AI and the Future of Skilling: Strengthening Human Capital and Transforming Higher Education Institutions
9:30 AM — 10:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 9
Ashish Kulkarni, Dr. Manish Kumar +3
AI for Road Safety: Data-Driven Solutions for Enhancing Road Safety in India
9:30 AM — 10:30 AM (IST)
L2 Audi 1
Atul Singh, Col Sanjiv Kumar Sharma +7
AI for Smart and Resilient Agriculture: From Research to Solutions
9:30 AM — 10:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 19
Dr. Bharat KAKADE, Dr. Carole CARANTA +4
Culturally - Grounded AI: How Social Norms Can Inform AI Systems
9:30 AM — 10:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 17
Amita Yadav, Mohit Jain +3
Embedding Trust in Innovation: AI Governance and Quality Infrastructure for Growth
9:30 AM — 10:30 AM (IST)
West Wing Room 4 B
Amanda Craig, Ashutosh Bahuguna +3
From Vision to Action: Scaling Equitable AI Advisory Systems Through AGX AI
9:30 AM — 10:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 8
Mr. David Bergvinson, Mr. Michael Minkoff +2
Harnessing AI to Transform India's Judicial Ecosystem
9:30 AM — 10:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 16
Arya Tripathy, Dr. Aparajita Bhatt +5
Her First Algorithm, India's Next Breakthrough
9:30 AM — 10:00 AM (IST)
Chanakya Auditorium
Deepali Upadhyay, Intelligent Grain Storage System (Delhi Public School +2
Flagship Event
Inside India's Frontier Lab and Its Global South Impact
9:30 AM — 10:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 6
Abhishek Upperwal, Dr. Mayank Singh +4
Leadership Talk: Harnessing AI for the Future of Learning and Work
9:30 AM — 10:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 18
Dr. Matteo Zallio, Mustafa Furniturewala +3
Multilingual AI in Universities - Advancing Inclusion Through UA and Stakeholder Insights
9:30 AM — (IST)
West Wing Room No. 6
Sameer Gahlot
Reimagining Gender in Technology - Designing Safer Digital Futures and Advancing Ethical AI for Inclusive Platforms
9:30 AM — 10:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 15
Andrea Wojnar, Her Excellency May-Elin Stener +7
Safe & Trusted AI at Scale
9:30 AM — 10:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 14
Arvind Kumar, Ashok Meena +5
The Future of Employability in the Age of AI
9:30 AM — 10:30 AM (IST)
West Wing Room 4 A
Dr. V Anantha Nageswaran, Mr. Alok Agrawal +6
16 Feb 2026 · 10:00 AM
GTM Clinic: Answers for AI Founders
10:00 AM — 10:40 AM (IST)
Chanakya Auditorium
Anurag Deb, Rimjhim Ray
Flagship Event
Startup Spotlight 1: Cognitii: Democratizing access to special needs education using technology
10:00 AM — 10:10 AM (IST)
Chanakya Auditorium
Falguni Shrivastava
Flagship Event
16 Feb 2026 · 10:30 AM
AI for Bharat
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 15
Mr. Aakrit Vaish, Mr. Akshay Chaturvedi +15
AI Literacy: Building Skills, Inclusion, and Global Leadership
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 14
Lakshmi Misra, Prabhat Kumar +1
Effective AI Assessments, Verification and Assurance: Establishing the Foundations for Responsible Confidence in AI
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
West Wing Room 4 A
Anne McCormick, Dr. Ansgar Koene +5
Empowering the Human Edge: Building a Future-Ready Workforce in the Age of AI
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 18
Aparna Ganesh, Idris A. Rai +6
From AI User to Creator: The Next Leap of India's AI Innovation
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 6
Ankush Sabharwal, Amlan Mohanty +6
From Guardrails to Adaptive Governance in the Global South: Building a Joint Responsible Governance–HTA Framework to Deliver Safe, Trusted, and Scalable AI in Health
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 16
Dr Apoorva Dharmendra, Dr. Anant Bhan +6
Harnessing AI for Water Resilience and Sustainable Growth
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
West Wing Room No. 6
David Wood, Shruti Kapil +1
Practical Aspects of Using AI in Daily Life
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 17
Dr.Preet Deep Singh, Prof. Shiva Kakkar +2
Roundtable on AI for Decarbonisation and Circularity: Building India's Low-Carbon Infrastructure
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 10
Bishakha Bhattacharya, Debajit Palit +6
Standards and Policies for AI in Farmer-Centric Smart Agrifood Systems
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 19
Frederic Werner, Gopal Patra +4
Unlocking AI's Potential for Agricultural Innovation and DPI-Enabled Economic Growth
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
L2 Audi 1
Fatema AlMulla, Jagadish Babu +3
16 Feb 2026 · 10:40 AM
Startup Spotlight 2: AI-Validated 3D Bio-printed Disease Models for Oral Submucous Fibrosis
10:40 AM — 10:50 AM (IST)
Chanakya Auditorium
Dr. Kanika Singroha
Flagship Event
16 Feb 2026 · 10:50 AM
From Lab to Lives: Turning Innovation into Impact
10:50 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
Chanakya Auditorium
Meghna Bal, Anurag Agrawal +2
Flagship Event
16 Feb 2026 · 11:30 AM
A Billion Voices, One AI: How Language Tech Transforms Nations
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 16
Amitabh Nag, Chennai Chair +3
Agentic Commerce: Trust, Tokens and 'Know Your Agent' for the AI Economy
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
L2 Audi 1
Dr Pankaj Jalote, Dr Prakhar Mehrotra +3
AI for Disaster Management: Anticipatory, Hyperlocal, Scalable
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 10
Mr. Puneet Chandok, Mr. Sujit Mohanty +5
AI for Education: Future-Ready Universities and Schools
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 7
Chetan Aggarwal, Dr. Ramanand +5
Competing to Innovate: How Competition Accelerates AI Innovation
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
West Wing Room No. 6
Amba Kak, Augustine Peter +3
Democratising Access to AI through Data Infrastructure | Models, Governance and Market Design
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
West Wing Room 4 B
Dr. Gokul Krishnan, Dr. Nishant Chadha +8
Enterprise Adoption of Responsible AI: Challenges, Frameworks and Solutions
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 8
Abilash Soundararajan, Ashish Tewari +6
From Buzzword to Blueprint: Engineering Sustainable AI at Scale
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 18
Archana Joshi, Dr. Gayathri Aaditya Eranki +5
Hardware-Rooted Sovereignty: Verifiable Safe and Trusted AI Infrastructure for the Global South
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 17
Connor Dunlop, Eileen Donahoe +5
Making AI All Inclusive: Bridging AI Communities to India's AI Future
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 14
Mr. Jayant Rastogi, Mr. Madan Padaki +4
Public Health Powered by AI: RailTel's Collaborative Model for AI Enabled Inclusive Healthcare for Bharat and Beyond
11:30 AM — 1:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 19
Dr. Anshul Vikram Pandey, Dr. Anubha Gupta +10
Responsible AI for Bharat: Building Trust, Safety, and Global Leadership
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 6
Dr. Subi Chaturvedi, Dr. Tripta Thakur +5
South-South Cooperation in AI Policymaking: Developing a Collaboration Roadmap
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 9
Cyprien Nshimiyimana, Irene Karungi Sekitoleko +8
Startup Spotlight 3: AI-powered Product Development Platform
11:30 AM — 11:40 AM (IST)
Chanakya Auditorium
Dr. Beena Rai
Flagship Event
Unlocking Health Equity through Responsible AI
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 15
Dr. Ayesha Chaudhary, Dr. B. Srinivas +3
16 Feb 2026 · 11:40 AM
Cracking Global Markets: Lessons from GCC-Bred Innovators
11:40 AM — 12:10 PM (IST)
Chanakya Auditorium
Anushree Banerjee, Kruti Dalal
Flagship Event
16 Feb 2026 · 12:10 PM
Startup Spotlight 4: Fifth Sense - Sign Language Translation Gloves
12:10 PM — 12:20 PM (IST)
Chanakya Auditorium
Aishwarya Karnataki
Flagship Event
16 Feb 2026 · 12:20 PM
Capital, Control, and Clarity: How to Turn Investor Questions into Yeses
12:20 PM — 12:50 PM (IST)
Chanakya Auditorium
Yashodhara Bajoria, Jayraj Bharat Patel
Flagship Event
16 Feb 2026 · 12:30 PM
AI for Inclusive Economic Progress: The Public Services AI stack
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM (IST)
L2 Audi 1
Alpesh Shah, Amir Banifatemi +5
AI for Industries: Resilience, Innovation and Efficiency
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM (IST)
West Wing Room 4 B
Clas Neuman, Madhav Krishna +4
AI Innovators Exchange: Accelerating Innovation Through Startup and Industry Synergy
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 6
Dr. Nikhil Agarwal, Dr. Zille Anam +9
Beyond Digital Empires: AI Implementation for Middle Powers
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM (IST)
West Wing Room 4 A
Akash Kapur, Kate Kallot +4
Empowering Policymakers: Futures Literacy for Tech-Informed Foreign and International Digital Policy
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 18
Astha Kapoor, Dr. Urvashi Aneja +3
Farmer Productivity and Employment: Transforming Agriculture for a Sustainable Future
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 15
Dr. Girum Ketema, Kirti Pandey +4
Financing the Future: Building AI Ready Digital Foundations for Asia and the Pacific
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 8
Antonio Zaballos, Azizjon Akramov +10
India AI Impact Buildathon
12:30 PM — 3:30 PM (IST)
L2 Audi 2
Abhinav Ghosh, Debasish Mishra +5
India's AI Infrastructure: From Vision to Reality
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 17
Col Suhail Zaidi (Retd), Mr. Amrit Jiwan +7
Innovations from India's AI Center's of Excellence in Health, Education, Agricultre and Sustainable Cities
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 10
Dr Krithika Rangarajan, Dr. S. Neethi +4
Multilingual Voice-AI Agents for Crisis Response and Underserved Populations
Infosys Springboard - Democratizing AI Learning for Bharat - The road less travelled (Hosted by Infosys)
10:00 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
Hall No. 5 First Floor - Conference Room 1
Mrs. Padma Bhamidipati, Mr. Akshay Beerala +3
Power of AI and Content in revolutionizing the Multi Billion Dollar Book Industry (ReproBooks)
10:00 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
Hall No. 3 First Floor - Conference Room 4
Romi Vohra: CEO and MD - ReproBooks, Shrenik Jain: CTO - ReproBooks +1
17 Feb 2026 · 10:15 AM
Launch of AI Impact Casebooks – Gender & Agriculture
10:15 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
Meeting Room 7, Level 1
Shri Abhishek Singh, Ms Christine Arab +6
Flagship Event
17 Feb 2026 · 10:20 AM
AI in Health: Saving Lives at Scale
10:20 AM — 11:20 AM (IST)
L2 Audi 2
Aimee Barnes, Rob Sherman +3
17 Feb 2026 · 10:30 AM
AI and the State: Policy and Practice in Government
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 9
Christine Custis, Gaia Marcus +4
AI for Her: Catalyst Women Leaders Driving Responsible and Inclusive AI
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
Shakuntalam Banquet
Ms Anna Roy, Ms Annapurna Vishwanathan +6
AI for National Defence
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
Chanakya Auditorium
Air Vice Marshal Deepak Joshi, Dr Chandrika Kaushik +3
AI for our Oceans of Tomorrow: Data, Models and Governance
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 18
Cmd. Dr. Prashant Srivastava, Dr. Deepak Subramani +7
AI, Innovation and Collaboration: Shaping Resilient Economies
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 6
Mr. Abhishek Ranjan, Mr. Deepesh Kiran Nanda +2
Data, People, and Pre-Empting Mass Exclusion: Building Ethical AI as Digital Public Infrastructure
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 8
Arpita Kanjilal, Dr. Bhavani Rao R +6
From Co-Design to Courtroom: Building a Fair Trial Adviser for Justice Systems
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
Nalanda Banquet
Daisy Peterson, Lodovica Raparelli +1
GenAI Talent Imperative: Building Global Future Workforce
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 14
Dr Abhilasha Gaur, Emily Bastedo +12
Harnessing AI for Equitable and Resilient Health Systems
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
West Wing Room 4 A
Aparnaa Somanathan, Geetha Manjunath +6
Model Context Protocol, Open Standards and Data in the Age of Agentic AI
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 16
Amanda Brock, Anil Madhavapeddy +8
Planet-Scale Intelligence for Economic Growth: AgriStack, Climate AI, and Foundational Models for Global Impact
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
West Wing Room No. 6
Arun Sharma, Arun Sharma +7
Pushing the Frontier of AI in Education
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
Plenary Hall B
Dr Sridhar Vembu, Dr Vibhu Mittal +5
Scaling Enterprise Transformation - How India Can Leapfrog in the AI Economy
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
L2 Audi 1
Arpan Sheth, Chinmaya Sharma +4
The AI–Energy–Finance Trifecta: Future-Proofing India's Datacenters
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 10
Dr. Ashish Kumar Goel, Jitendra Srivastava +4
World Café Cross-Border Applied AI Joint Research, Innovation and Startup Communities: Turn Expertise into Practical Next Steps for International AI Collaboration.
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 15
Alexandra Bech Gjørv, Anand kamannavar +3
17 Feb 2026 · 11:30 AM
Advancing AI Transparency in Practice
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
West Wing Room 4 B
Ashish Tewari, Karine Perset +3
AGI for Bharat: Sovereignty, Security, and Societal Transformation (Hosted by QuGates Technologies)
11:30 AM — 1:00 PM (IST)
Hall No. 4 First Floor - Conference Room 3
Air Vice Marshal (Dr), Devesh Vatsa VSM (Retd) +7
AI Diplomacy: Asia Leads – Governing Artificial Intelligence in a Fragmented World
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 9
Anne Marie, Azizjon Azimi +5
AI for Disability Inclusion: Global Lessons on Accessibility by Design
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
West Wing Room 4 A
Andrew Fleming, Manmeet Nanda +5
AI Powered Bharat through Universal Digital Connectivity (Hosted by STPI & Department of Communications)
11:30 AM — 1:00 PM (IST)
Hall No. 4 First Floor - Conference Room 2
Dr. Pemmasani Chandra Sekhar – Hon'ble Union Minister of State for Communications and Rural Development, Mr. Sanjeev Sharma +6
AI-DPI Experimentation and the Role of Sandboxes
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 8
Adesh Khadka, Adesh Khadka +7
Beyond Language Models: The Next AI Race for Science, Biology, Energy & Sovereignty
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
West Wing Room No. 6
Amit Mishra, Arastu Sharma +4
Beyond the Cloud: The Sovereign AI Moment
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 6
Bernard Nguyen, Mr.Abhinav Aggarwal +3
Building Trust in the Age of Synthetic Media
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 14
Andrew Jenks, Andy Parsons +4
Industrial AI Challenges: From World's Next Industrial-Tech Innovation Hub
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
Plenary Hall B
Aysar Tayeb, Dr. Ammar A. Al Nahwi +1
Launch of AI Impact Casebooks – Energy & Accessibility
11:30 AM — 12:15 PM (IST)
Meeting Room 7, Level 1
Smt. Kavita Bhatia, Ms. Laura Cozzi +7
Flagship Event
Navigating the AI Regulatory Landscape: A Cross-Compliance Framework for Safety and Governance
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
Nalanda Banquet
Aarthi Sivanandha, Dr. Lalit Patil +4
Shaping Resilient Futures in the Age of AI: Leadership for the Technology, Energy, and Security Transitions
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 10
Deepak Bagla, Deepak Bagla +5
The AI Blueprint: Synchronizing Capital, Policy, and Intellectual Property
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room 18
Sanjay Puri
The Role of AI in Drug Discovery
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 16
Aditya Kulkarni, Aditya Kulkarni +6
17 Feb 2026 · 11:40 AM
AI in Governance: Revolutionising Government Efficiency
11:40 AM — 12:40 PM (IST)
L2 Audi 2
Dean Karlan, Kapil Viswanathan +2
17 Feb 2026 · 12:00 PM
AI Masterclass in Financial Services
12:00 PM — 1:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 17
Babu Unnikrishnan
17 Feb 2026 · 12:30 PM
AI and the Future of Creativity: Power, Originality, and Public Imagination
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 19
Divya Siddarth, Ziyaad Bhorat +2
AI for ALL: Final Showcase
12:30 PM — 4:30 PM (IST)
Plenary Hall B
Mr. Amitabh Nag, Ms. Kavita Bhatia +6
Flagship Event
AI for Health Innovations
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM (IST)
West Wing Room No. 6
Dr. Ajay Bakshi, Dr. Dileep Raman +4
AI-based Knowledge Acquisition Tools for Health and Education
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 14
Dr Ali Irani, Dr Gaurav S Desai +1
Countering Disinformation Warfare and Building Resilient Societies in an Era of AI
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM (IST)
Chanakya Auditorium
Achina Mayya, Mr. Aditya Raj Kaul +2
Democratizing AI for the Last Mile:Language, Access and Trust at Scale
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM (IST)
West Wing Room 4 A
Amitabh Nag, Brijendra Kumar +5
Democratizing AI Resources: Research Pathways to Open, Equitable Access
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 6
Mr. Arun Jain, Mr. Jaswinder Sodhi +1
Digital Public Goods for Global AI Equity
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM (IST)
L2 Audi 1
Mr. John Dickerson, Ms. Chenai Chair +2
From Models to the Masses: Deploying AI for Climate Resilience
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 10
Ashley Thomas, Dr Arunabha Ghosh +4
People's AI: Designing a Future Where Everyone Belongs
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM (IST)
Shakuntalam Banquet
Lakshmi Pratury, Madhukar Yarra +3
Scaling Trusted AI: Global Practices, Local Impact
12:30 PM — 1:25 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 18
Akanksha Ray, Candice Anderson +5
The New Health Paradigm: AI at the Intersection of Bench & Bedside
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room 15
Dr. Vidyani Suryadevara, Maulik Chokshi +3
Women in Climate and AI - Bridging the Gender Gap in Innovation
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 9
Jui Joshi, Ms. Pooja Kini +4
YUVAi: Global Youth Challenge - Grand Finale
12:30 PM — 1:55 PM (IST)
Meeting Room 7, Level 1
Sh. Mohammed Y. Safirulla K, Deepak Bagla +6
Flagship Event
17 Feb 2026 · 1:30 PM
AI Compute beyond GPUs
1:30 PM — 2:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 8
Abhishek Biswal, Becky Fraser +7
Data Governance at the Intersection of Digital Public Infrastructure and Artificial Intelligence
Deep Tech and AI Investing in India: Current and Future States
1:30 PM — 2:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 9
Gopal Jain, Nishith Desai +4
Diagnosing the Future: AI Transforming Healthcare Systems
1:30 PM — 2:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 14
Dr Krithika Rangarajan, Dr Vidur Mahajan +5
Diplomacy and Development in the Era of AI: Turning Innovation into Impact (Hosted by ServiceNow)
1:30 PM — 3:00 PM (IST)
Hall No. 3 First Floor - Conference Room 4
H.E. Amandeep Singh Gill
Education for Social Empowerment: Building Resilient, Inclusive Learning Systems
1:30 PM — 2:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 15
Jagadish Babu, Mr. Benjamin Piper +4
Fireside Chat on AI/ML Driven Virtual Immersive Autonomous Personalized Learning
1:30 PM — 2:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 19
Ajith Sundaresh, Arvind Kumar +3
From Algorithms to ASHAs: Implementing Impactful AI at the Grassroots
1:30 PM — 2:30 PM (IST)
West Wing Room No. 6
Dr. Anurag Agrawal, Dr. Aparna Hegde +3
Global Dialogue on AI Usage-Data for Labour Market Resilience
1:30 PM — 2:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 18
Ambassador Philip Thigo, Bharat Chandar +4
Open-source Tooling for Safe, Secure and Trustworthy AI
1:30 PM — 2:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 16
Amanda Brock, Audrey Herblin-Stoop +4
Policies for Social and Economic Resilience in the AI Age: Global South Perspectives
1:30 PM — 2:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 10
Adrian Brown, Kô Goma +5
Safe and Trusted AI: Standardization in the age of LLMs, Generative and Agentic AI
1:30 PM — 2:30 PM (IST)
West Wing Room 4 B
Mr. Abhishek Aggarwal, Mr. Ashish Tewari +5
The NxtWave–OpenAI National Hackathon Grand Finale
1:30 PM — 2:30 PM (IST)
Chanakya Auditorium
Bonnie Chatterjee, Dr. Vineet Joshi +3
Trustworthy AI Investments : Capital Allocations as AI Governance
1:30 PM — 2:30 PM (IST)
L2 Audi 1
Amir Banifatemi, Balamaran Ravindran +5
Women at the Frontline of AI: Reimagining Skilling for India's Community Health Workforce
1:30 PM — 2:30 PM (IST)
West Wing Room 4 A
Amrita Mahale, Ashish Srivastava +2
17 Feb 2026 · 1:45 PM
AI in Work: Humans, AI, or Both?
1:45 PM — 2:45 PM (IST)
L2 Audi 2
David Yanagizawa-Drott, Elizabeth Kelly +2
17 Feb 2026 · 2:00 PM
AI Masterclass in Public Services
2:00 PM — 3:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 17
Arun Ramchandran, Sankha Som
Building India's Most Deployment-Ready AI State: The Tamil Nadu Model (Hosted By Electronics Corporation of Tamil Nadu Limited)
2:00 PM — 3:30 PM (IST)
Hall No. 4 First Floor - Conference Room 3
Sh. Sunil Gupta, Sh. Atul Vidwansa +1
Engineering Digital Trust in the Age of AI - Blockchain as the Backbone of India's Intelligence Infrastructure(Hosted By Blockchain for Productivity Forum and South Asian University (SAU) in partnership with STPI)
2:00 PM — 3:30 PM (IST)
Hall No. 4 First Floor - Conference Room 2
Prof. Satya.N.Gupta, Dr. Praveen Mishra +6
Investing in Bharat: Regional AI Hubs and Inclusive Growth(Hosted by AIM & STPI)
2:00 PM — 3:30 PM (IST)
Hall No. 5 First Floor - Conference Room 1
Sh. Arvind Kumar, Dr. Deepak Bagla +3
Tata Bharat YUVAi Hackathon
2:00 PM — 5:00 PM (IST)
L3 Plenary Hall
Srividhya Muralidharan
YUVAi: Global Youth Challenge - Grand Finale
2:00 PM — 3:25 PM (IST)
Meeting Room 7, Level 1
Sh. Mohammed Y. Safirulla K, Deepak Bagla +6
Flagship Event
17 Feb 2026 · 2:30 PM
Advancing Rural AI Access and Ethical AI Governance
2:30 PM — 3:30 PM (IST)
Nalanda Banquet
Arun Poddar, Chaula Diwanji +4
AI for Resilient India: Driving Innovation and Efficiency at Scale
2:30 PM — 3:30 PM (IST)
Chanakya Auditorium
Dr. Gowtham Mamidisetti, Dr. Prasad Patibandla +6
AI for Secure India: Combating AI-Enabled Cybercrime, Deepfakes, Darkweb Threats and Data Breaches
2:30 PM — 3:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 15
Deepak Kumar Singh, Rakesh Maheshwari +4
AI in Public Health: Bridging Gaps from Pilots to Sustainable Impact
2:30 PM — 3:30 PM (IST)
West Wing Room No. 6
Ajay Mahipal, Himanshu Sikka +5
From Policy to Practice: Governing AI for Global Impact
2:30 PM — 3:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 16
Ashish Aggarwal, Gail Kent +3
Frugal AI and Quantum-Ready Systems: Driving Growth, Impact, and the SDGs
2:30 PM — 3:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 9
Anusha Dandapani, Jagadish Babu +3
Great Powers in the Age of AI and Cognitive Systems
2:30 PM — 3:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 19
Mr. Garry Jacobs, Mr. Glenn Gaffney +2
Gyan Bharatam: Where Tradition Meets Technology
2:30 PM — 3:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 18
Prof Vasantkumar M Bhatt, Prof. Santanu Chaudhury +7
Navigating AI-DPI Geopolitics: An Autonomous and Strategic Approach for the Global Majority
2:30 PM — 3:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 14
Dr. Mehdi Snene, Jane Munga +3
One Billion Futures: AI and the Future of Education Equity in the Global South
2:30 PM — 3:30 PM (IST)
West Wing Room 4 A
Aditya Vishwanath, Dr. Shitanshu Mishra +4
Pathways for Equitable AI Compute Access
2:30 PM — 3:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 8
Mr. Hector De Rivoire, Mr. Robert F. Trager +5
Public Distribution Systems Reforms – AI/ML and Computer Vision for Smart Logistics and Consumer Welfare
2:30 PM — 3:30 PM (IST)
Shakuntalam Banquet
Aditya, G Kalyana Chakravarthy +6
Quality Control of AI Applications in Healthcare
2:30 PM — 3:30 PM (IST)
West Wing Room 4 B
Lt Col Parikshit Sanyal, Nisheeth Srivastava +3
Reducing AI-Driven Digital Harms for Minors: Platform Accountability, Age Assurance, and Safety-by-Design
2:30 PM — 3:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 10
Abhineet Kaul, Aleksandra Chmielewska +3
17 Feb 2026 · 2:45 PM
AI Vishwaguru: Catalysing Learning and Impact
2:45 PM — 3:40 PM (IST)
L2 Audi 2
Abhishek Singh, Iqbal Dhaliwal +1
17 Feb 2026 · 3:30 PM
AI for the Global South: From Governance to Inclusion
3:30 PM — 4:30 PM (IST)
West Wing Room 4 A
Ambassador Dr. Lavina Ramkissoon, Ambassador Eugênio Vargas Garcia +3
AI-Driven Digital Transformation for India: Building Innovation an Ecosystem through Collaboration
3:30 PM — 4:30 PM (IST)
Nalanda Banquet
Abhilash Soundararajan, Akhil Gupta +4
Building India's AI Governance Architecture: From Frameworks to Implementation
3:30 PM — 4:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 19
Abhishek Singh, Abhishek Singh +7
Culture and Code: Creative AI for Equitable Development
3:30 PM — 4:30 PM (IST)
L2 Audi 1
. Ms. Siok Siok Tan, Mr. Shekhar Kapur +3
Democratizing AI Resources in India
3:30 PM — 4:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 8
Dr. Chris Merz, Dr. Lovneesh Chanana +12
Flipping the Script: How the Global Majority Can Recode the AI Economy
3:30 PM — 4:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 6
Kazim Rizvi, Philip Thigo +3
Founders & Funders: The India AI Capital Ecosystem
3:30 PM — 4:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 9
Aakrit Vaish, Mohit Bhatnagar +4
From Models to Systems: Rethinking the Evaluation of AI in Health
3:30 PM — 4:30 PM (IST)
West Wing Room No. 6
Arjun Venkatraman, Dr. Mona Duggal +5
Governing Autonomy: Agentic AI, Multi-Agent Systems, and the Infrastructure of Trust
3:30 PM — 4:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 7
Alpesh Shah, Amir Banifatemi +4
Human Flourishing in the Age of AI: A Global South Coalition for Transition Infrastructure Event Description
3:30 PM — 4:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room 10
Charlotte Kirby, Elizabeth Kelly +5
Local Voices First: Why Inclusive AI for Data Systems Must Start on the Ground
3:30 PM — 4:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 15
Amitabh Nag, Gaurav Godhwani +4
Powering Quantum Technologies with AI: U.S.–India Collaboration
3:30 PM — 4:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 16
Jordan Crenshaw, Mr. Amith Singhee +4
Reskilling for Tomorrow: AI, Sustainability, and India's Jobs Transition
3:30 PM — 4:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 18
Dr Arunabha Ghosh, Dr Claire Melamed +3
The AI Infrastructure Story: Data Centres and Cloud in Action(Hosted by STPI)
3:30 PM — 5:00 PM (IST)
Hall No. 3 First Floor - Conference Room 4
Sh. Piyush Somani, Sh. Mr Sunando Bhattacharya +4
The Sociotechnical Turn in AI Governance: Bridging Theory and Practice
3:30 PM — 4:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 14
Dr. Siddharth Mehrotra, H.E. Hendrikus G.J. (Harry) Verweij +4
Voice as the Default Interface for India's Next Billion Users
3:30 PM — 4:30 PM (IST)
Shakuntalam Banquet
Arunabh Biyani, Chinmaya Sharma +3
17 Feb 2026 · 3:40 PM
AI in Climate and Agriculture: Building Resilient Communities
3:40 PM — 4:40 PM (IST)
L2 Audi 2
George Richards, Maulik Jagnani
17 Feb 2026 · 4:00 PM
AI Masterclass in Enterprise Operations
4:00 PM — 5:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 17
Vasant Srinivasan
Powering India's Sovereign AI: Infrastructure at National Scale (Hosted by DataDirect Networks, DDN)
4:00 PM — 5:30 PM (IST)
Hall No. 4 First Floor - Conference Room 3
Sh. Sunil Gupta, Sh. Atul Vidwansa +1
17 Feb 2026 · 4:30 PM
AI Commons for the Global South: Data, Models and Compute for Half of Humanity
4:30 PM — 5:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 10
Amanda Brock, Jayesh Ranjan +4
AI for All: Catalysing Jobs, Growth, and Opportunity
4:30 PM — 5:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 18
Aastha Grover, Ashok Gulati +8
AI for Economic Growth and Social Good | AI for All: Driving Economic Advancement and Societal Well-Being
4:30 PM — 5:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 19
Dr. Avik Sarkar, Dr. Gulshan Rai +4
AI for Humanity as SDG#18: Towards Global and Sustainable Development of AI with Impact
4:30 PM — 5:30 PM (IST)
Shakuntalam Banquet
Dr. James Ong, Judith Weinberger-Singh +4
AI for Medical Imaging and Clinical Diagnostics
4:30 PM — 5:30 PM (IST)
West Wing Room No. 6
Dr. Alok Sharma, Dr. Kundan Singh Chufal +4
AI for Societal Good: Global Nonprofit Innovations
4:30 PM — 5:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 9
M R. Rangaswami, Manu Chopra +2
AI in Financial services - From Innovation to Impact
4:30 PM — 5:30 PM (IST)
Plenary Hall B
AI in Healthcare for India
4:30 PM — 5:30 PM (IST)
L2 Audi 1
Dr Catharina Boehme, Dr Sunil Kumar Barnwal +4
Consumers at the Core: Building AI with Consumer-Centric Approach
4:30 PM — 5:30 PM (IST)
West Wing Room 4 A
Mr. Ashim Sanyal, Mr. Kaushal Mahan +5
Decoded: How AI Is Reshaping Work for Women
4:30 PM — 5:30 PM (IST)
West Wing Room 4 B
Atul Satija, Dr. M M Tripathi +4
Driving Financial Resilience and Sustainable Impact - AI by and for the Global Majority
4:30 PM — 5:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 6
Dr. Alaa Murabit, Dr. Michael Kremer +3
Global Capital, Local Advantage: India in the AI Race
4:30 PM — 5:25 PM (IST)
Room number 7 (200pax)
Sriram Viswanathan, Abhishek Shukla +3
Global Capital, Local Advantage: India in the AI Race
4:30 PM — 5:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 7
Abhishek Shukla, Dipender Saluja +4
Leveraging AI in Education: Human Capital, Inclusion, and Trust in the AI Era.
4:30 PM — 5:30 PM (IST)
Nalanda Banquet
Ajit Chauhan, Dr. Prabina Rajib +6
The India AI Stack- Strategic Framework for National Growth and Pride
4:30 PM — 5:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 15
Col. Amit Mehna, Commander Sandeep Sain +3
17 Feb 2026 · 4:40 PM
AI in Education: Customising Learning for All
4:40 PM — 5:40 PM (IST)
L2 Audi 2
Azeez Gupta, Brigitte Hoyer Gosselink +5
17 Feb 2026 · 5:30 PM
AI for All: Building India's Future-Ready Human Capital from School to Workforce
5:30 PM — 6:30 PM (IST)
Shakuntalam Banquet
Dr. Mandar Karyakarte, M/s Neha Sharma +4
Building AI Readiness and Digital Competency Among Frontline Health Workers in India
5:30 PM — 6:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 9
Dr Valerie Jean Laloo, Dr. Amnesty LeFevre +10
Campus-to-Impact: Building India's AI Innovation Pipeline
5:30 PM — 6:30 PM (IST)
Nalanda Banquet
Dr. Kavita Singh, Dr. Nikhil Agarwal +3
Collaborating across sectors for AI Impact
5:30 PM — 6:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room 6
Shweta Khurana, Nilachal Mishra
Democratizing AI Resources Equitable Access to Compute and Data for Entrepreneurship
5:30 PM — 6:30 PM (IST)
West Wing Room 4 A
Amit Srivastava, Animesh Aaryan +2
Empowering the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs in Asia and India through AI
5:30 PM — 6:30 PM (IST)
West Wing Room 4 B
Dr Mukesh Kestwal, Dr Pushpendra Singh +7
From Average to Top 1%: How Creators Are Using AI to Leapfrog the Competition
5:30 PM — 6:30 PM (IST)
L2 Audi 1
From Policy to Harvest: Leveraging Generative AI for Data-Driven Agricultural Transformation
5:30 PM — 6:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 15
Dr. Alok B. Mukherjee, Mr. Anand Chandra +5
India Future Skills and AI Collaborative Roundtable: Building Workforces, Capacities, and Institutional Readiness
5:30 PM — 6:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 18
Antara Lahiri, Bhomik Shah +5
Indo-Canadian Symposium on AI for Food, Energy and Health Sectors
5:30 PM — 6:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 14
Dr. Ajay Dalai, Dr. Baljit Singh +7
Metrics, Methods and Platforms for Measurement of Artificial Intelligence for Trustworthy, Reliable and Explainable Applications
5:30 PM — 6:30 PM (IST)
West Wing Room No. 6
Amlan Chakrabarti, Carsten Maple +11
Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration to Foster AI Adoption in the Global South
5:30 PM — 6:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 7
Aisha Walcott-Bryant, Dame Wendy Hall +1
Putting AI to Work: Solving the Productivity Challenge through Faster Adoption
5:30 PM — 6:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 19
David Zapolsky, Kanishka Narayan +3
Solving for India at Scale: Use of AI in Fintech
5:30 PM — 6:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 10
Gautham Krishnamurthy, Pooja Gulrajani +1
Stacked for Scale: The Future of AI Compute, Semiconductors, and Foundational AI
5:30 PM — 6:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 8
Amitesh Sinha, Dheemanth Nagaraj +4
Teaching and Learning AI Policy: Practice and Impact
5:30 PM — 6:30 PM (IST)
Chanakya Auditorium
Dr Emma Jones, Dr. Preeti Raghunath
17 Feb 2026 · 6:00 PM
AI for ALL & AI by HER: Vision, Milestones and Recognition
6:00 PM — 7:15 PM (IST)
Amphitheatre
Sh. Ashwini Vaishnaw
17 Feb 2026 · 7:15 PM
Women & Youth in AI: Keynotes, Milestones and Recognition
7:15 PM — 8:45 PM (IST)
Amphitheatre
Roshni Nadar, Varin Sikka
18 Feb 2026 · 8:30 AM
Opening Ceremony of Research Symposium
8:30 AM — 9:10 AM (IST)
L2 Audi II
Kavita Bhatia, S. Krishnan +4
18 Feb 2026 · 9:15 AM
Keynote for Research Symposium by Sir Demis Hassabis (CEO & Co-Founder, Google DeepMind)
9:15 AM — 9:50 AM (IST)
L2 Audi II
Sir Demis Hassabis, Balaraman Ravindaran
18 Feb 2026 · 9:30 AM
AI and Education: From Innovation to Impact
9:30 AM — 10:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 18
Dr. Pia Rebello Britto, H.E. Clara Chappaz +5
AI and Robotics: The Engine of India's New Industrial Age
9:30 AM — 10:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 9
Amit Goel, Raghu Dharmaraju +1
AI at Scale: Driving Adoption, Productivity and Market Access for Indian SMEs & Startups
9:30 AM — 10:30 AM (IST)
Nalanda Banquet
Anand Kamannavar, Ashok Chandak +4
AI in Sustainment: Enhancing Operation Readiness of Military Equipment
9:30 AM — 10:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 10
Brig Deepak Kumar, Lt Gen Rajiv Kumar Sahni +6
Boosting AI Adoption in the Global South: Critical Role of Trust Across the AI Tech Stack
9:30 AM — 10:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 15
Denise Wong, Rebecca Finlay +2
Building Safe and Trusted AI Infrastructure for Population-Scale AI
9:30 AM — 10:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 19
Assaf Azrilevich, Benedict Macon Cooney +3
Building Sovereign AI Infrastructure: Empowering Citizens, Transforming Nations
9:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
L2 Audi 1
Calista Redmond, Jigar Halani (moderator) +3
Building Sovereign AI Infrastructure: Empowering Citizens, Transforming Nations
9:30 AM — (IST)
L2 Audi 1
Calista Redmond, Jigar Halani +3
Conversation
9:30 AM — 10:14 AM (IST)
Plenary Hall - B
Mitesh Khapra, Mati Staniszewski +1
Conversation: AI for Development
9:30 AM — 10:25 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 16
Eli Sugarman, Arjun Venkataraman +2
Defence Perspective in AI
9:30 AM — 10:30 AM (IST)
West Wing Room No. 6
Dr. Vikram Jayaram, Lt Gen Harsh Chhibber +4
Future of Fair Tech: Addressing Equity, Safety and Accountability in a Rapidly Evolving AI Landscape
9:30 AM — 10:30 AM (IST)
West Wing Room 4 B
Damar Juniarto, Lipika Kapoor +4
Inaugural Session & Launch of WG Deliverables
9:30 AM — 9:50 AM (IST)
L2 Summit Room
Abhishek Singh, S. Krishnan +1
Operating Models for AI Quality Across Billion-User Markets
9:30 AM — 10:30 AM (IST)
Chanakya Auditorium
Aneesh Chopra, Rahul Kapoor +2
Panel: AI & Agriculture
9:30 AM — 10:25 AM (IST)
West Wing Room 4 A
Jagadish Babu, Rajiv Chawla +3
Roundtable on Opportunities for EU-India Collaboration for Twin Transition
9:30 AM — 10:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 17
Christian Wickert, Clas Neumann +6
Safe and Trusted AI: The Ethics and Governance Perspective
9:30 AM — 10:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 14
Dr Amit Kumar, Dr B K Murthy +9
Strengthening Data and AI Collaboratives for Economic Growth and Social Good
9:30 AM — 10:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 6
Alexandru Oprunenco, Ambassador Harry Verweij +9
18 Feb 2026 · 9:50 AM
Shaping Equitable AI Transitions: Building Global Human Capital for the Age of AI
9:50 AM — 10:25 AM (IST)
L2 Summit Room
Prof. T.G. Sitharam, Philippines +1
18 Feb 2026 · 9:55 AM
Keynotes for Research Symposium by Prof. Dame Wendy Hall (Professor of Computer Science, University of Southampton)
9:55 AM — 10:30 AM (IST)
L2 Audi II
Dame Wendy Hall, Anand Deshpande
18 Feb 2026 · 10:00 AM
Cracking the AI Skill Code: Capabilities, Mindset, and Workplace Readiness (Hosted by BITS Pilani)
10:00 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
Hall No. 4 First Floor - Conference Room 3
Prof. PB Venkataraman (Professor of Mechanical Engineering), Prof. Nishit Narang (Associate Professor +4
Engineering the Future: Full-Stack AI with Google (Hosted by Google)
10:00 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
Hall No. 4 First Floor - Conference Room 2
Sh. Anand Rangarajan, Smt. Paige Bailey +3
Intel Vidyalekha – AI PC Launch (Hosted by Bhashini)
10:00 AM — 11:00 AM (IST)
Hall No. 3 First Floor - Session Hall 4
Mr. Kushal Pathak
18 Feb 2026 · 10:16 AM
Keynote
10:16 AM — 10:28 AM (IST)
Plenary Hall - B
Prayank Swaroop
18 Feb 2026 · 10:25 AM
Harnessing the Transformative Potential of AI to Empower All
10:25 AM — 10:55 AM (IST)
L2 Summit Room
Shri. Rajesh Aggarwal, Switzerland +1
18 Feb 2026 · 10:30 AM
AI for Manufacturing Engineering and Technology: Powering India's MET Ecosystem
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 10
Dr Eric Grimson, Dr Krishnan Balasubramanian +4
AI Transformation in Fintech: From Automation to Intelligence
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
Chanakya Auditorium
Anjani Bharadwaj, Ashutosh Gupta +5
Beyond Earth: How AI is Powering the Next Era of Space Exploration
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
Nalanda Banquet
Dr Dipti Patil, Dr Jagriti Dabas +5
Break
10:30 AM — 10:55 AM (IST)
L2 Audi II
Building Resilience and breaking dependency in enterprise and public sector AI - how can open source support this?
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 15
Amanda Brock, Anastasia Stasenko +3
Building Sovereign Deep Tech for a Resilient Future: Solutions from Finland and India
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 18
Antti Vasara, Atte Jääskeläinen +6
Charting India's AI–IP Playbook: Innovation, Rights and National Advantage
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
Shakuntalam Banquet
Anne E. Robinson, Dr. Shardul S. Shroff +5
Closing the Loop: Building Global AI Incident Monitoring and Response Capabilities at the India AI Impact Summit
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 16
Akiko Murakami, Caio Vieira Machado +4
Governing Safe and Responsible AI within Digital Public Infrastructure
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 6
Alexandria Walden, H E Alar Karis +7
Physical AI and the Big Bang of General Robotics
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 9
Amit Goel
Responsible AI at Scale, Governance, Integrity, and Cyber Readiness for a Changing World
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
West Wing Room 4 B
Dr. Balaravindran, Dr. Subi Chaturvedi +2
The Intelligent City: Building Resilient and Inclusive Urban Futures
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 19
Anshul Mishra, Jumbi Edulbehram +3
Towards Multilateral Agreement on Enforcing Red Lines
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
West Wing Room 4 A
Anita Gurumurthy, Cam Rincon +4
Use of AI for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
West Wing Room No. 6
Dr. Manabendra Saharia, Dr. Pradeep Thapliyal +6
Workforce Readiness for Artificial Intelligence in Primary Health Care
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 17
Dr Mona Duggal, Dr Monika Kochar +5
18 Feb 2026 · 10:44 AM
Panel Discussion
10:44 AM — 11:25 AM (IST)
Plenary Hall - B
Vilas Dhar, Sriram Viswanathan +2
18 Feb 2026 · 10:55 AM
International Panel 1: Challenges of Global South
10:55 AM — 12:20 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room 7
Aditya Vashishtha, Aisha Walcott-Bryant +3
Poster Showcase - Research Symposium
10:55 AM — 12:20 PM (IST)
L1 MR 8 and L2 Foyer
Practical Pathways for Operationalizing Safe & Trusted AI
10:55 AM — 11:25 AM (IST)
L2 Summit Room
Dr. Balraman Ravindran, Japan +1
Research Dialogue: AI as a Catalyst- Accelerating Discovery in Science and Engineering
10:55 AM — 12:20 PM (IST)
L2 Audi II
Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, Archana Sharma +7
18 Feb 2026 · 11:00 AM
Rajya Sabha Fireside Chat — AI, NLP and the Parliamentary Process
11:00 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
Hall No. 3 First Floor - Session Hall 4
Mr. Suresh Kumar T – General Manager, Mr. Kambiez Tahvilian - Vice President +2
18 Feb 2026 · 11:25 AM
From Scale to Sustainability: Advancing Resilient & Efficient AI
11:25 AM — 12:00 PM (IST)
L2 Summit Room
Shri. Pankaj Aggarwal, France
18 Feb 2026 · 11:30 AM
Advancing LLM Training At Extreme Scale
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 9
Bernard Nguyen
AI & Global Diplomacy: Power, Partnerships, and the Future of Science
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 16
Alan John Kwadwo Kyerematen, Amb Hugo Ortiz Dubon +2
AI in Agriculture
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 14
Best practices from the International Network for Advanced AI Measurement, Evaluation and Science.
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 18
Adam Beaumont, Austin Mayron +3
Building Anti-Fragile AI Startups in 2026 (Hosted by Google)
11:30 AM — 12:00 PM (IST)
Hall No. 4 First Floor - Conference Room 2
Sh. Paige Bailey, Sh. Manik Pasricha +3
Conversation:
11:30 AM — 11:55 AM (IST)
Plenary Hall - B
Anne Neuberger, Raj Shukla +1
Data for Development: Building AI in the Global South
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
West Wing Room No. 6
Alok Kumar Rai, Anne Neuberger +4
Democratizing AI resources and building inclusive AI solutions for India
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
Chanakya Auditorium
Mr Brad Staples, Mr Gokul V Subramaniam +6
Empowering AI Startups: Compute and the Venture Thesis
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 19
Arun Kumar, Hari Balaji +3
Fintech for All: Democratizing Financial Access Through AI and Human Capital Development
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 6
Anjani Rathor, Kamya Chandra (Moderator) +3
From Opportunity to Impact: Sharing the Israeli Model of AI Innovation and Governance
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 10
Brigadier General (Res.) Erez Naftali Askal, Dr. Victor Alchanatis +5
From Volume to Value: Role of AI in Redefining Indian Pharma's Leadership for Viksit Bharat 2047
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
West Wing Room 4 B
Dr Amit Sheth, Dr Sharvil Patel +3
How AI Will Reshape Global Development Beyond the SDGs
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
L2 Audi 1
Amandeep Singh Gill, Kamal Kishore +5
India Energy Stack (IES) and the AI-Ready Power Sector: Trust, Interoperability, and Scale
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
West Wing Room 4 A
Ms. Swetha Ravi Kumar, Sh Jitendra Srivastava +4
Innovating Together: Harnessing Open-Source AI for Inclusive Economic Development
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 15
Dr Bärbel Kofler, Dr Urvashi Aneja +7
NeevCloud AI SuperCloud: Democratizing High-Performance AI Infrastructure for India's Innovation, Research & Growth (Hosted by Neev Cloud)
11:30 AM — 1:00 PM (IST)
Hall No. 4 First Floor - Conference Room 3
Opportunities in the Steel Sector: An interaction with Secretary, Ministry of Steel
11:30 AM — 1:00 PM (IST)
Hall No. 5 First Floor - Conference Room 1
Shri Sandeep Poundrik, Senior officers of Ministry of Steel +1
Panel: AI at Scale
11:30 AM — 12:25 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 17
Vikram Sinha, Ankush Sachdeva +1
Watch Live
Sovereign AI Infrastructure for Bharat and Global South
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
Shakuntalam Banquet
Abhishek Upperwal, Neelakantan Venkataraman +5
Trust in AI: Navigating Ethics and Policy/Cybersecurity using Agentic AI
11:30 AM — 1:00 PM (IST)
Hall No. 3 First Floor - Conference Room 4
Srinivas Mantripragada, Manish Kumar +4
18 Feb 2026 · 11:57 AM
Keynote
11:57 AM — 12:09 PM (IST)
Plenary Hall - B
Jay Chaudhry
18 Feb 2026 · 12:00 PM
Catalysing Inclusive AI-Enabled Science Through Global Collaboration
12:00 PM — 12:30 PM (IST)
L2 Summit Room
Shri. Abhay Karandikar, Canada +1
18 Feb 2026 · 12:11 PM
Keynote
12:11 PM — 12:23 PM (IST)
Plenary Hall - B
Sridhar Vembu
18 Feb 2026 · 12:15 PM
Unlocking Insights for all with Data Commons (Hosted by Google)
12:15 PM — 1:00 PM (IST)
Hall No. 4 First Floor - Conference Room 2
Sh. Gaurav Godhwani, Sh. Prem Ramaswami +3
18 Feb 2026 · 12:25 PM
Keynote for Research Symposium by Prof. Yoshua Bengio (Professor of Computer Science, Université de Montréal)
12:25 PM — 1:00 PM (IST)
L2 Audi II
Prof Yoshua Bengio (Professor of Computer Science, Dr Kalika Bali (Moderator) (Senior Principal Researcher
18 Feb 2026 · 12:30 PM
AI for Energy Systems/Utilities
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 9
Srikanth Kodali
AI for Resilience: Powering Innovation and Efficiency in the Energy Transition
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM (IST)
West Wing Room 4 B
Mr. Abhishek Ranjan, Mr. Ashish Khanna +10
AI Horizons: Building Safe and Trusted AI
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM (IST)
West Wing Room No. 6
David Wroe, Dr M M Oberoi +3
AI Impact Forum: Democratising AI Resources
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM (IST)
West Wing Room 4 A
Anne Neuberger, Anshu Sharma +7
Democratisation of AI – Bharat Story
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 18
Dr. Manjula N, Mr. Bhaskar Katamneni +3
From Access to Agency: The Charter for the Democratic Diffusion of AI
12:30 PM — 1:00 PM (IST)
L2 Summit Room
Shri. Saurabh Garg, Egypt +1
From Evidence to Scale: Testing, Financing and Operationalizing Technology and AI for Development and Humanitarian Action.
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM (IST)
Nalanda Banquet
Anoop Sharma, Brenda Gunde +6
Healthcare for All: Inclusive AI Solutions at Population Scale
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 6
Anunaya Jain, Amit Kumar +4
Open AI Platforms: Building India's Unified Public Goods
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 19
Aafreen Siddiqui Sherwani, Jibu Elias +4
Unleashing Impact: Building the Purpose-Driven Data and AI Workforce
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM (IST)
Shakuntalam Banquet
Bayo (Olubayo) Adekanmbi, Dr. Tavpritesh Sethi +6
18 Feb 2026 · 1:00 PM
From Silos to Scale – Enabling AI for All
1:00 PM — 1:30 PM (IST)
L2 Summit Room
Smt. Debjani Ghosh, Netherlands +1
Lunch Break – Parallel Poster Sessions
1:00 PM — 2:15 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room 8
Lunch Break – Parallel Poster Sessions
1:00 PM — 2:00 PM (IST)
L2 Audi II
18 Feb 2026 · 1:30 PM
AI for Everyone: Empowering People, Businesses, and Society
1:30 PM — 2:30 PM (IST)
Shakuntalam Banquet
Mr. Anshal Dwivedi, Mr. Deepit Purkayastha +6
AI for Weather and Climate Intelligence
1:30 PM — 2:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 9
Karthik Kashinath
Democratizing Compute Through Regional Infrastructure
1:30 PM — 2:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 6
Anne Robinson, Durga Malladi +5
Equipping the Judiciary to Harness the Power of AI
1:30 PM — 2:30 PM (IST)
West Wing Room 4 B
Arghya Bhattacharya, Dr. Tawfik Jelassi +6
From Principles to Proof: Operationalizing Responsible AI for Global Impact
1:30 PM — 2:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 19
Anand Kashyap, Balaraman Ravindran +3
Powering the Public Good: Aligning Industry, Philanthropy, and Government from India to Africa
1:30 PM — 2:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 18
Cina Lawson, Diana Sang +5
Responsible AI in Practice: A Data Perspective
1:30 PM — 2:30 PM (IST)
Nalanda Banquet
Dr. Richa Singh, Dr. Shruti Nagpal +2
Vision, Learnings, and Next Steps for Andhra Pradesh's AI-Powered Agriculture and Allied Sectors Transformation
1:30 PM — 2:30 PM (IST)
Chanakya Auditorium
Ms Deepa Karthykeyan, Ms Srivalli Krishnan +3
Where AI Innovation meets Impact in Cancer Care—CATCH Grant Awards 2026
1:30 PM — 2:30 PM (IST)
West Wing Room 4 A
Dr Harit Chaturvedi, Dr. Alain Labrique +3
18 Feb 2026 · 2:00 PM
Accelerating Data Center Infrastructure for advancing AI (Hosted by Supermicro)
2:00 PM — 3:30 PM (IST)
Hall No. 4 First Floor - Conference Room 3
Mr. Suresh Kumar T – General Manager, Mr. Kambiez Tahvilian - Vice President +2
AI Adoption to Autonomous Banking: Building Trust, Scale, and Inclusion (Hosted by BusinessNext)
2:00 PM — 3:30 PM (IST)
Hall No. 3 First Floor - Conference Room 4
Nishant Singh , Pankaj Sharma +5
Creative Canvas of AI: How to elevate your storytelling (Hosted by Google)
2:00 PM — 3:30 PM (IST)
Hall No. 4 First Floor - Conference Room 2
Smt. Durga Raghunath, Ms. Gail Kent +6
Masterclass on Democratizing Enterprise AI for Scale and Accuracy (Intellect Design Arena)
2:00 PM — 3:30 PM (IST)
Hall No. 5 First Floor - Conference Room 1
Mr Arun Jain
18 Feb 2026 · 2:15 PM
International Panel 2: Safe & Trusted AI
2:15 PM — 3:40 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room 7
Sunayana Sitaram, Stuart J. Russell +3
Poster Showcase - Research Symposium
2:15 PM — 3:40 PM (IST)
L1 MR 8 and L2 Foyer
Research Dialogue 2 - The Next Frontiers – Grand Challenges in AI Research
2:15 PM — 3:40 PM (IST)
L2 Audi II
Manish Gupta, Sara Hooker +5
18 Feb 2026 · 2:30 PM
Balancing Sovereignty and Collaboration: AI Frameworks for Nations
2:30 PM — 3:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 6
Elizabeth Kelly, Rahul Matthan +3
Empowering Billions: AI, Health Records, and the Future of People-Powered Care
2:30 PM — 3:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 18
Dr. Anand Iyer, Dr. Rajendra Pratap Gupta +4
France India AI Initiative: A Shared Path to Ethical, Inclusive and Strategic Innovation
2:30 PM — 3:30 PM (IST)
West Wing Room 4 A
Aakrit Vaish, Ahmed Baladi +13
Keynote - Service Economy to Innovation Economy: India's AI Moment
2:30 PM — 2:42 PM (IST)
Plenary Hall - B
CP Gurnani
NVIDIA x Activate: Building AI Companies in India from Day Zero
2:30 PM — 3:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 19
Tobias Halloran
Safe and Trusted Agentic AI: Building Accountability and Inclusion for India and the Global South
2:30 PM — 3:30 PM (IST)
Nalanda Banquet
Dr. Abdulrahman Habib, Dr. Ansgar Koene +4
Scaling Trusted AI for 8 Billion+
2:30 PM — 3:30 PM (IST)
West Wing Room 4 B
Aparna Bawa, Bipul Sinha +4
Unlocking India's Demographic Dividend: Blue Dots^AI as Digital Rails
2:30 PM — 3:30 PM (IST)
Shakuntalam Banquet
Shri Gaurav Gupta, Shri. Abhinav Gopal +3
18 Feb 2026 · 2:44 PM
Panel
2:44 PM — 3:25 PM (IST)
Plenary Hall - B
Ashwin Yardi, Victoria A. Espinel +4
18 Feb 2026 · 3:30 PM
Aadhaar & AI : The Identity Paradox (Hosted by UIDAI)
3:30 PM — 5:00 PM (IST)
Hall No. 5 First Floor - Conference Room 1
Sh.Barada Prasad Sabut, Sh.Sridhar Dhulipala +1
Advancing Multilingual AI: Global South Governance of Non-English Model Development and Deployment
3:30 PM — 4:30 PM (IST)
Shakuntalam Banquet
Aliya Bhatia, Chinasa T Okolo +3
AI for All: Role of Open Source Hardware and Software
3:30 PM — 4:30 PM (IST)
Chanakya Auditorium
Fabio Violante, Guneet Bedi +3
Creative Canvas of AI: India's Creator Revolution (Hosted by Google)
3:30 PM — 5:00 PM (IST)
Hall No. 4 First Floor - Conference Room 2
Harsh Dhand, Gail Kent +10
Founders of the Future: AI Roadmaps for Purpose Driven Startups (Hosted by CSRBOX)
3:30 PM — 5:00 PM (IST)
Hall No. 3 First Floor - Conference Room 4
K S Vishwanathan, Suket Amin +1
Powering Institutions for an AI Driven Future (Hosted by Accenture)
3:30 PM — 4:15 PM (IST)
Hall No. 4 First Floor - Conference Room 3
Anurag Bansal, Prof. Alok Kumar Rai +2
Responsible Quantum and AI Security Frontiers
3:30 PM — 4:30 PM (IST)
Nalanda Banquet
Mr. Oliver B, Mr. Sachin Kakkar +4
18 Feb 2026 · 3:44 PM
Keynote
3:44 PM — 3:56 PM (IST)
Plenary Hall - B
Carl Skau
18 Feb 2026 · 3:45 PM
Keynote for Research Symposium by Dr Yann LeCun (Executive Chairman, AMI Labs and Professor of Computer Science, NYU)
3:45 PM — 4:20 PM (IST)
L2 Audi II
Dr Yann LeCun (Executive Chairman, Venkat Padmanabhan
18 Feb 2026 · 3:58 PM
Conversation
3:58 PM — 4:18 PM (IST)
Plenary Hall - B
Ajay Kumar Sood, Sethuraman Panchanathan +1
18 Feb 2026 · 4:15 PM
Transforming Enterprises for the Age of Intelligence (Hosted by Accenture)
4:15 PM — 5:00 PM (IST)
Hall No. 4 First Floor - Conference Room 3
Swati Sharma, Dattatri Salagame +1
18 Feb 2026 · 4:20 PM
Keynote
4:20 PM — 4:32 PM (IST)
Plenary Hall - B
Harshil Mathur
18 Feb 2026 · 4:30 PM
Implementing AI Standards for Global Prosperity in an Era of Agentic AI
4:30 PM — 5:30 PM (IST)
Shakuntalam Banquet
Ashley Casovan, Dr Rachel Adams +2
Safe AI: Building Shared Trust and Accountability Infrastructure
4:30 PM — 5:30 PM (IST)
Chanakya Auditorium
Dr Akash Kapur, Dr Ponnurangam Kumaraguru +3
Shaping Secure, Ethical and Accountable AI Systems for a Shared Future
4:30 PM — 5:30 PM (IST)
Nalanda Banquet
Dr Madan Oberoi, Mr. Abinav Varma Kalidindi +5
18 Feb 2026 · 5:30 PM
Demystifying Voice Stack - What Makes Voice AI Work at Scale
5:30 PM — 6:30 PM (IST)
Chanakya Auditorium
Ananth Nagaraj, Debdoot Mukherjee +3
Resilience and Customer Protection in the Age of AI
5:30 PM — 6:30 PM (IST)
Shakuntalam Banquet
Nirat Bhatnagar, Pawan Bakhshi +2
Transforming Academia Through AI: Building Future‑Ready Learners and Institutions
5:30 PM — 6:30 PM (IST)
Nalanda Banquet
Dr. Pavan Duggal, Mr. Jai Krishnan +3
19 Feb 2026 · 9:40 AM
Welcome remarks by MC
9:40 AM — 9:42 AM (IST)
Plenary Hall, Level 3
19 Feb 2026 · 9:43 AM
Official Summit Video
9:43 AM — 9:48 AM (IST)
Plenary Hall, Level 3
19 Feb 2026 · 9:49 AM
Welcome Address
9:49 AM — 9:54 AM (IST)
Plenary Hall, Level 3
Shri Ashwani Vaishnaw (Minister of Electronics & IT)
19 Feb 2026 · 9:55 AM
Keynote: N Chandrasekaran (Chairman, Tata Sons)
9:55 AM — 10:00 AM (IST)
Plenary Hall, Level 3
19 Feb 2026 · 10:00 AM
Keynote: Dario Amodei (CEO, Anthropic)
10:00 AM — 10:05 AM (IST)
Plenary Hall, Level 3
Watch Live
19 Feb 2026 · 10:05 AM
Keynote: Sundar Pichai (CEO, Google)
10:05 AM — 10:10 AM (IST)
Plenary Hall, Level 3
19 Feb 2026 · 10:10 AM
Keynote: António Guterres (UN Secretary-General)
10:10 AM — 10:15 AM (IST)
Plenary Hall, Level 3
19 Feb 2026 · 10:16 AM
Keynote: HE Emmanuel Macron (President of France)
10:16 AM — 10:24 AM (IST)
Plenary Hall, Level 3
19 Feb 2026 · 10:25 AM
Announcement of New Delhi Frontier AI Commitments
10:25 AM — 10:27 AM (IST)
Plenary Hall, Level 3
19 Feb 2026 · 10:28 AM
Address by: Shri Narendra Modi (Prime Minister of India)
10:28 AM — 10:40 AM (IST)
Plenary Hall, Level 3
19 Feb 2026 · 11:00 AM
Keynote
11:00 AM — 11:12 AM (IST)
Plenary Hall - A
Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani
19 Feb 2026 · 11:14 AM
Fireside Conversation
11:14 AM — 11:34 AM (IST)
Plenary Hall - A
Sunil Bharti Mittal, Shantanu Narayen +1
19 Feb 2026 · 11:36 AM
Keynote
11:36 AM — 11:48 AM (IST)
Plenary Hall - A
Vishal Sikka
19 Feb 2026 · 12:04 PM
Fireside Chat
12:04 PM — 12:24 PM (IST)
L3 Plenary Hall
Nandan Nilekani, Dario Amodei +1
Fireside Conversation
12:04 PM — 12:24 PM (IST)
Plenary Hall - A
Nandan Nilekani, Dario Amodei +1
19 Feb 2026 · 12:26 PM
Keynote
12:26 PM — 12:38 PM (IST)
Plenary Hall - A
Rishad Premji
19 Feb 2026 · 12:40 PM
Keynote
12:40 PM — 12:52 PM (IST)
Plenary Hall - A
Sam Altman
19 Feb 2026 · 12:54 PM
Fireside Chat
12:54 PM — 1:09 PM (IST)
Plenary Hall - A
Yann LeCun, Maria Shakeel +1
19 Feb 2026 · 1:11 PM
Keynote
1:11 PM — 1:23 PM (IST)
Plenary Hall - A
Brad Smith
19 Feb 2026 · 1:25 PM
Keynote
1:25 PM — 1:37 PM (IST)
Plenary Hall - A
Demis Hassabis
19 Feb 2026 · 1:39 PM
Keynote
1:39 PM — 1:51 PM (IST)
Plenary Hall - A
Julie Sweet
19 Feb 2026 · 1:53 PM
Keynote
1:53 PM — 2:05 PM (IST)
Plenary Hall - A
Alexandr Wang
19 Feb 2026 · 2:00 PM
Building India's next Decade of Innovation: The Role of Incubators, AI, and Innovation Missions(Hosted by AIM & STPI)
2:00 PM — 3:30 PM (IST)
Hall No. 4 First Floor - Conference Room 2
Sh. Prateek Deshmukh, Sh. Kavikrut +4
e-Drishtikone Series: Building Inclusive AI by Centering Tribal Languages (Hosted by Bhashini)
2:00 PM — 2:45 PM (IST)
Hall No. 5 First Floor - Conference Room 1
Dr. Mittali Sethi
Technological Leadership: Partnership for Sovereign AI - Indo Russian conclave
2:00 PM — 3:30 PM (IST)
Hall No. 4 First Floor - Conference Room 3
19 Feb 2026 · 2:07 PM
Keynote
2:07 PM — 2:19 PM (IST)
Plenary Hall - A
Roy Jakobs
19 Feb 2026 · 2:21 PM
Keynote
2:21 PM — 2:33 PM (IST)
Plenary Hall - A
Martin Schroeter
19 Feb 2026 · 2:35 PM
Keynote
2:35 PM — 2:47 PM (IST)
Plenary Hall - A
Jeet Adani
19 Feb 2026 · 2:45 PM
Fireside Chat: Public Stack, Public Trust — AI for Scale with Accountability (Hosted by Bhashini)
2:45 PM — 3:30 PM (IST)
Hall No. 5 First Floor - Conference Room 1
Shri Alok Prem Nagar
19 Feb 2026 · 2:49 PM
Keynote
2:49 PM — 3:01 PM (IST)
Plenary Hall - A
Olivier Blum
19 Feb 2026 · 3:03 PM
Keynote
3:03 PM — 3:15 PM (IST)
Plenary Hall - A
Arthur Mensch
19 Feb 2026 · 3:17 PM
Keynote
3:17 PM — 3:29 PM (IST)
Plenary Hall - A
Rajesh Subramanian
19 Feb 2026 · 3:30 PM
Masterclass on Democratizing Enterprise AI for Scale and Accuracy (Intellect Design Arena)
3:30 PM — 5:00 PM (IST)
Hall No. 4 First Floor - Conference Room 2
Mr Arun Jain
Responsible AI for affordable & accessible technology adoption fostering Sustainable Cities (Hosted by Airawat Research Foundation)
3:30 PM — 5:00 PM (IST)
Hall No. 5 First Floor - Conference Room 1
Mr. Ramesh Raskar – MIT Media Lab, Mr. Anurag Yadav - Principal Secretary +6
Trusted AI at Scale: A Leadership Conversation on Opportunity, Governance, and Responsible Acceleration (Hosted by ServiceNow)
3:30 PM — 5:00 PM (IST)
Hall No. 3 First Floor - Conference Room 4
Amit Zavery
19 Feb 2026 · 3:31 PM
Keynote
3:31 PM — 3:43 PM (IST)
Plenary Hall - A
Vinod Khosla
19 Feb 2026 · 3:45 PM
Keynote
3:45 PM — 3:57 PM (IST)
Plenary Hall - A
Nikesh Arora
19 Feb 2026 · 3:59 PM
Keynote
3:59 PM — 4:11 PM (IST)
Plenary Hall - A
Ravi Kumar
19 Feb 2026 · 4:13 PM
Keynote
4:13 PM — 4:25 PM (IST)
Plenary Hall - A
Roshni Nadar Malhotra
19 Feb 2026 · 4:24 PM
Panel Discussion
4:24 PM — 4:44 PM (IST)
L3 Plenary Hall
Cina Lawson, Nezar Patria +2
19 Feb 2026 · 4:27 PM
Conversation
4:27 PM — 4:47 PM (IST)
Plenary Hall - A
Cina Lawson, Nezar Patria +2
19 Feb 2026 · 4:46 PM
Panel Discussion
4:46 PM — 5:06 PM (IST)
L3 Plenary Hall
Paula Bogantes Zamora, Omar Al Olama +2
19 Feb 2026 · 4:49 PM
Conversation
4:49 PM — 5:09 PM (IST)
Plenary Hall - A
Paula Bogantes Zamora, Omar Al Olama +2
19 Feb 2026 · 5:11 PM
Keynote
5:11 PM — 5:23 PM (IST)
Plenary Hall - A
Rishi Sunak
19 Feb 2026 · 5:22 PM
Fireside Chat
5:22 PM — 5:37 PM (IST)
L3 Plenary Hall
Tony Blair, Sonia Singh
19 Feb 2026 · 5:25 PM
Keynote
5:25 PM — 5:37 PM (IST)
Plenary Hall - A
Bejul Somaia
Watch Live
19 Feb 2026 · 5:42 PM
Keynote
5:42 PM — 5:54 PM (IST)
Plenary Hall - A
Surya Ganguli
19 Feb 2026 · 5:56 PM
Keynote
5:56 PM — 6:08 PM (IST)
Plenary Hall - A
Lars Reger
19 Feb 2026 · 6:10 PM
Keynote
6:10 PM — 6:22 PM (IST)
Plenary Hall - A
Amit Zavery
20 Feb 2026 · 9:30 AM
Accelerating India's AI Growth – A Blueprint for India's AI Success
9:30 AM — 10:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 6
Hon'ble Shri Jayant Chaudhary Ji, Manish Gupta +5
AI at the Core, 6G at the Edge: Designing India's Next Resilient, Innovative and Efficient Digital Frontier
9:30 AM — 10:30 AM (IST)
Chanakya Auditorium
Radhakant Das, Rajesh Kumar Pathak +2
AI for Agriculture: Scaling Intelligence for Food and Climate Resilience
9:30 AM — 10:30 AM (IST)
L2 Audi 1
Abhishek Singh, Devendra Fadnavis +5
AI for Economic Development and Social Good
9:30 AM — 10:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 7
Ashwini Vaishnaw, Dr. Anshuman Awasthi +8
AI in Negotiations, Diplomacy, and Conflict Management
9:30 AM — 10:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 10
Carme Artigas, Gabriela Ramos +5
AI-fueled Enterprise Transformation
9:30 AM — 10:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room 16
Mahesh Makhija, Suma R Chander +3
AI-Ready Data: Shared Infrastructure for Innovation
9:30 AM — 10:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 15
Rohit Bardawaj, Dawit Phillipos +3
Building AI Readiness: From Compute to Capability
9:30 AM — 10:30 AM (IST)
West Wing Room 4 A
Dr. Paneerselvam M, Thomas Zacharia +1
Democratizing AI Compute and Digital Data Infrastructures
9:30 AM — 10:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 19
Chenai Chair, Faith Waithaka +5
Democratizing AI for Industry and Society
9:30 AM — 10:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 17
Developing Eastern India's Tech Hub
9:30 AM — 10:30 AM (IST)
Retreat Lounge
Governing Scientific AI at Scale: Safety, Evaluation, and Institutional Readiness
9:30 AM — 10:30 AM (IST)
West Wing Room 4 B
Dr. Geetha Raju, Dr. Shyam Krishna +2
India's Path to an AGI-Enabling Ecosystem
9:30 AM — 10:30 AM (IST)
Shakuntalam Banquet
Parth Sarthi, Shri Ghanshyam Prasad +2
Keynote
9:30 AM — 9:45 AM (IST)
Plenary Hall - A
Sundar Pichai
Scaling Human Potential in the Age of AI
9:30 AM — 10:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 8
Anurag Hoon, Archana Vemulapalli +4
The Innovation Beneath AI: The US-India Partnership powering the AI Era
9:30 AM — 10:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 18
Jeff Binder, Prince Dhawan +4
Welfare for All: Ensuring Equitable AI Growth Across the World's Largest and Oldest Democracies
9:30 AM — 10:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 9
Mr. Amit Chadha, Mr. Brad Staples +6
पढ़AI 2.0: Reimagining Indian Education System
9:30 AM — 10:30 AM (IST)
Nalanda Banquet
Alondra Nelson, Pankaj Arora +2
20 Feb 2026 · 9:37 AM
Keynote
9:37 AM — 9:47 AM (IST)
L2 Audi 2
Mathias Cormann
20 Feb 2026 · 9:49 AM
Panel: Data Sovereignty
9:49 AM — 10:25 AM (IST)
L2 Audi 2
Sunil Gupta, Nasubo Ongoma +2
20 Feb 2026 · 10:00 AM
Accelerate safe AI at scale (Hosted by IndiaTech)
10:00 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
Hall No. 4 First Floor - Conference Room 2
Sandeep Bhambure, Dr. Abhay Sinha +3
Future of AI DataCenter
10:00 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
Hall No. 4 First Floor - Conference Room 3
Aadit Shah , Vibhor Iyer
GIZ Policy Report & Developer Toolkit Launch (Hosted by Bhashini)
10:00 AM — 11:00 AM (IST)
Hall No. 3 First Floor - Conference Room 4
K S Vishwanathan, Suket Amin +1
Need and Impact of Full Stack Sovereign AI
10:00 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
Hall No. 5 First Floor - Conference Room 1
Ankush Sabharwal, A. S. Lakshminarayanan +5
20 Feb 2026 · 10:30 AM
Agentic AI Roundtable
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 15
Caroline Louveaux, Daniel Castro +6
AI and Open Networks: Creating Impact at Scale
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
L2 Audi 1
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Mr. James Manyika +3
AI and Workforce Transformation: India's Roadmap to Global Competitiveness
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
Chanakya Auditorium
Mr Ravi Aurora, Mr Srikrishna Ramakarthikeyan +3
AI for Resilience: Closing the Technology Adoption Gap in Disaster Risk Reduction
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 17
AI Literacy and Building for Children in a Digital Age
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
Retreat Lounge
Atish Joshua Gonsalves, Dr. Saadhna Panday +2
Beyond Technicality: Multidisciplinary AI Governance for Real-World Impact
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 9
Dame Wendy Hall, James (Kayliang) Ong +9
Building Blocks for National AI Strategy and Implementation
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 7
Atsushi Yamanka, Dr. Hoda Baraka +5
Heterogeneous Compute for Democratizing Access to AI: From Workload Awareness to Scalable Deployment
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
West Wing Room No. 6
Bhawna Agarwal, Daisy Chittilapilly +5
Intelligent Telecom Networks in the age of AI and Data Sovereignty
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 8
Ambika Khurana, Debashish Chakraborty +3
Multistakeholder Partnerships for Thriving AI Ecosystems
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 10
Arundhati Bhattacharya, Dr. Bärbel Kofler +2
Responsible AI in Action: How Global Enterprises Are Building Trust at Scale
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 6
Mr. Manish Gupta, Mr. Sundar R Nagalingam +3
Rightsizing Governance in an AI-Driven World
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
West Wing Room 4 B
Isabella Wilkinson, Melika Carroll +4
Safe and Trusted AI High-Level Event: Responsible Practices and Industry Standards
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 19
Alexandria Walden, Ankit Bose +6
Scaling Climate Solutions: Data, AI, and India's Energy Transformation
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
West Wing Room 4 A
Akhilesh Magal, Dr. Cormekki Whitley +6
Scaling Trusted AI: How France and India Are Building Industrial & Innovation Bridges
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 18
Arthur Mensch, Arun Sadheesh +4
The Role of Science in International AI Governance
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
L2 Audi 2
Ajay Kumar Sood, Amandeep Gill +8
Trustworthy AI for All: Democratizing AI Resources Across the Stack
10:30 AM — 11:30 AM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 16
Carsten Maple, Dame Professor Wendy Hall +4
20 Feb 2026 · 11:00 AM
Fireside Chat: From Data Centres to Dialects — Scaling Sovereign Language AI for a Billion Voices (Hosted by Bhashini)
11:00 AM — 12:00 PM (IST)
Hall No. 3 First Floor - Conference Room 4
Mrs. Padma Bhamidipati, Mr. Akshay Beerala +3
20 Feb 2026 · 11:30 AM
AI Beyond Moonshots: A Playbook for Many
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
West Wing Room 4 A
Abhineet Kaul, Brando Benifei +3
AI for Safer Workplaces & Smarter Industries: Transforming Risk into Real-Time Intelligence (Hosted by Benchmark Gensuite)
11:30 AM — 1:00 PM (IST)
Hall No. 4 First Floor - Conference Room 2
Naveen GV, Chandan T
AI for the Good of All - Brazilian Perspectives on the Future of AI
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
L2 Audi 2
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Mauro Vieira +5
AI led Hyperautomation in BFSI
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room 16
Ruchika Panesar, Prashant Garg +4
AI Solutions for Climate Resilience: Scaling Innovation and Efficiency
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 8
Adam Sobey, Ankur Puri +8
Beyond Proof of Concepts: Using 4D-AI to Build Sovereign, Sustainable and Responsible AI at Production Scale
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
Shakuntalam Banquet
Omeed Hashim, Theresa Yurkewich Hoffmann
Breaking Barriers: Multilingual AI as a Bridge to Democratic Access
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 10
Ayah Bdeir, Dr. Amitabh Nag +7
Building Public Interest AI: Catalytic Funding for Equitable Access to Compute Resources
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 19
Abhishek Singh, Andrew Sweet +7
Designing the AI Factory: Scaling Compute to Sovereign AI (Hosted by NVIDIA | VERTIV)
11:30 AM — 1:00 PM (IST)
Hall No. 5 First Floor - Conference Room 1
Sanjay Sainani, Giordano Albertazzi +4
How Non-Profits are using AI-based Innovations to Scale Impact
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
West Wing Room 4 B
Erica Arya, Mainak Roy +4
MahaAI: Building Safe, Secure and Smart Governance
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
L2 Audi 1
Davinder Sandhu, Dr. Amit Kapoor +10
NextGen AI: Skills, Safety, and Social Value — technical mastery aligned with ethical standards(Hosted by STPI)
11:30 AM — 1:00 PM (IST)
Hall No. 4 First Floor - Conference Room 3
Prof.(Dr.) Alok Pandey, Prof. Jawar Singh +5
Panel Discussion: Reimagining AI and STEM Education for India's Next Generation
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
Chanakya Auditorium
Abhijeet Upponi, Ajay Data +5
Partnering on American AI Exports
11:30 AM — 12:30 PM (IST)
L3 Plenary Hall
20 Feb 2026 · 11:42 AM
Panel: AI in Science
11:42 AM — 12:25 PM (IST)
L2 Audi 2
Irakli Beridze, Prof. Antoine Petit +3
20 Feb 2026 · 12:00 PM
ElevenLabs Voice AI Session & NCRB/NPM Fireside Chat (Hosted by Bhashini)
12:00 PM — 1:00 PM (IST)
Hall No. 3 First Floor - Conference Room 4
Ms. Mati Staniszewski
20 Feb 2026 · 12:02 PM
Fireside Chat
12:02 PM — 12:22 PM (IST)
Plenary Hall - A
Børge Brende, Ashwini Vaishnaw +1
Fireside Chat
12:02 PM — 12:22 PM (IST)
L3 Plenary Hall
Børge Brende, Ashwini Vaishnaw +1
20 Feb 2026 · 12:24 PM
Keynote
12:24 PM — 12:36 PM (IST)
Plenary Hall - A
Jeetu Patel
20 Feb 2026 · 12:30 PM
AI and Intellectual Property: Building an Equitable Innovation Ecosystem
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM (IST)
Retreat Lounge
Dr. Ulrike Till, Mr. Ameet Datta +8
AI governance in the Age of Powerful AI - IInternational Perspectives and the Code of Practice
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 6
Henna Virkkunen, Lucilla Sioli +2
Aligning AI Governance Across the Technology Stack
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 8
Aparna Bawa, David Zapolsky +2
Catalyzing Global Investment for Equitable and Responsible AI in Health
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 7
Alain Labrique, Catharina Boehma +6
Global AI Capacity Development Network
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM (IST)
L2 Audi 1
Leadership Dialogue on AI in Mobility: Accelerating the Future of Intelligent Transport
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM (IST)
Nalanda Banquet
Dr Shiv Kumar
Open Networks in the Global South
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM (IST)
West Wing Room 4 B
Mr. Aniket Doegar, Mr. Sachin Gopalan +3
Peace, Power and Perspectives: A Value-Based Approach to Trustworthy AI
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 19
Amlan Mohanty, Heather Broomfield +8
Regional Ministerial Dialogue on AI-Ready Digital Infrastructure
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 18
Roundtable on Building Global Competitiveness and Shared Prosperity with AI
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 15
Cathy Li
Speaking Everyone's Language: The Key to Inclusive AI Opportunity
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 10
Ankur Vora, Chenai Chair +5
Standards as Strategy: Accelerating AI Market Growth
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM (IST)
Shakuntalam Banquet
Amanda Craig, Balaraman Ravindran +5
Who Watches the Watchers? Exploring Independent Verification in AI Governance
12:30 PM — 1:30 PM (IST)
West Wing Room 4 A
Dean Ball, Gregory C. Allen +1
20 Feb 2026 · 12:38 PM
Keynote
12:38 PM — 12:50 PM (IST)
Plenary Hall - A
Cristiano Amon
20 Feb 2026 · 12:44 PM
Panel
12:44 PM — 1:25 PM (IST)
Plenary Hall - B
Anna Paula, Rajesh Varrier - President Global Operations +2
Panel: Inclusion, Innovation, and the Future of AI
12:44 PM — 1:25 PM (IST)
L2 Audi 2
Ivana Bartoletti, Dean Ball +2
20 Feb 2026 · 12:52 PM
Keynote
12:52 PM — 1:04 PM (IST)
Plenary Hall - A
Ebba Busch
20 Feb 2026 · 1:06 PM
Panel Discussion
1:06 PM — 1:36 PM (IST)
Plenary Hall - A
John Palfrey, Terah Lyons +4
20 Feb 2026 · 1:30 PM
AI and Children's Safety and Wellbeing
1:30 PM — 2:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 19
Amandeep Singh Gill, Chris Lehane +8
AI and the New Frontier for Economic Progress: Linking Innovation to Inclusive Growth
1:30 PM — 2:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 18
Anu Bradford, Iqbal Singh Dhaliwal +4
AI as Critical Infrastructure for Continuity in Public Services
1:30 PM — 2:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 17
Chengetai Masango, J.J. Singh +3
AI Diffusion: From Innovation to Population Scale Impact
1:30 PM — 2:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 16
Beatriz Vasconcellos, Courtney O'Donnell +5
Collective AI for Indian Society
1:30 PM — 2:30 PM (IST)
West Wing Room 4 B
Antaraa Vasudev, Dr. Nirav Ajmeri +4
Edge AI in Action: Accelerating Development across the Global South
1:30 PM — 2:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 10
Alagan Mahalingam, Dr. Ranjitha Prasad +7
Enabling Global Enterprise AI Adoption for Impact
1:30 PM — 2:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 8
Danielle Johnson-Kutch, Dr. Clas Neumann +11
Evaluations and Open Source Software for AI for Social Good at Scale
1:30 PM — 2:30 PM (IST)
Retreat Lounge
Mr. Ashwani Sharma, Mr. Sanket Verma +2
Keynote
1:30 PM — 1:40 PM (IST)
L2 Audi 2
Uday Shankar
Keynote: Revanth Reddy, Chief Minister of Telangana
1:30 PM — 1:45 PM (IST)
L2 Audi 1
Preparing for the Future: AI-Driven Strategies for Workforce and Economic Growth
1:30 PM — 2:30 PM (IST)
West Wing Room 4 A
Mr Chandrajit Banerjee, Mr Puneet Chandok +2
Realizing the Health Value of AI - Safely
1:30 PM — 2:30 PM (IST)
L1 Meeting Room No. 6
Dr. Monika Sharma, Dr. Richard Rukwata +5
Responsible AI: From Principles to Practice in Corporate India