AI and Trade: Turning Potential into Progress

AI is poised to significantly transform international trade. The WTO's 2025 World Trade Report projects that AI could increase global GDP by 15% and global trade by up to 37% by 2040. Yet these gains are far from guaranteed. They hinge on addressing uneven adoption, labour market disruptions, and the unequal distribution of benefits. The question is no longer whether AI will reshape trade, but how governments can capture its gains.

Join trade and ICT policymakers, industry leaders, and other ecosystem stakeholders to explore practical steps to turn this potential into actual progress. Policy sessions will examine concrete use cases of AI reducing trade costs, policy measures that unlock deployment even with limited resources, how alignment of digital and trade policies can accelerate gains, and the role that trade policies and the WTO can play in shaping AI governance.

There will be an exhibition featuring AI solutions for trade, AI tools for trade officials, and posters on real-world case studies of AI in trade.