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Costa Rica time (UTC−6). Open sessions alternate with closed meetings for ministers and secretaries, and several panels keep an empty chair for a voice from the audience.

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Building the positionTechnical level

  1. Break

    . Registration and coffee

    All delegations, in the main lobby

  2. Opening

    . Official opening

    Participants · to be confirmed

  3. Keynote

    . Keynote: AI Futures Outlook

    Presentation by the United Kingdom on frontier models and autonomous agents.

    Participants · to be confirmed

  5. Keynote

    . Keynote: Test before you regulate. From Costa Rica's agentic sandbox to a Central American one

    MICITT's Agentic AI Regulatory Sandbox tests agents in a controlled environment before setting rules. Its first results open a regional opportunity: a cross-border sandbox within the SICA framework, with shared pilot sectors, common evidence and mutual recognition of results between countries, so that a solution tested in one can scale across Central America.

  6. Panel

    . Cybersecurity panel: attack and defence at machine speed

    The same AI that speeds up detection and response also speeds up attack: it makes it easier to discover vulnerabilities, carry out social engineering and automate intrusions. Agents add new critical assets, such as machine credentials and tool chains.

    Participants · to be confirmed

  7. Break

    . Lunch

  8. Open parallelMain hall

    . Thematic technical roundtables

    Roundtable 1 · Innovation. Roundtable 2 · Cybersecurity. Roundtable 3 · Agile regulation.

    Closed or closingPrivate room

    . Closed ministerial session: political priorities and level of ambition of the Common Position

  9. Panel

    . Industry Vision panel. From consumers to creators: how does Central America compete in the agent economy?

    Agentic AI promises productivity and new markets, but compute, data and talent are concentrated in a few countries and companies. If the region only adopts others' tools, it deepens its dependency. The panel brings together technology companies and SMEs to discuss what Central America needs to create and export AI solutions, not just consume them.

    Participants · to be confirmed

  10. Break

    . Coffee break

  12. Closed or closing

    . Closing and conclusions of the first day

  13. Closed or closing

    . Working dinner by invitation: bringing positions closer ahead of the Ministerial Roundtable

    Under the Chatham House Rule. No country in the region negotiates alone on equal terms with big tech, and agents are deployed faster than institutions are created. The dinner raises an uncomfortable question: what is each government willing to give up in order to negotiate procurement, jurisdiction and deployment conditions as a bloc? The answer sets how far the Common Position can go.

Agree and look aheadMinisterial level

  1. Break

    . Registration and coffee

    All delegations

  3. Panel

    . Infrastructure panel: water for people or for models?

    Frontier AI depends on data centres that are intensive in energy and water, and the International Energy Agency projects that their electricity demand will more than double by 2030. Central America has protected its energy and water matrices for decades. The panel discusses under what conditions the region can attract or build compute without compromising its people's resources.

    Participants · to be confirmed

  4. Keynote

    . United Nations session

    Participants · to be confirmed

  5. Keynote

    . United Kingdom keynote (topic to be confirmed)

    Participants · to be confirmed

  6. Break

    . Lunch

  8. Open parallelMain hall

    . Who pays when an agent fails? Liability and insurance in the agentic era

    An agent's autonomy does not remove the obligations of those who develop, supply or operate it. The insurance sector can turn that liability into concrete controls: insurability requirements, due diligence and risk management. The session brings together insurers, providers, operators and financial regulators to explore how the market can raise safety standards before harm occurs.

    Participants · to be confirmed

    Closed or closingPrivate room

    . Closed session with the OECD: what partnerships and instruments does the region need?

    The region can build on Costa Rica's OECD membership to shape cooperation with Latin America, Africa and European countries focused on operational instruments. Behind closed doors, the session explores what technical and financial support from the OECD, development banks and foundations countries need to advance their AI agenda towards 2027.

  9. Break

    . Coffee break

  10. Panel

    . Ministerial panel: governing at the speed of AI. What kind of State does the region need?

    Agentic systems advance faster than any law or international negotiation. Creating new institutions takes years; sectoral authorities already hold powers that apply to AI. The panel discusses how to regulate conduct, harms and liability rather than technologies, and which functions the State should coordinate among existing regulators before considering new bodies.

    Participants · to be confirmed

  11. Closed or closing

    . Closing and official photograph