India AI Summit 2026 – 16-20 February 2026 – New Delhi (IN)

Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) is organising the India AI Impact Summit in February 2026. India will host the India - AI Impact Summit in 2026 to shape a future-oriented agenda for impactful Artificial Intelligence (AI) cooperation and mark a strategic shift from "Action" to "Impact".

The summit aims to ensure that AI serves as a catalyst for inclusive human development, environmental sustainability, and equitable progress worldwide, bridging the Global AI Divide through concrete multilateral action and enabling AI to strengthen communities, protect our planet, and accelerate progress toward a just and sustainable future for all humanity.

The Summit will be structured around seven core themes or Chakras: Human Capital, Inclusion for Social Empowerment, Safe and Trusted AI, Resilience, Innovation, and Efficiency, Science, Democratizing AI Resources, and AI for Economic Growth and Social Good.

As part of the Summit, there are several flagship initiatives being undertaken by MeitY and they are the following :

1. AI for ALL: Global Impact Challenge to identify leading AI solutions across sectors turning vision into impact.
2. AI by HER: Global Impact Challenge to promote the scaling and adoption of women-led AI solutions to enable social impact.

iii.       YUVAi: Global Youth Challenge to showcase innovation by youth (13 -21 years) while fostering AI enabled problem-solving for social good.

Further, MeitY is also organising a Research Symposium which is an interdisciplinary forum that brings together leading researchers and practitioners from India, the Global South, and the wider international community to present frontier work on the impact of AI, exchange methods and evidence, and forge collaborations. The last date for entries for the Research Symposium is 30^th November, 2025.

For more information, participation and registration please click: https://impact.indiaai.gov.in/