Sustainable AI use: from 2026 and beyond

  • Monday 9 November 2026 / 09.00 - 17.30

About this symposium:

Sustainable AI use: from 2026 and beyond addresses the environmental cost of artificial intelligence in scientific research and healthcare. As AI adoption has accelerated across sectors, so have the concerns about the resources these systems consume, the waste they generate, and the burden places on the communities that host them.

Governance discussions have not kept pace. Where they exist, they tend to be sector-specific: policymakers, AI developers and the researchers and clinicians who use these tools rarely address the question together. The result is a gap between governance frameworks and the conditions under which AI is deployed, and it is in that gap that sustainable AI use fails to translate into practice

Objectives

This conference is co-organized by the Geneva Health Forum (GHF), and the Geneva Digital Health Hub (gdhub) and , it will examine how new forms of collaboration can support responsible and sustainable AI use in global health

The conference brings these stakeholders into the same room: policy makers, scientific communities and private sector AI developers, as well as its users, to formulate viable solutions together. Panel discussions and an interactive workshop give end users a direct role in shaping the outcomes rather than receiving them.

Recommendations from the conference will inform a policy brief setting out measures that are workable for the people expected to implement them. The GHF’s and gdhub’s interdisciplinary reach and stakeholder community provide a pathway for continued dialogue beyond the event itself.

Objectives:

  1. To define and identify environmental challenges of AI use in research and healthcare.
  2. To develop community-relevant policy recommendations for sustainable AI use that are workable in scientific research, public health and clinical settings.
  3. To build cross-sectoral coalitions between scientific communities, healthcare professionals, policymakers and the private sector

 

Speakers

Dulce REDIN
Professor of Business Ethics
University of Navarra
Spain
Andreas REIS
Senior Ethics Officer. Science for Health Department
World Health Organization
Switzerland
Bruno JOCHUM
Founding Director
Climate Action Accelerator

Panelists

Yara ABU AWAD
Senior data scientist and group lead of the Data Science Competence Center
Swiss Federal Statistical Office
Switzerland
Mina BJELOGRLIC
Head of Machine Learning, Computational Scientist
University of Geneva
Switzerland
Mahmoud CISSE
Physician and digital health researcher
Centre d’expertise et de recherche en télémédecine et e-santé
Mali
Boya ZHANG
Research Affiliate
University of Geneva
Switzerland

Speed-Talks

Serish GANDIKOTA
Honorary Fellow at Cambridge Judge Business School
Co-founder and co-lead of the Frugal AI Hub.
United Kingdom
Jai Ganesh UDAYASANKARAN
Executive Director
Asia eHealth Information Network
India
Ursula ZHAO
Technical Officer digital health and AI
World Health Organization
Switzerland

Agenda

09.00

Welcome and opening remarks

  • Prof. Antoine Geissbuhler, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva  
09.10

Keynotes

Beyond Greenwashing: Governing Sustainable AI for the Common Good

Prof. Dulce Redin, School of Economics & Business, University of Navarra

Ethical use of AI in Healthcare and Research

Dr Andreas Reis, World Health Organisation, Global Health Ethics, Science for Health Department

Sustainability considerations in AI for health : Decarbonization pathways

Bruno Bochum, Founding Director of the Climate Action Accelerator
10.00

Coffee Break
10.30

Panel discussion, including Audience Q&A (15’)

  • Dr. Boya Zhang, University of Geneva
  • Dr. Mahmoud Cissé, Centre d’Expertise et de Recherche en Télémédecine et E-Santé, Mali
  • Dr. Yara Abuawad, Swiss Federal Statistical Office
  • Dr. Mina Bjelogrlic (Moderator), Geneva University Hospitals
11.30

Workshop introduction

  • Introduction to the afternoon workshop and group formation. Participants assigned to groups of ~10 with briefing on objectives and methodology 
12.00 Lunch break
13.00

Speed-Talk Sessions (15′)

 
 

 

       Interactive Workshop, group work on AI sustainability & governance  
15.00 Coffee break
15.20 Interactive Workshop (finalize discussions)  
16.00 Group Presentations, each group presents key recommendations
16.30 Closing Reflections and Next Steps: Synthesis, collaboration pathways, and closing remarks
Registration

Registration is mandatory to obtain an entry badge for Campus Biotech.

Organizers
Kailing Marcus, Dr Caroline Perrin(gdhub), Dr Awa Babington-Ashaye (gdhub)

Event

Sustainable AI use: from 2026 and beyond