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India to Host AI Summits in 2025 and 2026
India is going to have two big meetings about computers and how they can help people.
The first meeting is in Bhubaneswar in December 2025, and it's about how computers can help the environment, people, and make things better.
The second meeting is in New Delhi in February 2026, and it's about how computers can help women and girls.
They will show a special book with stories about how computers can make things fairer and safer for women.
There will also be a contest called AI by HER where women can show their ideas for using computers to help with things like keeping people safe online and stopping bad information.
They are working with other groups to make sure that the computers they build are fair and include everyone's experiences.
Odisha is hosting the Regional AI Impact Summit 2025 in Bhubaneswar, focusing on sustainable AI future and scalable public AI solutions.
India will host the India-AI Impact Summit 2026 in New Delhi, showcasing gender-responsive AI solutions and the AI by HER: The Impact Challenge for Women in AI.
The summits aim to advance AI solutions focused on people, planet, and progress, with a focus on inclusivity, affordability, and equity.
IndiaAI is partnering with UN Women and civil-society organisations to embed gender sensitivity into AI systems and promote gender equality.
The goal is to ensure that AI is available for the benefit of all, with a focus on multilingual access, data security, and ethical considerations.
- Who
- Government of Odisha, IndiaAI Mission, UN Women India, NITI Aayog, Women Entrepreneurship Platform, civil-society organisations, Wadhwani Foundation, Odisha Knowledge Corporation
- What
- Hosting of the Regional AI Impact Summit 2025 and the India-AI Impact Summit 2026, showcasing gender-responsive AI solutions and the AI by HER: The Impact Challenge for Women in AI
- Where
- Bhubaneswar, Odisha and New Delhi
- When
- December 2025 and February 2026
- Why
- To advance scalable public AI solutions focused on sustainability, gender equality, and inclusive data practices
Key facts
- Event 1
- Regional AI Impact Summit 2025
- Event 2
- India-AI Impact Summit 2026
- Date 1
- December 2025
- Date 2
- February 2026
- Location 1
- Bhubaneswar, Odisha
- Location 2
- New Delhi
- Organizers 1
- Government of Odisha
- Organizers 2
- IndiaAI Mission, UN Women India, NITI Aayog, Women Entrepreneurship Platform, civil-society organisations
- Focus
- Sustainable AI future, gender-responsive AI solutions
- Key Initiative
- AI by HER: The Impact Challenge for Women in AI
- Partnerships
- UN Women, civil-society organisations, Wadhwani Foundation, Odisha Knowledge Corporation
- Goal
- Promote gender equality through AI, ensure inclusive data practices and privacy-preserving technologies
Quotes
Vishal Kumar Dev
Principal Secretary of Energy & IT Department, Govt of Odisha
“We want to maintain this lead and preserve our pioneer position in the use of AI in governance... We also want to attract investments in the artificial intelligence sector...”
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“The Prime Minister has envisioned the impact AI summit to be held at a grand scale in February 2026. There are three sutras he has outlined: people, planet, and progress. The motto that he has given is welfare for all, happiness for all. The idea is that artificial intelligence, or AI, has become a buzzword worldwide. The issue is how to ensure that it is utilised for the benefit of the masses. Therefore, the democratisation of AI resources becomes a vital area. When we talk of democratisation, we are talking of four things: access to AI, affordability of AI tools, equity and inclusivity.”
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Mukesh Mahaling
Odisha Minister
“It will discuss two major issues related to a sustainable AI future... The outcomes of this summit will inform how AI can be used to monitor our governance modules.”
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Saurabh Garg
Secretary, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation
“There are different aspects to it, like how different it can be accessed or used in a multilingual manner, how local data sets should be used, and how local context should be used. We are discussing those with the objective that AI is available for the benefit of every person, irrespective of whether that person themselves are aware of AI or not... When you're talking of accessing AI, you should not need to know AI or know technology itself, but how you can get the benefits of AI irrespective of whether you know that technology... Data security is an area where it is always important to ensure that necessary aspects are maintained and that is why data security, data safety, ethics are built in into the system... One of the areas that we are working on is how to ensure that multilingual context, multilingual data can be used by AI and in a manner which will ensure that every area, every culture is included in the system.”
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