Deeply Human Summit | October 2-3 | Paris
We have the tools.
Now we need each other.
Take your place in building what the future deserves.
Designed for depth. Built for ripples.
Two days in Paris for listening, imagining, connecting, and
building what the future deserves.
together.
YOUTH DAY - Global Imagination Lab
A youth-led ethical dreaming lab, imagining the future with responsibility for ourselves, each other, the planet, and the generations still to come. Through dialogue, imagination, and shared inquiry, Fellows will create a Youth Dispatch: a contribution from the next generation to the full Deeply Human Summit.
1st
oct
Day 1: Arrive, Listen, expand
We begin by listening across disciplines, generations, sectors, and lived realities. Together, we create a shared foundation for what this moment is asking of us.
2ND
oct
3RD
oct
Day 2: shape, connect, Commit
The second day turns listening into shared direction. Everyone contributes something; everyone becomes part of shaping what the future deserves, closing with a Shared Harvest of what has emerged and what deserves to continue.
summit close: Dreamers & Idealists Party
An evening for the kind of energy that only emerges when people gather around something larger than themselves. After two days of listening and shaping, Dreamers & Idealists is a celebration of the relationships, courage, and collective imagination needed to build better futures.
Post-Summit Retreat (by Invitation)
A gentle closing for those who want to reconnect with themselves, one another and the deeper purpose of what has emerged.
4th
oct
A different kind of gathering about the future & Technology…
AI raises deeply human questions: questions no single sector, discipline, or generation can answer alone.
Under the theme “Building What the Future Deserves, Together”, the Deeply Human Summit is a two-day gathering for people working on the questions shaping the future across technology, education, business, policy, research, culture, and civil society.
Hosted at the Learning Planet Institute in Paris, the summit brings lived experience, research, practice, policy, and imagination into conversation through generous listening, deep exchange, and collaboration across disciplines and generations — shaping visions, ideas, and relationships that continue beyond the room.
Some forms of insight, courage, and imagination only emerge when people come together, with enough trust to listen deeply and enough shared responsibility to shape what comes next.
IF TECHNOLOGY SHAPES YOUR WORLD,
THIS IS YOUR ROOM.
The Deeply Human Summit is for those who believe the future of technology is too important to be shaped by one sector, one discipline, or one generation alone.
For those working at the intersection of technology and humanity: in education, policy, research, business, culture, art, civil society, design, philanthropy, media, and community practice.
For those asking how AI and digital transformation are changing how we live, work, learn, relate, trust, govern, care, create, together.
For those who believe that the future is not waiting to be joined. It is waiting to be built.
In collaboration with:
Joining us in paris
Paqui Lizana
Global Head Tech Strategy, IKEA
François Taddei
Founder & President, Learning Planet Institute
James Martin
Founder, Better Tech
Ada Parris
Futurist, AI & Culture, Founder House of Griots
Sarah Mathews
Group Head Responsible AI Lead, The Adecco Group
John C. Havens
Founding Director, IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent System, Global Lead Planet Positive 2030
tey Bannerman
AI & Design Leader, ex-McKinsey
dr. Fabian Stephany
AI & Future of Work, Skillscale Project Lead, University of Oxford
titiksha Vashist
Co-Founder, Pranava Institute
Michael Bäcklund
Prototype Builder, The Learning Planet Institute
Tamara Lechner
Chair, AI For Human Flourishing, Harvard University
de kai
Founder, Empathetic AI Institute
dr. julia stamm
Founder & Chief Executive, She Shapes AI
Dr. Lindsey dewitt Prat
Director, Bold Instincts
reverend dr. lyndon drake
AI & Faith, The University of Oxford
dr. david drake
Founder, The Moment Institute
Caro Ames
AI & Sustainability Leader, ex-Faculty
Salla Westerstrand
CEO, Harmless, Board Member Sustinaires
and many more to come…
Community and Knowledge partners:
Youth Partner:
Community Wellbeing Partner:
become a founding partner.
The Deeply Human Summit is built with partners who believe better futures need better rooms: spaces where people can listen generously, exchange deeply, and shape what comes next across disciplines and generations.
Partnership helps create the conditions for a meaningful gathering with depth, access, and lasting impact: supporting youth participation, cross-sector exchange, public learning, and ideas, relationships, and commitments that continue beyond Paris.
programme partnership
Co-shape one of the summit tracks, a facilitated session, a creative format, or a public output.
Youth fellowship partnership
Help fund participation for next generation participants of the Youth Imagination Lab.
accessibility partnership
Support subsidised places for students, NGO participants, community practitioners, artists, educators, and others who could not otherwise attend.
public good(s) partnership
Support the synthesis of summit insights into reports, tools, and resources that can travel beyond Paris.