The Summit saw unprecedented engagement, with nearly 6 lakh in-person participants and over 9 lakh cumulative views through live virtual streaming. Delegations representing more than 100 countries and 20 international organisations took part in the discussions and deliberations.

The thematic priorities of the Summit were structured around seven key focus areas, referred to as the "Chakras", namely:

• Human Capital Development
• Social Empowerment and Inclusion
• Safe and Trusted AI
• Resilience, Innovation and Efficiency
• Foundational AI Science
• Democratisation of AI Resources and
• Use of AI for Economic Growth and Social Good.

These themes guided the Summit's plenary sessions, side events, and stakeholder discussions.

Building on these priorities, Nasscom played a key role in advancing industry-led dialogues at the Summit by convening a series of focused sessions aligned with the Summit's core themes. These sessions brought together global technology leaders, startups, policymakers, and domain experts to explore practical pathways for responsible AI adoption, talent development, policy governance and innovation at scale, translating the Summit's guiding principles into actionable industry insights.

The details of the Nasscom sessions are given below:

1. Responsible AI Hub: Responsible Deployment and Use of AI Systems in Social Welfare Delivery

The session examined the use of artificial intelligence in social welfare delivery and its implications for accuracy, fairness, and accountability. It explored risks linked to automated decision making, the importance of human oversight, and ways to reduce unintended negative outcomes to beneficiaries. The discussion also focussed on monitoring and evaluation approaches that help governments assess impact, costs, and outcomes, and identify safeguards to ensure transparent, equitable, and effective welfare programmes.

View the session here: https://www.youtube.com/live/Wr8eqpD9bMY

2. AI x Creativity: Skilling for Innovation in the Intelligent Economy

The session explored convergence of artificial intelligence and human creativity in shaping the future workforce. This panel brought together leaders from industry, government, and the creative economy to discuss how AI is transforming design, media, storytelling, and innovation. The session highlighted future-ready skills, national skilling pathways, and collaborative initiatives enabling India's intelligent and creative economy.

View the session here: https://www.youtube.com/live/TKm60jiqeqA

3. Building Resilient, Sustainable AI Infrastructure for People, Planet and Progress

AI at scale requires infrastructure that converts promise into real impact. This session explored shared compute, efficient architectures, and hybrid cloud-to-edge strategies, comparing frontier model training with deployment of right-sized models for citizens, SMEs, and public systems. Anchored in People, Planet, and Progress, the session examined access, affordability, sustainability, and optimization in India as core design constraints. The discussion addressed what should be built nationally, what collaboration can unlock, and where geopolitical frictions may arise globally.

View the session here: https://www.youtube.com/live/sWwp3kQjBdE

4. GenAI Talent Imperative: Building Global Future Workforce

The roundtable brought together leaders from industry, academia, and government to shape the future of AI-ready talent. As Generative AI rapidly transforms roles, skills, and productivity, this session explored workforce readiness, emerging GenAI skill requirements and scalable skilling frameworks. The session aimed to align policy, education, and industry needs for building a globally competitive, future-ready workforce.

View the session here: https://www.youtube.com/live/xRUNY1u3cw0

5. From Policy to Practice: Governing AI for Global Impact

Trust is the infrastructure of AI adoption. This session focused on what it takes in 2026 to govern AI for real world benefit, especially in the Global Majority. The discussion moved decisively from principles to practice, highlighting the role of regulatory and innovation sandboxes with clear entry and exit criteria, independent evaluations, red-teaming, and reusable assurance tools such as model cards, audit logs, and incident reporting frameworks. Participants also explored where interoperability and cross-border collaboration can accelerate impact, and where considerations of sovereignty and geopolitics may introduce friction, underscoring the need for balanced, globally aligned yet locally grounded governance approaches.

View the session here: https://www.youtube.com/live/dnjbXDMRZbw

6. Charting India's AI-IP Playbook: Innovation, Rights and National Advantage

From AI-generated content and code to foundation models, traditional boundaries of authorship, inventorship, and ownership are increasingly contested as jurisdictions adapt their intellectual property regimes. The IndiaAI Mission positions indigenous datasets, models, and compute infrastructure as strategic national assets for innovation, exports, and long-term economic growth. Without a future-ready AI-IP framework, India risks legal uncertainty that could constrain innovation and investment. This session situated AI-IP policy within the vision of Viksit Bharat, linking science and innovation, safe and trusted AI, and AI-led economic growth and social good.

View the session here: https://www.youtube.com/live/vUwEgiCU7JY

7. Sovereign AI Infrastructure for Bharat and Global South

India's strategic AI infrastructure must be built around three core pillars: security, sustainability, and open standards. Aligned with the objectives of Atmanirbhar Bharat and Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) compliance, this session examined the emerging architecture of sovereign compute ecosystems, including edge-cloud convergence for next-generation (6G) networks, neuromorphic computing, and low-precision inference systems designed for scalable deployment. It further explored multi-agent orchestration frameworks and cross-sector compute-exchange models that can expand access to high-performance computing for startups, academia, and public institutions.

View the session here: https://www.youtube.com/live/7wx8yIouJ28

8. Innovating Together: Harnessing Open-Source AI for Inclusive Economic Development

This session marked the official release of the policy brief titled, 'Advancing Open-Source AI in India: Recommendations for Governments and Technology Developers', published jointly by the IndiaAI Mission, FAIR Forward - Artificial Intelligence for All, Digital Futures Lab, and Nasscom. Developed through extensive expert consultations, this policy brief provides a blueprint for promoting open-source AI in India, outlining its key opportunities and potential challenges and risks.

View the session here: https://www.youtube.com/live/GvTUwS8Upr4

9. AI at the Core, 6G at the Edge: Designing India's Next Resilient, Innovative and Efficient Digital Frontier

The panel discussion situated India's opportunity at the intersection of these two forces: AI providing cognition, autonomy, and predictive intelligence, while 6G provides real-time sensing, extreme reliability, and pervasive connectivity across terrestrial, aerial, maritime, and satellite systems. In this emerging paradigm, networks themselves become AI-native: the radio interface, the RAN, the core, and the edge begin to reason, adapt, self-organize, and optimize through multi-agent intelligence

View the session here: https://www.youtube.com/live/BDe7VaLCYhE

10. AI and Workforce Transformation: India's Roadmap to Global Competitiveness

This session explored how AI is reshaping jobs, skills, and productivity, and how India can convert this disruption into a strategic advantage. It examined the evolving AI skills landscape and discuss how to build inclusive, AI-native talent pipelines through skilling, reskilling, vernacular learning, and stronger industry-academia collaboration. Bringing together policymakers, industry leaders, academia, and SMEs, the session also highlighted role of private industry in positioning India as a globally competitive hub for AI talent.

View the session here: https://www.youtube.com/live/9tYyUiO6xF8

11. Sovereign AI for India: Designing the Nation's Future Compute, Data and Innovation Ecosystem

This panel explored how India can build sovereign AI capabilities across compute, data, models, and governance to reduce dependence on foreign systems while aligning AI development with national priorities and constitutional values. The discussion examined the democratization of AI resources, trusted governance frameworks, affordable national compute infrastructure, India-centric datasets, responsible AI practices, and ways to strengthen India's voice in global AI standards and negotiations.

View the session here: https://www.youtube.com/live/Dba_JlDSAR0

12. Artificial General Intelligence: A New Paradigm of Safety, Security, Privacy, Ethics, and Governance

Artificial general intelligence will intensify existing challenges around safety, security, privacy, ethics, and governance. This session hosted by DSCI examined how current trajectories in advanced AI raise near-term governance questions, particularly for developing economies. It explored institutional readiness, policy gaps, and risk pathways across data, compute, markets, and deployment contexts and practical considerations for anticipatory governance that can inform responsible decision-making before irreversible dependencies take hold.

View the session here: https://www.youtube.com/live/cWifdwhp6ko

Director - Public Policy