As India prepares to host the India AI Impact Summit 2026 (16-20 February in New Delhi), the speaker line-up points to an influential gathering of global AI leaders, policymakers, academics, and industry heads. The summit brings together those building frontier AI systems, those deploying them at scale, and those shaping the rules that will govern their use.
Speakers to Watch
Sundar Pichai, CEO, Google & Alphabet — leading one of the world’s most influential AI ecosystems, from Gemini to large-scale deployment
Jensen Huang, Founder & CEO, NVIDIA — at the centre of the global AI compute and semiconductor race
Demis Hassabis, Co-Founder & CEO, Google DeepMind — shaping the frontier of advanced AI research
Brad Smith, President & Vice Chair, Microsoft — a key global voice on AI governance and regulation
Nandan Nilekani, Co-Founder & Chairman, Infosys — championing population-scale AI for public good
Fei Fei Li, Professor, Stanford University — a leading voice on ethical, human-centred AI
Mukesh Ambani, Chairman & MD, Reliance Industries — driving large-scale AI, data, and digital infrastructure adoption across India’s consumer and enterprise economy
Sunil Bharti Mittal, Founder & Chairman, Bharti Enterprises — shaping telecom-led digital transformation and AI-enabled connectivity across emerging markets
Global Technology Leaders
Cristiano Amon, CEO, Qualcomm
Dario Amodei, CEO, Anthropic
Matthew Prince, Co-Founder & CEO, Cloudflare
Borje Ekholm, President & CEO, Ericsson Group
Erik Ekudden, CTO, Ericsson
Lars Reger, EVP & CTO, NXP Semiconductors
Jay Chaudhry, Founder & CEO, Zscaler
Nikesh Arora, Chairman & CEO, Palo Alto Networks
Olivier Blum, CEO, Schneider Electric
Ana Paula Assis, Senior VP & Chair APAC & EMEA, IBM
Amit Zavery, President, COO & CPO, ServiceNow
Jeetu Patel, President & Chief Product Officer, Cisco
Alexandr Wang, Chief AI Officer, Meta
Indian Business and Technology Leaders
Salil Parekh, CEO & MD, Infosys
C Vijayakumar, CEO & MD, HCLTech
Santhosh Viswanathan, MD & VP (India), Intel
Prativa Mohapatra, MD, Adobe India
Harshil Mathur, CEO & Co-Founder, Razorpay
Policy and Global Institutions
Børge Brende, President & CEO, World Economic Forum
Bill Gates, Chair, Gates Foundation
Victoria Espinel, CEO, Business Software Alliance
Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK
Anna Tumadóttir, CEO, Creative Commons
Trevor Hughes, President & CEO, IAPP
What distinguishes the India AI Impact Summit 2026 (16-20 February in New Delhi) is the range of stakeholders present from frontier model builders and infrastructure providers to policymakers, researchers, and civil society.
To know more about the AI Summit, visit: https://impact.indiaai.gov.in/
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