Great global gatherings are not built on the day the doors open. They are built years earlier, in smaller rooms, by people willing to do the unglamorous work of listening to one another before the world is watching.
That work has now begun. In Zurich, against the energetic backdrop of the GenAI Zürich conference, a multidisciplinary roundtable formally launched the roadmap to the 2027 Global AI Summit in Geneva. Convened by the ICT4Peace Foundation and guided by Ambassadors Thomas Schneider of the Federal Office of Communications and Markus Reubi of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, the session brought diplomats, technologists, entrepreneurs, and policy practitioners to the same table not to announce conclusions, but to begin shaping the questions. Ayisha Piotti, Managing Partner & CEO of RegHorizon, was among the participants helping set the direction of travel.
It would be easy to describe the day as a kickoff. In RegHorizon's view, it was something more important: a statement of method.
Summits are remembered for their outcomes, but outcomes are earned long before the plenary hall. The road to the 2027 Global AI Summit in Geneva begins now, in smaller rooms, which is why the Zurich roundtable mattered. It brought regulators, technologists, founders, and diplomats into genuine dialogue, doing the slow translation work that hard questions like accountability and regulatory interoperability demand. Switzerland's quiet superpower is a neutral convening ground, infrastructure at a moment when AI governance risks fragmenting along geopolitical lines. The task ahead: widen the circle. The journey starts, fittingly, with dialogue. RegHorizon looks forward to contributing.