The Innovation Factory Grand Finale will present the best four AI for Good startups who scored the highest scores throughout the Innovation Factory pitching this year. These four promising AI ventures have a great scalability potential for a global impact and are tackling the world's greatest challenges with their innovative AI solutions to achieve the SDGs in the fields of waste management, air quality, children malnutrition, and agriculture. The four startups will have the chance to present their solutions before a jury of experts who will evaluate their pitches and select the top winner. Investors and innovation experts will be present to announce possible partnerships and potential funding. The Grand Finale will start with an opening remarks from the ITU TSB Director (TBC), followed by the top startups presentations showcasing their solutions followed by discussions Q&A with jury, audience, or media on topics related to social impact of their solutions.

Yoshua Bengio is recognized as one of the world's leading experts in artificial intelligence and a pioneer in deep learning. Since 1993, he has been a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operational Research at the Université de Montréal. He is the founder and scientific director of Mila, the Quebec Institute of Artificial Intelligence, the world's largest university-based research group in deep learning. He is a member of the NeurIPS board and co-founder and general chair for the ICLR conference, as well as program director of the CIFAR program on Learning in Machines and Brains and is Fellow of the same institution. In 2018, Yoshua Bengio ranked as the computer scientist with the most new citations, worldwide, thanks to his many publications.

The 2020 Breakthrough Days event aims to generate and fuel meaningful projects in each of this year's three AI for Good Global Summit domains – Gender, Food, and Pandemics – that will advance progress on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Hear from keynote speakers and participate in interactive workshops designed to launch solutions to some of the world's greatest challenges. "Beneficial AI to advance SDGs" Keynote Speaker: Stuart Russell, Professor of Computer Science at UC Berkeley Moderator: Amir Banifatemi, Chief Innovation Officer, XPRIZE; Chair of the AI for Good Programme Committee In an effort to allow teams to prepare for main stage presentations on Monday and Tuesday, we have designated Friday 25 September as a time for teams and attendees to converse individually. Please use the AI for Good workspace on Slack to continue the conversation. Join us on Monday 28 September as we hear from teams in each of this year's AI for Good Breakthrough Track "What is AI for Good Anyway?" Keynote Speaker: Sasha Luccioni, Postdoctoral Researcher – AI for Humanity, Université de Montréal, Mila – Quebec AI Institute Moderator: Amir Banifatemi, Chief Innovation Officer, XPRIZE; Chair of the AI for Good Programme Committee Keynote Address Keynote Speaker: Peter H. Diamandis, entrepreneur, founder and executive chairman of the XPRIZE Foundation, Bestselling author of "Abundance – The Future Is Better Than You Think" Moderator: Amir Banifatemi, Chief Innovation Officer, XPRIZE; Chair of the AI for Good Programme Committee Interested individuals and teams from around the world have submitted project ideas to the Gender, Food and Pandemics Breakthrough Tracks. After being mentored by world-renowned experts and Brain Trusts, the top three finalists in each domain have been selected to present their project proposals in a series of interactive workshops during the Breakthrough Days event.

The UN compendium provides further details on UN agencies, members of the AI for Good UN Partners, experiments with AI to improve their response to global challenges.

World-renowned presenter LJ Rich is part of Click, the BBC's flagship technology show. Since reading music at Oxford, she's predicted tech trends and monitored emerging concepts in consumer electronics for over a decade, with particular interest in audio, AI and art. Her regular music show #ljtunes now has nearly 800,000 likes on Twitter's live streaming service Periscope, and she's performed live at some of the most prestigious venues on the planet. During her recent breast cancer treatment, LJ decided to make a video diary of her own chemo sessions to demystify it for others, which hit the top spot on the BBC website.