Here met the builders of the future of the State: the Government Tomorrow Summit 2026, Berlin, October 10-12.

Government Tomorrow Summit 2026

“Hey, Government”: the Agentic State Backbone

GTF Robotics Lab meeting in Busan (Government Tomorrow Forum Robotics Lab)

Government Tomorrow Summit 2026

Beyond Defense: Building resilient systems for governments

The publication for public sector leaders: information, methodologies, interviews, and actionable ideas.

Evaluating Public Policies and Services

Government Tomorrow Forum Insights: interviews, articles, comments
Marcelo Cabrol, advisor on AI to the Vatican: “AI should propose, but a legally accountable human must always dispose.”
Marcelo Cabrol, advisor on AI to the Vatican: “AI should propose, but a legally accountable human must always dispose.”

One of the most humanist thought leaders on artificial intelligence and a member of the GTF Governance Lab Panel, Marcelo Cabrol, speaks to GTF Insights about the AI black box, the equality paradox, and why small states can only fight Big Tech together.

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Mis en avant
"I ran on a smart council platform and lost to potholes. That's the most instructive thing that's ever happened to my thinking about cities."
"I ran on a smart council platform and lost to potholes. That's the most instructive thing that's ever happened to my thinking about cities."

Karim Sabet: "I ran on a smart council platform and lost to potholes. That's the most instructive thing that's ever happened to my thinking about cities." A longread on leadership versus consultation, why the 'smart city' concept needs a new name, and what New Zealand's cities have been quietly getting right.

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Winston Ma: “It’s critical for young leaders to develop expertise in all three fields – finance, tech innovation, and government regulations”
Winston Ma: “It’s critical for young leaders to develop expertise in all three fields – finance, tech innovation, and government regulations”

Winston Ma: “The tech investments by government-backed SWFs are on par with private equity and venture capital funds, but often with a strategic objective on top of financial returns. That’s why they are especially suited for investing in high-risk, capital-intensive and long-horizon tech ventures, who often struggle to raise capital.”

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Government Tomorrow Forum Insights: interviews, articles, comments
Government Tomorrow Summit’s Workshop on Bureaucracy: Building New Expertise
Government Tomorrow Summit’s Workshop on Bureaucracy: Building New Expertise

On October 15th, 2025, Government Tomorrow Forum has opened its first Summit in Paris with a workshop focused on tackling bureaucracy. For the first time in Europe, Executive Director of the UAE’s “Zero Bureacracy” program participated in a working session with ministers, business founders, investors, and academics.

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Three Biggest Challenges for AI Implementation in the Public Sector: GTF
Three Biggest Challenges for AI Implementation in the Public Sector: GTF

The Government Tomorrow Forum has researched how AI can be integrated into public services and identifies three main challenges that might occur during this process. Among them are social concerns, lack of global AI coordination, and low level of organizational readiness. The GTF team outlined recommendations for overcoming these obstacles, emphasizing the importance of data management and cybersecurity. Governments worldwide can use these insights to navigate AI adoption in the public sector effectively.

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GTF Survey: Why governments might fail AI implementation in the public sphere
GTF Survey: Why governments might fail AI implementation in the public sphere

We start a new series of articles on GTF Insights based on the recent survey about AI adoption. Conducted with the participation of experts in AI from academia, business, and consultancy sectors, our new survey employed a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods to gauge expert opinions and identify the top challenges for national and regional governments in implementing AI technology in the public sphere and the top application areas to start with for winning fast results and public trust.

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We unite the bright minds.

At the Government Tomorrow Summit, at the GTF Labs, at our meetings and retreats, the Forum creates conditions for serendipity and the generation of ideas that will change the world.

We work with heads of State and government, ministers, directors, business founders, CEOs, CTOs and CIOs, academics, students, science-fiction writers, military experts, and citizens to make sure the governments of tomorrow are efficient in the most important metric: citizens’ wellbeing.

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Jean-Michel Beacco (1964-2025), executive director of Louis Bachelier Institute, the leading French economic think-tank, co-founder of the Forum

“Governments of tomorrow need good ideas today, as well as engineers, experts, talented students and, frankly speaking, a lot of enthusiasm”

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GTF founding seminar in Paris, December 2022

GTF has organized a 2-days working session for its core experts in Paris early December 2022 to discuss the latest trends in government-related thinking, the influence of technology on how states are managed, and the latest economic and geopolitical trends.

The seminar helped finalize the the GTF general report for 2022, and prepare the key topics of the GTF activities in 2023.

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