The People's Mandate: Governing and Building AI from Queens to Cairo

AI policy is being written in very different rooms: a city council chamber in Queens, a parliament in Cairo, and an accelerator operating under a mandate from New York City government. A council member who spent a decade at IBM modernizing government technology, a parliamentarian elected by young MPs from 179 countries to lead them, and the head of NYC's official AI accelerator compare notes on what it takes to govern AI at every scale.

Who this is for

Policymakers, founders building inside regulation, and anyone who wants ordinary people to come out ahead of the platforms.

On the table

• Who sets the rules, and who builds within them?
• What does a city learn from a national parliament, and the reverse?
• How do we make sure millions of ordinary people, not just platforms, come out ahead?

You'll leave with

• How AI rules are actually being made at city, national and international scale
• The seams between those scales where a builder can act
• A contact in each of the three rooms