Key Panels on India’s AI Roadmap
The pre-summit featured four high-level panels:
- AI in Telecom for Social and Economic Impact: Discussed transforming telecom infrastructure and connectivity to benefit citizens and businesses.
- Building Trustworthy AI in Telecom: Focused on safe, transparent, and people-centric AI adoption.
- Building India’s AI Workforce Advantage: Explored strategies to develop an inclusive and future-ready AI talent ecosystem.
- AI for Inclusive Growth and Social Empowerment: Highlighted AI-driven innovation for equity and societal benefits.
COO IndiaAI Mission, Smt Kavita Bhatia, highlighted AI’s transformative role in telecom, from spectrum management and predictive maintenance to customer engagement and fraud detection. She stressed the importance of trustworthy AI for resilient rural connectivity and new service development across sectors such as financial inclusion.
Industry and Academic Participation
Participants included representatives from Reliance Jio, TCS, Tanla Platforms, BharatGPT-Corover.ai, AWS, AMD, C-Dot, BITS Pilani, Google, Airtel, Netweb Technologies, UNESCO, Truminds Software Systems, and Microsoft. The MeitY Pavilion at IMC was recognized as Best Exhibitor – Government for showcasing India’s AI journey and the upcoming Summit.
India–AI Impact Summit 2026
The India–AI Impact Summit 2026, scheduled for February 19–20 at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi, will convene global leaders to advance responsible AI design and deployment. The Summit’s vision revolves around three guiding principles – People, Planet, and Progress – and seven thematic Chakras addressing human capital, inclusion, trustworthy AI, resilience, innovation, science, and economic growth.
The Summit aims to showcase India’s AI model as globally replicable, promoting inclusive growth, social development, and sustainable innovation while enabling equitable access to AI resources.
