Launched in 2019, the WIPO Conversation on Intellectual Property and Frontier Technologies served as the leading global forum for policymakers, industry, academia, and civil society to discuss the impact of emerging technologies on the IP system. The Conversations built on WIPO’s long-standing engagement with technology and innovation, fostering dialogue to ensure that the international IP system remains fit for the digital age. Across 6 years and 12 sessions, the WIPO Conversations have engaged nearly 17,000 participants from 172 countries.
Going forward, IP and AI discussions will move to WIPO’s Global Forum on IP and AI, launching in November 2026.
Frontier technologies beyond AI will remain a key focus area for WIPO, as they continue to reshape innovation, creativity, and economic activity while raising evolving questions for the IP system. As many of these technologies are developing over a longer-term horizon, the IP and Frontier Technologies Division, in collaboration with WIPO’s IP Futures and Knowledge Management Section, will organize an annual public event to examine their longer-term implications for the IP system.
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WIPO/IP/AI/2/GE/20
July 7 to July 9, 2020 Virtual
The second session of the WIPO Conversation in July 2020 conceptually discussed questions of IP protection for AI works and inventions, and data.
WIPO/IP/AI/GE/19
September 27, 2019 (Geneva, Switzerland) Onsite
WIPO held the First Session of the WIPO Conversation on IP and AI in September 2019 to discuss the impact of Al on IP policy, with a view to collectively formulating the questions that policymakers need to ask.