Robin Nowok, Specialist Data for Development, GIZ Data Lab

Topic: Negotiation Intelligence: How AI Supports Multilateral Negotiations – A Live Demo of Negotiate

Negotiating international treaties is a complex, high-stakes process often under intense time pressure and involving competing interests, legal nuance, and dense technical documentation. NegotiateAI, developed by the GIZ Data Lab, is a digital tool designed to support negotiators, observers, and analysts in this space by providing fast, structured access to treaty texts, country submissions, proposals, and draft decisions.

The tool emerged from real-world challenges due to the vast amount of unstructured text data during the negotiations for a legally-binding global Plastic Treaty, where stakeholders – especially negotiators from smaller, resource-lacking delegations – required a way to navigate evolving text versions, compare positions of delegations, and quickly distil key thematic elements.