New Delhi. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, French President Emmanuel Macron, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and other world leaders join #IndiaAIImpactSummit2026. At #IndiaAIImpactSummit2026, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnav said, “Welcome to the first AI Summit in the Global South and the largest AI Summit ever…Thank you all for making this Summit a success…Prime Minister Modi believes that the real value of technology lies in ensuring that its benefits reach the common people.
Our Prime Minister’s vision is to democratize technology, use it on a large scale, make it easy for everyone. N Chandrasekaran, Chairman, Tata Group, said, “It is a great thing for me to be here today and to participate in this AI Summit. India is a country of optimists about AI. Our enthusiasm is not surprising. Indians have seen very large digital infrastructure programs and what they can achieve. The world’s largest digital identity system, covering 1.4 billion people.
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, said, “…it feels great to be back in India. Every time I come, I am amazed at the pace of change and today is no different. When I was a student, I would often take the Coromandel Express train from Chennai to IIT Kharagpur. To get there, we would pass through Visakhapatnam. I remember it was a quiet and modest coastal town that was full of possibilities. Now the same In the city, Google is building a full-stack AI hub, part of our $15 billion infrastructure investment in India.
French President Emmanuel Macron said “Hello. Thank you very much for welcoming us to this wonderful city, to this wonderful country. Prime Minister, it is great to be back after your state visit to 2024 for this Artificial Intelligence Impact Summit that you have hosted….” Emmanuel Macron said, “10 years ago, a street vendor in Mumbai could not open a bank account. No address, no papers, no access and today the same vendor takes payments on his phone….”
At the #IndiaAIImpactSummit2026, French President Emmanuel said “India created something that no other country in the world has created. A digital identity for 1.4 billion people. A payments system that now processes 20 billion transactions every month. A health infrastructure that has issued 500 million digital health IDs. Here are the results. They call it the India Stack Open Interoperable Sovereign. This That’s what the summit is about, we’re clearly at the beginning of a huge uptrend, and you summed it up perfectly during your intervention…”
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