Genuine Mohurtam for Bhumi Pujan, or land worship, will be from 12:44 to 13:14 on February 22, while shubh Lagnam is between 11:53 and 12:39. Before the summit, India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) had set out the vision, theme, and structure of the summit, which emphasised ensuring that AI is not monopolised by a handful of companies or countries.

Vision: Democratising AI for Global Good

The government, during a media briefing chaired by MeitY Secretary S. Krishnan, made clear that the focus of AI Impact Summit 2026 is democratisation of AI and reducing the widening global AI gap. Krishnan also raised widespread concerns, including from the international community, of AI infrastructure and capabilities being dominated by a small number of geographies and companies.

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In his words, AI has to mature as a horizontal technology, widely available and developed in order to benefit humanity as such, and not be tuned according to some particular commercial or geopolitical agenda.

Focus on Global Access and Local Solutions

The summit’s vision extends beyond India’s domestic objectives. It added that India aims to support international access to critical AI building blocks such as compute infrastructure, base models, datasets and tools. The goal is to give countries and communities the power to build AI that fits their social, economic and cultural priorities.

Wider access to the technology would enable nations to develop context-aware AI systems, rather than depending on solutions developed in a few advanced economies, Krishnan added.

Key Sectors in Focus

The government plans to focus on use cases in productive and high-impact sectors which can have a direct positive social impact on citizens. These include:

- Healthcare

- Agriculture

- Governance and public services

- Education

- Manufacturing and industrial systems

The goal is to make AI more of a driver for inclusive development rather than merely a commercial technology.

Three Sutras Guiding the Summit

AI Impact Summit 2026 is structured around three guiding Sutras:

- People, focusing on human-centric and inclusive AI

- Planet, ensuring AI development remains environmentally responsible

- Progress, driving equitable economic and social growth

These Sutras are operationalised into seven theme-based Chakras and Working Groups, which will influence the discourse of discussions, actionable policy solutions and areas for collaboration through the course of this Summit.

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Global Participation and Industry Leaders

The summit features over 300 exhibitions and delegations from over 30 countries, and it is being touted as one of India's largest environment and electronics sector-focused events. There are some big names in global technology on the list to appear, including:

- Demis Hassabis, CEO, Google DeepMind

- Dario Amodei, Co-Founder and CEO, Anthropic

- Jensen Huang, Co-Founder and CEO, Nvidia

- K. Krithivasan, CEO and MD, Tata Consultancy Services

- Shantanu Narayen, Chair and CEO, Adobe

Focusing on openness, international collaboration and human-centric AI (artificial intelligence), the AI Impact Summit 2026 represents India’s aspiration to lead the role in the governance of artificial intelligence development globally.