We are excited to announce the return of the AI Standards Hub Global Summit for its second year. Building on the success of this year’s inaugural edition, the Global Summit 2026 will bring together expert perspectives from across the international AI ecosystem under the overarching theme “Building Confidence in AI: Standards, Measurement, and Assurance in Practice”.

The Summit will take place on 16 and 17 March 2026 as a hybrid event in Glasgow and online. The programme will feature keynote speeches, expert panels, and interactive sessions aimed at advancing efforts around AI standards-making, measurement, and assurance as key foundations for building confidence in AI systems.

Preliminary information about the Summit is now available on our website, which will be updated as the event approaches. The event page includes a form for registering your interest in the event, ensuring you receive updates as more information becomes available and offering an option to register your interest in attending in person.

At the beginning of the month, the AI Standards Hub participated in the International AI Standards Summit in Seoul. Convened by ISO, IEC and ITU, the Summit featured the publication of the Seoul Statement which sets out commitments to incorporate socio-technical dimensions in standards development, deepen understanding of the interplay between international standards and human rights, strengthen stakeholder inclusiveness, and enhance public-private collaboration on AI capacity building.

Members of the AI Standards Hub team contributed to the proceedings by discussing how these commitments resonate with the Hub’s mission and by sharing lessons learned from the experience of building the Hub.

As the full implementation of the EU AI Act moves closer and the development of harmonised standards to support it progresses, stakeholders face a growing need to understand which standards will provide a presumption of conformity in relation to individual AI Act requirements and when they will be ready. In our latest guest blog post, Adam Leon Smith discusses recent developments in CEN-CENELEC JTC21 and introduces a newly developed online tool for navigating relevant AI standards.

Last month, the AI Standards Hub hosted a draft consultation session for ETSI 304 223, a standard setting out baseline cybersecurity requirements for AI. This standard has now been officially adopted as a European Norm. In this blog post, Issy Hall sets out the significance of this standard and discusses the process of developing it.

The two final parts of our four-part blog post series on ISO/IEC 42001 have been published on our website. In these parts, Julian Adams shares insights from consultations with industry stakeholders about their experience implementing the management system standard, perceived challenges ahead, and the role of ISO/IEC 42001 in enabling responsible AI.

The Office of the United Nations Commissioner for Human Rights has published a new report on pathways for incorporating international human rights into standards development for digital technologies. The report draws on insights from two consultation sessions co-hosted by the AI Standards Hub and sets out four building blocks to ensure technical standards to “work” for humanity and advance human rights.