Global AI Impact Summit, 16-20 February 2026, New Delhi

CEO, Amanda Brock, is a Keynote Attendee on the summit website, whilst Professor Anil Madhavapeddy will lead the hackathon at IIT jointly organised with FOSSUnited and the BharatAIMission. We will be hosting and partnering on events in the Main summit and the Fringe across the week, with representatives of a number of our international partners and local community supporting our workshop and events. We hope to see international attendees and the Indian Open Source communities engaging and supporting our events.

We have been working for 6 months to secure their engagement with the Impact Summit. Information on our events and how to register for the main summit is set out on this web page, along with a link to a calendar of all open source events across the summit provided by Mozilla.

You will also find our past India AI Openness Report, our Paris AI Action Summit 2025 AI Openness Report, and on the 20th of February, we will share our Impact Summit AI Openness Report.

OpenUK and OpenHQ AI Impact Summit Events

Main Summit Workshop OpenUK and OpenHQ Present: MCP, Open Standards and Data Workshop Hosts: 1 Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK 2 Karan MV, Developer Relations, GitHub Workshop Leaders: 1 Simon Hansford, Chief Commercial Officer, Civo 2 Saiyam Pathak, Founder, Kubesimplify 3 Rohit Ghumare, Ambassador, OpenUK 4 James Lovegrove, Head of Policy, RedHat 5 Naresh Vyas, Founder and CTO, TwoCents.ai 6 Anil Madhavapeddy, Professor, Cambridge University 17 Feb 2026, 10:30 – 11:25 Room Number 16, Bharat Mandapam	Main Summit Panel OpenUK and OpenHQ Present: Building Resilience and breaking dependency in enterprise and public sector AI – how can open source support this? Panelists Moderator: Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK Speakers: 1 Jimmy Wales, Founder, Wikipedia 2 Laura Gilbert, Senior Director of AI, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change 3 Shankar Maruwada, Co-founder and CEO, EKStep Foundation 18 Feb 2026, 10:30 – 11:25 Room Number 15, Bharat Mandapam	AI Impact Summit Leaders Day CEO, Amanda Brock will be participating in the invite only day organised by the Indian Government. 19 Feb 2025
		How to attend the Main Summit
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The Open Source Leaders Roundtable: An AI Impact Summit Fringe Event 17 Feb 2026, 18:00 – 21:00 India International Centre (IIC), Annex Room Number 1 If you are a leader in open source and would like to join our Leaders Roundtable and the Mozilla party, please contact mailto:admin@openuk.uk as space is limited.	AI Impact Summit Fringe Event Hackathon – Opening India’s AI Future with Bharat AI Mission 19 Feb 2026, 10:00 – 16:00 IIT Delhi, Research and Innovation Park, Auditorium 100 places only
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Third-party Impact Summit Events we’re participating in

AI Commons for the Global South: Data, Models & Compute for Half of Humanity

17 Feb 2026, 4:30 PM – 5:25 PM

Room number 10, Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi

Innovating Together: Harnessing Open-Source AI for Inclusive Economic Development

18 Feb 2026, 11:30 AM – 12:25 PM

Room number 15, Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi

Democratising trust: Open source tooling for safe, secure and trustworthy AI

17 Feb 2026, 1:30 PM to 2:25 PM

Room 9, Bharat Mandapam Convention Centre, New Delhi

Information

AI Openness Reports

We will be sharing a report on AI Openness at the AI Impact Summit on 20th February as the Summit draws to a close. This, like our 2025 report from the AI Action Summit in February, will benefit from our attendance across the event and engagement with the open source community and leadership attending the Impact Summit and Fringe events in New Delhi

You can read our Paris AI Action Summit Report

“The Road to the AI Impact Summit – AI Openness Report”

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AI Action Summit: AI Openness Report

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On the “Road to the AI Impact Summit – AI Openness Report”: Launch Panel at Bengaluru Tech Summit, 19 November 2025

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OpenUK Road to the AI Impact Summit Dinner, London
” AI Openness: Impact, Access and Innovation”
Official Pre-Summit Event of the AI Impact Summit 2026

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Collaborating with local open technology communities, enterprises and policy organisations across India, OpenUK and its new sister organisation OpenHQ will raise awareness of AI openness ahead of the Indian AI Impact Summit in February 2026, in Delhi. This will continue the conversation opened by Prime Minister Modi in his opening speech at the Paris AI Action Summit in 2025, when he mentioned the need for “access for all” to AI through “open source” AI.

This will be done through AI Openness reporting and a series of 4 pulbic events across India in Hyderabad, Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi, and a high level invite only roundtable in Delhi in August 2025.

We also plan future reporting and a fringe event around the AI Impact Summit.

We continue to onboard further sponsors and partners. To be part of this contact mailto:admin@openuk.uk
Thanks in particular to Divya Mohan, Rohit Ghumare and Kunal Kushwaha, for so much hard work.

And to “old hand” Prakash Advani for his steer.