Global religious, educational and political leaders are coming to Utah for the annual G20 Interfaith Forum this week.

The conference — an annual platform where a network of religiously linked institutions engage on worldwide agendas — will be hosted Thursday through Saturday at the University of Utah Institute of Religion with an opening ceremony in the historic Tabernacle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The opening will feature a welcome concert by The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square and addresses from world religious leaders, including Latter-day Saint President Dallin Oaks and Mohammad Al-Issa, secretary-general of the Muslim World League.

Previous G20 forums have drawn other Latter-day Saint leaders, including apostles David Bednar, D. Todd Christofferson and Gerrit Gong, along with Sharon Eubank, head of the faith’s Humanitarian Services and a former counselor in the general presidency of the women’s Relief Society.

This year’s lineup includes a range of political, religious and civic leaders, including Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, who will be speaking Thursday with the former South Carolina Gov. David Beasley. Martin Luther King III, a son of civil rights legend Martin Luther King Jr., will join them in discussing how to “model civil dialogue across political and faith divides,” according to the forum’s schedule.

Dozens of civic leaders and representatives of various faiths will be in attendance across the three days addressing topics such as interfaith dialogue, religious freedom, global health, hunger and poverty, mental health, artificial intelligence, fraternity in faith, education, energy, human trafficking and the Olympics.

According to its website, G20’s mission is to advance “global solutions by collaborating with religious thought leaders and political representatives.”