Ms S. Radha Chauhan, Chairperson, CBC, and Dr Alka Mittal, Member Administration, CBC, played a key leadership role and provided guidance for framing the stakes around capacity building in the AI-native public era 

Dr Vashima Shubha, Principal Advisor, DPI & Partnership Management and Lead, GDCBA, CBC, set the context and helped ground the conversation in the realities of public-sector transformation.

Robyn Scott, CEO & Co-Founder, Apolitical, moderator, steered a rich, wide-ranging conversation bringing together perspectives from across four continents.

The panellists, brought hard-won, on-the-ground experience to every question:

- Philip Thigo, Special Envoy on Technology, Government of Kenya
- Pamela Krzypkowska, Director, GovTech Department, Government of Poland
- Dr Upmith Singh, Principal Advisor, AI and Policy, Capacity Building Commission
- Renan Mendes Gaya Lopes Dos Santos, Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services, Government of Brazil
- Vimukthi Janadara, Director General, Sri Lanka Institute of Development Administration

Together, we unpacked what it actually takes to build AI-native public institutions — from sequencing regulation alongside sovereign AI infrastructure, to designing capacity-building at the scale of tens of millions of civil servants, to closing the gap between what training curricula teach and what officials need on the ground.

Teams at CBC and Apolitical — Surbhi Tyagi, Sakshi Monga, Vikas Upadhyay, Lily Fox, Jenna Kelly and Ula Rutkowska —contributed for the collaboration and countless moving pieces that brought this conversation together.