The India AI Impact Summit 2026, powered by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology under the IndiaAI Mission, will take place from 16 February to 20 February 2026, bringing together an extraordinary coalition of global technology pioneers, policymakers, researchers and industry leaders to shape the next chapter of artificial intelligence. Guided by the spirit of Satyamev Jayate and anchored in the principles of People, Planet and Progress, the Summit signals India’s decisive move from dialogue to demonstrable impact.

Positioned as a defining global inflection point, the Summit will convene some of the most influential voices shaping the future of AI across enterprise, academia, governance and civil society. Among the distinguished attendees are:

• Bill Gates, Chair, Gates Foundation

• Jensen Huang, Founder and CEO, NVIDIA

• Mukesh D. Ambani, Chairman and Managing Director, Reliance Industries Limited

• Nandan Nilekani, Co Founder and Chairman, Infosys

• Brad Smith, President and Vice Chair, Microsoft

• Julie Sweet, Chair and CEO, Accenture

• Dario Amodei, Chief Executive Officer, Anthropic

• James Manyika, President, Research, Labs, Technology and Society, Google and Alphabet

• Cristiano Amon, Chief Executive Officer, Qualcomm

• Børge Brende, President and CEO, World Economic Forum

• Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Chairperson, Biocon Group

• Arthur Mensch, Co Founder and CEO, Mistral AI

Distinguished Global Leaders And Speakers Include

Aarthi Subramanian, Ajay Vij, Akhilesh Tuteja, Alexandr Wang, Amanda Brock, Amit Zavery, Ana Paula Assis, Anastasia Stasenko, Anna Tumadóttir, Anne Neuberger, Anne Robinson, Aparna Bawa, Arthur Mensch, Arundhati Bhattacharya, Bejul Somaia, Bill Gates, Bipul Sinha, Børge Brende, Borje Ekholm, Brad Smith, Burkhard Boeckem, BVR Mohan Reddy, C Vijayakumar, Carme Artigas Brugal, Cristiano Amon, Dame Melanie Dawes, Dario Amodei, David Zapolsky, Dr Aisha Walcott Bryant, Dr Anand Deshpande, Dr Archana Sharma, Dr Bonnie Kruft, Dr Jacki O'Neill, Dr Kalika Bali, Dr Liming Zhu, Dr Manish Gupta, Dr Pushmeet Kohli, Dr Sara Hooker, Dr Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, Dr Sunayana Sitaram, Dr Venkat Padmanabhan, Eric Grimson, Erik Ekudden, Giordano Gio Albertazzi, Harita Gupta, Harshil Mathur, Hemant Taneja, Ibrahim Hafeezur Rehman, Ivana Bartoletti, J Trevor Hughes, James Manyika, Jason Oxman, Jay Chaudhry, Jeet Adani, Jeetu Patel, Jeffrey Shapiro, Jensen Huang, Jorge Solis, Julie Sweet, K Krithivasan, Kalyan Kumar, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, Kunal Bahl, Lars Reger, Martin Schroeter, Martin Tisné, Matthew Prince, Mike Haley, Mukesh D Ambani, Mustafa Furniturewala, Nandan Nilekani, Natalie Black, Natarajan Chandrasekaran, Natasha Crampton, Navrina Singh, Nikesh Arora, Nikhila Natarajan, Olivier Blum, Pallavi Mahajan, Prativa Mohapatra, Prith Banerjee, Prof Jawahar CV, Prof Aditya Vashishtha, Prof Alice Oh, Prof Alison Noble, Prof Anima Anandkumar, Prof Balaraman Ravindaran, Prof Dame Wendy Hall, Prof Monojit Choudhury, Prof Neil Lawrence, Prof Nicholas Davis, Prof P J Narayanan, Prof Priya Donti, Prof Ramesh Raskar, Prof Somesh Jha, Prof Stuart J Russell, Prof Subbarao Kambhampati, Prof Surya Ganguli, Prof Vukosi Marivate, Prof Yann LeCun, Prof Yoshua Bengio, Rahul Singh, Raj Koneru, Raj Reddy, Rajesh Subramanian, Rao Charagondla, Ravi Kumar S, Ravi Mhatre, Richard Marko, Roshni Nadar Malhotra, Roy Jakobs, Ruchika Panesar, Salil Parekh, Sam Altman, Sameer Jain, Sanjay Sharma, Santhosh Viswanathan, Seema Ambastha, Shantanu Narayen, Shobana Kamineni, Sir Demis Hassabis, Sundar Pichai, Sunil Bharti Mittal, Takahito Tokita, Tony Blair, Umesh Sachdev, Victoria Espinel, Vijay Guntur, Vishal Sikka and Vivek Mahajan.

They will be joined by senior leadership from global institutions and organisations including Tata Consultancy Services, Accenture, IBM, Meta, Microsoft Research, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, Ericsson, Qualcomm, Infosys, HCLTech, Salesforce India, NVIDIA, NXP Semiconductors, Cloudflare, MIT, CERN, Stanford University, Caltech, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, IIT Madras, IIIT Hyderabad, Arizona State University, University of California Berkeley, University of Wisconsin Madison, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, NYU, Mila Institute and several other global centres of excellence.

The Summit agenda spans strategic themes across AI governance, frontier research, enterprise transformation, cybersecurity, digital public infrastructure, AI for healthcare, education, agriculture, energy, accessibility and gender empowerment. Dedicated working groups and regional summits will deepen collaboration, while flagship initiatives such as AI for ALL, AI by HER and YUVAI Global Youth Challenge will spotlight inclusive innovation at scale.

A centrepiece of the 2026 edition is the India AI Impact Expo, alongside curated casebooks on AI in Health, Energy, Education, Agriculture, Accessibility and Gender Empowerment, designed to move beyond theory and showcase real world deployment models.

“The India AI Impact Summit 2026 represents a moment of strategic clarity,” said an official from the IndiaAI Mission. “India is not merely participating in the global AI conversation. It is shaping it with a focus on equitable growth, ethical guardrails and measurable societal outcomes.”

Hosted in New Delhi, the Summit reflects India’s ambition to emerge as a trusted global hub for responsible AI innovation. By bringing together governments, industry, startups, researchers and multilateral institutions, the platform seeks to catalyse partnerships that translate research breakthroughs into scalable public good.

With accessibility features embedded across its digital platforms and an open invitation to global collaboration, the India AI Impact Summit 2026 stands as a call to action.

From vision to execution, from aspiration to accountability, India is leading the AI impact movement.