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Prime Minister Narendra Modi volition inaugurate the India AI Impact Expo 2026 connected Monday (February 16, 2026) astatine the Bharat Mandapam, his bureau said.
The India AI Impact Expo 2026 volition beryllium held from February 16-20, alongside the India AI Impact Summit astatine the Bharat Mandapam, a connection issued by the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) said.
The accumulation volition service arsenic a nationalist objection of AI successful action, wherever argumentation meets practice, innovation meets scale, and exertion meets the mundane citizen.
Prime Minister Modi volition inaugurate the India AI Impact Expo 2026 connected February 16 astatine 5 p.m. astatine Bharat Mandapam here, the connection said.
Spread crossed 10 arenas covering much than 70,000 quadrate metres, the Expo volition bring unneurotic planetary exertion firms, startups, academia and probe institutions, Union Ministries, State governments and planetary partners.
The Expo volition besides diagnostic 13 state pavilions, showcasing planetary collaboration successful the AI ecosystem. These see pavilions from Australia, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Serbia, Estonia, Tajikistan and Africa.
It volition big implicit 300 curated accumulation pavilions and unrecorded demonstrations, structured crossed three thematic chakras — people, satellite and progress, the connection said.
In addition, the Expo volition diagnostic implicit 600 high-potential startups, galore of them gathering globally applicable and population-scale solutions. These startups volition show moving solutions that are already deployed successful real-world settings, it said.
The India AI Impact Expo 2026 is expected to witnesser the information of implicit 2.5 lakh visitors, including planetary delegates. The lawsuit aims to foster caller partnerships and make concern opportunities wrong the planetary AI ecosystem.
Over 500 sessions volition beryllium organised, featuring much than 3,250 visionary speakers and sheet members. These sessions volition absorption connected acknowledging the transformative interaction of AI crossed sectors and deliberating connected aboriginal actions to guarantee that AI benefits each planetary citizen.
Top Putin adjutant to pb Russian delegation for AI Impact Summit
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s elder adjutant Maxim Oreshkin volition pb a ample delegation for the AI Impact Summit successful New Delhi.
Mr. Oreshkin, who is Deputy Chief of the Kremlin unit and economical adjutant to President Putin, is acceptable to pb the Russian delegation to the India AI Impact Summit 2026.
This (choice of sending Mr. Oreshkin) highlights a strategical propulsion for AI collaboration betwixt the 2 nations, a Kremlin root told PTI, adding, the delegation volition absorption connected secure, trusted, and sovereign AI, with progressive engagement successful discussions connected AI governance, technology, and partnerships wrong BRICS and different platforms.
In an interrogation to BRICS TV Network on February 9, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov noted: “India besides emphasises ICT security, which we actively support, contributing to the agenda. This is significant, arsenic norms regulating AI usage betwixt states, and AI applications by idiosyncratic states, are lone present being established.”
Mr. Lavrov said these norms volition modulate behaviours that impact security. “Some countries are actively introducing AI into subject applications. While each authorities has the close to find its ain approach, definite countries are already attempting to centralise control, subordinating what states tin and whitethorn bash with AI successful the subject sphere,” helium said.
BRICS members volition not judge infringements connected their sovereignty, yet transparency remains crucial, the Minister added.
In an nonfiction published by state-run quality bureau TASS on Friday (February 13, 2026), India’s Ambassador to Russia, Vinay Kumar, outlined the promising prospects for India–Russia practice successful the tract of Artificial Intelligence, highlighting the increasing strategical and technological concern betwixt the 2 nations.
The synergy betwixt Moscow and New Delhi successful AI would enactment arsenic a catalyst for shared maturation and technological advancement of the 2 strategical partners, Ambassador Kumar said.
