AI Summit Agent | India AI Impact Summit 2026

Opening & Foundations

High-impact keynote addresses, policy-focused panel discussions and expert roundtables will set the intellectual foundation of the Summit.

111 sessions · Bharat Mandapam

09:30

12 sessions

Multilingual AI in Universities - Advancing Inclusion Through UA and Stakeholder Insights

Feb 16 (Day 1), 09:30·West Wing Room No. 6

Sameer Gahlot

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From Vision to Action: Scaling Equitable AI Advisory Systems Through AGX AI

Feb 16 (Day 1), 09:30·L1 Meeting Room No. 8

Mr. David Bergvinson, Mr. Michael Minkoff, Mr. Stewart Collis, Ms. Sophie Barrowman

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The Future of Employability in the Age of AI

Feb 16 (Day 1), 09:30·West Wing Room 4 A

Dr. V Anantha Nageswaran, Mr. Alok Agrawal, Mr. Sanjeev Bhikchandani, Mr. Sateesh Seetharamiah, Mr. Vineet Nayar, Ms. Smita Prakash, Prof. Anurag Mairal, Shashi Shekhar Vempati

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10:30

13 sessions

Information Integrity as an Infrastructure for Trust: Empowering Youth and Future Generations

Feb 16 (Day 1), 10:30·West Wing Room 4 B

Alpesh Shah, Amir Banifatemi, Gabriela Ramos, Karine Perset, Mohammed Misbahuddin, Moira Patterson, Tanya Perelmuter, Yuko Harayama, Yuko Harayama

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Effective AI Assessments, Verification and Assurance: Establishing the Foundations for Responsible Confidence in AI

Feb 16 (Day 1), 10:30·West Wing Room 4 A

Anne McCormick, Dr. Ansgar Koene, Dr. Jibu Elias, Dr. Philip Howard, LEE Wan Sie, Narayanan Vaidyanathan, Prof. Dr. Balaraman Ravindran

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Standards and Policies for AI in Farmer-Centric Smart Agrifood Systems

Feb 16 (Day 1), 10:30·L1 Meeting Room No. 19

Frederic Werner, Gopal Patra, Rabi N. Sahoo, Raghu Chaliganti, Santanu Chaudhury, Volker Klima

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11:30

13 sessions

Agentic Commerce: Trust, Tokens and 'Know Your Agent' for the AI Economy

Feb 16 (Day 1), 11:30·L2 Audi 1

Dr Pankaj Jalote, Dr Prakhar Mehrotra, ⁠Dr Subi Chaturvedi, Janet George, Prag Sharma

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Unlocking Health Equity through Responsible AI

Feb 16 (Day 1), 11:30·L1 Meeting Room No. 15

Dr. Ayesha Chaudhary, Dr. Jan Herzhoff, Dr. Sangeeta Reddy, Mr. Kazim Rizvi

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Responsible AI for Bharat: Building Trust, Safety, and Global Leadership

Feb 16 (Day 1), 11:30·L1 Meeting Room No. 6

Dr. Subi Chaturvedi, Dr. Tripta Thakur, Mr. Ankush Sabharwal, Mr. Arvind Jayaprakash, Mr. Vivek Raj, Professor Nitin Saxena, Ravi Arora

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12:30

11 sessions

AI for Inclusive Economic Progress: The Public Services AI stack

Feb 16 (Day 1), 12:30·L2 Audi 1

Amir Banifatemi, B. Ravindran, Gabriela Ramos, Joanna Shields, Mark Surman, Stuart J Russel, Wan Sie Lee

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Empowering Policymakers: Futures Literacy for Tech-Informed Foreign and International Digital Policy

Feb 16 (Day 1), 12:30·L1 Meeting Room No. 18

Astha Kapoor, Dr. Urvashi Aneja, Hans-Christian Mangelsdorf, Lars Radscheidt, Sebastian Blum

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Beyond Digital Empires: AI Implementation for Middle Powers

Feb 16 (Day 1), 12:30·West Wing Room 4 A

Akash Kapur, Kate Kallot, Natalie Black, Pablo Chavez, Shashi Shekhar Vempati, Sridhar Ganapathy

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13:30

11 sessions

Empowering Communities in the Age of Advanced AI: Inclusion and Safety for Sustainable Development

Feb 16 (Day 1), 13:30·West Wing Room 4 A

Aditya Gopalan, Amitabh Nag, Harsh Dhand, Jagadish Babu, Kalika Bali, Nakul, Nidhi Bhasin, Saryu Natarajan, Stuart Russell

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From Implementers to Innovators: Shifting the Narrative Towards Women Entrepreneurship in AI

Feb 16 (Day 1), 13:30·West Wing Room 4 B

Mr. Bibin Babu, Mr. Sameep Shastri, Ms. Amrita Chowdhury, Ms. Ankita Sachdeva, Ms. Natalya Popova, Ms. Ruby Sinha, Ms. Shivani Singh Kapoor, Ms. Surabhi Agarwal, Ms. Yashika Pokhriyal, Nigela Guimaraes

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From Pilots to Impact: Evidence on Scaling AI for Farmers in LMICs

Feb 16 (Day 1), 13:30·L1 Meeting Room No. 19

Dr. Francis Xavier Rathinam, Dr. Kavya Dashora, Dr. Monisha Lakshminarayan, Dr. V . Praveen Rao, Ms. Deepa Karthekeyan, Ms. Zeba Siddiqui

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14:30

13 sessions

Operationalising Open Source AI: Pathways to Sovereignty

Feb 16 (Day 1), 14:30·L1 Meeting Room No. 7

Calista Redmond, Joelle Pineau, Lavu Devaraylu, Mark Latonero, Mark Surman, Nikhil Pahwa

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AI That Works: Evaluating Technology for Social Change

Feb 16 (Day 1), 14:30·L1 Meeting Room No. 14

Baarish Aggarwal, Edmund Korley, Poorva Malviya, Vineet Singh, Vinod Rajasekhran

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The Future of Frontier AI and Cybersecurity

Feb 16 (Day 1), 14:30·West Wing Room No. 6

Adriana Stephan, Amanda Craig, Amlan Mohanty, Jonas Kgomo, Peter Mattson, Rebecca Finlay, Supheakmungkol Sarin

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15:30

14 sessions

High-level discussion on APAC Centre for AI

Feb 16 (Day 1), 15:30·West Wing Room 4 A

Dr. Sivaramakrishnan R Guruvayur, Mr. Jeremy Fritzhand, Mr. Kamesh Shekar

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Empowering Youth in AI Global Governance

Feb 16 (Day 1), 15:30·L1 Meeting Room No. 6

Aurélie Simard, Basheerhamad Shadrach, Chelza Inzouddine, Dr. Yuko Harayama, Karla Paulina Garcia Ventura, Sophie Fallaha, Yae Hirasawa

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AI for Fraud Prevention and Financial Inclusion in BFSI

Feb 16 (Day 1), 15:30·L1 Meeting Room No. 8

Mr Bhuvan Lodha, Mr Manish Agarwal, Mr Neeraj Aggarwal, Mr Saurabh Mittal, Mr Srijay Ghosh, Mr Suresh Sethi, Shri Abhishek Singh

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16:30

14 sessions

Building High-Quality AI Systems for Education: From Innovation to System-Wide Delivery

Feb 16 (Day 1), 16:30·L1 Meeting Room No. 16

Jairaj Bhattacharya, Jonathan Stern, Marc Shotland, Paul Atherton, Romana Kropilova

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Global Mission on AI for Energy Scaling through citizen-centric India Energy Stack

Feb 16 (Day 1), 16:30·L2 Audi 1

Mr. Abhishek Ranjan, Mr. Ashish Khanna, Mr. Jeremy Oppenheim, Mr. Prince Dhawan, Mr.Karan Mangotra, Ms. Arti Dogra IAS, Ms. Swetha Ravi Kumar, Sri Pankaj Agarwal

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