Centre on Knowledge Governance

Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights, SCCR (49th session)
2026-11-30 - 2026-12-04 | WIPO, Geneva, Switzerland

Committee on WIPO Standards (14th session)
2026-11-23 - 2026-11-27

Committee on Development and Intellectual Property, CDIP (37th Session)
2026-11-16 - 2026-11-20 | WIPO, Geneva, Switzerland

IPC Union - IPC Revision Working Group (56th session)
2026-11-09 - 2026-11-13 | WIPO, Geneva, Switzerland

Standing Committee on the Law of Patents (38th session)
2026-11-02 - 2026-11-06 | WIPO, Geneva, Switzerland

Working Group on the Legal Development of the Hague System for the International Registration of Industrial Designs (15th session)
2026-10-26 - 2026-10-28

Working Group on the Legal Development of the Madrid System for the International Registration of Marks (24th session)
2026-10-05 - 2026-10-09 | WIPO, Geneva, Switzerland

lntergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore, IGC (53rd session)
2026-09-16 - 2026-09-25 | WIPO, Geneva, Switzerland

Course: Intellectual Property and Artificial Intelligence
2026-09-07 - 2026-09-08 | Geneva Graduate Institute, Chem. Eugène-Rigot 2, 1202 Genève, Switzerland, Geneva, 1202, Switzerland
A new Executive Course offered by the Geneva Graduate Institute and taught by the Centre on Knowledge Governance. More information is available here: https://knowledgegov.org/centre-announces-short-course-on-intellectual-property-and-artificial-intelligence/

Program and Budget Committee (40th session)
2026-06-15 - 2026-06-19 | WIPO, Geneva, Switzerland

Advisory Committee on Enforcement (18th session)
2026-06-02 - 2026-06-04 | WIPO, Geneva, Switzerland

Seventy-ninth World Health Assembly
2026-05-18 08:30 - 2026-05-23 17:00 UTC | Geneva, Geneva, 1202, Switzerland
The World Health Assembly (WHA) is the annual decision-making meeting of the World Health Organization.

Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights, SCCR (48th session)
2026-05-18 - 2026-05-22 | WIPO, Geneva, Switzerland

Committee on Development and Intellectual Property, CDIP (36th Session)
2026-05-04 - 2026-05-08

Committee of Experts of the Nice Union (36th session)
2026-04-27 - 2026-05-01

IPC Union - IPC Revision Working Group (55th session)
2026-04-27 - 2026-05-01 | WIPO, Geneva, Switzerland

Extraordinary Session of the WIPO General Assembly, Paris Union Assembly, and Berne Union Assembly to appoint the Director General
2026-04-21 | WIPO, Geneva, Switzerland

Standing Committee on the Law of Trademarks, Industrial Designs and Geographical Indications (49th session)
2026-03-30 - 2026-04-02 | WIPO, Geneva, Switzerland

Sixth meeting of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the WHO Pandemic Agreement
2026-03-23 09:00 - 2026-03-28 17:00 UTC | Geneva, Geneva, 1202, Switzerland
The Intergovernmental Working Group on the WHO Pandemic Agreement is tasked with establishing an instrument for Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing as an annex to the Pandemic Agreement.

lntergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore, IGC (52nd session)
2026-03-04 - 2026-03-13 | WIPO, Geneva, Switzerland

IPC Union - Committee of Experts (57th session)
2026-02-24 - 2026-02-26 | WIPO, Geneva, Switzerland

Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) Committee for Technical Cooperation (33rd session)
2026-02-16 - 2026-02-20 | WIPO, Geneva, Switzerland

* Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) Working Group (18th session)
2026-02-16 | WIPO, Geneva, Switzerland

Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) Working Group (19th session)
2026-02-16 - 2026-02-20 | WIPO, Geneva, Switzerland

Extraordinary Session of the Coordination Committee to nominate candidate for appointment to the post of Director General of WIPO
2026-02-12 - 2026-02-13 | WIPO, Geneva, Switzerland

Fifth meeting of the Intergovernmental Working Group on the WHO Pandemic Agreement
2026-02-09 09:00 - 2026-02-14 17:00 UTC | Geneva, Geneva, 1202, Switzerland

Working Group on the Development of the Lisbon System (Appellations of Origin) (7th session)
2026-02-03 - 2026-02-05 | WIPO, Geneva, Switzerland

World Health Organization Executive Board: 158th Session
2026-02-02 09:00 - 2026-02-07 17:00 UTC | Geneva, Geneva, 1202, Switzerland
The Executive Board advises the World Health Assembly in May.

African Group Retreat
2026-01-21 08:00 - 2026-01-22 17:00 UTC
Meeting of African Group delegates, hosted by the Centre on Knowledge Governance with the South Centre
To contact the Centre on Knowledge Governance to enquire about this listing or our working in general, please visit: https://knowledgegov.org/contact-us/

Public AI and Europe’s Digital Sovereignty
2026-01-13 12:30 - 14:30 (Europe/Paris) | European Parliament MEP Salon, Rue Wiertz 60, Brussels, B-1047, Belgium
How can Europe develop public AI systems that also ensure competition and sovereignty?
Join us on 13 January 2026, from 12:30 to 14:30, at the European Parliament MEP Salon in Brussels for an lunch event on Public AI and digital sovereignty. The event is co-hosted by MEP Michał Kobosko (Renew) and MEP Sergey Lagodinsky (Greens) with Bertelsmann Stiftung, Open Future, Mozilla Foundation, and Democratic Tech Alliance.
As Europe struggles with its dependency on American and Chinese AI models, our research offers an alternative vision: public AI is a vision of developing European, open source AI models that can spur innovation, support the public interest, and generate economic value. The event will discuss how public AI models and applications can be developed in the European Union, as a core component of the AI Continent Action Plan.
Public AI systems make AI capabilities openly accessible, serve the public interest, and operate under public control or ownership. These systems are essential for achieving European technological sovereignty, spurring European R&D, and generating market value as solutions that can be deployed by European businesses.
During the event, we will present examples of open source AI development and public AI solutions. We will present recommendations on how the European AI Continent Action Plan can support public AI in Europe, and discuss what more needs to be done.
We will also present our new policy brief—produced with Bertelsmann Stiftung—exploring pathways for developing public and sovereign AI solutions in Europe.
Speakers include:

MEP Michał Kobosko
MEP Sergey Lagodinsky
Grażyna Piesiewicz, Head of Unit for High Performance Computing and Applications, DG CONNECT
Nicolas Flores-Herr, Team Lead Foundation Models & Gen AI Systems, Fraunhofer Institute
Ivan Yamshchikov, Chief Product Officer, Pleias
Antoine Isaac, Europeana
Maximilian Gahntz, AI Policy Lead, Mozilla
Sebastiano Toffaletti, Secretary General, Digital SME Alliance
Raegan MacDonald, Director of Policy Leadership, AspirationTech
Alek Tarkowski, Director of Strategy, Open Future
Felix Sieker, Digitalization and Public Welfare Project Manager, Bertelsmann Stiftung
