Chaired by Pierre Noro who welcomed everyone and was joined by:
▪️ Maria Luce Lupetti presenting on “Participatory AI (Design) Justice”
▪️ Oscar Leung and Ye Ha Kim presenting on “Community-in-the-Loop AI Governance: Co-Creating Equitable Social Contracts for Algorithmic Accountability”.
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Have you missed us? Thank you for bearing with us whilst we've been video clipping hours of content from our online symposium on 17th February.
We're pleased to now be starting to share those recordings and what better place to start that the opening plenary.
📽️ youtu.be/JyQwNmdoLHU
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We'll be spending hours over the next few weeks to edit videos, update the website, and be ready to share links to a wrap up of both online and in-person conference, and to plan future PAIRS events. Your feedback will really help us place the focus of this work.
Thank you to everyone who joined us for PAIRS this week - both online and in person.
Thank you to all the volunteer team who put it together 👏 .
🖊️ We would be very grateful if you can take 2 minutes to fill out the feedback form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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💻 We've already had 5 hours of great content at PAIRS 2026 Online .. and there's another 5 hours to come!
The online programme, including links to join us, is here: docs.google.com/docu...
Photo from room watching PAIRs opening plenary in New Delhi.
Great start to the online day for @pairs.site with a focus on participatory (design) justice and AI, and keeping community in the loop in AI development. Listening from our Hub space in Delhi thanks to JGU Law School.
🎉 PAIRS 2026 Online Symposium is underway!
The online programme, including links to join us, is here: docs.google.com/docu...
PAIRS: Participatory Al Research & Practice Symposium 2026 Soujanya Dash is speaking at PAIRS 2026 on Machine Bias and Caste Proxies: GDPR vs DPDP PAIRS 2026 online - 17h February 2026 Find out more and register to attend at www.pairs.site
Her co-author Soujanya Dash will be online. Soujanya is a sports behavior analyst at Nagoya University. With experience as an AI consultant (projects on anomaly detection etc.) & a main thesis on "Understanding the intention of soccer defense line using gradient inverse reinforcement learning".
She will be presenting at our in person event in New Delhi, India on 18th February 2026 on 'Machine Bias and Caste Proxies: Governing Discriminatory AI through DPDP and GDPR Lenses'.
Find out more at 🔗 www.pairs.site/PAIRS...
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PAIRS: Participatory Al Research & Practice Symposium 2026 Meghna Pandamukherjee is speaking at PAIRS 2026 on Machine Bias and Caste Proxies: Governing Discriminatory Al through DPDP and GDPR Lenses PAIRS 2026 in New Delhi, India - 18th February 2026 Find out more at www.pairs.site
📢 Introducing Meghna Pandamukherjee, a researcher and consultant working at the intersection of AI governance, data protection law, and social inequality. Her work examines how algorithmic systems in India reproduce caste-based exclusion through proxy variables and inference.
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PAIRS: Participatory Al Research & Practice Symposium 2026 Christo Hall is speaking at PAIRS 2026 on Integrating multi-stakeholder review into the Hiroshima Al Process PAIRS 2026 Online - 17h February 2026 Find out more and register to attend www.pairs.site
📢 Introducing: Christo, a digital policy researcher at McMaster University and will be presenting at our online event on 17th February 2026 on 'Integrating multi-stakeholder review into the Hiroshima AI Process'.
Find out more, and register to attend for free, at 🔗 www.pairs.site/PAIRS...
She will be presenting at our in person event in New Delhi, India on 18th February 2026 on 'Voice to the People: Comparing Deliberative and Participatory AI Governance in Latin America'.
Find out more at 🔗 www.pairs.site/PAIRS...
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PAIRS: Participatory Al Research & Practice Symposium 2026 Sacha Alanoca is speaking at PAIRS 2026 on Voice to the People: Comparing Deliberative and Participatory Al Governance in Latin America PAIRS 2026 in New Delhi, India - 18t February 2026 Find out more at www.pairs.site
Introducing Sacha Alanoca, a PhD researcher at Stanford. She co-leads the Global AI Governance affinity group at the Human-Centered AI Institute. Her research has been published in academic and media outlets. In 2022 she was named one of the “100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics.”
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It's so easy to feel dispirited by or just spend time complaining about Big Tech power.
So I'm really happy to see PAIRS being used as a forum to share lessons from successful strategies for public interest resistance. Looking forward to this presentation!
www.pairs.site/Resisting-Bi...
Just waiting to board return from @pairs.site program committee outing to Agra, so online conference paper previews (and poor quality travel photography) to resume shortly.
I'm in Delhi this week for the #IndiaAIImpactSummit and the second edition of our conference on Participatory AI Research and Practice. But @pairs.site is also taking place online on Tuesday. Over travels, and a 🚞 visit to the Taj Mahal yesterday I had a look at some of the 10-minute talks coming up
She will be presenting at our in person event in New Delhi, India on 18th February 2026 on 'AI for ALL, But By Whom?'. Find out more at 🔗 www.pairs.site/PAIRS...
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PAIRS: Participatory Al Research & Practice Symposium 2026 Angelina Chamuah is speaking at PAIRS 2026 on Al for ALL, But By Whom? PAIRS 2026 in New Delhi, India - 18th February 2026 Find out more at www.pairs.site
Introducing: Angelina Chamuah, a senior researcher and foresight practitioner working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, governance, and socio-technical change. Currently Deputy Director at Transitions Research.
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They will be presenting at our in person event in New Delhi, India on 18th February 2026 on 'Refusing Fairness: Queer, Anti-Colonial, and Situated Negotiations of AI Harm in India'.
Find out more at 🔗 www.pairs.site/PAIRS...
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PAIRS: Participatory Al Research & Practice Symposium 2026 Debarati Das is speaking at PAIRS 2026 on Refusing Fairness: Queer, Anti-Colonial, and Situated Negotiations of Al Harm in India PAIRS 2026 in New Delhi, India - 18t February 2026 Find out more at www.pairs.site
Introducing Debarati Das, a queer-feminist practitioner & independent consultant working in the intersections of digital technologies, social impact, gender,&disability. Their work has primarily centered women, queer&trans persons,& disabled individuals' experiences of online harms & freedoms. (1/2)
She will be presenting at our in person event in New Delhi, India on 18th February 2026 on 'Operationalising AI Governance through Participatory Design'.
Find out more at 🔗 www.pairs.site/PAIRS...
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PAIRS: Participatory Al Research & Practice Symposium 2026 Dr Oonagh Murphy is speaking at PAIRS 2026 on Operationalising Al Governance through Participatory Design PAIRS 2026 in New Delhi, India - 18th February 2026 Find out more at www.pairs.site
📢 Introducing: Dr Oonagh Murphy, a Senior Lecturer in Digital Culture and Society at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social, Fellow of @theturing.bsky.social and BRAID UK Her work is redefining how cultural organisations and civil society navigate the digital age.
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He will be presenting at our in person event in New Delhi, India on 18th February 2026 on 'Freedom of information laws as participatory AI governance arenas: a case study of Brazil'. Find out more at 🔗 www.pairs.site/PAIRS...
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PAIRS: Participatory Al Research & Practice Symposium 2026 João Vitor Zaidan is speaking at PAIRS 2026 on Freedom of information laws as participatory Al governance arenas: a case study of Brazil PAIRS 2026 in New Delhi, India - 18th February 2026 Find out more at www.pairs.site
📢 Introducing a PAIRS presenter: João Vitor Zaidan.
João Vitor Zaidan is an undergraduate Law student at the Universidade Federal de Pernambuco and a researcher on internet governance, International Law and international regimes. He is also an advocacy intern at Fiquem Sabendo.
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She will be presenting at our in person event in New Delhi, India on 18th February 2026 on 'Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: Mapping and Bridging Transparency Gaps Across Users, Policymakers, and Builders of Generative AI.
Find out more at 🔗
PAIRS: Participatory Al Research & Practice Symposium 2026 Genevieve Smith is speaking at PAIRS 2026 on Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: Mapping and Bridging Transparency Gaps Across Users, Policymakers, and Builders of Generative Al PAIRS 2026 in New Delhi, India - 18th February 2026 Find out more at www.pairs.site
📢 Introducing Genevieve Smith, a postdoctoral research fellow at Stanford University, the Founding Director of the Responsible AI Initiative at the UC Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab (BAIR), and a member of the Professional Faculty at Berkeley Haas.
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She will be presenting at our in person event in New Delhi, India on 18th February 2026 on 'Resisting Big Tech: Countergovernance and the Making of Brazil’s Digital Child Statute'.
Find out more at 🔗 www.pairs.site/PAIRS...
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PAIRS: Participatory Al Research & Practice Symposium 2026 Carine Roos is speaking at PAIRS 2026 on Resisting Big Tech: Countergovernance and the Making of Brazil's Digital Child Statute PAIRS 2026 in New Delhi, India - 18t February 2026 Find out more at www.pairs.site
📢 Introducing: Carine Roos, a researcher working at the intersection of AI, democracy, & human rights. With experience across academia, civil society, & international organisations, she has contributed to global debates on digital rights, digital sovereignty, & ethical AI.
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She will be presenting at our online event on 17th February 2026 on 'From techno-nationalism to soft power: Saudi Arabia's Allam and AI statecraft in a multiplex world'.
Find out more, and register to attend for free, at 🔗 www.pairs.site/PAIRS...
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PAIRS: Participatory Al Research & Practice Symposium 2026 Kevser Salih is speaking at PAIRS 2026 on From techno-nationalism to soft power: Saudi Arabia's Allam and Al statecraft in a multiplex world PAIRS 2026 online - 17h February 2026 Find out more and register to attend at www.pairs.site
Introducing Kevser Salih, a researcher&multimedia journalist working on AI governance&political communication in the Middle East. She holds an MA in International Relations from Istanbul Bilgi University. She has also researched generative AI in journalism with the Al Jazeera Media Institute.
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