The India AI Impact Summit 2026 ran from 16th to 20th February 2026 at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi. The Summit was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 19th February, with addresses from French President Emmanuel Macron and United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres. It is the Government of India’s flagship AI summit, following the AI Action Summit in Paris in 2025 and the AI Seoul Summit in 2024.
The Summit drew delegations from over 100 countries, including more than 20 heads of state and 60 ministers. Notable attendees from the global technology industry included Sundar Pichai (Google), Sam Altman (OpenAI), Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind), Dario Amodei (Anthropic), Mukesh Ambani (Reliance Industries), and Jay Chaudhry (Zscaler).
Osto had a booth presence across the Summit. The response was overwhelming. By the time the Summit closed, the booth had hosted over 200 conversations with founders, operators, and budget owners. The volume of strong-fit prospects far exceeded what we had planned for from a Government-organised AI policy summit.
A few takeaways from the days
AI-native companies are scaling faster than traditional SaaS ever did, and speed of scale compounds risk. By the time these companies have crossed their first ten enterprise customers, the attack surface they are carrying is already at the scale that traditional SaaS hit at Series B. Security is no longer a ‘later’ conversation for these founders. It is a Day 1 conversation, and the booth traffic reflected exactly that.
The agentic AI security gap was the most consistent signal across the booth conversations. Companies are deploying agentic AI in production faster than the security infrastructure underneath those workloads is catching up. Several of the strongest-fit prospects were deploying agentic AI in financial services, customer support, and developer tooling, where this gap is widest.
India is positioning itself as a builder of AI-native global companies, not just an AI services hub. The security and compliance posture those companies need to compete globally is structurally different from what previous generations of Indian SaaS got away with, and that is the gap Osto is built to address.
The Summit will set the pace of the India AI conversation for at least the next year, and the companies that come through it are exactly the ones Osto is built to serve. The booth conversations reinforced that the demand for one cybersecurity platform built for AI-native founders is real and growing faster than any of us had projected coming in.
However the Indian startup ecosystem shapes next year, Osto will be there for it.