In this opening panel, a youth representative will interview business leaders. The conversation will explore how the private sector is harnessing AI while addressing ethical considerations, the importance of international collaboration in shaping responsible practices, and the balance between innovation and human oversight in anti-corruption efforts, setting the tone for the Private Sector Forum’s theme Future-Proofing Business Integrity: AI, Innovation, and Global Collaboration.
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This session will take stock of global, regional and national policies influencing governance and business integrity. The speakers will reflect on COSP resolutions; B20 efforts, and European regulations, examining how these frameworks affect global supply chains. The talk will also consider the implications of pausing and reenacting the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), and why companies should go beyond mere compliance to embrace integrity.
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This session explores how anti-corruption compliance can be reimagined through the lens of Transformational Governance, a principles-based approach that encourages companies to go beyond legal compliance and embrace ethical, inclusive, transparent, and accountable practices. Rather than asking only what is legal, TG challenges businesses to consider what is right.
This panel will unveil the convergence of Transformational Governance and technology in building efficient, sustainability-driven ethics and compliance programmes for business. Discussions will address how companies are increasingly using AI solutions and digital tools to enhance, track and assess the effectiveness and impact of their anti-corruption efforts, while considering potential risks and challenges, such as ensuring data accuracy, preserving data security, along with protecting privacy and confidentiality of information. This panel will also showcase emerging solutions that can help SMEs strengthen integrity systems while reducing the administrative burden of compliance.
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Achieving climate goals and advancing the 2030 Agenda requires accelerated action and coordinated solutions, and implementation of commitments across all sectors of society, with the private sector as a critical driver of change. This session will unpack corruption risks in supply chains that are linked to deforestation and environmental crime. Moreover, it will dive into how companies can leverage AI and technology to reduce risk, strengthen accountability, and build stakeholder trust.
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AI holds immense promise but also poses significant risks to business integrity when misused. From generating convincing yet fraudulent invoices to embedding bias in automated decision-making, AI presents new challenges for both regulators and the private sector. This session will reveal how banks and other gatekeepers can detect and respond to corruption facilitated by AI, promote its ethical use, and how States are leveraging AI to trace illicit financial flows and proceeds of corruption.
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In an era of rising tariffs and complex trade relationships, corruption in global commerce undermines fair competition and drives up costs. This session will showcase how AI and digital innovation are transforming customs procedures and supply chain management to enhance transparency and traceability. Panellists will discuss how tech-enabled trade systems can reduce risks, improve efficiency, and strengthen integrity across the global trade ecosystem — demonstrating how innovation can simultaneously advance trade facilitation and anti-corruption goals.
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Governments and businesses are leveraging AI to create dynamic feedback loops that strengthen anti-corruption compliance while reducing regulatory burdens. Panellists will showcase how technology-driven compliance data from companies can inform public policy and enforcement, while government insights can help businesses develop more effective integrity programmes. Featuring practical examples, the discussion will highlight how collaborative AI applications can ease compliance for SMEs, promote fairness across global value chains, and support evidence-based anti-corruption strategies that benefit both public oversight and private sector integrity.
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Over the years, Collective Action initiatives have demonstrated transformative value by bringing together competitors to tackle shared integrity challenges, level the playing field, and build trust for meaningful cooperation. This panel will look at how Collective Action initiatives are gathering and leveraging knowledge and data from their members and networks, and how innovative approaches to data collection can further strengthen both the initiatives themselves and broader anti-corruption efforts. Panellists will share good practices and insights on how such data can inform and influence national, regional, and international strategies for promoting business integrity.
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