In April 2025, SFG was invited to speak at Antalya Diplomacy Forum, hosted by the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 10 to 13 April, and the 20th Shanghai Forum, hosted by Fudan University from 25 to 27 April.

The Antalya Diplomacy Forum was attended by over 5000 delegates including Heads of States, Cabinet Ministers, diplomats, scholars, and university students. SFG President Sundeep Waslekar spoke at the session on Strategic Foresight for International Diplomacy. His remarks focused on the need to use strategic foresight to anticipate risks associated with AI, including future misuse of AI in nuclear weapons. He also advocated the use of diplomacy to prevent conflicts or to resolve them in an early stage. Other speakers also talked about the intersection of technology and geopolitics, including the possibility of the moon being a theatre of geopolitical competition.

SFG also participated in a session on AI and development at Antalya Forum, apart from having bilateral meetings with a number of prominent persons, especially from Turkiye and the Global South.

The Shanghai Forum was hosted by Fudan University and the Chey Institute for Advanced Studies. In the inaugural plenary, Kim Won-soo, former UN Under-Secretary-General, warned of existential threats including climate change, nuclear risks, and AI mismanagement, urging planetary-scale governance reform. Yukio Hatoyama, former Prime Minister of Japan, called for collaborative global governance in the face of rising technological disruption. Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Michael Levitt gave an inaugural address on how creative and innovative thinking can be inculcated among young scientists. 

Prof Tianjiao Jiang of the Development Institute of Fudan University, hosted a Sub-Forum on AI Governance. SFG President Sundeep Waslekar addressed the session with a proposal to have a balanced and composite approach to global governance of AI which addresses existential risks posed by AI smarter than human intelligence in future and the development aspirations of Global South countries. SFG Executive Director spoke about the need to form a Global South AI Futures Forum. 

The Shanghai Forum also provided opportunities for bilateral intellectual exchanges between SFG and experts from China, South Korea, UAE, Switzerland, and other countries.

There was a broad consensus about the need to respond to global existential risks through planetary and pragmatic collaboration.