We specialize in taking a whole-of-ecosystem approach to tackling thorny tech & society issues, shaping the Responsible Tech movement, and ensuring that our tech future is aligned with the public interest.
We are the premier gathering for the Responsible Tech community, convening thousands of people globally.
We curate the defining resource for the movement, the Responsible Tech Guide, used by academia, industry, civil society, and policy professionals.
We have the largest online community for the Responsible Tech movement hosted on Slack with over 15,000 members across 117 countries.
We have the go-to job board for the community, our curated Responsible Tech Job Board and related talent pool.
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