ET Edge AI Summit 2026 to Drive India’s Transition from AI Vision to Global Impact

Maharashtra, India, 6th May 2026, ZEX PR WIRE — For nearly a decade, India has spoken ambitiously about artificial intelligence. Policy documents, national missions, and ministerial addresses have all pointed in the same direction: AI as the next frontier of India’s economic transformation. What has been harder to pin down is ‘how’. How does a country of this scale, complexity, and diversity move from articulating an AI vision to executing one at the level that global competitiveness demands?

That question sits at the centre of ET Edge AI Summit 2026: Vision to Velocity, scheduled for June 2026 in New Delhi. Coming in the immediate aftermath of the Government of India’s landmark AI convening, the summit is not arriving  in a vacuum. It is arriving at a moment that India cannot afford to miss.

Where Strategy Meets the Scale of Execution

This is a platform designed to move past strategy and into the mechanics of execution. The distinction matters more than it might sound. India has no shortage of AI gatherings. What it has  lacked is an event of this scale, where enterprise leaders sit alongside policymakers, capital allocators, and technology implementers to work through the hard questions together.

For enterprise leaders specifically, the summit offers something concrete: a chance to understand how leading organisations are scaling AI beyond experimentation, embedding  AI into core workflows and decision systems, and  evaluating real-world deployment models and ROI frameworks that hold up outside a pilot environment.

Two Stages. One Mission.

The summit is structured around two distinct stages, each serving a different but connected purpose.

The Vision Stage will focus on India’s broader AI ambitions, examining sovereign AI frameworks, global governance, and India’s positioning in an increasingly competitive international landscape. Expect a conversation that connects India AI Mission advancements to international collaborations and digital sovereignty.

The Velocity Stage shifts the conversation toward the enterprise. This is where CEOs and business leaders will unpack what it takes to move AI from pilot projects into core business functions, from boardroom slides into bottom-line impact. For anyone who has watched how slowly enterprise AI adoption has moved in India relative to the scale of ambition being expressed at the top, the Velocity Stage may well be the more consequential of the two.

Voices That Shape Decisions, Not Just Conversations

The calibre of a platform is ultimately defined by the people in the room. At ET Edge AI Summit 2026, the advisory, jury, and speaker rosters represent the full spectrum of India’s AI leadership, from the architects of national policy to the builders of enterprise technology and the investors backing the next wave of innovation. These are not observers of India’s AI story. They are its authors.

Executive Advisory

• Shri C.V. Sridhar, Mission Director, Andhra Pradesh State Quantum Mission, Amaravati Quantum Valley

• Amitabh Nag, CEO, BHASHINI and Director, IndiaAI

• Ms Rama Devi Lanka, Senior Lead Architect, NITI Aayog

• Ankit Bose, Head of AI and CEO, Centre of Excellence in Data Science and AI, NASSCOM

VC Advisory

• Ashwin Raguraman, Co-Founder and Partner, Bharat Innovation Fund

• Harsha Mundhada, Partner, Inflexor Ventures

• Anup Jain, Founding Partner, BlueGreen Ventures

AI Disruptors Awards Jury

• Ajay Sawhney, Former Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and IT, Government of India

• Virupaksh Angadi – Former Chief Digital Officer & Chief General Manager, Defense PSU – BEML LIMITED, Govt of India

• Shubhradeep Nandi, Chief Data Scientist, Government of Andhra Pradesh

• Dhananjay Tambe, Former Deputy Managing Director and CIO, State Bank of India

• Kersi Tavadia, Former CIO, Bombay Stock Exchange

• Venkatramu J, Former MD and CEO, India Post Payments Bank

• Vijay Sethi, Former CIO, Hero MotoCorp

• Anup Purohit, Former CIO, Wipro

Speakers

• Jibu Elias, Co-Creator, India AI

• Shruti Kharbanda, Robotics and AI Chairperson, Indian Chamber of Commerce

Paritosh Anand, Chief AI and Digital Officer, Wadhwani Center for Government Digital Transformation

• Sheetal Bahl Chairman, Merak Ventures | growX ventures

• Abhishek Bansal, CISO, Axis Max Life Insurance

• Baidyanath Kumar, CISO & DPO, JK Lakshmi Cement

• Jai Prakash Sharma, EVP Technology, InfoEdge

• Shakti Goel, Chief Architect and Data Scientist, Yatra

The Start-Up Arena: Where India’s Next AI Company Gets Discovered

The summit includes a dedicated Start-Up Arena designed to connect high-potential Indian AI companies with global capital. This is not a pitch competition in the traditional sense. The intent is to create substantive dialogue between founders  building real solutions and the investors and enterprise leaders who can actually advance their trajectories .

AI Disruptors Awards: Recognising the Work That Actually Moved the Needle

The AI Disruptors Awards will recognise organisations and individuals who have moved beyond experimentation to deliver measurable AI outcomes. Categories span individual leadership honours, enterprise excellence, industry-specific recognition across sectors from BFSI to healthcare to manufacturing, and an innovation spotlight for startups and deep-tech breakthroughs. Nominations are evaluated on innovation, business impact, scalability, and responsible AI governance.

India’s Seat at the Global AI Table

India has never been short of ambition when it comes to artificial intelligence. What this moment demands is translating of that ambition into decisions, deployments, and outcomes that place India irreversibly on the global AI map. ET Edge AI Summit 2026 is built precisely for that translation. The policy frameworks, enterprise playbooks, capital connections, and technology breakthroughs that will define India’s next decade of AI growth will not emerge from isolated conversations. They will emerge from a room where every stakeholder in that ecosystem is present, engaged, and ready to move.

If you are a policymaker shaping India’s digital governance, an enterprise leader scaling AI across your organisation, a founder building the next generation of intelligent solutions, or an investor backing the infrastructure of the intelligence economy, this is the platform that was built for you.

Register now and be part of the summit that moves India from AI ambition to AI leadership.

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