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  • Partnership with the Knowledge Society (2025)

World Summit AI has an ongoing collaboration with The Knowledge Society (TKS) focused on bringing exceptional teenage innovators into the WSAI ecosystem as speakers, activators, and youth ambassadors for AI’s future. 

  • Qatar University & World Summit AI Healthtech Hackathon 2025: solving the regions global health challenges

World Summit AI Qatar and Qatar University run a joint annual HealthTech Hackathon. 

The hackathon is  Qatar’s flagship health‑tech innovation challenge, aligned with national digital‑health priorities and Qatar’s Digital Agenda 2030. 

  • 8 years of partnership with Women in AI 

Inspired Minds! Have partnered with Women in AI since 2019 to increase participation of women both at their events but also in the AI community. Many women have been given bursaries to attend WSAI series summits across the globe. 

  • ALLAI launch on WSAI 

ALLAI also announced at World Summit AI – a platform for the active involvement in all stakeholders when initiating AI from as early as start-up to seed stage.

  • Founded Ada AI (2017 -2019)

From 2017 -2019 Ada AI acted as an Advisory Board on Ethical AI. 

Ada-AI is a non-profit organization and global community working to ensure that AI and other emerging technologies are developed and adopted in ways that are inclusive and equitable. Our mission is to foster greater participation and representation in AI so that the technologies we use work for all of us, not just a privileged few.

  • Afghan Girls Robotics Team Evacuation & Future Projects  (2019-2025) 

In 2019, CEO Sarah Porter, rallied the InspiredMinds! community she had built to evacuate the Afghan Girls Robotics Team, and coordinated the evacuation of over 250 Afghan nationals during the fall of Kabul. In 2025 member of the Robotics team, Saghar spoke to the Inspired Minds community in San Francisco to launch a project with the InspiredMinds Foundation that will offer scholarships to Afghan girls to study a foundation course in STEM subjects. 

  • A STEAM School in Afghanistan (2018/2019)

Following the appearance of The All-girl Afghan Robotics team on stage at WSAI , Roya Mahboob, Sarah Porter and founding partners Ada-AI and Digital Citizen Fund built a high school in Afghanistan that provides students with critical technical skills and exposure to emerging technologies and AI.

See their latest updates here

  • Novartis Foundation AI Leprosy Challenge (2019) 

Committed to harnessing AI for global health impact, Inspired Minds facilitated the launch of the AI for Leprosy Challenge with Novartis and Microsoft at the Intelligent Health Forum.

  • UN Lethal Autonomous Weapons Convention Advisory (2020) 
Porter worked with the US Department of Homeland Security on AI policy initiatives, helping bring government-developed policies to the community and feeding insights back to inform improvements. She also previously advised the United Nations on the use of AI in lethal autonomous weapons. Sarah Porter addressed the first two conventions of the UN Security Council at the ODA lethal autonomous weapons convention on the safety of AI in warfare.
  • Launch of World AI Week: ran by the community, for the community (2020)

In 2022, Inspired Minds launched the global first World AI Week. Working with our community partners, this initiative has enabled all stakeholders from the AI industry to run tailored, high impact meet-ups, working groups and events across Amsterdam. From start-up mixers, to policy dinners – this is where the future of AI has been shaped.

  • Fondation botnar (2018) 

Yapli became one of the winners of the #thebotnarchallenge through a design workshop we hosted, aimed at fostering collaboration between young people in Europe and Tanzania to find innovative solutions to improve the health and wellbeing of young people in Tanzania.

  • AI Commons: representing the global AI community in AI for good initiatives

Inspired Minds! joined the AI Commons – a nonprofit initiative in partnership with the ecosystem of AI practitioners, entrepreneurs, academia, NGOs, AI industry players and organizations/individuals focused on AI as a common good.

Inspired Minds joined AI commons as a founding partner, a universal platform to encourage the democratisation of AI. Other founding partners include Yoshua Bengio, Francesca Rossi, Stuart Russell and many more.

  • Partnering with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) (2024) 

Committed to advancing safe and responsible AI, Inspired Minds’ partnered with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to support the development of their pivotal “Roles and Responsibilities for Artificial Intelligence in Critical Infrastructure.” framework. Input from the Inspired Minds global community helped define how the framework was to be applied to examine national infrastructure safety and security using AI.