India AI Impact Summit 2026 at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi LIVE: The five-day summit at Delhi’s Bharat Mandapam will enter its second day on Tuesday, a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the expo featuring 600 startups and 13 country pavillions.
On the first day, PM Modi interacted with startups at the expo, with a focus on highlighting India’s role as an AI hub. Heavy attendance, logistical delays and traffic snarls were witnessed.
Union health minister JP Nadda is expected to launch two key initiatives – Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare for India (SAHI) and the Benchmarking Open Data Platform for Health AI (BODH) – on Tuesday, PTI reported.
Several world leaders and delegates and attendees from over 100 countries have signed up to participate in the AI Impact Summit 2026. Twenty prime ministers or presidents are at the summit, including President Emmanuel Macron of France, Pedro Sanchez Perez-Castejon of Spain, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil, Greece’s Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
The Ministry of External Affairs stated that the summit is anchored in three ‘Sutras’ – ‘People, Planet and Progress’ – which articulate India’s framework for international cooperation in the field of Artificial Intelligence. The event aims to bring together global leaders, policymakers, innovators, and subject-matter experts from across the world to deliberate on the future direction of Artificial Intelligence.
NDTV will host an AI Summit on February 18.
AI Summit India 2026 Live: JP Nadda To Launch 2 Key Initiatives
Union Health Minister Jagat Prakash Nadda will launch two key national initiatives – the Strategy for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare for India (SAHI) and the Benchmarking Open Data Platform for Health AI (BODH) – at the India AI Summit at Bharat Mandapam.
SAHI is a national guidance framework aimed at enabling the safe, ethical, evidence-based, and inclusive adoption of Artificial Intelligence across India’s healthcare ecosystem. It aims to provide strategic direction for governance, data stewardship, validation, deployment, and monitoring of AI solutions, while supporting States and institutions in the responsible adoption of AI solutions aligned with public health priorities.
BODH, developed by the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur in collaboration with the National Health Authority, is a privacy-preserving benchmarking platform that enables rigorous evaluation of AI models using diverse, real-world health data without sharing underlying datasets.
As a digital public good under the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission, it is designed to strengthen trust, transparency, and quality assurance in the deployment of Health AI.
At India AI Summit, A Robot That Walks Like Dog And Thinks Like Engineer
A quadruped machine that can navigate rubble, climb stairs, and diagnose mechanical failures without human intervention is the centre of attention at the India AI Summit.
This robot, developed for industrial “Physical AI” by Tata Consultancy Services, is designed to operate in industrial environments such as construction sites, warehouses, manufacturing plants and distribution centres.
