India AI Summit: Ops need to match Optics

The high-stakes India AI Impact Summit in New Delhi has been extended into a six-day affair. By Saturday afternoon, however, exhibition booths will begin to come down, global leaders will slip into private meetings or board flights home—their tickets and hotel bookings fixed long ago—and the crowds will thin.

The expo started on Monday, 16 February, with ambition to position India as the AI voice of the Global South—championing inclusive policy built on open-source models and digital public infrastructure—and sought to marry geopolitical aspiration with technological leadership.