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, Assemblymember, 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
*See the 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.
Interested in sponsoring our summit or forming a strategic partnership? Email us at hello@alltechishuman.org.
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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