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
- J. 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.
