Monday 7 · 14:00–15:00

technical roundtables

Three roundtables turn the double edge of frontier and agentic AI into input for the Forum conclusions.

Two horizons

  • The urgent

    Control, safety and accountability of systems.

  • The strategic

    Technological sovereignty, infrastructure and national capabilities.

Who takes part

Technical teams from each country, SICA, United Nations agencies and the private sector.

What each roundtable produces

  1. A diagnosis in three to five findings
  2. Shared principles
  3. Demands to the international system
  4. Safeguards for human oversight, transparency and accountability
  5. Actions with owners and timelines towards 2027
  6. Points without consensus, with their options

The three roundtables

Pillars 1 and 2

innovation

Central question

How can Central America turn agentic AI into productivity, better public services and opportunities for its SMEs, without remaining a mere consumer?

Topics

  • Agents in the public sector
  • SMEs and strategic sectors
  • Talent and workforce reskilling
  • Interoperable data across countries

Facilitated byMICITT and CAMTIC

Pillar 3

cybersecurity

Central question

What does the region need to protect its critical infrastructure and respond jointly to AI incidents that cross borders?

Topics

  • AI in attack and defence
  • Agent security (machine identities, credentials and tool chains)
  • Coordination between incident response teams
  • Access to frontier model evaluation
  • AI incidents in existing sectoral reporting mechanisms: classification and secure information sharing

Facilitated byClúster Cybersec and United Kingdom

Pillar 4

agile regulation

Central question

How can the region govern frontier and agentic AI at the speed it demands, with the laws and institutions it already has?

Topics

  • Mapping current legislation: applicable, needs clarification, targeted adjustments and genuine gaps
  • Coordination and information sharing between regulators
  • Regulation by risks, effects and harms, not by technologies
  • Functions before institutions

Facilitated byMICITT and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with sectoral regulators

The sustainability of compute is addressed in Tuesday's infrastructure panel; liability for agents and the role of insurance, in Tuesday's session on liability and insurance.

Methodology

60 minutes, five stages

  1. –· 5 min

    Foresight framing

    A June 2027 scenario in which an agentic system triggers an incident or an opportunity, along with the central question and working rules.

  2. –· 15 min

    Diagnosis

    Each delegation identifies its main risk and opportunity and classifies its regulations: applicable, needs clarification, needs targeted adjustments or genuine gap.

  3. –· 25 min

    Proposals

    Shared principles, demands to the international system, oversight safeguards and actions with owners and timelines towards 2027.

  4. –· 10 min

    Prioritisation

    The roundtable chooses its three key messages for the ministerial dialogue.

  5. –· 5 min

    Closing

    The rapporteur reads out the brief and the roundtable validates the version presented at the end of the day.

Rules

  • Chatham House

    Participants are free to use the information shared, but may not reveal the identity or affiliation of the speaker or of any other participant. This allows for candid discussion.