AI Impact Summit 2026 Day 3 LIVE Updates: Agenda, Events, Key Participants, Insights Into NDTV AI Summit

Huang was among the most prominent global technology leaders expected at the India AI Impact Summit, and in the days leading up to the Summit, there was significant buzz around his participation at the mega event.

Huang, however, cancelled his visit to New Delhi. The company is represented by a senior executive at the AI Summit.

"Regarding some people not attending, this is a personal choice. I would not like to comment on it. Jensen Huang reached out to us, and he said that because of something really unavoidable... he has deputed his very senior executive to join us," Vaishnaw had said during a briefing at the India AI Summit on Tuesday.

Amid questions over CEO Jensen Huang's absence at the India AI Impact Summit, NVIDIA managing director for South Asia, Vishal Dhupar, said the top official was unwell after weeks of extensive travel and has deputed Jay Puri to lead the company delegation at the event. Dhupar said wherever he went, people were asking about the NVIDIA CEO.

"Aren't we all missing Jensen? Everywhere I am going, everyone is asking (about) Jensen," he said.

Replying to a question on Huang's cancelling his visit to India, just ahead of the Summit, Dhupar explained, "Jensen has travelled for three straight weeks, he caught a bug, he is under the weather".

"We hope he is well soon, but we are delighted that we have Jay Puri leading a delegation to come here in India and celebrate this very important week where the India AI impact summit will demonstrate the power of India," he said.

(Source: PTI) 

Here's the full agenda of NDTV Ind.AI Summit 2026:

• 09:35–09:40 a.m: Imagine. India. AI – A Musical Journey
• 09:40–10:00 a.m: AI – Creating in India, For India by Pratyush Kumar, CEO & Co-Founder, Sarva.m. AI

10:20–11:00 a.m: Investing in the AI Advantage

• Ashutosh Sharma, India Head, Investments and M&A, Prosus
• Aakrit Vaish, Founder, Activate
• Manav Garg, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Together Fund
• Vikra.m. Vaidyanathan, Managing Director, Z47
• Harshjit Sethi, Early Stage Investor

11:00–11:30 a.m: Open Questions with OpenAI

• Chris Lehane, Chief Global Affairs Officer, OpenAI; Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in AI 2025

11:30–12:00 p.m: Building the AI Stack of the Future

• Jay Puri, Executive Vice President, NVIDIA

12:00–12:20 p.m: India’s AI Mission: People. Planet. Progress

• Jitin Prasada, Union Minister of State for Commerce & Industry

12:20–12:30 p.m: Building the AI Stack: The India Advantage

• Deepak Dhanak, Co-Founder & COO, Rocket AI

12:30–01:15 p.m: Should AI be Sovereign?

• Raffi Krikorian, CTO, mozilla.org
• Arun Subra.m.aniyan, Founder & CEO, Articul8
• Siddharth Bhatia, Co-Founder & CEO, Puch AI
• Manu Chopra, CEO, Karya
• Anagh Prasad, Vice President, Accel

01:15–02:00 p.m.: Lunch

02:10–02:30 p.m: The Working Intelligence: AI & the Enterprise

• Arvind Jain, Founder & CEO, Glean

02:30–03:10 p.m: The World at Work: Global Lessons in AI Adoption

• Kumaresh Pattabira.m.an, Head, LinkedIn India
• Madhav Krishna, Founder & CEO, Vahan.ai
• Kirthiga Reddy, CEO & Co-Founder, Verix
• Puneet Chandok, President, Microsoft India & South Asia

03:10–03:45 p.m: Scale or Fail: The Truth About AI Adoption

• Jason Oxman, President & CEO, ITIC
• Jeff Burke, VP, Business Development & Partnerships, Replit
• Aloke Bajpai, Chairman, MD & Group CEO, Ixigo
• Ivana Baroletti, Global Chief Privacy & AI Governance Officer, Wipro

03:45–04:15 p.m: The Age of Intelligence: Power, Policy & Innovation

• Rishi Sunak, Former Prime Minister of the UK

04:15–04:35 p.m: Built-In Intelligence: The New Technology Default

• Akis Evangelidis, Co-Founder & President, India, Nothing

04:35–05:00 p.m: The Threshold: Crossing Into Adoption

• Vikram Chopra, Co-Founder & CEO, Cars24
• Gaurav Gupta, Co-Founder & CEO, Gabit
• Prateek Maheshwari, Co-Founder, PhysicsWallah

05:00–05:30 p.m: Who Decides? The Question at the Heart of AI

• Stuart Russell, Distinguished Professor, UC Berkeley; President, International Association for Safe & Ethical AI; Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in AI 2025

05:30–06:00 p.m: Code, Commerce, Country

• Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK
• Paul Triolo, Partner, DGA–Albright Stonebridge Group
• Nikhil Malhotra, Chief Innovation Officer, Tech Mahindra
• Amit Zavery, President, Chief Product Officer & COO, ServiceNow

06:00–06:15 p.m: Digital India: AI and the Next Frontier

• Ajai Chowdhry, Chairman, Mission Governing Board, National Quantum Mission of India

06:15–06:40 p.m: When Unreal is Real

• Mati Staniszewski, Co-Founder, Eleven Labs

06:40–07:15 p.m: AI, Society and Impact: Shaping Inclusive and Equitable Futures

• James Manyika, SVP, Technology & Society, Google

07:15–07:40 p.m: Building India’s AI Story

• Karthikeyan Natarajan, CEO, Infinite Uptime
• Bir Singh, Co-Founder & CSO, Addverb Technologies
• Rajat Arya, Co-Founder, 169Pi.AI
• Sravanth Aluru, Co-Founder & CEO, Avataar AI

07:40–08:10 p.m: Neta. Narrative. Nation: Democracy in the Time of AI

• Rajeev Chandrashekhar, Entrepreneur & Technocrat
• Priyanka Chaturvedi, MP, Rajya Sabha
• Sasmit Patra, MP, Rajya Sabha

08:10–08:40 p.m: The AI Creator: Powering the Orange Economy

• Vivek Anchalia, Founder, a.m.azing Indian Stories; Director, Naisha
• Sanket Shah, CEO, InVideo
• Hardeep Gambhir, Co-Founder, LocalHost

08:40 p.m.onwards: Summit Closing and Dinner
 

Government officials has issued an important notification with reference to Day 3 of the India AI Summit 2026.

Delegates will get restricted access to the world's largest AI summit, India AI Impact Summit 2026, for the next two days due to VIP movements and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's presence at the venue, senior government officials said on Tuesday.

Delegates attending the conference at Bharat Mandapam will have to vacate the convention area by 4.30 p.m. as the Prime Minister will host dinner for state guests and business leaders post 6 p.m., Meity officials said.

(Source: PTI)