Add to Calendar 2025/09/17 5:00 PM 2025/09/17 6:15 PM America/New_York Making Digital Public Infrastructure Successful & Sustainable – WITA Panel at the 2025 WTO Public Forum https://www.wita.org/events/wto-forum-2025/
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Making Digital Public Infrastructure Successful & Sustainable – WITA Panel at the 2025 WTO Public Forum

Wednesday, September 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM - 6:15 PM (CET)
World Trade Organization | Rue de Lausanne 154, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland

Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) enables people to connect with one another to access a wide range of goods and services that are essential for economic development in the 21st Century. Properly designed and managed, DPI can provide critical building blocks for the modern economy, to allow people to trade goods and services, expand opportunities for small businesses to participate in the formal financial system, send and receive money, and share information safely and securely.

Panelists will discuss the role that the WTO can play in fostering robust governance frameworks and safeguards to secure access to technologies that can drive economic opportunity across social, economic, and geographic boundaries.

Featured Speakers: 

Emmanuelle Ganne, Chief of Digital Trade and Frontier Technologies, World Trade Organization

Kyle Johnson, Senior Director of Trade Policy, The Information Technology Industry Council 

Ambassador Tan Hung Seng, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Singapore to the World Trade Organization

Kati Suominen, Founder and CEO, Nextrade Group

Moderator: Ambassador María L. Pagán, former U.S. Ambassador to the World Trade Organization


WITA International is also hosting the International Trade Reception in Geneva, Switzerland. This prestigious event will connect trade professionals from the WITA community with their international peers attending the 2025 WTO Public Forum.

To learn more about the reception, click here.