2026 Data for Inclusive Growth Forum
Scaling AI for inclusive growth
This year’s forum will convene senior leaders from the public, private, and social sectors to discuss how data and artificial intelligence (AI) can drive inclusive growth and real-world impact. Our half-day program will address how through open dialogue, knowledge sharing, and partnership-building, the latest innovations in AI can be a tool for good, expanding agency, equity, and opportunity for individuals and small businesses worldwide.
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Our growth agenda
Our program will focus on practical pathways for responsible deployment of AI at scale as systems evolve toward more agentic capabilities. Following a strategic pause in 2025, the agenda will build on the work from our prior summits—bridging the data divide (2022), leveraging AI and data to accelerate the SDGs (2023), and advancing inclusive AI through trust, ethics, and diverse voices (2024).
Trust and protection as foundational infrastructure
Cross-sector collaboration to scale impact
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What to expect
A look inside the Forum
Learn more about the motivation for the Forum and be sure to sign up for first access to on-demand content to hear from our roster of visionary speakers as they share groundbreaking ideas and initiatives aimed at fostering inclusive growth.
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The Center for Inclusive Growth presents
The Data for Inclusive Growth Forum aims to inspire and innovate. Hosted by the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, the Forum advances real solutions to today’s most pressing challenges through collaboration and candid conversation among entrepreneurs, innovators, policymakers and emerging changemakers.
The Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth advances equitable and sustainable economic growth and financial inclusion around the world. The Center leverages the company’s core assets and competencies, including data insights, expertise and technology, while administering the philanthropic Mastercard Impact Fund, to produce independent research, scale global programs and empower a community of thinkers, leaders and doers on the front lines of inclusive growth.
