The world's first Global-South AI summit · New Delhi
India AI Impact Summit 2026
Bringing production-grade AI co-workers to Bharat Mandapam.
We brought Avesta AgentOS to the India AI Impact Summit to talk about what happens after the AI demo. The real challenge is not generating outputs. It is building AI systems that behave reliably in production. At our booth we dug into agentic workflows, evaluation and observability, and safe, scalable AgentOps.
About the show
Announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and inaugurated by him on 16 February, the India AI Impact Summit was the first-ever global AI summit hosted in the Global South. Its Expo featured 300+ exhibitors from 30 countries, and the summit convened 500+ global AI leaders under the theme “Welfare for all, happiness for all.”
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The sentiment poll begins
We asked one question at the booth: how do you feel about AI? On day one, 80% were excited and 20% were concerned about the risks. Both are right: excitement gets you to a demo, engineering keeps it dependable in production.
A crowd across generations
School kids curious about how to start learning AI, college students already building and experimenting, and enterprise leaders exploring how AI fits into legacy systems. AI in India isn't waiting. It's being learned, built and integrated across generations.
Engineered in Ahmedabad, serving the world
Many visitors were surprised that a production-grade AI agent platform serving global customers is being engineered in Ahmedabad. For our team, that meant everything.
Meeting IAIRO
We met Amit Sheth and Juhi Bhatnagar from the Indian AI Research Organization (IAIRO), whose ambition of an “ISRO for AI” (sovereign, responsible, world-class AI for Bharat) deeply resonated with our own mission.
We came to share Avesta AgentOS. What we received in return was far more valuable: real signals from builders, founders, and operators.
Avesta Labs at the India AI Impact Summit 2026
