This round up session offers a summary of highlights and key insights from the plenary and parallel sessions on Day Two. This is an opportunity to revisit and reflect on our conversations to prepare for the day ahead.

In this interactive session, we will open the floor for broader commentary and discussion on our respective roles in shaping the future of arts and culture, particularly around three key themes addressed at the Summit: knowledge systems and agency; participatory systems and connectedness; and digital systems and technology. Facilitated by two moderators, this exchange session is intended as an open and safe space for all delegates to share reflections from different perspectives and lived experiences.

Drawing on the lessons learned about knowledge systems during the Summit, we will consider concrete actions that we can take within our spheres of influence to ensure diverse cultural narratives in the future. What role should the CCS play in the design, development and deployment of AI? As actors in this international community, knowing the environment we work in and the challenges we face, what actions should we take to ensure reciprocal cultural exchange and dialogue to nurture connectedness in an increasingly fragile world?

This plenary will synthesise the key issues and calls to action from the previous two days of the Summit and the open floor discussion. The conversation will focus on the most urgent priorities and necessary steps forward. What do we need to chart a more just, sustainable and diverse future for culture, both as a sector and as a dimension of society? What actions should the whole cultural ecology take to ensure that arts and culture are recognised as a catalyst for building inclusive and sustainable communities? Whose voices should be brought into the dialogue? In a fragile world, what do we most need to foster empathy, open dialogue and collective action to futureproof the cultural and creative sectors?

These questions will be considered from a global perspective, identifying key challenges as well as contextualised solutions and next steps that individuals and institutions can make at local, national and international levels. The panel will envision a world where we actively promote a sustainable, just and inclusive future for arts and culture, while acknowledging and respecting differences within a shared agenda.