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
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
4 James Lovegrove, Head of Policy, RedHat
5 Naresh Vyas, Founder and CTO, TwoCents.ai
6 Anil Madhavapeddy, Professor, Cambridge University
7 Shivay Lamba, Program committee, JSNation
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
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 mailto:admin@openuk.uk as space is limited.
AI Impact Summit Fringe Event Hackathon – Opening India’s AI Future with Bharat AI Mission
Featuring Anil Madhavapeddy, Professor, Cambridge University
19 Feb 2026, 10:00 – 16:00
IIT Delhi, Research and Innovation Park, Auditorium
100 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
How to attend the Main Summit
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 9, 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
You can read our Paris AI Action Summit Report “The Road to the AI Impact Summit – AI Openness Report”
Sign up to our newsletter or follow us on social to be notified of our report and open tech community activities around the summit.
AI Action 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
Our work at the AI Impact Summit is sponsored by
OpenUK general sponsors
Our community partners
