AI Influence Summit 2026: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the India AI Influence Summit and interact with world expertise leaders through the high-profile occasion scheduled to be held from February 15 to February 20, Union Ministry of Electronics and Data Know-how Secretary S Krishnan mentioned on Monday.
The Prime Minister can even host a gala dinner for visiting tech leaders as a part of the summit programme. The senior authorities officers mentioned a number of prime world CEOs have confirmed their participation. These embody Invoice Gates, Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis, Shantanu Narayen and Marc Benioff. Jensen Huang can be anticipated to attend the summit, in line with officers.
India has formally invited China to participate within the summit as nicely. Krishnan mentioned the invitation was prolonged as India positions the occasion as a world platform to advertise the thought of “democratising AI”. The summit is anticipated to see participation from greater than 100 nations, with invites already despatched to round 140 nations.
“Over 100 AI leaders, together with CEOs, CXOs and chief scientists, are prone to attend the primary periods,” he talked about. Prime Minister Modi will inaugurate the AI Influence Expo on February 16. He’ll host a gala dinner for world expertise leaders on February 18. The formal opening ceremony of the summit is scheduled for February 19, when the Prime Minister can be anticipated to attend a leaders’ plenary session and a CEO roundtable.
A ministerial assembly of the World Partnership on Synthetic Intelligence might be held on February 20, bringing collectively policymakers from completely different nations. Different confirmed contributors embody Cristiano Amon and Raj Subramaniam, together with a number of world expertise founders and teachers.
Krishnan mentioned greater than 50 CEOs and founders and over 100 senior teachers have already confirmed their attendance. Forward of the primary summit, an innovation competition will start on February 15 at Central Park in Connaught Place.
This public occasion will showcase inventive and social makes use of of synthetic intelligence. Throughout the summit week, round 800 parallel AI-related occasions are anticipated to happen throughout the nation. The federal government expects greater than 1.5 lakh folks to attend occasions linked to the summit, together with the expo.