The 5th International Forum on Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (FBAS 2025), scheduled to take place in Beijing from September 6 to 8, 2025. The event is hosted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and organized by the International Research Center of Big Data for Sustainable Development Goals (CBAS). This forum promises to be a pivotal event in the realm of sustainable development. With a focus on sharing knowledge and fostering innovative data-driven solutions for sustainable development, FBAS has received enthusiastic engagement and widespread acclaim from leading experts, policymakers, entrepreneurs and other stakeholders around the world.

FBAS 2025 will follow up on the success of the previous events, with the theme “Digital Intelligence Driving Sustainable Development: 10th Anniversary of the 2030 Agenda.” The forum will feature a wide range of topics such as: leveraging big data services to achieve sustainable development goals; harnessing AI to empower global sustainable development; exploring policy guidance and the digital intelligence industry to drive regional sustainable development; fostering global partnerships to accelerate progress toward sustainable development goals; and encouraging youth innovation to collaboratively create a sustainable future.

The forum will serve as a premier interdisciplinary platform, offering unparalleled opportunities to acquire new knowledge, foster and expand professional networks, and build partnerships for collaborative and collective efforts in leveraging big data and artificial intelligence to advance the implementation of SDGs.

The forum welcomes sessions with themes related to key FBAS 2025 topics including:

(1) Big Data Technology Serving Global Sustainable Development.

(2) AI Empowering Sustainable Development.

(3) Policy and Digital Intelligence Industry Promoting Regional Sustainable Development.

(4) Development of Global Partnership Facilitating the Implementation of SDGs.

(5) Youth Innovation: Sharing for the Future.

The sessions aim to share and discuss

(1) The latest assessments of progress toward various Sustainable Development Goals and the advancements of relevant global data platforms.

(2) The interconnections among different SDG actions, including their positive and negative externalities.

(3) A comprehensive, integrated, and forward-looking plan for sustainable transformation in various domain.

(4) Innovative approaches aimed at Big Data and AI solutions.

(5) New theoretical framework for digital intelligence-driven sustainable development.

More details at official FBAS 2025 website https://www.fbas.org.cn/fbas2025/en.

Text by: News from the FBAS 2025 Organizing Committee