India AI Impact Summit 2026: India is hosting the country’s biggest AI summit so far. The 5-day event will bring together tech giants, innovative startups, big tech leaders, including Sundar Pichai (Google) and Sam Altman (OpenAI), along with industrialists and businessmen, including Mukesh Ambani, at Bharat Mandapam. Today, the AI India Summit will have restricted entry and will open for the general public starting tomorrow. Here is the complete schedule for Day 1, how to register and more details.
As per the India AI Summit 2026 website, there will be 100+ sessions across multiple parallel tracks, with each ranging from 30 minutes to 3 hours. The coverage of topics including AI in agriculture, healthcare, education, governance, sustainability and more. Below is the complete schedule.
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Her First Algorithm, India’s Next Breakthrough (Flagship Event)
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM
Inside India’s Frontier Lab and Its Global South Impact
10:00 AM – 10:10 AM
Startup Spotlight 1: Cognitii (Flagship Event)
10:00 AM – 10:40 AM
GTM Clinic: Answers for AI Founders (Flagship Event)
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Roundtable on AI for Decarbonisation and Circularity: Building India’s Low-Carbon Infrastructure
10:40 AM – 10:50 AM
Startup Spotlight 2: AI-Validated 3D Bio-printed Disease Models (Flagship Event)
10:50 AM – 11:30 AM
From Lab to Lives: Turning Innovation into Impact (Flagship Event)
11:30 AM – 11:40 AM
Startup Spotlight 3: AI-powered Product Development Platform (Flagship Event)
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Responsible AI for Bharat: Building Trust, Safety, and Global Leadership
11:40 AM – 12:10 PM
Cracking Global Markets: Lessons from GCC-Bred Innovators (Flagship Event)
12:10 PM – 12:20 PM
Startup Spotlight 4: Fifth Sense – Sign Language Translation Gloves (Flagship Event)
12:20 PM – 12:50 PM
Capital, Control, and Clarity: How to Turn Investor Questions into Yeses (Flagship Event)
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
Whose Language, Whose Model? Public-Interest Multilingual LLMs
12:30 PM – 3:30 PM
India AI Impact Buildathon
12:50 PM – 1:00 PM
Startup Spotlight 5: NariRaksha.AI (Flagship Event)
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
AI and Children: Turning Principles into Practice
2:00 PM – 2:40 PM
Why Startups Fail – Three Design Lenses to Fail Less as an (AI) Startup (Flagship Event)
2:30 PM – 3:30 PM
Policymakers’ Dialogue on AI, Policy Evolution, and the Rule of Law
2:40 PM – 2:50 PM
Startup Spotlight 6: Powering the Next Generation of Autonomous Operations (Flagship Event)
2:50 PM – 3:20 PM
Rewriting the Startup Playbook: Not Despite. Because of HER (Flagship Event)
3:20 PM – 3:30 PM
Startup Spotlight 7: Baeru – AI-first Waste Intelligence Layer (Flagship Event)
3:30 PM – 3:40 PM
Demo: National Data Analytics Platform (Flagship Event)
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
AI & Arthik Shakti: A Blueprint for Women-led Prosperity
3:40 PM – 3:50 PM
Startup Spotlight 8: Arghyam (Flagship Event)
3:50 PM – 4:00 PM
Expert Speaks: Going Global – Guidance on Leadership (Flagship Event)
4:00 PM – 4:10 PM
Startup Spotlight 9: The World’s First AI Platform for K-12 Entrepreneurship (Flagship Event)
4:10 PM – 4:40 PM
Building Things to Transform – Breaking the Mould (Flagship Event)
4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Global Mission on AI for Energy
5:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Frontier Tech Hub Repository (Flagship Event)
5:30 PM – 5:40 PM
Startup Spotlight 10: Sychedelic – Headphones Beyond Music (Flagship Event)
5:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Agri AI: Advancing Responsible AI for Agriculture
5:40 PM – 6:10 PM
Early Sparks, Big Impact: The Next Generation of Innovators (Flagship Event)
6:00 PM
Large Cultural Models – Building Ethical and Cultural AI from India
6:10 PM – 6:20 PM
Startup Spotlight 11: Aquaairx Autonomous Systems (Flagship Event)
6:20 PM – 6:30 PM
Startup Spotlight 12: RoshniAI by Dharmalife (Flagship Event)
6:30 PM – 6:50 PM
From Access to Acceleration: How WEP Supports Women Founders (Flagship Event)
While the entry for February 16 is restricted due to the high-profile PM Modi inauguration event, people can register themselves for February 17 to 20 by following the steps mentioned below.
Visit the official portal and click on Register Now.
Select your category (e.g., Delegate).
Fill in personal details exactly as per your Government ID.
Verify your email using the OTP sent to your inbox.
Enter professional details, including organisation and role.
Upload a passport-sized photo (350x350px, white background).
Receive confirmation & QR code via email after approval.
The India AI Impact Summit 2026 will be held at Bharat Mandapam, with some specific initiatives hosted at Sushma Swaraj Bhawan. The sessions usually begin at 9.30 AM and run until 6.30 PM.