# Do we need a UN AI treaty?

> Session, Wednesday 11 November, 10:05 to 10:30, Stage 11 (Policy Summit), MEO Arena and FIL. Part of the official Web Summit programme.

*Source: <https://web-summit.newsroom.sgit.ai/events/do-we-need-a-un-ai-treaty/index.html> · site v0.1.12 · generated from the same content as the page, so the two cannot drift.*

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| **When** | Wednesday 11 November, 10:05 to 10:30 (Lisbon time) |
| **Where** | [Stage 11](../../places/stage-11/index.md), [MEO Arena and FIL](../../places/meo-arena-and-fil/index.md), [Parque das Nações](../../places/parque-das-nacoes/index.md), [Lisbon](../../places/lisbon/index.md), [Portugal](../../places/portugal/index.md) |
| **As the source puts it** | Stage 11 (Policy Summit), MEO Arena and FIL |
| **Kind** | Session |
| **Organiser** | [Web Summit](../../organisations/web-summit/index.md) (the official programme) |
| **Part of** | [Web Summit Lisbon 2026](../web-summit-lisbon-2026/index.md) |
| **Track** | Policy Summit |
| **Our pick** | Yes: the team chose to follow it |

## Speakers {#speakers}

As the event's page lists them: name, role, organisation.

- [Mary Robinson](../../people/mary-robinson/index.md), Founding Member, [The Elders](../../organisations/elders/index.md)
- [Charles Pellegrin](../../people/charles-pellegrin/index.md), Business Editor, [France 24](../../organisations/france-24/index.md)

## Where this comes from {#sources}

- [websummit.com/sessions/lis26/e957eedc-8414-42ca-8572-4806d21e8d85/do-w](https://websummit.com/sessions/lis26/e957eedc-8414-42ca-8572-4806d21e8d85/do-we-need-a-un-ai-treaty/), read 2026-11-04 by programme@web-summit.vicky. Via the team's data/events.json, re-checked at the source.

Times are Lisbon time (UTC in November) and may change: check the source before you go.

The same, as data: [events/do-we-need-a-un-ai-treaty.json](../../api/v1/events/do-we-need-a-un-ai-treaty.json) and its graph, [graph/events/do-we-need-a-un-ai-treaty.json](../../api/v1/graph/events/do-we-need-a-un-ai-treaty.json) (how to read them: [the data, as JSON](../../api/index.md)).

[All events](../index.md)

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