Strategic Focus

TASI 2026Themes

TASI 2026 convenes leaders across government, industry, civil society, and academia to examine urgent questions shaping AI governance, digital trust, platform accountability, and safety outcomes.

Key Themes

50+

Sessions

Days

500+

Participants

All Themes

What We'll Examine

Fourteen interconnected themes spanning governance, platform accountability, digital wellbeing, and human safety, designed to move the conversation from dialogue to implementation.

Responsible AI governance and regulation

Exploring regulatory models, institutional accountability, and governance frameworks that keep AI innovation aligned with public trust.

AI Governance

Platform accountability and safety-by-design

Examining how platforms can build safety, transparency, and redress into products and policies from the earliest design stage.

Platform Safety

Online fraud, scams, and financial exploitation

Addressing fraud ecosystems, scam prevention, and coordinated responses that better protect users from financial harm online.

Consumer Protection

Gender-based violence and digital safety

Centering survivor-informed approaches to online abuse, coercive control, image-based harm, and safer digital participation.

Digital Rights

Child and youth protection online

Strengthening policies, safeguards, and cross-sector practice to make digital spaces safer for children and young people.

Youth Safety

Safety and accountability in the platform economy

Looking at gig work, marketplaces, and digital labor systems through the lens of fairness, safety, and accountability.

Digital Economy

Trust and safety in travel and hospitality platforms

Focusing on platform responsibilities, user confidence, and harm prevention in travel, bookings, and hospitality ecosystems.

Travel Safety

Technology and combatting cross-border trafficking and exploitation

Exploring how digital tools, intelligence-sharing, and cross-border coordination can disrupt trafficking and exploitation networks.

Cross-Border Harm

Transparency, risk assessment, and compliance

Advancing meaningful transparency, better risk governance, and compliance practices that go beyond box-ticking.

Compliance

Inclusive innovation and Global South leadership in AI governance

Positioning India and the Global South as agenda-setters in AI governance through inclusive, context-aware innovation.

Global South

Digital wellbeing, loneliness, and social isolation in online spaces

Considering how platform design and digital culture shape wellbeing, connection, loneliness, and belonging.

Wellbeing

AI companions and digital relationships: risks, safeguards, and ethics

Assessing the ethical and safety implications of AI companions, emotional dependency, and human-machine relationships.

AI Ethics

Supporting parents and strengthening parent-child safety online

Exploring tools, literacy, and support systems that help parents foster safer digital experiences for children.

Family Safety

Protecting and empowering seniors in digital environments

Focusing on safety, access, dignity, and digital confidence for older adults navigating online services and communities.

Senior Safety