Nordic AI companies are building products for global markets. Their teams overwhelmingly draw on English-language data, Western benchmarks, and a narrow talent pool.

Social scientists who study the Global South can see these breakdowns coming. They understand infrastructure gaps, user behaviour, regulatory landscapes, and local market logic that no training dataset contains. For any company scaling AI into high-growth regions, this knowledge has direct commercial value.

This panel asks: what does Global South knowledge offer AI companies, what makes it hard to integrate, and what would it take to do it well?