Barcelona agenda.

Closed-door side event on responsible AI risk monitoring.

This session examines how Europe can convert viable companies into employee, cooperative, or other democratic ownership structures. Although alternative ownership models offer a response to concentrated market power and unequal wealth, most workers and communities lack the capital, transaction support, and institutional infrastructure needed to acquire productive assets. The panel will explore how ethical banks, sellers, public institutions, and patient investors can share financial risk without placing unsustainable debt on companies or transferring control to outside capital.

As humanitarian needs continue to outpace available resources, organizations are under increasing pressure to do more with less. Yet many agencies and actors face the same challenges, often investing separately in similar tools, systems, and capabilities. What if we brought together ecosystem players to co-ideate and collaboratively explore how shared ownership, partnerships and scaling approaches can reshape humanitarian innovation? Co-hosted by the WFP Innovation Accelerator and the Government of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, this session explores how shared ownership, partnerships and collaborative scaling approaches can help address common humanitarian challenges. Together, participants will examine what these common challenges are, and how to strengthen coordination, accelerate innovation adoption and create greater value for the whole humanitarian ecosystem. This discussion will bring together perspectives from stakeholders across humanitarian organizations, technology experts, ecosystem builders, funders, and institutional innovators to collectively address key challenge areas gathered from the experience of the Humanitarian Innovation Accelerator, and co-ideate on possible solutions.

Sustainability systems verify products, emissions and compliance more readily than they reveal who shares in the value created. This bridge session asks whether certification and traceability can recognize worker participation, producer benefit and shared ownership, and what market infrastructure would make those claims credible.

Across development and humanitarian systems, locally rooted leaders are defining priorities, designing solutions, and shaping how progress is measured. This session examines how local expertise, lived experience, and direct community feedback can influence investment, policy, product design, and institutional decision-making. The speakers bring perspectives on three connected forms of leadership: creating solutions grounded in local realities, generating evidence through direct engagement with communities, and building networks that strengthen local technical capacity and decision authority. Together, they will explore who defines the problem, whose knowledge establishes value, and how locally led approaches can shape practice across regions. The conversation centers leadership, accountability, ownership, and trust — connecting directly with the conference's wider questions about who controls emerging capabilities, who benefits from them, and whose expertise becomes visible and influential.