AI Across Cultures @ CHI 2026

Thursday, April 16, 2026
(14:15 – 15:45 CEST and 16:30 – 18:00 CEST)
Barcelona, Spain

14:15 – 14:20 (5 min)

INTRODUCTION

• Welcome & framing
• Agenda overview
• Set expectations: short talks, discussion later

14:20 – 14:50 (30 min)

SESSION 1: EPISTEMOLOGIES, GOVERNANCE, AND DECOLONIAL AI

Speakers:
• Sabriya Alam - Trust in Tradition: Islamic Scholarly Practices as Design Precedents for Epistemic Challenges in AI
• Matt Kennedy - Towards Decolonial AI Developmentalities: Colonial History as Sociotechnical Foresight in Indigenous, Low-Resourced NLP
• Nour Boulahcen - A.I.gdals: Seasonal, Collective, and Ecologically-Conditioned AI Governance Inspired by Amazigh Agdal Practices

14:50 – 15:50 (60 min)

SESSION 2: IDENTITY, PARTICIPATION, AND CULTURAL REPRESENTATION

Speakers:
• Christine Kwon - AI Across Cultures Statement
• Simeoni Federico - Biases Beyond Binaries: From Queer Genders to Complex Social Identities in AI Audits
• Chiara Ullstein - The Global AI Dialogues Project: A Participatory Locally-Grounded Procedure to Elicit Citizens’ Perspectives on Desirable AI Futures Across Six Countries
• Costanza D’Arcangelis - Can AI Be Grassroots? Insights from Bottom-Up Community Intelligence.
• Laura Moradbakhti - The Importance of Cultural Sensitivity for HCI Design: A Self-Determination Theory Perspective
• Oluchi Audu - Participatory and Culturally Grounded AI Evaluation for Health Use Cases within the African Context

15:50 – 16:30 (25 min)

BREAK

16:30 – 17:00 (30 min)

SESSION 3: CULTURAL PRACTICES, LANGUAGE AND APPLIED SYSTEMS

Speakers:
• Nick Bryan-Kinns - Praxis GenAI: Intangible Cultural Heritage Practices Supported by Generative AI
• Samantha Adorno - Let’s Talk, Not Type: An Oral-First Multi-Agent Architecture for Guaraní
• Anna Beers - The Internationalization of Misinformation via LLM Translation in Search Products

17:00 –17:30 (30 min)

WORLD CAFÉ CO-CREATION

~15 min: Small group discussions (3 themed tables)
~15 min: Cross-table sharing / global discussion

Themes:
• Knowledge systems
• Identity & participation
• Language & real-world systems

17:30 – 17:55 (25 min)

PANEL & SYNTHESIS

~15 min panel (Esteemed guest: Liz Ankrah)
~10 min synthesis (table insights + cross-cutting themes)

17:55 – 18:00 (5 min)

WRAP-UP

Key takeaways
Closing remarks

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