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AI Openness and Access for All – Bangalore

One of a several events across India coalescing the open source and AI openness communities to support shaping the AI Impact Summit agenda

Collaborating with local open technology communities across India, OpenUK and its new sister organisation OpenHQ, will raise awareness of the AI Impact Summit being hosted in 6 months by India through a series of community focused and policy events across India.

This series of events across in India in August 2025, will continue the conversation opened by Prime Minister Modi at the Paris AI Action Summit in 2025, which mentioned the need for “access for all” to AI being through “open source AI.”

The purpose of these events is to help the local communities engage and shape the conversation on AI in advance of the policy makers building the Indian AI Impact Summit agenda, for 2026, https://impact.indiaai.gov.in/home

Agenda

17:00 – 18:00 Guest arrive, Staff at Reception
18:00 – 18:05 Welcome Infosys
18:05 – 18:10 Deputy High Commissioner
18:10 – 18:20 Introduction to the India AI Openness Report , Amanda Brock, CEO OpenUK
18:20 – 19:00 Panel 1 – AI Openness, The Policy Conversation
19:00 – 19:15 Q&A
19:15 – 20:15 Dinner and Networking
20:15 – 20:55 Panel 2 – AI Openness, The Technical Conversation
20:55 – 21:00 Wrap up and Thanks
21:00 Event Closes

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Event lineup

Syed Quiser Ahmed
AVP and Head of Infosys Responsible AI Office, Infosys
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Chandru K Iyer
Deputy High Commissioner
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Rahul De’
Retired Professor & Former Dean at IIM Bangalore
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Sarayu Natarajan
Founder, Aapti Institute
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Avnish Sabharwal
Accenture Ventures
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VijayaKumar Arumuga Nadar
Head of Engineering & Product - AI, NeevCloud
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Jayesh Sharma
AI Engineer, Composio
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Shalini Kapoor
Chief Strategist - Data and AI, Ekstep
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Meghavi Batt Chauhan
Consultant and Open Source Contributor
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