Positioned as a leadership forum rather than a ceremonial awards night, the conclave promises over 10 deep-dive sessions and more than seven hours of structured and informal networking, aimed at translating AI ambition into execution across enterprises, startups and government bodies.
The speaker line-up spans public policy, platform engineering, healthcare, telecom, media tech and frontier AI research. Among those taking the stage are Dr Panneerselvam Madanagopal of the MeitY Startup Hub, Rahul Chari of PhonePe, Kirthiga Reddy of OptimizeGEO.ai and Verix.io, Gaurav Aggarwal of Reliance Jio, Dilip Jose of Manipal Hospitals, Vivek Raghavan of Sarvam AI, and Sandeep Alur of Microsoft Innovation Hub India, among others. The cross-sector mix reflects the breadth of AI’s impact, from national initiatives and data infrastructure to real-world deployment at scale.
Partners ranging from L&T Finance and Snowflake to Ernst & Young, T-Hub, BYD and Zoho add institutional heft, reinforcing the conclave’s focus on credible evaluation, scalable AI infrastructure, startup–enterprise collaboration and ecosystem building.
As conversations launch, expectations are high that this will be more than a talk shop. With India accelerating its AI push across sectors, the ET AI Conclave & Awards is poised to become a venue where strategies are aligned, alliances are forged and the contours of India’s AI roadmap for 2026 and beyond start taking shape.
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