India AI Summit 2026 Day 4 LIVE: PM Modi to address summit today; key leaders to attend

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Updated - February 19, 2026 09:39 am IST

A man walks past a signage board of the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi on February 18, 2026. | Photo Credit: PTI

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the AI Impact Summit on Thursday (February 19, 2026), joined by fellow world leaders and senior tech executives. PM Modi’s address will be followed by keynote presentations by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google DeepMind CEO Dennis Hassabis, and Reliance Industries Limited, chairman and managing director, Mukesh Ambani.

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Earlier, Organisers of the AI Impact Summit ousted private Galgotias University’s stall from the expo after it exhibited a China-made robodog as their in-house innovation, government officials said on Wednesday (February 18, 2026). “We don’t want unnecessary controversy that threatens to overshadow the good work other exhibitors are doing,” IT Secretary S. Krishnan said at a press conference. “There needs to be adherence to some code so that inauthentic behaviour is not promoted.”

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The AI Impact Summit’s expo has been extended by one day, to Saturday (February 21, 2026), so that attendees can visit with more flexible security arrangements after all the multilateral events at the venue wind up, said Mr. Krishnan.

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PM Modi to address summit today; key leaders to attend
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the AI Impact Summit on Thursday (February 19, 2026), joined by fellow world leaders and senior tech executives. Mr. Modi’s address will be followed by keynote presentations by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google DeepMind CEO Dennis Hassabis, and Reliance Industries Limited, chairman and managing director, Mukesh Ambani.
The event has drawn strong crowds, and has been positioned for months as India’s flagship AI event by the government. It follows similar multilateral summits in the U.K., France, and South Korea. President of France Emmanuel Macron will be in attendance, as will Spanish President Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón, and Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake.
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Modi to address AI summit on February 19, 2026; key leaders to attend
Prime Minister Modi will address the AI Impact Summit on February 19, joined by global leaders and tech executives.