The inaugural S7 Summit – organised by UNI during Italy’s G7 presidency – serves as the premier platform for open, voluntary, and consensus-based standards to engage with the G7. It encompasses the National Standards Organizations of G7 countries (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom and USA) and issues recommendations on overarching themes impacting industry, SMEs, academia, research, consumers, trade unions, the third sector, and public administrations.

Standards Organizations will address stakeholders’ concerns regarding prevailing challenges on political agendas. They will consider decisions and commitments from the G7 Ministers of Industry Tech held in mid-March in Verona and Trento under the Italian G7 Presidency – and the legacy of the 2023 G7 Digital and Tech Ministers along with those from the G7 Hiroshima Leaders – providing responses based on existing knowledge and ongoing technical standards development.

Furthermore, they will offer insights into future work in technical standardisation across emerging fields like enabling technologies for industry, critical raw material sustainability, quantum technologies, and artificial intelligence.