AI Impact Summit 2026, Delhi: AI Openness Report
The India AI Impact Summit is now at an end and the New Delhi Declaration signed. You can read about the many conversations on AI Openness and related outputs across the Summit in our report, including the UK AI Minister’s endorsement of open source and OpenUK.
OpenUK & OpenHQ present AI Impact Summit Documentary
UK AI Minister Kanishka Narayan MP supports OpenUK and open source in video launched at AI Impact Summit
OpenUK and OpenHQ AI Impact Summit Events
Main Summit Workshop
OpenUK and OpenHQ Present: MCP, Open Standards and Data Workshop
Workshop session exploring open source AI approaches
Hosts: 1 Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK, OpenHQ
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; Founding Developer Relations, motia.dev
4 James Lovegrove, Head of Policy, RedHat
5 Naresh Vyas, Founder and CTO, TwoCents.ai
6 Anil Madhavapeddy, Professor, Cambridge University
7 Shivay Lamba, Docker Captain
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?
Panel examines how open source AI can reduce vendor lock-in and strengthen autonomy in enterprise and public sector deployments
Panelists
Moderator: Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK, OpenHQ
Speakers:
1 Jimmy Wales, Founder, Wikipedia
2 Laura Gilbert, Senior Director of AI, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
3 Anastasia Stasenko, Co-founder and CEO, Pleias
4 Mishi Choudhary, Founder, SFLC.in
18 Feb 2026, 10:30 – 11:25
Room Number 15, Bharat Mandapam
Main Summit Main Stage Panel
Inclusion, Innovation, and the Future of AI
Panelists
Moderator: Saurabh Garg, Secretary, MoSPI
Speakers:
1. Ivana Bartoletti, Global Chief Privacy & AI Governance Officer, Wipro
2. Dean Ball, Senior Fellow, Foundation For American Innovation
3. Gabriela Ramos Patino, Architect of the global ethical standard on AI
4. Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK, OpenHQ
20 Feb 2026, 12:30 – 13:25
Main Stage
The Open Source Leaders Roundtable: An AI Impact Summit Fringe Event
17 Feb 2026, 18:00 – 20:00
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 admin@openuk.uk as space is limited.
AI Impact Summit Fringe Event Hackathon – Opening India’s AI Future
— two brief talks on open tech: TESSERA and CoRE
— hack session for a few hours to get everyone going in those technologies
Led by Aaditeshwar Seth and Anil Madhavapeddy
18th February, 09:00 – 13:00
India International Centre, Annexe, Lecture Room 2
50 places only
AI Impact Summit Leaders Day
CEO, Amanda Brock will be participating in the invite only day organised by the Indian Government.
19 Feb 2025
Stream sessions live
Third-party Impact Summit Events we’re participating in
OECD – Democratising trust: Open source tooling for safe, secure and trustworthy AI
17 Feb 2026, 1:30 PM to 2:25 PM
Room 16, Bharat Mandapam
Factly and Meta – AI Commons for the Global South: Data, Models & Compute for Half of Humanity
Panel will examine how AI resources can be democratized across the Global South through shared infrastructure, open collaboration, and public interest design.
17 Feb 2026, 4:30 PM – 5:25 PM
Room 10, Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi
Digital Futures Lab and NASSCOM – Innovating Together: Harnessing Open Source AI for Inclusive Economic Development
Session examines how OSAI can support inclusive innovation and reduce reliance on proprietary ecosystems. It will focus on the enabling conditions, strategic alignment, and governance approaches needed to scale OSAI responsibly.
18 Feb 2026, 11:30 AM – 12:25 PM
Room 15, Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi
Third Party AI Openness Events – Thanks to Mozilla for instigating this list
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
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Road to AI Impact Summit: AI Openness Report
On the “Road to the AI Impact Summit – AI Openness Report”: Launch Panel at Bengaluru Tech Summit, 19 November 2025
Sponsors and Partners
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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
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.
Thanks to our sponsors
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Thanks to our city sponsor for hosting this event
Time: 18:00- 21:00
Date: 4 August 2025
Thanks to our city sponsor for hosting this event
Time: 18:00- 21:00
Date: 8 August 2025
Thanks to our city sponsor for hosting this event
Time: 14:00 – 17:00
Date: 9 August 2025
Thanks to our city sponsor for hosting this additional public event, added to the initial schedule by popular request
Time: 16:00 – 18:00
Date: 11 August 2025
High-level invite-only roundtable, Delhi
Date: 11 August 2025
AI Past Reports
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