{"id":992858,"date":"2026-02-17T09:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T04:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=992858"},"modified":"2026-02-17T10:01:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T04:31:34","slug":"indias-ai-moment-a-seat-at-frontier-techs-high-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/17\/indias-ai-moment-a-seat-at-frontier-techs-high-table\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s AI Moment: A seat at frontier tech\u2019s high table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi woke up to billboards, barricades and buzz on Monday as the India AI Impact Summit 2026 opened at Bharat Mandapam \u2014 billed as the world\u2019s largest artificial intelligence gathering \u2014 drawing packed halls, long queues and an unmistakable signal: India wants to sit at the head table of the global AI order. <\/p>\n<p>By 9.30 am, lines had already begun snaking outside session halls. Delegates \u2014 policymakers, founders, engineers, investors and students \u2014 jostled to enter auditoriums that filled up quickly, forcing organisers to shut doors once capacity was reached. \u201cYou have to be there well in advance,\u201d one participant said. \u201cThis isn\u2019t a summit where you can float from session to session.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi woke up to billboards, barricades and buzz on Monday as the India AI Impact Summit 2026 opened at Bharat Mandapam \u2014 billed as the world\u2019s largest artificial intelligence gathering \u2014 drawing packed halls, long queues and an unmistakable signal: India wants to sit at the head table of the global AI order. By 9.30 am, lines had already begun snaking outside session halls. Delegates \u2014 policymakers, founders, engineers, investors and students \u2014 jostled to enter auditoriums that filled up quickly, forcing organisers to shut doors once capacity was reached. \u201cYou have to be there well in advance,\u201d one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-992858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}